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Welcome to those of you coming from Gun Lovin’ Dwarf Chick (and, hi Bre!). If you check down several posts (like, 7, I think?) you will find my wall of text guide to bear leveling gear.
Now, on with the show!
Rings:
Baseline: Ravenclaw Band and Overseer’s Signet
Both rings require a bit of effort to get but [...]

Chests:
Baseline: Merciless Gladiator’s Dragonhide Tunic wasn’t that much of a grind and, to be honest, everyone I knew who didn’t have something from Kara, had either this or the Badge chest.
The first upgrade at 70 is Skarvald’s Dragonhide Habergeon which drops from Skarvald the Constructor in Utgarde Keep.
It’s 75 before you see the [...]

Shoulders:
Baseline: I’m going to split the difference on this one…I know a lot of people probably did the grind for at least the S1 PvP shoulders, or even the S2 PvP shoulders, but I’m trying to baseline on easily acquired PvE gear, so I’m going to baseline with the Mantle of Pernold, mostly because COT: [...]

Because the bear guide was a BIG WALL OF TEXT, and I’m too lazy to go back and break it down, I’m going to write the cat gear guide in smaller chunks.
Cat gear is a little more straightforward than bear, to me. It’s all about damage. You don’t have to worry about armor on [...]

Okay…so here’s something from the beta patch notes:

Feral Instinct (Feral) no longer increases threat generated in Bear form, but now increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 5/10/15%.
 

 
As if we didn’t have enough threat problems (I don’t care what karthis says, I didn’t start building good threat until I got my badge chest), they [...]