Guardian Druid Compendium
Written by Kitch, Xora
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2-Piece!
Thrash and Moonfire increase your damage done and reduce damage you take by 1% for 8 seconds, stacking 3 times.
A pretty boring and minor effect but one that is almost always active. Around a 2% damage increase since there will be some occasions where it drops just due to it being such a minor factor and other spells being so high in the Guardian priority list.
4-Piece!
Arcane damage you deal is increased by 5% and bleed damage you deal is increased by 8%.
Another pretty minor factor but this one is permanently active just for having the 4p set equipped with no maintenance neccesary. Numbers wise this roughly equates to another 2-2.5% damage increase depending on your chosen hero tree.
Rotation
Druid of the Claw
Reminder: The rotations below are purely about damage dealing. For further information on potential nuance for the rotations with regards to survivability please read the follow-up sections (primarily Ironfur and Defensives)
What is a priority list?
When reading the rotations below, you should not think about them as steps to follow in a specific order. At any given point in combat, you should cast the highest priority thing on the list that you are able to cast, providing any stated conditions are met.
Pre-combat
- Make sure the duration of your Flask, Food and Rune buffs will last for the entire encounter
- Enter Bear Forma few seconds before you pull
- Press Heart of the Wilda second before you start combat
Single Target Rotation
- Press Ravage
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or if it is about to expire
- Press Moonfireif the dot completely falls off
- Press Heart of the Wildif you have 6 Feline Potential stacks
- If at 6 stacks of Feline Potential then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis not available and ready to use then:
- If you do not have the rage to cast Maulat the start of this sequence then simply skip it and start the appropriate sequence from the Rakecast
- Maul> Rake> Rip> Mangle
- If you still have more than 40 rage after using the Maulin this sequence then try to dump rage via ironfur before using Rakesince ironfur is off the GCD.
- If at 6 stacks of Feline Potential then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- Dump rage into Ironfurthen Rake> Convoke the Spirits> Rip> Mangle
- If Convoke the Spiritsis not available and ready to use then:
- Dump rage into Ironfurthen Rake> Rip> Shred(until Mangleis available) > Mangle
- If Rakeis already active and not within pandemic then replace Rakewith Shredin the above cast sequence
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- Press Heart of the Wild
- Press Lunar Beamif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Berserkif available (See the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Mangleif at < 6 stacks of Feline Potential
- Press Maulif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Maulif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Ironfurif above 40 rage
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
- If the following conditions are met then use a Cat Formfinisher after entering cat form via the priorities below and before leaving Cat Formvia Mangle
- If the Feline Potential Riphas fallen off the target AND you have 3 or fewer combo points, press Rip. Never overwrite a Feline Potential empowered Rip
- If the Feline Potential Riphas not fallen off the target OR you have 4 or more combo points press Ferocious Bite. Make sure to press it at >50 energy
- Press Rakeif it not currently active on the target (or in pandemic range) and you are below 40 rage
- Press Shredif:
- Press Swipe
Cleave Rotation (2-3 Targets)
- Press Ravage(on your priority target if there is one)
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or if it is about to expire
- Press Moonfireif the dot completely falls of a target
- Please note, the following points are only a net gain for 2 target cleave:
- Press Heart of the Wildif you have 6 Feline Potential stacks
- If at 6 stacks of Feline Potential then:
- Raze> Rake> Rip> Mangle
- If you do not have rage to Razeafter hitting 6 stacks then: Rake> Rip> Shred(until Mangleis available) > Mangle
- Maul> Rake> Rip> Mangle
- If you do not have rage to Maulafter hitting 6 stacks then: Rake> Rip> Shred(until Mangleis available) > Mangle
- Dump rage into Ironfurthen Rake> Rip> Shred(until Mangleis available) > Mangle
- Press Convoke the Spiritsimmediately before you Ripin this sequence
- If Rakeis already active and not within pandemic then replace Rakewith Shredin the above sequences
- Press Heart of the Wildif available. Ideally press this as you are running into a pull to save yourself the global during combat.
- Press Lunar Beamif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Berserkif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Convoke the Spiritsif the following conditions are met:
- You are not in Berserk
- You have < 40 rage
- Press Razeif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Razeif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Maulif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Maulif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Ironfurif above 40 rage
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
- Please note, the following points (full catweaving) are only a net gain for 2 target cleave:
- If the following conditions are met then use a Cat Formfinisher after entering cat form via the priorities below and before leaving Cat Formvia Mangle
- Press Ripon the target that does not have the Feline Potential Ripcurrently active if the target will live for 80%+ of the rips duration. Never overwrite a Feline Potential empowered Rip
- If the target will not live for 80%+ of the duration of a Ripthen press Ferocious Biteon either target. Make sure to press it at >50 energy
- Press Rakeon a target if rake is not already active (or it is in pandemic range) and you are below 40 rage
- Press Shredif:
- Press Swipe
AOE Rotation
- Press Ravage(on your priority target if there is one)
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or if it is about to expire
- Press Heart of the Wildif available. Ideally press this as you are running into a pull to save yourself the global during combat.
- Press Lunar Beamif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Berserkif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Convoke the Spiritsif the following conditions are met:
- You are not in Berserk
- You have < 40 rage
- Press Razeif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Razeif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Ironfurif above 40 rage
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
- Press Swipe
Incarn/Berserk Rotation
During Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc/Berserk we follow a slightly different priority system which is described below.
