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Mmkay, "tanking" abilities while levelling isn't really important, as long as you have points in feral and have stam gear you'll be a great tank if you know wtf ur doin.

Unless you're about to die, ask priests to not shield you. Because you swing so slow in bear form, you'll generate more rage by taking damage. Sponge tanking is how bears tank, so you wanna soak up all the damage to gain rage to spam maul with. The two abilities you'll use while tanking the most: Taunt and maul. That's about it besides Challenging Roar, Enrage, blah blah blah.

Specc this for levelling:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=zZxGMsfroxkio

You'll go 5 points in Ferocity first, 3/3 Feral Instict second, Brutal Impact, Charge, Feral Swiftness, Sharpened Claws, Primal Fury, Predatory Strikes, Faerie Fire, Savage Fury, Shredding Attacks, Heart Of The Wild, LoTP, 1 random point anywhere (I put it in survival of the fittest or Primal Tenacity) Predatory Instincts, Mangle.

Pretty much, the armor buff talent is a waste of points early game, and is only good if you want to specialize completely in tanking, because there are other Restoration talents that are more important once you finish off Feral. Your end-build will look like this:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=MZxGMsfroxkioVeIz

Pretty self-explanatory, tell me if you need some explanation on anything.

Tips for tanking is just like a warrior. Keep things off the healer with taunt, spam Maul, use Pounce on things you don't wanna focus too much but wanna keep aggro on, sponge up damage, and if you're in an ohshit moment and the healer can't help, shapeshift out and heal, or better yet, drink a potion for a health buffer and then heal. Use Faerie Fire for intial pulling and aggro, or you can use Demo Shout or whatever.

Yeah, attack speed is static, so your weapon just changes into a stat booster.
Pretty much, your stats are calculated into the base stats that are given to the bear.

Bear:

Shapeshift into a bear, increasing melee attack power by 30, armor contribution from items by 180%, and Stamina by 25%.

So, the more stamina and armor you have, the better the bear itself will scale. To tell the truth, you really don't need any strength for tanking as a bear earlier levels, my 36 druid has a set of gear that is all +stamina and tanks perfectly well. Agility/strength is only really important for cats, and I prefer agility because it gives crit chance as well.

Strength and agility both translate into attack power for both forms. Druids get a rediculous amount of dodge from agility.

You're build in the frost tree is that of a farming Mage. Which unfortunately sucks since TBC. Here is my suggestion if you wish to do a balance of PvP and PvE. Luckily enough, a mage is one spell casting class that has an equal balance of both PvE and PvP capabilities no matter what spec you are. Here's my advice.

I prefer this...

0 | 26 | 35

Reason:

Got rid of both Imp. Blizzard and Permafrost because those are talents that follow a Farming Mage, which unfortunately got a hard boot since TBC. Permafrost is useless at 70 because you'll encounter mobs that cannot be slowed by frost that much. And using 3 talent points to get a 10% increase isn't all worth it. Blizzard hasn't been improved much in TBC, so it's a giant dump on Mana to spend it on AoEing mobs unless you have a good tank by your side.

Those points I transfered to Ice shards. Ice Shards is a must-have move for Frost mages because combining talents with Shatter, a 50% increase on criticals to frozen targets, you gain much more bonus and reap more reward from freezing the target, then hitting them with a 5K crit Frostbolt.

Cold Snap is a move that compliements your Frost Nova, Ice Block, as well as your Ice Barrier, and with 1 point, you might as well get it.

Ice Floes isn't too important unless you have all the moves to it. You can chose yourself whether to work yourself to get Ice floes or Arctic Reach, both are nice talents.

Winter's Chill is much more a PvE move than a PvP move because it's meant for long, drawn-out fights. And having 10% isn't too much compared to Shatter's 50% on frozen targets. Assuimg a player can survive ten frost spells from you. But if you so desire it. Be prepared to spam Cone of Cold, Ice Lance, Frostbolt, and Frost Nova alot to reap the best benefits from it. IMO, it's too much work. As for PvE, Winter's Chill is indeed nice to have. But as a Mage, you really work yourself to avoid unnecessary crits that'll pull aggro into a weird disarray. It's a risk-taker. But I don't really like it because Crits mean unnecessary aggro.

