Bear rotation in 4.0

[Gamingdevil]

Does anyone have a good grasp of the bear rotation (priority queue) for 4.0?

My guess is is Mangle > Lacerate > Pulverize at 3 Lacerates, fill in with Mauls, but I have the feeling I'm missing something.

Anyone with any insights?

[sculder]

Does anyone have a good grasp of the bear rotation (priority queue) for 4.0?

My guess is is Mangle > Lacerate > Pulverize at 3 Lacerates, fill in with Mauls, but I have the feeling I'm missing something.

Anyone with any insights?

You're not missing much at all, except swipe as another rage dump. You keep mangle on cd, keep pulverize up, keep a 3 stack of lacerates up, and maul on cd if you have enough rage.

[Gamingdevil]

Does anyone have a good grasp of the bear rotation (priority queue) for 4.0?

My guess is is Mangle > Lacerate > Pulverize at 3 Lacerates, fill in with Mauls, but I have the feeling I'm missing something.

Anyone with any insights?

You're not missing much at all, except swipe as another rage dump. You keep mangle on cd, keep pulverize up, keep a 3 stack of lacerates up, and maul on cd if you have enough rage.

How do you swipe? From the limited testing I did on a dummy, I barely had enough GCD's to do what I described above.

Also, do you spam Lacerate until you have 3 or weave in Mangle/Maul on CD?

[sculder]

How do you swipe? From the limited testing I did on a dummy, I barely had enough GCD's to do what I described above.

Also, do you spam Lacerate until you have 3 or weave in Mangle/Maul on CD?

I rarely swipe single target because of the GCD loss, but occasionally you'll have pulverize up, mangle on cd, a triple stack of lacerate, and a bunch of rage. Similar to being forced to drop consecration during a boss fight, if all your cds line up in such a way.

As for lacerate, I always hit mangle when it comes up, even if I don't have a triple stack of lacerate. The only case where that's not the case is if I don't have pulverize up and mangle is still up on the target, in which case I'd get 3x lacerates to pulverize.

I'm not a total expert on bears, but that's what I do with great results

[Gamingdevil]

How do you swipe? From the limited testing I did on a dummy, I barely had enough GCD's to do what I described above.

Also, do you spam Lacerate until you have 3 or weave in Mangle/Maul on CD?

I rarely swipe single target because of the GCD loss, but occasionally you'll have pulverize up, mangle on cd, a triple stack of lacerate, and a bunch of rage. Similar to being forced to drop consecration during a boss fight, if all your cds line up in such a way.

As for lacerate, I always hit mangle when it comes up, even if I don't have a triple stack of lacerate. The only case where that's not the case is if I don't have pulverize up and mangle is still up on the target, in which case I'd get 3x lacerates to pulverize.

I'm not a total expert on bears, but that's what I do with great results

So, get your debuffs/buffs up, Mangle asap, don't bother with Maul unless you have 3 stacks of Lacerate, Pulverize is up and Mangle is on cooldown.

Thanks.

[Palmela]

FFF? I'd guess you're doing that on the pull though, from what I've read about bear(Not much as cat is my druids MS) maul has a really low TPR rating and isnt even worth the rage unless you're on a raid boss with full vengeance. Otherwise the above is pretty much what I am doing right now, just didn't see anyone mention FFF which should be up right off the bat.

[Flex]

FFF is now Sunder and stacks 3 times.

[ryan4nayr]

FFF? I'd guess you're doing that on the pull though

Sculder briefly mentioned putting buffs/debuffs up, that should include FFF as you pull.

Due to the new Feral Aggression and new debuff duration, FFF has become just a pulling tool.

[bldavis]

so on pull its FFF-charge-mangle-laceratex3-pulverize-ragedumps

wat about demo roar?
or would that be in between FFF and charge?
or am i totally off now? (havent tanked on my druid since 4.0.1)

[sculder]

so on pull its FFF-charge-mangle-laceratex3-pulverize-ragedumps

wat about demo roar?
or would that be in between FFF and charge?
or am i totally off now? (havent tanked on my druid since 4.0.1)

I usually throw in mauls almost on cd if my rage will allow it, to help with initial threat. Demo roar, if not put up by someone else, is usually after my pulverize. My pull for bosses is FFF > charge > mangle/maul combo > lacerate > lacerate > lacerate/maul > pulverize. Usually I have more than enough rage to hit maul on cd for almost the whole fight, especially in the beginning if you pop berserk.

[Astronomic]

My pull is typically thorns -> rejuv -> bear form -> FF -> enrage -> mangle -> lacerate/maul -> lacerate -> lacerate -> think mangle is off CD at this point so mangle again/maul -> pulverize -> lacerate -> BERSERK/maul.
If you do not have 4set t10 bonus use barkskin to balance out the increased damage taken from enrage.
During berserk I literally am just mashing maul/mangle for 20seconds.
I'm at 6k GS and this does enough agro to stay ahead of our mage doing ~21k.
I do realize he has mirror images out but my threat meter on omen is still ahead of his.
once the fight goes on just keep up the 9% pulverize, always have lacerates on target, maul every CD, lacerate every CD. The DPS's agro amounts should level out over time and you will start pulling away.

[Invisusira]

[Astronomic]

OP bear does not get dizzy!

[Corpsegrinder]

I'll have to agree, here's what I do first if needed before I get mobs. If I have no rage, I shift out of bear form, then back into for a quick 10 rage so I can charge. Pending on how many mobs there are is what my rotation is. if it's multipule. I'll first use swipe if there's more than two, to get aggro, maul if there's only two, then I'll use maul, then lacerate the mob I have targeted already twice, tab, lacerate, tab lacerate, until I have all the mobs lacerated. Then I utilize the berserk for consecutive mangle's on all victums. Of course I toss in swipe here and there when it's up. Enrage is also in my rotation, but only if I find myself rage starved. Pulverize is of course only used after 3 stacks of lacerate. However FFF? I have yet to configure that into my rotation yet for mob pulls.

now for single target, charge of course if I have the rage, not gonna shift out of bear form for just one target...therefore I just auto attack for a quick rage gain to use growl. Swipe's never used ever, nor is maul since I have the glyph. I just basically use Lacerate 3 times, then mangle. Most of the time, I'm lucky enough for berserk to proc at that time, so I use mangle twice, then pulverize, then back to lacerate, rinse repeat.

Mind you...I never asked anyone the rotation, I just checked them out, BUT if my rotations are wrong, help is always appreciated

[Gamingdevil]

Why would you not Mangle ever on single target when you have the glyph? The glyph deals 50% damage of the attack to a secondary target, the damage to the main target is unchanged.