Guardian Druid Tank Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.7)

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/ After the Wildfire 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.

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• Keep Mobilize Mechadrones on the boss to be cleaved down efficiently.
• Use a defensive on each cast of Electrocrush.

• Drag Bront over to the smaller man for 2 target cleave.
• The third charge of Barreling Charge will always target the tank, you must use this to charge through any remaining bombs.

• You can use Stampeding Roar to help your group dodge the waves that come out.
• Use a defensive on each cast of Sludge Claws.

• You can use Stampeding Roar to help your group kite sparks into water puddles.
• Use a defensive on each cast of Thunder Punch.

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• Use a defensive on each cast of Keg Smash.
• Slowly rotate the boss around the room to avoid Wind Circles on the floor.

• Use a defensive on each cast of Bottoms Uppercut.
• Slowly rotate the boss around the room to avoid the brew droplets.

• Use a defensive on each cast of Honey Marinade.
• Pick up all Ravenous Cinderbee adds.

• Aim the Cash Cannons towards the big fire barrels to cause them to explode.

• Soothe to remove Spill Drink from Taste Testers.

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• Use a defensive on each cast of Rock Buster.
• Drag the boss to each of the Dynamite Carts.

• Never leave melee range on this boss.

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• Soothe the Panicked! from the Lowly Moleherds.

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• Stampeding Roar is useful to help your group rotate around the room during Lightning Torrent.

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• Use a defensive on each cast of Oblivion Wave.

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• This boss deals quite a lot of tank damage so rotate cooldowns throughout the whole fight.

• As a tank you can soak all stacks of the Sacrificial Pyres.

• You can use Ursol's Vortex to keep the adds far away from the p2 transition.

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• Ursol's Vortex to help control the Earthrager adds.

• This boss only hits for magic damage so be extra careful as a Guardian.

• Rotate the boss around the room to avoid the B.O.O.M.B.A. adds.

• You can use Soothe to dispel the Inhale Vapors buff from the Addled Thug adds.

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• Use a defensive on all casts of Hateful Strike.

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• You can use Ursol's Vortex to CC the Lost Soul adds.

• You can use Incapacitating Roar on the Deathwalker adds.

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• You must drag the The Platinum Pummeler to one of the active hammers around the room to remove his Platinum Plating buff.

• Tanking this boss on a specific angle close to the boss can allow melee to hit them while hiding behind.

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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 the Void Pulsar's more easily.

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