- Press Ravage
- Press Ravage(on your priority target if there is one)
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or if it is about to expire
- Press Heart of the Wild
- With Wildpower Surge you will hold Heart of the Wilduntil you have 6 stacks of Feline Potential
- Press Heart of the Wild
- On 2T you can hold Heart of the Wilduntil you're at 6 stacks of Feline Potential for a minor gain by Ripweaving.
- Press Heart of the Wild
- Press Rage of the Sleeper
- If you are above 1-2 stacks of Feline Potential when Rage of the Sleeperbecomes available, you may wish to hold it until after you have applied your empowered Rip
- This is because leaving Bear Formwill cause you lose any remaining duration of RotS, which will be more costly the closer you are to achieving 6 stacks of Feline Potential
- Press Lunar Beam
- You may choose to hold this until after your Wildpower Surgeempowered Ripis active on the target for a slight gain.
- If at 6 stacks of Feline Potential then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis not available and ready to use then:
- Maul> Rake> Rip> Mangle
- If you do not have the rage to cast Maulat the start of this sequence then simply skip it and start the appropriate sequence from the Rakecast
- If you still have more than 40 rage after using the Maulin this sequence then try to dump rage via ironfur before using Rakesince ironfur is off the GCD.
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- Dump rage into Ironfurthen Rake> Convoke the Spirits> Rip> Mangle
- If Convoke the Spiritsis not available and ready to use then:
- If an empowered Ripis still active on the target then replace Ripin the above sequences with a Ferocious Bitecast
- If Rakeis already active and not within pandemic then replace Rakewith Shredin the above sequences
- (The following is only a gain on 2T) If at 6 stacks of Feline Potential then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- If Convoke the Spiritsis not available and ready to use then:
- Raze(or Maul) > Rake> Rip> Mangle
- If you do not have the rage to cast Razeor Maulat the start of this sequence then simply skip it and start the appropriate sequence from the Rakecast
- If you still have more than 40 rage after using the Razeor Maulin this sequence then try to dump rage via ironfur before using Rakesince ironfur is off the GCD.
- If Convoke the Spiritsis available and ready to use then:
- Dump rage into Ironfurthen Rake> Convoke the Spirits> Rip> Mangle
- If Convoke the Spiritsis not available and ready to use then:
- If an empowered Ripis still active on your primary target then either:
- Cast Ripon the secondary target (more overall damage)
- Replace Ripin the above sequences with a Ferocious Bitecast on the primary target (more priority damage)
- If Rakeis already active and not within pandemic then either:
- Press Mangleif at < 6 stacks of Feline Potential
- Press Mangleif at < 6 stacks of Feline Potential (only a potential gain on 2 targets)
- Press Maulif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Maulif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Razeif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Razeif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Razeif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Razeif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Ironfurif you have the rage to do so
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
Elune's Chosen
What is a priority list?
When reading the rotations below, you should not think about them as steps to follow in a specific order. At any given point in combat, you should cast the highest priority thing on the list that you are able to cast, providing any stated conditions are met.
Pre-combat
- Make sure the duration of your Flask, Food, Oil/Stone and Rune buffs will last for the entire encounter
- Enter Bear Forma few seconds before you pull
- Press Heart of the Wilda second before you start combat
Single Target Rotation
- Press Maulif you will overcap rage
- Press Ironfurif you will overcap rage
- Press Moonfireif the dot completely falls off
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or it is about to expire
- Press Heart of the Wildif available
- Press Lunar Beamif available
- Press Lunar Beamif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Berserkif available (See the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Convoke the Spiritsif the following conditions are met:
- You are not in Berserk
- You have < 40 rage
- Press Maulif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Maulif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
- Press Moonfireif you have a Galactic Guardian buff
- Press Swipe
Cleave Rotation (2-3 Targets)
- Press Razeif you will overcap rage
- Press Maulif you will overcap rage
- Press Ironfurif you have the rage to do so
- Press Moonfireif the dot completely falls off
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or it is about to expire
- Press Heart of the Wildif available
- Press Lunar Beamif available
- Press Lunar Beamif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Berserkif available (See the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Convoke the Spiritsif the following conditions are met:
- You are not in Berserk
- You have < 40 rage
- Press Razeif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Razeif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Maulif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Maulif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
- Press Moonfireif you have a Galactic Guardian buff
- Press Swipe
AOE Rotation
- Press Razeif you will overcap rage
- Press Ironfurif you have the rage to do so
- Press Moonfireif the dot completely falls off
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or it is about to expire
- Press Heart of the Wildif available
- Press Lunar Beamif available
- Press Lunar Beamif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif available, hold to sync with Incarn/Berserk if it will be available in the next 10 seconds
- Press Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif available (see the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Berserkif available (See the dedicated Berserk/Incarn rotation section below)
- Press Convoke the Spiritsif the following conditions are met:
- You are not in Berserk
- You have < 40 rage
- Press Razeif at 2 stacks of Tooth and Claw
- Press Razeif at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
- Press Swipe
Incarn/Berserk Rotation
During Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc/Berserk we follow a slightly different priority system which is described below.
