Preliminary, work-in-progress, etcetera.

Tanking, not including hard-mode loot, not including Arthas loot.

Weapon: Season 8 Gladiator’s Staff (Mongoose)
Chest: Ikfirus’s Sack of Wonder (Powerful Stats)
Head: T10 (Stam/Defense)
Shoulders: T10 (Stam/Resil)
Hands: T10 (Armor)
Legs: T10 (Armor/Agi)
Back: Sentinel’s Winter Cloak (Armor)
Neck: Bile-Encrusted Medallion
Wrist: Season 8 (Stam)
Waist: Season 8
Feet: Season 8 (Tuskar’s Vitality)
Finger1: Ashen Band of Endless Courage
Finger2: Devium’s Eternally Cold Ring
Trinket1: Juggernaut’s Vitality
Trinket2: Unidentifiable Organ (on fights where the stack will not drop. Not clear which is best otherwise, possibly Sindragosa stam trinket)
Relic: Idol of the Crying Moon

All +30 stam gems except for one +15 stam +10 agi gem where the socket bonus gives the largest amount of stam.

DPS, including hard mode loot, not including Arthas.

Weapon: Distant Land (Berserking)
Chest: T10
Head: T10 (hit/ap)
Shoulders: T10
Hands: Aldriana’s Gloves of Secrecy (+20 hit)
Legs: T10
Back: Sylvanas’ Cunning (+23 haste)
Neck: Sindragosa’s Cruel Claw
Wrist: Toskk’s Maximized Wristguards
Waist: Astrylian’s Sutured Cinch
Feet: Frostbitten Fur Boots
Finger1: Ashen Band of Endless Vengeance
Finger2: Frostbrood Sapphire Ring
Trinket1: Deathbringer’s Will
Trinket2: Herkuml War Token
Relic: Idol of the Crying Moon

Gemmed to reach the expertise, hit, and arpen caps, getting good bonuses when possible without using more than 1 blue gem. Rest into agi until the hard cap which occurs at some point… Then haste.

I feel so lonely, someone come keep me company, even post in disagreement with my list, anything!

THIS LIST IS OUTRAGEOUS. LEARN2PLAY.

I’m still sad that druid tanking gear requires you to go pvp for bis items. I guess old habits die hard.

Yeah. If there’s a weapon of at least item level 282 off lich king with reasonable stam and 2+ sockets, it will be better. Otherwise the pvp staff is BIS. The offset pieces are only BIS not including hard modes.