Druid threat

[TheDragoon]

In all cases I'vd been wearing my tanking gear, which gives me a little under 700 AP and a little over 20% crit unbuffed except for LOTP. I could generate more threat in my Cat gear that focuses more on offensive stats but that wouldn't be a valid test because I wouldn't have the stamina or armour to make an effective tank.
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I have a feeling that this might be part of the reason it's working out as you find. 20% chance to crit in "tank gear" is significantly higher than most warriors I know. It sounds like your gear is more designed for damage compared to the types of tank gear a warrior gets. For example, when I'm using my offensive gear on my warrior, I usually run around with 25% chance to crit (unbuffed, in battle stance), but when I swap to my tank gear, that drops down as low as 11% chance to crit. With such a huge deficit in terms of offensive power, it's definitely going to be difficult to hold aggro even if you both have the talents to increase hate generation (Defiance for him, that Feral Instinct for you). For the warriors that don't have Defiance, they would have to work 15% harder to hold aggro, so I don't think it's a huge surprise they were having a hard time with it.

Rage generation is also going to be a huge factor here. Warriors in defensive stance with a shield out against one relatively weak-hitting mob aren't going to be generating a whole lot of rage. With you in a more offensively minded gear set, you might very well have a comparable rage generation to the warriors. Again, at that point it goes back to the fact that the warrior might be turtling and you are attacking, in terms of the gear you are using.