I found a fantastic post to help fellow starter bears out.

Everything you need to know

Nice link. I'll have to remember it for my horde bear.

Also:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=104460564&sid=1

Very handy for comparing gear :)

My two cents (links):
http://druid.wikispaces.com/ (read it -all-, download and run/play with Rawr)
http://www.gurgleblaster.net/emmerald/Bear_Mitigation/Head.html (helped me hunt for gear and prioritize my quests)

I've been working with Rawr more and more lately. You can't -quite- tweak all the gems as much as I would like, but otherwise, it's tough to beat. As a bear, it's really hard to do simple item comparisons due to all the multipliers. Rawr takes care of all those in an easy to use way. Sites like warcrafter are great for looking at items, but doesn't take the multipliers into account.

Hrm, seems there's a newer item list up (has 2.3 stuff, the other one doesn't/didn't):
http://www.emmerald.net/

Lots of great stuff! Thanks everyone!

yeah, those pre-raid items are wicked!

FERAL DRUID FOR THE WIN!

I found this poking around
http://www.gurgleblaster.net/emmerald/Bear_Mitigation/Neck.html

I found this poking around
http://www.gurgleblaster.net/emmerald/Bear_Mitigation/Neck.html

Use http://www.emmerald.net/ instead, it's an update to the above list. Includes 2.3 stuff.

Though, the new list doesn't have the 'source' populated yet, which made it easier to create a shopping list.