Mists of Pandaria Classic Guardian Druid Spell Summary

While not all abilities in your spellbook have the same degree of importance, they all have their uses, which we will try to quickly explain in the following sections.

While in Bear Form you will use Rage instead of Mana or Energy. When you deal auto-attack damage or take damage you will generate Rage, which can then be spent on attacks.

• Bear Form turns you into a bear, drastically increasing your Armor and health. This is the form you will want to assume when under heavy pressure, as well as while tanking.
• Growl taunts the target to attack you. This is a critical tanking ability, which can save the lives of your teammates.
• Mangle is a strong attack that costs Rage and has a small cooldown. It also debuffs the target with 30% increased bleed damage taken. Use it whenever available.
• Lacerate causes bleed damage over time on the target and stacks up to 3 applications.
• Maul is an attack that converts Rage into damage. As Rage is your main source of defensive capabilities, make sure to only use it when you have excess Rage.
• Swipe swipes in front of you, dealing damage to all targets. Deals 20% more damage to bleeding targets.
• Thrash causes a bleed dot on all enemies around you for 16 seconds and reduces their physical damage by 10% for 30 seconds. It also has a 25% chance to reset the cooldown of Mangle.
• Survival Instincts is your main defensive cooldown, reducing your damage taken by 50% for 12 seconds.
• Skull Bash charges and interrupts your target for 4 seconds and increases its spell casting costs by 25% for 10 seconds.
• Bear Hug stuns your target for 3 seconds while dealing 10% of your health as damage every second, but you will also be immobilized while doing it. If your target is permanently stun immune, it will lower their damage by 10% for 5 seconds, instead.
• Nature's Swiftness makes your next cast instant, able to be casted without breaking Bear Form and gives it 50% more healing or duration.
• Frenzied Regeneration is a cooldown that instantly converts Rage into health.
• Enrage generates 20 Rage instantly and 10 more over 10 seconds.

While in Cat Form, you will have two resources to deal with: Combo Points and Energy. Energy automatically regenerates over time and is used for abilities such as Mangle, which generates Combo Points.

Combo points can be accumulated up to 5 and are spent on finisher abilities that use all Combo Points at once for an especially powerful effect (such as Rip).

These abilities use Energy and generate Combo Points:

• Mangle is your basic combo point builder, which also reduces the movement speed of its target by 50% through the Infected Wounds passive.
• Rake is similar to Mangle, but deals less upfront damage while bleeding your target to deal some extra damage over time.
• Swipe swipes in front of you, dealing damage to all nearby enemies, increased by 20% if they are bleeding.
• Ravage can only be used while stealthed and behind the target and deals a lot of damage to the target, as well as generating a Combo Point. This is the favored way to open on a target while leveling, especially as it has 50% added chance to Critical Strike if the target is above 80% health.
• Pounce is also only usable from stealth but stuns the target and deals bleed damage over time instead of doing direct damage. This is an alternative way to open on most targets due to the lack of positional requirements.

These abilities use Combo Points for a powerful attack:

• Rip is a powerful bleed that consumes Combo Points and Energy to put a damage-over-time effect on your target. Against targets that will live through its full duration, this is one of your main damage dealers.
• Savage Roar is a maintenance buff which increases your auto-attack damage by 80% for a duration based on how many Combo Points were spent. You should keep it up as much as possible while performing the rest of your rotation.
• Ferocious Bite is similar to Rip but deals its damage instantly. However, it generally does lower damage than the bleed over its full duration, especially when fighting high Armor targets.

These are other utility abilities that are only usable while in Cat Form.

