Guardian Druid Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 09, 2024 at 18:00 by Pumps 38 comments

On this page, you will find our Level by Level Guardian Druid leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Druid leveling guide.

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Guardian Druid Leveling Guide for The War Within

1.1.

Guardian Druid Leveling Playstyle

Guardian Druid, thanks to being a tanking spec, our leveling options are plentiful. If you would like to spam dungeons to level, tank queues are often the fastest. If you would like to level solo, grouping up targets and AoEing them down works perfectly for us. We are also fantastic in a group, as DPS love to have someone gather and tank the mobs for them.

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Gear Options

The best gearing while levelling is quick and easy upgrades with the highest item level possible; stats are not relevant, and the gear will be swiftly replaced as you go through the levels, so try not to go too out of your way for a single piece of gear while levelling.

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Level by Level Rotation and Talents

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

Level: 70
3.1.

Talents to Level Up as a Guardian Druid

You are first able to choose talents at level 10. Choosing Guardian automatically grants you the Thrash Icon Thrash ability.

Below is a list of high-impact talents that are extremely valuable while levelling, the earliest level at which you can talent into them and their effect. You can also opt to take certain talents at later levels if there are things that you are more interested in acquiring earlier. That is the fun part of talent trees! There is also an example tree to preview with all the talents mentioned.

  • Level 13 — Gore Icon Gore — Adds a chance for your Mangle Icon Mangle to reset.
  • Level 16 — Feline Swiftness Icon Feline Swiftness — increases your movement speed by 15%, great for faster levelling.
  • Level 17 — Berserk Icon Berserk — your main damage-increasing cooldown. Reduces the cooldown of Thrash Icon Thrash, Mangle Icon Mangle and Growl Icon Growl by 50%.
  • Level 18 — Ironfur Icon Ironfur — your active mitigation spell, increasing your armor, which will reduce Physical damage taken.
  • Level 26 — Skull Bash Icon Skull Bash — charge to a mob and instantly interrupt their spell casting. It can also be used as a handy charge if you ever get knocked back.
  • Level 31 — Tooth and Claw Icon Tooth and Claw — this causes auto attacks to have a chance to empower your next Maul Icon Maul cost no rage, deal 40% increased damage and reduce the damage the target deals to you.
  • Level 33 — Fury of Nature Icon Fury of Nature — boosts your Arcane damage by 20%. Primarily for more Moonfire Icon Moonfire damage.
  • Level 37 — Soul of the Forest Icon Soul of the ForestMangle Icon Mangle generates 5 more Rage and deals 25% more damage.
  • Level 45 — After the Wildfire Icon After the Wildfire — every 200 rage you spend will heal you and others around you. This is a huge boost to the sustain of you and your group members.
  • Level 51 — Galactic Guardian Icon Galactic Guardian — your damage has a 5% chance to proc a Moonfire Icon Moonfire on the mob and empower your next Moonfire cast by 300%. This is a huge damage boost and will be game-changing once acquired.
  • Level 53 — Twin Moonfire Icon Twin Moonfire — this increases Moonfire Icon Moonfire damage and causes it to hit a second target nearby.
  • Level 55 — Elune's Favored Icon Elune's Favored — increases Arcane damage done by a further 10%, and you now heal for 30% of Arcane damage done. This is a massive increase for self-sustain.
  • Level 57 — Circle of Life and Death Icon Circle of Life and Death causes your damage over time effects to deal their damage faster. Another large damage increase, increasing Moonfire Icon Moonfire and Thrash Icon Thrash tick speed by 25%.
  • Level 63 — Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc Icon Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc — transforms your Berserk Icon Berserk into a superior ability, lasting longer and granting you an extra 30% health while active.
  • Level 64 — Heart of the Wild Icon Heart of the Wild — increases the effectiveness of your non-bear spells by 30%. This means 30% more Moonfire Icon Moonfire damage while active as it is considered a balance spell.
  • Level 65 — Rage of the Sleeper Icon Rage of the Sleeper — Reduces the damage you take by 25%, increases the damage you deal by 15%, grants you 25% leech, and reflects damage back at attackers.
  • Level 67 — Ursoc's Guidance Icon Ursoc's Guidance — reduces the cooldown on your Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc Icon Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc based on Rage spent. Good for getting those strong cooldowns up more frequently.
  • Level 70 — Hero Talents! — Boundless Moonlight Icon Boundless Moonlight
  • Level 71 — Lunar Insight Icon Lunar Insight— Increases Moonfire Icon Moonfire damage.
  • Level 72 — Atmospheric Exposure Icon Atmospheric Exposure — Enemies damaged by Lunar Beam Icon Lunar Beam or Fury of Elune Icon Fury of Elune take increased damage from you.
  • Level 73 — The Light of Elune Icon The Light of EluneMoonfire Icon Moonfire has a chance to call down a Fury of Elune Icon Fury of Elune beam.
  • Level 74 — The Eternal Moon Icon The Eternal MoonLunar Beam Icon Lunar Beam increases Mastery, deals more damage and lasts longer. Fury of Elune Icon Fury of Elune also generates more Rage and deals more damage.
  • Level 75 — Moon Guardian Icon Moon Guardian — Free Moonfire Icon Moonfire's from Galactic Guardian Icon Galactic Guardian generate 5 additional rage.
  • Level 76 — Lunar Amplification Icon Lunar Amplification — Each non-Arcane damaging ability you use increases the damage of your next Arcane damaging ability.
  • Level 77 — Stellar Command Icon Stellar Command — Increases damage of Lunar Beam Icon Lunar Beam and Fury of Elune Icon Fury of Elune.
  • Level 78 — Glistening Fur Icon Glistening FurBear Form Icon Bear Form reduces Arcane damage taken by 6% and other magic types by 3%.
  • Level 79 — Moondust Icon Moondust — Slows enemies affected by Moonfire Icon Moonfire by 20%.
  • Level 80 — Lunation Icon Lunation — Arcane abilities reduce the cooldown of Lunar Beam Icon Lunar Beam by 3 seconds.
3.2.

