I think one issue here is casual player against hard-dedicated-want-it-really-challenging raider. In my case, I bought the bear (they don't come free, as we all know) and then found the class was clunky and not very enjoyable to play, plus it was hard to find groups interested in having a Beorning tag along. Now we are given mainly heal position in groups, in dps we are still somewhat lack luster, and tanking does not seem fully valid either, even though possible, but it certainly seems more challenging than to play a guardian tank.

Personally I was not praying to become a healing bear, that's not my sweetest dreams fulfilled, but it is okayish, yet again - those who say the hot ticking on tank needs to be nerfed have to consider if you do not have abyss set, we can end having to come off the tank to heal up dps if our group heal doesn't by chance crit on the players who really need it that moment. Maul in situations where there can be knocks, I have found often ends useless, and with no abyss set, no hot ticking on group. I then have to try heal up oe or even more dps as fast as I can, unable to heal the tank during that time, while waiting for my group heal to come off cd. Thus nerfing the hot ticking on tank only works if we get an aoe hot that aids us to heal up dps in the group (as well as ourselves) NOT linked to a set which for some of us is unobtainable and will be outdated soon enough anyway.

Glimmer T3 I heal afk even with my LM, any healer can heal glimmer T3 in their sleep, but I also feel some here seem to me at least, speak for well organized raid groups, with players who know their classes well and spend a lot of time studying positions and what not. For many of us though, we heal PUGS. We end healing struggling tanks, champs who get into frontal boss aoes and and and. This makes healing challenging without it being a T3 raid, so I wonder if it comes down to very different group situations encountered, that those who heal well functioning groups find it more boring, because frankly they usually have less healing to do then a PUG healer, so they feel bear is op.