Guardian Druid Tank Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Season 1

Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. For more specific recommendations for the Raid and Mythic+, check out the dedicated pages below.

Both of our Hero Talent Trees are fantastic and viable in both Mythic+ and Raid alike.

Druid of the Claw excels on smaller pulls in Mythic+, 3-5 targets. It also can deal incredibly high single-target damage to bosses, which makes it ideal for Raiding.

Elune's Chosen has the power of Lunar Beam on an extremely short cooldown in Mythic+. This ability is often up at the start of a pull, which helps generate aggro quickly and keeps you relatively safe while you start to ramp. Elune's Chosen also scales incredibly well the more targets you pull, as your Moonfire's spread rapidly and your self healing ramps quickly with both Ursoc's Fury and Elune's Favored.

Mythic+ can require a mix of AoE and Single-Target talents, depending on affixes and other variables. You should check out our page below if you want advice specific to Mythic+.

Some talents will require you to play in a particular way to get the most out of them. You can find more information on how your rotation will look after selecting your talents on our rotation page below.

1. Wild Guardian
2. Wild Guardian
3. Wild Guardian

The Apex talents for Guardian Druid revolve heavily around Maul, essentially adding a 12 second DoT that you can maintain permanently by casting Maul at least once every 12 seconds. This doesn't really affect or change our rotation at all, as we generally have plenty of excess rage that we are already dumping into Maul.

It also has some mild defensive benefit once every 2-3 minutes when you cast Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc, your next 2 casts of Ironfur and Frenzied Regeneration echo over 8 seconds. This is relatively minor but good to be wary of so you don't waste casts of Frenzied Regeneration during that 8 second window.

The Battle for Azeroth expansion introduced a new system called "War Mode." Opting into War Mode makes you eligible for open-world PvP but also grants you the following benefits:

• World Quests at a maximum level have 10-30% increased rewards.
• You gain 10-30% increased experience while leveling.
• Allows you to earn Conquest Points towards weekly gear rewards.
• Grants you the use of PvP talents in the open-world.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended that you enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will make yourself eligible for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.

Below are the recommended PvP talents for leveling and doing PvE content. You will get a choice of one general PvP talent and three spec-specific talents.

1. Overrun is a powerful charge with a stun, and the knockback it triggers provides a large mobility boost.
2. Emerald Slumber Enter a deep sleep for 8 seconds that makes all other cooldowns recover 400% faster.
3. Demoralizing Roar reduces damage enemies deal to you by 20% for 10 seconds.
4. Alpha Challenge replaces Growl, an ability that historically has no function in solo content. In exchange, you (and your allies) deal increased damage to the target you taunt.
5. Malorne's Swiftness increases your Travel Form movement speed by 20% and prevents you from being slowed below 100% movement speed. This improves your mobility and will reduce travel time, which is important while leveling.

The remaining PvP talents may have limited or niche applications in leveling or open-world PvE content, but they do not provide the overall benefit of the recommended list above. The rest of the PvP talents do not contribute meaningfully to leveling or open world PvE.

While Guardian may have some fun open-world PvP viability, if you want to do more serious PvP, you may have better success with a non-tank spec.