Basic Information

Druids, as well as Night Elves, Worgen, and Kul Tiran for the Coalition, may be Troll, Tauren, Highmountain Tauren, and Zandalari Troll Horde races.

Highmountain Tauren’s are the strongest races for Guardian Druid on the Horde thanks to their Rugged Tenacity, Bull Rush and
Mountaineer or Troll with their powerful Berserking.

The Kul Tiran’s are the strongest race for Guardian Druid on the Alliance with their quick Brush It Off and Rime of the Ancient Mariner
.
Daggers, fist weapons, 1H maces, 2H maces, polearms and staves may be used by druids.

Bear Form, Ironfur, Frenzied Regeneration, Thrash, Survival Instincts and Mangle are the classic and most relevant skills of the Guardian.


Guardian Strengths of Druids

Strong reductions in passive damage, both baseline and talent.
Good active physical mitigation of 100% 1 stack uptime, by stack-able no-cooldown Ironfur.
Strong defense spells with extremely brief cooldowns that generate an amazingly secure damage intake when used correctly.
Excellent Raid utility offered by Stampeding Roar and Restoration Affinity.
Incapacitating Roar, which can also be used as a spell interrupt, particularly excellent on mobs that are resistant to interrupt, is baseline AoE disorient.
If they die without ever leaving the bear form, Rebirth your fallen comrades.
In high physical damage intake encounters, Guardian excels, especially with periods of ramping or high spike damage due to Bristling Fur‘s huge rage gain.


Weaknesses of the Guardian

Guardian Druid is highly dependent on the item when it comes to self-support, so it may initially feel very fragile and you can have to kite regularly.
Due to needing to expend rage on Maul instead of Ironfur, switching to Cat Form for dps or caster type for healing with Restoration Affinity, loses a ton of survivability for dps and usefulness.
Mitigation of Bad Magic Damage.


What makes the Special Guardian Druid


Travel Form A quality of life where you are very versatile like no other class, ground, sea or air.
And many different variants of Bear Form and some of the coolest appearances the game has to give,
Cat Form for farming and picking the ones you like best.
Druids will outfit Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest, Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings, Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian, and Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros, with legendary weapons.


In the Shadowlands, what has changed?

Cyclone -Added back to our base toolkit, this would be very solid in pvp, but not cast capable in bear shape.
Berserk -For us, another returning cooldown, this time a strong offensive and defensive cooldown, reducing Ironfur rage cost and Frenzied Regeneration cooldown by 50 percent and Rank 2 by 75 percent.
Renewal – Returning as a talent replacing Ursol’s Vortex, this will likely see some use on more stationary fights where we don’t get much value out of Ursol’s Vortex.
Heart of the Wild – A powerful raid healing cooldown when used in combination with Restoration Affinity, and may allow us to see a return of the mighty catweaving or owlweaving rotations.
Barkskin -Shortened cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
Survival Instincts -Shortened cooldown from 4 minutes to 3 minutes.

For Shadowlands, Druid Global Cooldown Shifts
The following will no longer be on the Shadowlands GCD for Druids:
(Feral) Berserk
Berserk (Keeper)
Celestial Alignment
Incarnation: Chosen of Elune
Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
Incarnation: King of the Jungle
Innervate
Ravenous Frenzy
Kindred Spirits

In Shadowlands, the following have been applied to the GCD for Druids:
Roar of the Protector

Changes in Druid Baseline Capacity For Shadowlands

Barkskin Your skin becomes as resilient as bark, minimizing by 20 percent all damage you take and stopping your spellcasts from slowing damage. 8 sec. Lasts. Usable when shocked, frozen, impaired, feared, or asleep, and in all modes of shape change.
Now all the specifications are available.
Barkskin Rank 2 Increased length by 4 seconds
Dash Change to Cat Form and increase the speed of travel by 60% for 10 seconds when in Cat Form.
Entangling Roots Rank 2 Prior to breaking, Entangling Roots can endure 20 percent more damage.
Ferocious Bite Finishing maneuver that causes per combo point physical damage and absorbs up to 25 extra energy to boost damage by up to 100%.
1 point: [(98.28% of Attack Power) * 1 / 5] Hurt
2 points: [(98.28% of Attack Power) * 2 / 5] Hurt
3 points: [(98.28% of Attack Power) * 3 / 5] Hurt
4 points: [(98.28% of Attack Power) * 4 / 5] Hurt
5 points: [(98.28% of Attack Power) * 5 / 5] Hurt
Feral (Level 34): Finishing move that induces per combo point physical damage and absorbs up to 5 extra energy to boost damage by up to 100%.
Accessible to all standards now

After Specialist Riding experience, the Flight Form helps you to ride and raises the speed of movement by 150%.