- Press Thrashif not at max stacks of the debuff or it is about to expire
- Press Ironfurif you have the rage
- Make sure you pool when Incarn/Berserk is finishing so you leave with a full rage bar
- Press Heart of the Wildif it becomes available
- Press Lunar Beamif it becomes available
- Press Rage of the Sleeperif it becomes available
- Press Mangleif you are at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle
- Press Maulif you have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Maulon your priority target if you have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Razeif you have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Razeif you have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Maulif you have rage to do so or have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Maulif you have rage to do so or have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Razeif you have rage to do so or have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Press Razeif you have rage to do so or have a Tooth and ClawProc
- Spend any excess rage on Ironfur. You should never fully cap rage.
- Press Mangleif you need rage
- This will typically be around every 2-3 Mauls.
- This will typically be around every 2-3 Mauls.
- This will typically be around every 2-3 Razes.
- This will typically be around every 2-3 Razes.
- Press Mangle
- Press Thrash
Ironfur
Ironfuris your active mitigation as a Guardian Druid. Ironfurcosts 40 rage, and each application of Ironfurincreases your armour by 112% of your agility.
You hit the armour cap at 85% physical mitigation, so roughly 5-6 stacks (4-5 with an augmentation evoker) will reach the armour cap.
How To Use Ironfur
The general aim with Ironfuris to:
- Maintain at least one Ironfurwhilst tanking.
- Use more Ironfurs if you're ever in a scenario where you're taking heavy physical damage and have limited/no defensive cooldowns available (a large pull in a key, taking a tank buster etc).
- Use additional Ironfurs if you're ever going to overcap on Rage. This is for some (very minimal) ToI damage, and to dip into Incarn cooldown reduction if you're specced into it.
Defensive Usage
In addition to Ironfur, which is our active mitigation (meaning it should basically be active all of the time that we are tanking mobs and taking physical damage) Guardian has a plethora of limited window Cooldowns which also significantly aid our survivability. The main way that defensive cooldowns function is by increasing our Effective Health Pool (EHP). EHP is a measure of how much damage we can take whilst also factoring any damage reduction or resistances we have, E.g. if someone has 1 million health, but takes 50% reduced damage then they can actually take 2 million damage before dying. That would make their EHP 2 million, which is obviously a big increase from their Raw Health Pool (1 million in this scenario).
Cooldowns for Guardian work in two primary ways but both fulfil the criteria of increasing our EHP. They will either reduce the damage that we take for their duration in some way and/or massively increase our hp for the duration, often doing this with some additional benefits. Our main Defensive cooldowns are:
- Barkskin
- Survival Instincts
- Berserk/Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
- Rage of the Sleeper
- Lunar Beam
- Pulverize
These defensive's should primarily be used in a way that enables us to survive through an encounter but as mentioned, several do come with additional benefits. For example, Rage of the Sleeperwill reduce our damage taken by 20% and also grant 20% leech for its 8 second duration, both of which aiding our survivability. However, it will also increase our damage done by 15% and reflect damage back at our attackers.
Because of this Offensive and Defensive duality that many of our cooldowns possess we need to factor in both sides of them when planning for an encounter. The general goals for any encounter should be:
- Cover all major/threatening damage events (typically tank busters) with an adequate cooldown.
- It is usually not advised to use multiple defensive cooldowns to cover a single damage event due to how they interact with each other (see below).
- Aim to cover as many individual damage events as possible by having some form of cooldown active and "rolling" into the next one as the first expires.
- Prioritise getting as many uses of your multi-purpose cooldowns as possible.
- E.g. if you have a choice between using Rage of the Sleeperand Barkskinto cover a tank buster, it would be ideal to use Rage of the Sleeper since it also provides a sizable damage benefit and may lead to additional uses of this cooldown later in the encounter.
Overlapping cooldowns with a direct damage reduction component (Barkskin, Rage of the Sleeper, Survival Instinctsand Pulverize) is less ideal than spacing them out because multiple instances of damage reduction reduce the effectiveness of the cooldowns i.e. they are multiplicative with one and other, not additive. For example, say that without a cooldown a tankbuster would hit you for 1 million damage. With Barkskin(20% Damage Reduction) you would take 80% of this, so 800k. If you then pressed Survival Instincts(50% damage reduction) on top of this, you would reduce your incoming damage (800k after factoring in Barkskin) by 50%. So you would take 400k damage, from a 1 million damage hit, meaning that combined you would mitigate 60% of damage - not 70% (20% + 50%), effectively reducing the effectiveness of the cooldowns compared to their seperate use.
Talents
General Talent Build Information
Before choosing your talent setup there's a couple of important details to be aware of:
- Whilst both hero talent trees perform similarly damage wise in AoE scenarios, there is a huge disparity between the damage of the two trees in Raid/Single Target situations, with Druid of the Claw being ahead by around 10-25% depending on talents.
- Both trees offer similarly strong defensive benefits with the option to easily swap into additional survviability or damage talents if they're needed/wanted.
