Druid Hero Talents — The War Within (Season 1)
This guide will walk you through the best Hero Talents for Guardian Druid for Raiding and Mythic+, how they impact your gameplay, and more.
Best Hero Talents for Guardian Druid in The War Within
This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Guardian Druid, check out our Talents page:
Raiding Hero Talents for Guardian Druid
Druid of the Claw
Druid of the Claw is our strongest Hero Talent for single-target DPS by a massive margin while being very competitive on AoE. This makes it our ideal raiding Hero Talent choice.
Elune's Chosen
Elune's Chosen primary strength is a very strong CD you are able to use frequently in Lunar Beam and massive AoE, which it can do slightly better than Druid of the Claw if there are many targets.
Mythic+ Hero Talents for Guardian Druid
Druid of the Claw
Both of our Hero Talent Trees are fantastic and viable in M+. Druid of the Claw excels on smaller pulls in Mythic+, 3-5 targets. It also can deal incredibly high single-target damage to bosses if the boss encounters are a significant factor in certain keys.
Elune's Chosen
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.
Best Hero Talent Builds for Guardian Druid
Best Druid of the Claw Pure Single-Target Build for Guardian Druid
Druid of the Claw enables us to catweave with integral talents such as Wildpower Surge and Wildshape Mastery.
Best Elune's Chosen Build for Guardian Druid
Elune's Chosen is very straightforward to build, with the same setup being optimal for all scenarios.
Hero Talents Rotation for Guardian Druid
Druid of the Claw
Druid of the Claw significantly changes our rotation. In addition to our regular rotation of maintaining Moonfire and Thrash on the target. We also want to focus on using Mangle as frequently as possible to generate stacks of Feline Potential from the Wildpower Surge talent. When we reach 6 stacks, we can cast Rake whilst in Bear Form due to the Fluid Form talent. This automatically shifts us into Cat Form and will grant us max combo points, allowing us to instantly cast a massively empowered Rip on the target. We can then use Mangle whilst in Cat Form, which will shift us back to Bear. Saving GCD's with Fluid Form is very important over the course of the encounter.
Elune's Chosen
Elune's Chosen is an extremely simple Hero Talent Tree and does not change our rotation at all. We are, however, able to utilize Lunar Beam which is an additional cooldown that should be used as frequently as possible for its large mastery boost. This is both a powerful offensive and defensive cooldown.
Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Added added.
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This guide has been written by Pumps who has played since Vanilla and has tanked in Honestly, the #1 Oceanic raiding guild, since Mists of Pandaria. He also played in the first MDI Mythic+ Dungeon Tournament, where his team placed second. His mindset on tanking has always been taking the utility and damage one can bring to the raid to the next level. He was the #1 Rank DPS Guardian Druid for 5 tiers in a row and top the 1-6 for the last 12 tiers, playing Guardian Druid, Brewmaster Monk and Protection Warrior mainly based on what is the strongest for progression at the time. You can find him on discord — Pumps#0734 — and on Twitch.
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