Guardian Druid Tank Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.0.5)

Both Druid of the Claw and Elune's Chosen are viable for High Mythic+ Pushing.

Elune's Chosen represents a simpler and easier-to-start-with rotation compared to Druid of the Claw. Lunar Beam offers a very strong cooldown that can be used extremely frequently. We also gain a significant amount of self-healing from Lunar Calling which makes Thrash arcane.

Overall, this build excels in very AoE-heavy dungeons, especially where you are able to do large pulls.

While it is recommended you run the build shown below, our tree is quite flexible and swapping a couple of talents can dramatically change the playstyle to something you may prefer more at just the loss of some DPS.

• Raze is a huge DPS increase but can often confuse people into not balancing out their rage with enough Ironfur casts. Dropping Raze will generally be about a 10% DPS loss, but you will gain some survivability.
• Fury of Nature can be a flexible point that can go in either Berserk: Persistence or Dream of Cenarius if you desire to heal your group often.
• Swapping the right pathing in Survival of the Fittest and After the Wildfire to the middle row of Layered Mane and Reinforced Fur is also a viable swap that will cost some group healing at the gain of some minor survivability.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Druid of the Claw can offer great overall damage reduction and burst damage AoE damage in addition to the ability to deal significantly higher single target dps if required.

Overall, this build excels in dungeons where pulls are smaller, such as 3-5 mobs, and where bosses pose a more significant challenge.

Our talent tree is quite flexible and has multiple different options depending on your playstyle, preferences, and situation.

• If you are having no issues surviving, dropping Ursoc's Fury is completely viable. You may acquire Flashing Claws, Raze or Lunar Beam.
• Fury of Nature can be a flexible point that can go in either Berserk: Persistence or Dream of Cenarius if you desire to heal your group often.
• Swapping the right pathing in Survival of the Fittest and After the Wildfire to the middle row of Layered Mane and Reinforced Fur is also a viable swap that will cost some group healing at the gain of some minor survivability.
• If you are looking for huge single target DPS, swapping Improved Stampeding Roar for Fluid Form to enable the ripweaving variant of Druid of the Claw. You must also take Wildpower Surge.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Skull Bash interrupts spell casts and prevents spells from the same school from being cast again for 4 seconds. Skull Bash has a 13-yard range, and casting it from out of melee range will cause you to charge into melee range to interrupt. Note that although the charge animation has travel time, the interrupt happens when you use the spell. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

• /stopcasting
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Skull Bash

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

• /focus [@mouseover]

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Incapacitating Roar is your "AoE stop". This will immediately disorient all targets around you. It can be great for stopping casters, but keep in mind they will generally recast right after.

Ursol's Vortex can be used to keep mobs from running around or from being knocked away.

Typhoon can be used as an additional stop; it will knock enemies back which can be disruptive, so it should be a last resort. It can be used in combination with Ursol's Vortex to keep the mobs in relatively the same place.

Remove Corruption removes all harmful curse and poison debuffs from the target. Many dungeons apply these types of effects, and being able to dispel them is a great piece of utility.

Soothe will remove all enrage effects on a single enemy.

Entangling Roots can root patrolling enemies to prevent them from entering combat with you or to skip them entirely. Casting it will cancel Bear Form, however, so do not cast it while you are actively tanking.

Rebirth resurrects dead allies in combat. This costs 30 Rage, but it can be handy if your healer dies during an encounter.

Regrowth is a single target heal. Casting it will cancel Bear Form.

Stampeding Roar is mainly used indoors or during combat for short bursts of movement speed. It is generally used for kiting or going from one pack to the next, but it is also useful for speeding your friends out of dangerous ground mechanics.

After the Wildfire This talent causes a massive burst of healing in an AoE around you every 300 rage you spend.

Dream of Cenarius This talent enables you to do a massive single target heal on any group member of your choice every 20-30 seconds.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• Keep Starved Crawlers away from the boss via Ursol's Vortex and Typhoon.
• Shapeshifting clears Vile Webbing.