It's also important to clarify what we mean by the terms "Maul-Centric" and "ToI-Centric" (Thorns of Iron) playstyles:
- Maul-Centric is simply where Maulis considered you're primary spender. The goal is to spend as much rage as possible on Maulwhich will account for the majority of your damage from spenders. These builds will likely still take Thorns of Ironbut this is simply because some rage will still be spent on Ironfur(e.g. If you need additional physical mitigation for a physical tank buster or if you are about to overcap rage)
- A ToI-Centric playstyle is in opposition to this, where Ironfurwill make up the vast majority of your rage expenditure. Maulwill still be pressed sometimes, such as to utilise Tooth and Clawprocs (either offensively or defensively) or when at 3 stacks of Vicious Cycle, but the focus is usually not on Maulas the primary spender - see the DotC section below for clarity on why its "usually" and not "always".
To further clarify, because there is a lot of overlap in the talent choices between these builds you are not hard locked into one particular playstyle for an entire encounter or key. For example, you could play more toi-centric whilst doing a large trash pull in a dungeon but then play more maul-centric on a boss encounter. Ultimately a fluid approach is often best - especially for keys, where there are vast differences in the requirements of an encounter from pull to pull.
Raid Talents
Below you will find the most optimal builds for DAMAGE in a raid setting, with additional notes mentioning what to change for a more mixed/defensive style build.
Druid of the Claw Raid Talents
Despite being a "ToI-Centric" build, the primary focus of this build is Ravage. For a detailed overview of the rotation refer to the Rotation section above but in general the goal of this build is to spend as many Maulmodifiers (Tooth and Claw, Vicious Cycle) on Ravageas possible. As a consequence of this we actively press Maulless because they would consume the buffs that we ideally use to get massive Ravagecasts. Because we can only press Ravagewhen it procs and we press Maulinfrequently to save the modifiers our last remaining option is to spend rage on Ironfurfor damage - hence this being a (technically) "ToI" build.
Druid of the Claw Notes
- For more sustain across an encounter you can opt to pick up Ursoc's Furyinstead of the point in Flashing Claws.
- You could also similarly improve self-sustain by opting into Innate Resolve- likely moving Gory Furto do so.
- If you're lacking DR cooldown coverage then you have three main options:
- Moving the two single points from Flashing Clawsand Fury of Natureinto Survival of the Fittest.
- Moving two points to pick up Pulverize. The most likely points to move for this would be Blood Frenzyand Flashing Clawsto move into Ursoc's Furyand Pulverize.
- Improved Survival Instinctsis also an option if you've planned out your cooldown usage and know that the flexibility of the second charge will allow you to cover everything. Dropping Gory Furor Bramblesto enable this is probably your best option.
- For a large increase to group survivability you could drop Layered Maneand Reinforced Furin favour of Survival of the Fittestand After the Wildfire. This would be a fairly singificant loss to Thorns of Irondamage specifically but would be a large increase to self healing as well as the healing cleave onto any stacked raid group.
- If an encounter requires Improved Stampeding Roaror Mighty Bash/Incapacitating Roar then both Well-Honed Instinctsand Innervateare both fairly inconsequential and easy to move around.
- You could also use these point for nodes outside of the bottom third if required, such as Typhoonor Thick Hide
- Because of the introduction of Wildshape Mastery, Tiger Dashactually becomes a very potent burst movement speed cooldown that is usable in almost any situation without fear of getting one shot. Very useful if you need cover a distance quickly and are unable to Wild Chargeto a target.
- The suggested build was made with the idea of Rip/Catweaving. If you are not planning on doing this aspect of the rotation then you have no need for: Rake, Rip, Ursine Vigor(Swap to Matted Furto allow pathing) nor Fluid Form(Swap to Improved Stampeding Roarto allow pathing).
- On some encounters with predictable increased damage phases there is an argument to be made for taking Convoke the Spiritsover Incarnation: Guardian of Ursocif damage is your primary concern. This is because if you have the fully stacked Feline Potential buff (the one that causes your next cat finisher to hit for 225%), convoke will not consume the buff. This means that all of your Bites during convoke will gain the increased damage from Wildpower Surgeand you can then consume the buff with Ripafterwards. Ordinarily, this is a damage loss compared to Incarn but during fights with short damage increased phases (Sludgefist, Smolderon, Silken Court) there is a potential for Convoke to win if the damage multiplier is large enough and it aligns well with Convokes cooldown.
Elune's Chosen Raid Talents
Important to note that Elune's chosen (at least the builds presented here) is noticably easier to play. There is no form of catweaving to worry about and generally less attention will be focused on tracking buffs like Vicious Cycle/Tooth and Claw. Worth baring in mind if you're looking for a simpler rotation and playstyle, albeit at the cost of a significant amount of damage.
If you do not enjoy Maul-Centric builds and would prefer a lower damage (around 5% lower) ToI-centric alternative for Elune's Chosen then you can use the same talents and potential adjustments as seen below but your rotational priority would shift.
Elune's Chosen Notes
- Elune's Chosen offers fantastic defensive cooldown coverage. Between Barkskin, Survival Instinctsand Lunar Beam, along with the option to add on Rage of the Sleeperand Pulverize, you'll basically always have something rolling.
- If Pulverizeis required then your best option is to drop Flashing Clawsand path through Ursoc's Furyand Pulverize. Alternatively if damage is of no convern at all then dropping Rage of the Sleeperto access it through Flashing Clawsis another option.
- An alternate option to talent into defensively is Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc. This talent isn't taken since it is a damage loss for EC but for progress it is another powerful defensive option that is easily accesible by dropping one point from Flashing Claws(or both points if you also want access to Ursoc's Guidance.