I took off Impact, and suggest Arctic Wind because while stuns are nice in PvP, You are mainly specced for Frost, and the oppurtunity to spam Fireball and Pyroblasts will be limited, and will do only so-so damage because you aren't specced far enough into Fire to get the best of it. The only spell that you can possible reap the best of Impact from is Fireblast. Which isn't a staple DPS move.

Flamethrowing is very important because that means you can throw a 41 yard Fireball and Pyroblast. And since you aren't specced wholly in Fire. You'll need all the time you can get to pull it off. Burning Soul is the same thing. Since you need as much time as you can get to pull out a Fireball from your pocket.

I gave up a point in Blazing Speed, because as good as the move sounds on paper, it actually isn't that good unless you PvP more than you PvE. I don't like Blazing speed all too much, because other classes have too much utility to use against you as you run away from them when it activates. Warriors intercept, Rogue's sprint + stunlocks, Paladin's Seal of Justice, etc.etc. This applies against you as well because since you have major points in Frost, you have means to escape instead of relying on Blazing Speed to get away. Frostnova, Ice Block, Blink, etc. etc.

Personally, I don't approve on Frozen Fire spec because as a frost mage, you miss out of the benefits of Frozen crits, [aka triple freeze: Frostnova, Frost Elemental's Freeze, Coldsnap, Frostnova again] And you're single target DPs isn't all that good because you don't have Empowered Frostbolt or Empowered Fireball to back you up on that. Though, your AoE damage will be rather decent [[Only if you get Shatter, you do frostnova, blastwave combo]].

Your frost spec that you suggest is a mage farming build, and Frozen Fire Spec sucks for that. If you do intend to do mage farming, Frost/Arcane spec is much, much better.

Yeah so I started a warlock a while ago and finally started leveling him up. He's 17 right now. I was just wondering, as I'd heard that Affliction is pretty much the best leveling spec, yada yada, what would be good specifically? I'm planning on going a bit Destro later on, perhaps, but hoping for mostly Affliction.

Sorry I suck so hardcore. halp pl0x?

If you insist on a AoE Farming build I won't stop you. Here's my input...

17 | 0 | 44

The effects of Water Elemental is completely up to the user. Though if you do intend to AoE Farm, I highly suggest it considering that you gain the utility of another frozen nova from it. And it doesn't do that half-bad damage either [[Around 600 ; 1.1k crit water balls with ~500 spell damage]]

Anyway, I took off a point in Permafrost and completed Improve Blizzard for the sole reason that since you do intend to AoE Farm more than PvP, you gain much more efficiency from a 72% chill for 3.5 Seconds than having a 40% chill for 4.5 Seconds. As far as I know from AoE farming, you would prefer enemies to stay slowed enough to capture the most potential damage from Blizzard while as well from casting more of them at a time. And in PvP, you don't really see a big difference of 3% slow when casting Frostbolt. To that as well, in PvP, you don't need to slow the enemy longer, you just need to slow them constantly. At level 70, spamming rank 1 frostbolts to slow down enemies is enough.

I took off a point in Ice Floes and Empowered Frostbolt because I prefer to give you Arcane Meditation. Trust me, in both PvE and PvP, you'll be stressing mana, and having 10% mana regen during casting will save you plenty worth of its mana. Especially since Blizzard is such a big mana dump. It may seem like a big difference from 4% more powerful Frostbolts with 3% more crit, but since you do have Shatter, you'll be pulling crits more often than neccesary.

There's a very good reason to only go 2/3 with Improved Blizzard for AoE grinding, lemme try to find why...

2 pts into Imp Blizzard(only 2 otherwise it overwrites CoC)