It’s hard to believe, I know. Your friendly neighborhood tree, all Bear-Butted out, tanking Moroes. So hard to believe, in fact, that it could only be true.
Anyhow, here is how it happened. I didn’t have anything going on last night, and I had a good 3-4 hours to kill in game, so I joined the Kara LFG channel. That usually ends bad, I know, but I need badges for the Gavel of Naaru Blessings and most of the guild was otherwise indisposed.
I got an invite fairly quickly, as my note advertised me as a Resto Druid with 1923 Healing. Should be sufficient for Kara. 
I did a quick lookup on WoW Heroes of the person who had invited me, and I really liked what I saw. A strong tank goes a long way.
So we’re trying to fill, trying to fill. We have tanks, we have healers, we need DPS. Though I had a hunter I could have brought, I really wanted badges with the Druid, so I stuck to my guns. After about 20 minutes the RL asked if I would be willing to respec and DPS. Why not?
Next thing I know, I’m the OT for the night. The other warrior in the group turned out to be pure fury, and he didn’t even have a shield if he wanted to OT. The MT was VERY strong, so I figured what the hey. I tanked. Here are pics to prove it:
I felt a little bad for the healers, as I don’t have the most HPs around. That’s one area I’d have to really improve in my Bear gear. I have the defense and other stats, but the health is lacking.
Still, we got the job done. I also got to tank all kinds of other good stuff, along with Romulo. The MT did most of the heavy lifting, thankfully.
Yeah, that’s right. Thankfully the tank was very strong, and we did just fine with me as the OT. We made it all the way to the Shade, but it was 3 am and myself and others were too tired to finish him off. Oh well. Still, I had a great time, and managed to snag a couple staves while I was there. In the interests of summarizing, here is what I got:
Not bad at all! I’ve been looking to pick of the staff of Illhoof for awhile, and the other staff looks like it might be the start of my Boomkin off-set. It seems I’m headed towards true druidism, the ability to play any spec. 
That’s all for now, thanks for reading!
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Grats PTD. I had a chance to do some off tanking in Kara on Saturday but I did the big no-no instead. It went something like this.
RL: hmmmm, a third tank would be nice. Von (my resto-druid), what does your tanking gear look like.
Me: Errrr, left in the bank.
RL: So much for that idea.
/faceplant
Notetoself: always bring your off-spec gear.
I did get Light’s Justice off of Prince. /glee +1576 healing now. two weeks ago I was at +1043.
What do you think the minimum stats for a tree to do a heroic should be?
@muck
/yawn
@Muck
I have allowed your opinion. I just wonder if your subversive opinions against the current popularity of subscription based MMOs and their model has anything to do with your own MMO projects.
@tkc
You can do a lot of heroics at 1576 healing, you can probably do all of them, depending on the strength of the tank. You can certainly do anything short of Arc, MagT and Shadow Lab.
Awesome! This is a shining example of why I love the druid class so much.
I was curious as to all the addon’s you were using.
@Espen
I really should do an add-on post at some point. Here are the major mods I use that would be reflected in the interface:
eePanels for the background on the bottom of my screen
Bartender3 for my bar mod
ElkBuffBars for the buffs in the top right
SCT for the scrolling combat text
Grid for my raid frames
SimpleMiniMap to make my map square and movable
Omen threat meter
Recount in the bottom right
I think that covers the major ones you would see in my screenshot.