- Dropping Layered Maneand Reinforced Furfor Survival of the Fittestand After the Wildfireis a strong increase to personal and group healing. The damage loss is less than DotC given that Thorns of Ironmakes up a noticably smaller % of Elune's Chosen's damage profile (this is not true if you are running the alternate ToI-Centric EC build)
- Another option to help increase self sustain would be to drop Gory Furor Ursoc's Enduranceand talent into Innate Resolvefor the second charge and empowerment of Frenzied Regeneration.
- Without Catweaving there are a few more low value points in our class tree that can easily be moved around to suit needs. Verdant Heartin particular is a very low impact point that could be moved around to Typhoonor Hibernateif needed.
- It is still possible to take Feline Swiftnesstoo, even if Rakeisn't a spell that Elune's Chosen will make use of, by taking two points out Verdant Heart, Ursoc's Spiritor Primal Fury. This could be useful for some encounters, a recent example being Tindral Safeswift as movespeed made moving between Blazing/Poisonous Mushroom soaks all the easier.
- If an encounter requires Improved Stampeding Roaror Mighty Bash/Incapacitating Roar then both Well-Honed Instinctsand Innervateare both fairly inconsequential and easy to move around.
- You could also use these points for nodes outside of the bottom third if required, such as Typhoonbut with the flexibility of low value points in the top two thirds of the class tree due to no cat weaving this usually isn't the best option on the whole.
Boss Specific Build changes
This section will be updated upon Raid Release
Below is a short summary of noteworthy talents to swap and take on each individual boss in Nerub-Ar Palace. These are not mandatory but may be beneficial to you as a guardian or to your raid group.
Ulgrax
Bloodbound Horror
Sikran
Rasha'nan
Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Nexus-Princess Ky'veza
Silken Corruption
Queen Ansurek
Mythic+ Talents
Druid of the Claw Builds
Below are some potential ideas for builds you could run using Druid of the Claw. There is a decent amount of variation due to a selection of talents you could swap in and out to suit different scenarios, see the customisation section underneath for more information on the benefits and costs of swapping out some of Guardian's talents.
Customisation
This image gives a rough idea of the relative power of a talent node based on its assigned colour, I strongly encourage you to take this information below and use it to either adjust the trees above to you/your groups needs and wants or to come up with your own from scratch. The key for what each colour represents is:
- Yellow - These are your staples. Every DotC mythic+ build should aim to have every single one of these talents.
- Green - Niche options but when played in the right scenario can be very powerful.
- Purple - In a vacuum, pretty powerful talents that should be taken in most builds.
- Blue - Generally a bit meh, either because of their relative power or their cost or position. However, these nodes are needed to either flesh out a sections point total or for pathing to stronger nodes further down the tree.
- Grey - Not worth considering currently.
In the class tree there's a few talents to move around that offer some customisation. Here are some of the main ones to consider:
Rake, Rip, Ursine Vigorand Fluid Formare all reliant on catweaving so without Wildpower Surgethey are effectively useless. Worth noting that typically you'll only want one of Matted Furor Ursine Vigorfor pathing, so simply make this choice based on whether you're planning to weave or not
Hibernateis situational because not only do you need a beast mob present in dungeons, it's also a fairly awkward ability to use - even though you don't drop form it does still have a cast time - so it is likely best to find an alterantive method for cc in the group if possible.
As for Innervate, most of the time in m+ this won't be needed given the healers ability to constantly top up their mana - they may be times where a healer requests it for a particularly rough tyrannical boss and we don't typically lose too much given Heart of the Wildnor Well-Honed Instinctsare not particularly significant.
Rejuvenationand Remove Corruptionwould be niche picks if they werent our best method to access the entire right side of the tree so realistically will be taken all the time despite being entirely useless in some dungeons.
It's a similar story with regards to Ursol's vortex and Sootheto access the likes of Stampeding Roarand Lycara's, but at least Ursol's Vortexis always a useful spell to have even if soothe isn't
Tiger Dashhas some potential as a personal burst movement cooldown. Particularly useful if you need to kite and are already being slowed since it will automatically shift you into Cat Form(removing the slow/root) and give you the massive movement speed buff to create distance immediately without putting you in danger due to the bonuses from Wildshape Mastery
One of the two real choices in the Druid of the Claw hero tree is whether to take Wildpower Surgeor Empowered Shapeshifting. In short, if you intend to weave on bosses for a significant gain to ST damage, take Wildpower Surgeand the talents mentioned above in the class tree, if not then take Empowered Shapeshifting
The other choice is between Ruthless Aggressionand Killing Strikes. This choice largely depends on whether you are chain pulling frequently or not. The more you chain one pull into the next with no drop in combat, the more value that Killing Strikesloses. The armour and agility from Killing Strikeswill still be present but when you start to lose many of the free Ravageprocs, Ruthless Aggressionwill start to generate noticably more total Ravageprocs over the course of a key.
The Spec tree easily has the most factors to consider, especially at the changeover from Dragonflight to The War Within:
- After the Wildfirewill still do a very good amount of group healing, however, its not the automatic group Lay-on-Hands that it was in Dragonflight, due to the significantly inflated health pools with no compensation buff to the healing and also a nerf to the rage to trigger. It will still contribute a lot of healing on a high throughput, rot encounter but the factors mentioned previously mean its not an automatic lock in anymore.
