Guardian Druid Tank Guide - Midnight

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Avoid Rage waste: As we have an off-GCD Rage spending ability in Ironfur, our goal is to waste as little Rage as possible. This also feeds into one of our strongest talents, Ursoc's Guidance, which reduces downtime on one of our biggest cooldowns significantly based on Rage spent.

Keep abilities on cooldown: To ensure we are generating as much Rage and dealing as much damage as possible, keep rotational abilities such as Mangle and Thrash on cooldown. Secondly, using some of our longer offensive/defensive cooldowns such as Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc and Barkskin as often as possible will keep us feeling strong and fluid.

Utilize procs: Guardian has a few powerful procs that play key roles in making your rotation smooth and effective. These include Ravage for Druid of the Claw, Galactic Guardian, and Tooth and Claw. These become the highest priority spells to cast to avoid wasting any valuable procs in the future.

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Comment by WoW0

Guardian druid? I guess I switch back to it because I don't tank with it. I just use it as an AGI magic user and it works very well but of course bear form is better. Who knows. Do you want to work with a team or by yourself? Role play is fun but optimizing for a group is nice too. When I switched to guardian druid because the dungeon running team was a little weak with the healing it was nice too.

Comment by Angryhunter

You got 32 points in the class tree for the M+ tree on the cheat sheet. You can only have 31 points in that tree. "Cheat" sheet indeed. >:P

Comment by shammer1

Great help in the new content. Helps sort all of the information concisely without having to sim every flask and buff in possible use. Great guide Pumps, Gun.

Comment by HordePandas

Your Open World/Delves build is incomplete, have two points left over after importing.

Comment by Tulabear

Keep abilities on cooldown: To ensure we are generating as much Rage and dealing as much damage as possible, keep rotational abilities such as Mangle and Thrash on cooldown. Secondly, using some of our longer offensive/defensive cooldowns such as Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc, Barkskin, and Rage of the Sleeper as often as possible will keep us feeling strong and fluid.

Removed Abilities
Guardian lost the following abilities in Midnight:

Rage of the Sleeper

Comment by Blaze42

So the whole showing the colored path without any info on talents is completely headache inducing. Just show the talents. So stupid

Comment by Kenpokreed

What do you recommend for Mythic + dungeons past keystone 10 after the nerfs to guardian druid?

Comment by OldLio

The "Playing Guardian Druid in Midnight Season 1" section near the top still lists Rage of the Sleeper as a button to keep on CD despite it being removed and acknowledged as a removed ability in the section before.

Comment by Beargod

This really needs to be updated since the last major changes and Thrash being buffed into our hardest hitting ability.

Guardian Druid Tank Guide - Midnight

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