• Berserk reduces the cost of Cat abilities by 50% for 15 seconds, and is your main DPS cooldown.
• Faerie Fire lowers the Armor of the target and makes them unable to stealth or go invisible while active. It also deals minor damage and has a 25% chance to reset the cooldown on Mangle when used in Bear Form.
• Prowl allows you to go into stealth. This drastically lowers the range at which enemies can see and attack you, and gives you access to some abilities that can only be used while in stealth. You can only go into stealth while not in combat, and being attacked or using any ability while stealthed will bring you out of it.
• Tiger's Fury provides burst Energy regeneration, and also increases your damage for 6 seconds.
• Dash increases your movement speed by 70% for 15 seconds and breaks roots and snares on yourself on a 3-minute cooldown. A useful mobility cooldown.
• Feline Grace is a passive that makes you take less fall damage.
• Wild Charge causes you to leap behind your target, dazing them for 3 seconds.
• Leader of the Pack is a talent in the Feral tree that passively buffs you and your party members' Critical Strike chance by 5%.

Symbiosis allows you to target one allied player to give a specialization-specific ability, while also receiving a specific ability of his class to use yourself! All effects are listed below:

Class	Ability Granted to Target	Ability Granted to Druid
Death Knight	Blood: Might of Ursoc — Frost/Unholy: Wild Mushroom: Plague	Icebound Fortitude
Hunter	Dash	Deterrence
Mage	Healing Touch	Ice Block
Monk	Brewmaster: Survival Instincts — Mistweaver: Entangling Roots — Windwalker: Bear Hug	Fortifying Brew
Paladin	Holy: Rebirth — Protection: Barkskin — Retribution: Wrath	Cleanse
Priest	Discipline/Holy: Cyclone — Shadow: Tranquility	Leap of Faith
Rogue	Growl	Evasion
Shaman	Elemental/Enhancement: Solar Beam — Restoration: Prowl	Spiritwalker's Grace
Warlock	Rejuvenation	Demonic Circle: Teleport
Warrior	Arms/Fury: Stampeding Shout — Protection: Savage Defense	Intimidating Roar

These are other abilities that all Druids possess and which are part of your utility package. We will list the most important ones at the top, but you can read about all of them if you want to learn more about being a Druid.

Every ability below will take you out of form when used, making them very dangerous to use while actively tanking anything in bear form!

• Rebirth allows you to resurrect a group member while in combat.
• Stampeding Roar makes your nearby raid members much faster for a short duration.
• Barkskin is a defensive cooldown that reduces all damage taken by 20% for 12 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown. This is usable while crowd controlled.
• Innervate causes the target to regenerate Mana based on 50% of the casting Druid's Spirit every second over 10 seconds. The total Mana restored will always be at least 8% of the caster's maximum Mana.
• Remove Corruption removes all Curses and Poisons from your target on a 8-second cooldown.
• Mark of the Wild is a Druid raid buff that increases the primary stats of all allied players by 5%.
• Flight Form and Swift Flight Form are unique Druid flying forms which allow for instant air travel. They cannot be cast while in combat.
• Hibernate is a crowd control ability that puts a Beast or Dragonkin to sleep for 40 seconds. This is usable on enemy Druids while they are in animal forms.
• Entangling Roots is a crowd control ability that roots the target in place for a duration.
• Cyclone is a short cast that stuns its target and makes it immune to damage and healing.
• Nature's Grasp puts a 45-second buff on you which roots the next target to damage you.
• Moonfire is an instant cast, damage-over-time effect.
• Wrath is a short cast ability that deals some Nature damage.
• Hurricane deals damage to targets in an area for every second while you channel.
• Faerie Fire creates a magic debuff on its target, lowering their Armor and making them unable to turn invisible or stealth while active.
• Soothe removes all Enrage effects from the target.
• Track Humanoids allows you to track nearby Humanoids, including players, on your mini-map.
• Rejuvenation is a heal-over-time effect you can cast on yourself or allies to heal them every few seconds for a while.
• Healing Touch is a powerful heal with a longer cast.
• Tranquility is a powerful healing cooldown that, while channeled, heals raid members every 2 seconds for 8 seconds on a 8-minute cooldown.