Innervate Infuse with energy a helpful healer, helping them to cast spells for 12 sec.10 sec. without wasting mana.
Restoration: You achieve the effect at 50 percent productivity if cast on someone else.

Ironfur For 7 seconds, shield improves by (90100 * Agility / 100)
Guardian (Level 33): There might be overlaps between different uses of this skill.
Accessible to all specs now

Moonfire A fast ray of lunar light burns the opponent for Arcane damage (20 percent of Spell power) and then for additional Arcane damage (104.4 percent of Spell power) over 12 seconds.
Balance (Level 10): 0 Astral Force produces.

Moonfire Rank 2 Raised length by 4 seconds

Mount Form Change to a stagtravel form that can be mounted, raising moving speed by 40 percent. The caster is therefore shielded from the consequences of Polymorph. Useable just outside.
The process of shapeshifting frees the caster from symptoms that impede motion.
Changed the name from Stag Type to Mount Form

Prowl Change and enter stealth into Cat Shape.

Rebirth With 60% vitality and at least 20% mana, Regeneration restores the soul to the body, returning a dead aim to life. Castable in battle.
100% Health-res has advanced to Rank 2

Rebirth Rank 2 With 100 percent fitness, rebirth restores the goal of life.
Regrowth Heals a friendly goal over 12 sec. for (173% of Spell power) and another[(43.2% of Spell power)*1] over 12 sec.
Cost: 17.0% of the base mana mana,

Regrowth Rank 2 If the target is already impacted by Regrowth, Regrowth ‘s initial healing has a 40 percent improved risk of a vital impact.
Now all the specifications are available.

Shred the target, inflicting physical harm to the target [(46 percent of attack power)].
Feral (Level 42): Deals expanded harm to bleeding goals by 20 percent.
Feral (Level 44): Shred does 60 percent increased damage while stealthy, and has double the potential to attack critically.
Feral (Level 54): and creates 1 combo point in addition.
1 combo point award.

Stampeding Roar Turn into Bear Mode and let out a wild scream, increasing the level of action of all friendly players by 60 percent for 8 seconds inside 15 yards.
Accessible to all specs now

Sunfire A fast solar light beam burns the enemy for damage to Nature (20 percent of Spell power) and then additional damage to Nature (104.4 percent of Spell power) over 12 seconds.
Balance: Constructs 2 Astral Force.

Rank 2 of Sunfire now spreads the damage to all enemies within 8 yards over time.

Survival Instincts For 6 seconds, eliminates all damage you take by 50 percent.
Recharge for 3 min
Feral and Guardian are now available.

Tranquility Heals all allies for [(59 percent of Spell power) * 5] for 8 seconds inside 40 yards. For another (6.88 percent of Spell power) over 8 seconds, per cure heals the target, stacking.
Healing, while not in a raid, improved by 100 percent.

Wrath Throw a ball of energy at the goal, causing harm to nature (57.75% of Spell power).
Cost: 1.0% of base mana mana,
Name updated to Wrath from Solar Wrath, Now available on all specs

For Shadowlands, Druid Talent Shifts

Balance AffinityYou gain:
Astral Influence: Expands the range by 5 yards of all your skills.
You’re studying, too: Moonkin Type, Starsurge, Starfire, Sunfire, Typhoon

Feral Affinity You are gaining:
Feline Swiftness: 15 percent improvement in the speed of travel.
You’re learning, too: Rake, Rip, Swipe, Maim
35 percent improvement in the energy recovery.

Guardian Affinity You’re gaining:
Thick Hide: Eliminates all harm incurred by 6%.
Thrash, Frenzied Revival, Incapacitating Roar You even learn

For 45 seconds, Heart of the Wild Abilities connected to your preferred Affinity are dramatically empowered.
Restoration Affinity: Restoration spell healing improved by 30% and mana costs decreased by 50%.
Feral Affinity: 30 percent boost in damage to your Feral ability and an extra combo point is created by vital hits with attacks that produce a combo point.
Balance Affinity: 30 percent boost in damage to your balance skills and Starsurge is immediate.
Guardian Affinity: Bear Type offers an additional 20 percent endurance, numerous Ironfur uses can overlap, and 2 charges for Frenzied Regeneration

Mighty Bash Invokes Ursoc’s spirit to shock the goal for 4 seconds. Useable in all kinds of shape change.
Cooldown for 1 min

Restoration Affinity You gain:
Ysera ‘s Gift: Cure you every 5 seconds for 3% of your full fitness. An wounded group or raid member will be cured instead if you are in good health.
You’re also learning: Rejuvenation, Swiftmend, Wild Growth, Vortex Ursol,

Tiger Dash Shift into Cat Shape and increase the speed of travel by 200 percent, steadily decreasing over 5 seconds.