- Dream of Cenariuswas affected similarly by the stamina inflation, you can still save a life but it may not be enough healing alone to immediately put a DPS out of danger entirely.
- Improved Survival Instinctswill still provide the added flexibility to some boss encounter by allowing you keep one charge rolling and pooling the second to allow for better cooldown coverage, but unless the encounter is planned out and this is the only way to safely cover all tank hits (unlikely given barks power and low cooldown, Rage of the Sleeperor the option to take Pulverize) it's usually not worth the point.
- Pulverizeis incredibly niche, but that niche is usually what people take improved SI to try and handle - there is no singular node in our class tree that provides more ST mitigation than Pulverize. For particularly hard hitting Tyrannical bosses/Scary, singular Fortified threats it is absolutely incredible, but thats about it.
- Ursoc's fury took a hit with the stamina changes and another significant hit by nerfs reducing its shield conversion from ~50% to 25%. It will still provide a very solid amount of absorbs (which speaks to its stupidly high power level in Dragonflight), not in small part due to the ridiculous power of Ravagebut it's not the throughput machine that it was last expansion.
- Galactic Guardianand Twin Moonsare still incredible talents even in the largely physical focused DotC tree, just like in Dragonflight they will provide a good 15-20% of your rage generation in AoE without you even pressing Moonfireat all.
- On the topic of Rage generation, Blood Frenzystill conitrbutes around 30+% of your total rage gen across a dungeon, this talent is absurdly powerful and you should never be without it in mythic+.
- There is definitely a case to be made for taking one point away from the bottom third of the tree to get 2/2 Sotf - potentially having a 34 second Barkskinwith 40% DR (Reinforced Fur + Oakskin) for 12 seconds is a frankly ridiculous combination of defensive talents.
- Earthwardenas a talent is good against slow but hard hitting mobs. What mobs will hit you and eat the earthwarden stacks is generally out of your control unless you pull with that in mind or take it for a specific Boss/Lieutenant.
- Also worth noting that we will likely be sitting at the armour cap of 85% phsyical reduction a lot in aoe and even ST pulls, the combination of Killing Strikes' agility gain (which increases Ironfurarmour), Killing Strikes' 20% more armour from Ironfur, Layered Maneprocs and Reinforced Furwill likely make maintaining the 85% armour cap fairly trivial with good rage generation.
- Berserk: Ravageis an unusual point to consider dropping but because of Claw Rampage's chance scaling per target hit (i.e. 57% per mangle cleave cast and each Thrash cast scaling to a higher chance at 4+ targets) it is very unlikely that we'll ever be in the situation to press it anyway. And even if we are Swipewould grant the same Ravage proc chance as thrash due to being included in the Claw Rampageeffect. Food for thought.
Elune's Chosen Builds
Below are some potential ideas for builds you could run using Elune's Chosen. There is a little variation of talents you could swap in and out to suit different scenarios - albeit, typically less than Druid of the Claw. See the customisation section underneath for more information on the benefits and costs of swapping out some of Guardian's talents.
Customisation
This image gives a rough idea of the relative power of a talent node based on its assigned colour, I strongly encourage you to take this information below and use it to either adjust the trees above to you/your groups needs and wants or to come up with your own from scratch. The key for what each colour represents is:
- Yellow - These are your staples. Every EC mythic+ build should aim to have every single one of these talents.
- Green - Niche options but when played in the right scenario can be very powerful.
- Purple - In a vacuum, pretty powerful talents that should be taken in most builds.
- Blue - Generally a bit meh, either because of their relative power or their cost or position. However, these nodes are needed to either flesh out a sections point total or for pathing to stronger nodes further down the tree.
- Grey - Not worth considering currently.
The Druid class tree offers a little more in the way of customisation for EC compared to EC, largely due to the points saved from not having weaving being a part of the rotation. Below are some of the notable options to consider:
- Since several points are saved in comparison to DotC (due to the lack of catweaving in EC) we do have a couple more points to play with in the top/middle section of the class tree.
- As a standard picking two from Primal Fury, Verdant Heartand Naturalk Recovery are likely the best options to consider.
- You could also make a case for spending those two points in Rakeand Feline Swiftness, but this would purely be for the movement speed whilst running EC.
- The two extra points to play with also do allow an easier time taking some utility that would other leave us very right on points, Typhoonis a potentially useful stop/displacement that was difficult to justify as DotC but is much easier to grab here.
- Rejuvenationand Remove Corruptionwould be niche picks if they werent our best method to access the entire right side of the tree so realistically will be taken all the time despite being entirely useless in some dungeons.
- It's a similar story with regards to Ursol's vortex and Sootheto access the likes of Stampeding Roarand Lycara's, but at least Ursol's Vortexis always a useful spell to have even if soothe isn't
- Hibernateis situational because not only do you need a beast mob present in dungeons, it's also a fairly awkward ability to use as a tank - even though you don't drop form it does still have a cast time. So it is likely best to find an alterantive method for cc in the group if possible.
- As for Innervate, most of the time in m+ this won't be needed given the healers ability to constantly top up their mana - they may be times where a healer requests it for a particularly rough tyrannical boss and we don't typically lose too much given Heart of the Wildnor Well-Honed Instinctsare not particularly significant.
