Introduction to the Guardian Druid

Guardian Druid is a sturdy tank that manages damage intake through having strong passive reductions, a large health pool, increased healing received from Mastery, and a stackable active mitigation. They are an excellent sponge tank and once you have acquired enough gear they are mostly self-sufficient with a unique playstyle unlike any class. They bring good utility to raid and Mythic+ groups as a tank.

Guardian is in a very competitive state in both raids and dungeons. Their defensive power has been boosted quite significantly by the amount of Agility and secondary stats we will be acquiring, increasing Armor gained from Ironfur greatly and raising our dodge to levels above 50% passively, making Druid one of the most stable and fun to play tanks in the game

Below you will find a beginners guide to the Guardian Druid, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Guardian Druid

Talents

Level	Choices
15	Brambles ✅	Blood Frenzy	Bristling Fur
30	Tiger Dash	Ursol’s Vortex ✅	Wild Charge
45	Balance Affinity	Feral Affinity	Restoration Affinity ✅
60	Mighty Bash	Mass Entanglement ✅	Typhoon
75	Soul of the Forest	Galactic Guardian ✅	Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
90	Earthwarden ✅	Survival of the Fittest	Guardian of Elune
100	Rend and Tear	Lunar Beam	Pulverize ✅

Rotation of the Guardian Druid

The basic rotation of the Guardian Druid is as follows:

• Keep  Moonfire ticking.

• Use  Thrash if your target does not have 3 stacks of the bleed yet

• Cast  Pulverize at 3 stacks of  Thrash to maintain the buff

• Use  Mangle

• Cast  Moonfire with a  Galactic Guardian proc, if talented

• Use  Maul to dump Rage, if you do not need the Rage for  Ironfur or  Frenzied Regeneration

• Cast  Swipe.

You can use the recommended Addon ConRo for help with your rotation, it can be found in our Addons Guide here

Survival Cooldowns

•  Barkskin reduces all damage you take by 20% for 12 seconds, on a 90 second cooldown. Barkskin is usable while stunned, incapacitated, or asleep.
•  Survival Instincts reduces all damage you take by 50% for 6 seconds. Survival Instincts has 2 charges and a 4 minute recharge time.

Stat Priority

The stat priority for the Guardian Druid is

1. Armor/Agility/Stamina
2. Versatility
3. Mastery
4. Haste
5. Critical Strike.

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