Rotation to Level Up as a Guardian Druid

Due to Guardian being unlocked as a talent specialization at Level 10, you should make use of the abilities provided to you in the intro quests until you are presented with the option.

  1. Buff yourself with Mark of the Wild Icon Mark of the Wild.
  2. Enter Bear Form Icon Bear Form.
  3. Maintain Moonfire Icon Moonfire on the target.
  4. Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin on cooldown.
  5. Use Berserk Icon Berserk on cooldown, ideally against multiple enemies.
  6. Cast Thrash Icon Thrash on cooldown.
  7. Cast Mangle Icon Mangle on cooldown on 4 targets or fewer.
  8. Fill downtime with Swipe Icon Swipe.
  9. Spend Rage offensively against a single target with Maul Icon Maul.
  10. Spend Rage defensively with Ironfur Icon Ironfur.
  11. Use Frenzied Regeneration Icon Frenzied Regeneration if your health gets below 50%.
  12. Make sure to always be in Bear Form Icon Bear Form while in combat.
3.3.

Guardian Druid War Mode Talents for Leveling

In this section, we will highlight the most useful War Mode PvP talents to speed up your levelling process.

  • Demoralizing Roar Icon Demoralizing Roar — Demoralizes all enemies within 10 yards, reducing the damage they do by 20% for 8 seconds. Great to further reduce damage taken on big pulls.
  • Overrun Icon Overrun — Charge to an enemy, stunning them for 3 seconds and knocking back their allies within 15 yards. Just another charge adding more mobility to your toolkit, allowing you to speed up levelling even more.
  • Emerald Slumber Icon Emerald Slumber — Causes you to enter a deep slumber for 8 seconds. While sleeping, all other cooldowns recover 400% faster. This is great, as it massively reduces the cooldown of every ability. Try to use it when not getting attacked, as damage will break the slumber effect.
4.

Congratulations!

Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.

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Changelog

  • 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
  • 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for the War Within Launch.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for the War Within.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
  • 25 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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