In the Hero Tree there is really no choice at all for keys.
- Due to the Bear aura not affected non guardian spells and frankly very low tuning of Lunar Beam, Stellar Command offers no perceivable benefit whilst Lunar Calling does increase thrash damage by all of our arcane modifiers and also increases kit synergy with Lunation.
- The Light of Elune offers a decent chunk of rage at fairly regular intervals and Astral Insight is unfortunately tuned too low to make a massive impact.
- Moondust is effectively a permanent slow on any cc'able mob in the dungeon due to our automatic moonfire spreading which is significantly more impactful than a 3s shorter cooldown on wild charge.
- Lastly, Lunation drastically increases our uptime on the focal point ability of the hero tree (Lunar Beam) whilst Arcane Affinity offers an almost inperceivable buff to our Arcane damage.
The Spec tree is where the majority of our customisation options come in:
- Given the nature of the Elune's Chosen hero tree we are naturally pushed towards taking more of the arcane focused talents, in particular Lunar Beamfor which the shortest and most powerful path to access is directly through Galactic Guardianand Twin Moons.
- After the Wildfirewill still do a very good amount of group healing, however, its not the automatic group Lay-on-Hands that it was due to the significantly inflated health pools. It will still contribute a lot of healing on a high throughput, rot encounter but the rage trigger nerf combined with this means its not an automatic lock in anymore.
- Dream of Cenariuswas affected similarly by the stamina inflation, you can still save a life but it may not be enough healing alone to immediately put a DPS out of danger entirely.
- Improved Survival Instinctswill still provide the added flexibility to some boss encounter by allowing you keep one charge rolling and pooling the second to allow for better cooldown coverage, but unless the encounter is planned out and this is the only way to safely cover all tank hits (unlikely given barks power and low cooldown, Rage of the Sleeperor the option to take Pulverize) it's usually not worth the point.
- The previously mentioned focus on Arcane tends to push Elune's Favoured ahead of Ursoc's Furyas a trickle sustain option. Whilst UF is still a decent consideration given the increased damage on Thrash thanks to Lunar Calling and amount of razing possible through rage generation, the raw damage of Moonfire, arcane Thrash and Lunar Beam(on mass AOE) tends to push the healing of Elunes favoured noticably ahead.
- Earthwardenas a talent is good against slow but hard hitting mobs. What mobs will hit you and eat the earthwarden stacks is generally out of your control unless you pull with that in mind or take it for a specific Boss/Lieutenant.
- Because of the massively increased health pool due to the high uptime of Lunar Beam, talents that increase the frequency with which we can cast Frenzied Regeneration do gain a bit of value since their healing directly scales with health.
- Because of the rage generation and lack of need to save Vicious Cycle/Tooth and Claw for a specific ability (ravage), dropping Berserk: Ravageis an even more likely option as EC since so many more of your globals during Incarn/Berserk will be pressing Raze you will stil never need to swipe unless you're overpressing Ironfur.
- Incarn is still an incredibly powerful defensive cooldown, but given the abundance of low cooldown defensives available to EC it may be an option to consider dropping the two incarn points in favour of other talents in the final third - such as RotS, UF, or Flashing Claws.
- Moonless night is a powerful offensive tool but offers next to no defensive value, its worth mentioning as an option for your weekly keys but do not expect to see it much in higher difficulty key levels.
- Even with the slightly higher rage generation from EC's hero tree, Blood Frenzycontributes 30-40% of your rage generation throughout a dungeon. This point continues to be far too good to drop.
- Berserk: Aggression is an option to consider dropping if you choose to focus entirely on the Thorns of Ironplaystyle. However, be aware that this is your best path towards Rend and Tear and still an additional 15% haste during your biggest damage window, so even in ToI-centric builds it is a very strong node.
Consumables
Flasks
- Flask of Alchemical Chaos: Default flask for everything. It is slightly stronger than the four traditional stat flasks since it provides more stats, albeit with a random component but it's biggest power comes from its interaction with Tempered Potion (see below).
- If you are not using Tempered Potion then Flask of Tempered Swiftness, Flask of Tempered Mastery, Flask of Tempered Aggression and Flask of Tempered Versatility become options. Either sim yourself so see which of the four is best or pick your preferred secondary stat.
Food
- Feast of the Midnight Masquerade or Feast of the Divine Day: Best available food by a long way, use this whenever one is available.
- Mycobloom Risotto The best personal food alternative to feasts in TeWaWi. It gives about half of the main stat of a feast but does provide stamina in addition. Use this if you don't want to drop a feast.
Potions
- Tempered Potion Strongest combat potion available. Important to note that whilst using Flask of Alchemical Chaos it will provide all 4 secondary stats.
- Algari Healing Potion The standard healing potion for the first tier of TeWaWi. You should always have some of these on you if you're planning to do any challenging content.
- Draught of Silent Footfalls The invisibility potion for TeWaWi, fairly niche given our access to Prowlbut, on occasion, invisiability does enable pathing that stealth does not.
Oils/Stones
- Ironclaw Whetstone/Ironclaw Weightstone Both of these are functionally identical except they can only be applied to one type of weapon. The whetstone variant can be applied to Polearms and the weightstone can be applied to Staffs and 2h Maces.