Baseline for Typhoon Now and available only for Balance

Changes in Druid PvP Talents for Shadowlands

Deep Roots Raises by 250 percent the amount of damage expected to cancel your Entangling Roots or Mass Entanglement

Strength of the Wild Maul Power targets 8% of the maximum health of the target in Physical Injury.
Changed the name from Enraged Maul to Force of the Wild

High Winds As the Entangling Roots are detached, dispelled, or terminated, the physical damage to the target is minimized. Cyclone leaves the target reeling for 4 seconds, minimizing their damage by 25%.
Changed name of High Winds from Encroaching Vines
Now all the specifications are available.

Changes in Druid Glyphs for Shadowlands
Technique: Glyph of the Aerial Chameleon: Your shapeshifted form will be automatically chosen each time you shape shift into a Flight Form.
Technique: Glyph of the Aquatic Chameleon: Your shapeshifted body will be automatically chosen every time you transform into an aquatic form.
Technique: Glyph of the Swift Chameleon: Your shapeshifted form will be automatically chosen each time you shapeshift into a Travel Form.

Druid Shadowlands Talent Forest Protector

The most recent Guardian Druid Talent Tree for Shadowlands is below:
Tier 15: Brambles, Blood Frenzy, Bristling Fur
Tier 25: Tiger Dash, Renewal, Wild Charge
Tier 30: Balance Affinity, Feral Affinity, Restoration Affinity
Tier 35: Mighty Bash, Mass Entanglement, Heart of the Wild
Tier 40: Soul of the Forest, Galactic Guardian, Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
Tier 45: Earthwarden, Survival of the Fittest, Guardian of Elune
Tier 50: Rend and Tear, Lunar Beam, Pulverize

Guardian Druid Talent Calculator


Guardian Improvements to Druid Capacity for Shadowlands

For 15 seconds, the Berserk Go berserk eliminates Mangle, Thrash, Growl, and Frenzied Regeneration cooldowns by 50 percent and Ironfur costs by 50 percent.

Berserk Rank 2 Berserk cuts by an extra 25% the cooldowns of Mangle, Thrash, Growl, and Frenzied Regeneration.

Frenzied Regeneration Heals you over 3 sec for 18% 24 percent fitness

Frenzied Regeneration Rank 3 Frenzied Regeneration improves by 20 percent all healing obtained.

Incapacitating Roar Shift into Bear Shape and invoke the spirit of Ursol to let out a deafening scream, incapacitating all enemies for 3 seconds within 10 yards. Harm cancels the impact.

Infected Wounds Mangle and Maul Contaminated Wounds cause an infected wound in the target, decreasing their speed of travel by 50 percent for 12 seconds.

Survival Instincts Rank 2 There are now 2 fees for Survival Instincts.


Guardian Druid Talent Changes for Shadowlands

Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc An enhanced Bear Shape that offers Berserk’s perks, allows Mangle to reach up to 3 targets, and 30 percent boosts maximum fitness.
For 30 seconds. For its length, you can openly shapeshift in and out of this enhanced Bear Form.

Pulverize A devastating blow that consumes 2 stacks of your Thrash on the target to deal (96.9306% of Attack power) Physical damage and reduce the damage they deal to you by 35% for 10 sec.
30 sec cooldown

Rend and Tear
Every Thrash Stack reduces the damage of the target to you by 2% and increases the damage to them by 2%.

There is a 20% possibility for Tooth and Claw Autoattacks to motivate the next Maul, piling up to 2 times.
Empowered Maul deals 40 percent increased damage and 6 seconds decreases the risk of the target to you by 15 percent.
Tier 7 Talent, in Lunar Beam‘s position


Guardian Changes to Druid PvP Talents for Shadowlands

Your Stampeding Roar removes all branches and snares from yourself and friends. Freedom of the Herd

Master Shapeshifter Your Feral, Balance or Restoration Affinity is amplified granting an additional effect.
Restoration Affinity: After you Swiftmend, the cast time of your Regrowth is reduced by 30% and its healing is increased by 30% for 8 sec.
Balance Affinity: The cast time of your Solar Vengeance, Lunar StrikeWrath and Starfire is shortened by 30 percent after you reach Moonkin Form and their damage is boosted by 20 percent over 10 seconds.
Feral Affinity: The bleeding damage is boosted by 30 percent when in Cat Form.

Roar of the Protector For the next 12 sec, 20% of all damage done to nearby allies ifallies within 10 yds is redirected to you.
12 sec cooldown
Cost: 10 Rage