• Shapeshifting clears Silken Restraints from the Bloodstained Webmage adds if you are trapped far away.
• As a tank you are in control of the direction of Impale mechanic. Simply face it away from your group as the timer is about to come up.

• You can Wild Charge to a far add at the end of the Cosmic Singularity mechanic if you have been prematurely broken out by a group member.
• Remove Corruption clears Cultivated Poisons. It will shoot off waves that you should make sure not to hit your teammates with!

• Soothe to clear Unnatural Bloodlust from Bloodstained Assistants.
• Incapacitating Roar and Typhoon the Sentry Stagshells before they can finish Alarm Shrill.
• Remove Corruption can be used for a plethora of poison abilities throughout this dungeon, all of which should be dispelled off cooldown ideally.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• This boss has one of the hardest hitting tank mechanics in all the dungeons, be wary of Subjugate and have a defensive active for it as it comes frequently.

• Nothing Guardian-specific, though I will update this if I discover anything.

• Guardian is great at soaking the Viscous Darkness Orbs and healing them off quickly.

• You can shapeshift to clear Umbral Weave.
• You can utilize Ursol's Vortex on the Ravenous Scarabs to keep them under the boss but not hitting you.

• Soothe to remove Asperity from Reposing Knights.
• Remove Corruption to clear Venomous Spray from Royal Venomshells.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• Obsidian Beam is a massive magic damage tank, always have a good defensive or 2 up for it.

• Incapacitating Roar to cancel the Animate Shadows cast.

• Nothing Guardian-specific, though I will update this if I discover anything.

• Disengage to clear Ensnaring Shadows from Nightfall Shadowmages.
• Soothe the Tactician's Rage from the Nightfall Tacticians.

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• Stampeding Roar is useful for getting to the further safe-spots during the dragons phases.

• Nothing Guardian-specific. I will update this section with whatever I can find.

• You can use Ursol's Vortex on the Invoked Shadowflame Spirits in Phase 2.
• Remove Corruption to dispel the Curse of Entropy off you or your group members.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• You can use Soothe on the Reckless Tactic from Twilight Overseer. They take increased damage during it, so you may want to keep it up if your Tank/Healer are okay with it. Communication is key.
• Soothe the Rage from Twilight Enforcer to remove it.
• Remove Corruption can be used on the Enveloping Shadowflame from Twilight Warlocks to remove it.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• Use Ursol's Vortex/ Typhoon to keep Carrion Worms under the boss and away from players.

• Soothe whenever Unholy Frenzy is on the boss.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• You can shapeshift to clear Frozen Binds if it accidently gets dispelled onto you.

• Soothe the Seething Rage off Stitched Vanguards.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• Ursol's Vortex to help control the Freeze Tag vulpin add..

• Ursol's Vortex to help control the fixated Gormling Larvae.

• We can use Lunar Beam to pull mobs through the maze. Just target a mob through the maze wall and press Lunar Beam.
• Remove Corruption the Debilitating Poison from Spinemaw Reaver.
• Incapacitating Roar can often be used to cancel multiple Harvest Essence channels from Drust Harvester as they frequently are aligned.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

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• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• Blacktar Bombers are slow to move, so you can use Typhoon to help them along and into the group.
• Soothe on Ferocity from Ashvane Destroyers.
• Remove Corruption can be used on the Stinging Venom from the Ashvane Invaders.

This section will grow with more tips as the Season progresses, so check back regularly.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• Nothing Guardian-specific.

• Remove Corruption can be used on the Void Infection from the Cursedheart Invaders.

Our default build includes Incapacitating Roar and Typhoon which are both excellent for this Affix.

This is a great place to use Stampeding Roar for an extra source of movement speed, which will help you soak Shattered Essence crystals more easily.

Remove Corruption is Poison/Curse dispel, which can be used for removing Void Rift.