| Bear runs really arn't that hard. They just take people who arn't morons. The 10 person group I ran them with was finishing with 4~5 minutes remaining on the clock on our good runs. Although, we had just as many if not more nail biting sub 10 second remaining completions as well. This was without any shamans, heck... The one run we had a Enhancement Shaman come we cleared it with well over 5 minutes remaining (albeit, he was geared out in T6/Sunwell).
My guild never set foot in Tier 6 outside of a couple of Rage kills. All our gear was ZA/T5/Badge.
The hardest part is just learning the run and what corners to cut. Once that's done it's just simple repetition. Honestly, the hardest part for my group was always the Gauntlet heading to Eagle. Then mabey the Bear->Dragonhawk. Other then that... it's more or less a joke. | 