Runes
- Crystallised Augment Rune: The standard augment rune for the first tier of TeWaWi
Gearing
Stat Priority
Offensive
Sim yourself using Radibots Top Gear to decide on what to use out of items you have. Use Droptimizer to identify potential damage upgrades you can get from content. Do not follow a set stat priority for damage
Defensive
Initial Disclaimer: The defensive difference between secondary stats on the whole is incredibly minor. In terms of a rough value, generally less than a % gain in survivability by focusing on one secondary stat over another. The defensive gain from equipping a higher item level piece of equipment will (with the exception of trinkets/cantrip effects) always be better for survivability than choosing a lower item level piece with specific secondary stats.
Agility >>>> Mastery > Vers > Haste/Crit
Tertiary Stats
Tertiary stats are - as the name implies - a tertiary consideration. They are not a significant enough factor to Tank survivability to influence your gearing on their own outside of very specific circumstance.
Embellishments
Adrenal Surge Clasp and Writhing Armour Banding - This is the ideal end game setup for us this tier. Patch would ideally go on wrists but if not boots are fine as the next best option.
For more immediate gains or if you're not raiding (and thus have a lower chance to obtain a Myth track weapon quickly) you could consider crafting a Charged Halberd with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension applied. Follow this up with a Writhing Armour Banding applied to wrists (or boots if not) and you're in a very strong position and ready to transition to Adrenal Surge Clasp when you receive your fourth spark and/or a Myth track weapon.
Enchantments
Weapon - Authority of the Depths gives a free damage proc that stacks and does some pretty solid numbers making this our highest ST damage enchant. Authority of Radiant Power is another solid option that provides less damage but does grant some main stat on a proc.
Chest - Enchants Chest - Crystalline Radiance Grants a decent chunk of Agility. If you're a speed demon you can use Enchant Chest - Stormrider's Agility instead which will grant you some move speed in place of some Agility.
Legs - Stormbound Armour Kit/Defender's Armour Kit Grants some main stat and either a bit of stamina or armour. There is a ridiculously tiny difference in that armour in very, very, very slightly better against physical damage whilst stamina is very, very, very slightly better against magical damage but this is something you'll never notice in practice. Pick whichever you prefer.
Cloak - Entirely preference between Avoidance (Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace), Leech (Enchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs) and Speed (Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity). All of them can have a case made for them, avoidance reduces "some" AOE effects but bare in if you're using Wings of Shattered Sorrow you'll have a lot of avoidance during high damage periods already. Leech is just a bit of small but constant self healing and move speed can be useful for avoiding floor effects or kiting out mobs, entirely your choice.
Bracers - Same story as cloak between Avoidance (Enchant Bracers - Change of Armoured Avoidance), Leech (Enchant Bracers - Change of Armoured Leech) and Speed (Enchant Bracers - Change of Armoured Speed).
Boots - Either Enchant Boots - Defender's March or Enchant Boots - Scout's March. Defender's stamina is a relatively small amount but does still increase our hp pool, Scout's will potentially contribute to mitigated damage by allowing us to succesfully kite out melee abilities or ground effects.
Ring - Our preference for ring enchants is the Radiant variants (Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike, Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste, Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery and Enchant Ring - Radiant Versatility). You can sim yourself regularly to find your highest dps combination or pick your favourite. Haste is typically very good for Bear at this early point in the expansion.
Gems
In TeWaWi, we have seen some changes to how Gems work compared to Dragonflight:
- You can now only add two gems to your neck, instead of three.
- You can now add two gems to each of your rings rather than just one.
Blasphemite Gems
Effectively Meta gems from previous expansions, each gem will provide you with an amount of Primary stat and an additional buff based on what other gems you have equipped. You can only have 1 Blasphemite Gem socketted in your gear at a time.
Culminating Blasphemite is our gem of choice. It will provide 181 Agility and increases your critical strike damage by 0.15% per unique Algari gem colour you have equipped.
Elusive Blaphemite a potential alternative for those who like to go fast. Especially given how minor the critical strike damage from Culminating Blasphemite ends up being.
Algari Gems
These are your standard gems, you can equip as many of these types of gems as you want so long as you have the socket slots to hold them. They come in various combinations of Critical Strike (Rubies), Haste (Emeralds), Versatility (Sapphires), Mastery (Onyxes) and Stamina (Ambers). You will typically wear one of each of the four secondary stat variants (and not socketing an amber gem) but simming using Raidbots' Top Gear function is the best way to find the ideal combinations of gems for your gear. Be aware that this will likely change through the tier as your gear changes so sim regularly to check!
Trinkets and Cantrip Items
Trinkets
Damage Trinkets
Because of the new addition of the "Tank Tax" in the form of a 33% reduction to trinket/cantrip damage for non dps specs our options here are bit limited because everything is close. That said, the main damage trinkets of note are:
Foul Behemoth's Celicera - Provides a decently powerful on use damage effect and also comes with a defensive benefit (discussed below). Likely to be a staple raid prog trinket for any tank.
Mad Queen's Mandate - Very strong, bursty, on-use damage trinket. Trying to game the cooldown reduction portion is very difficult as you need to actually deal the killing blow with it (not just be hitting it as it dies), but even without that its very strong.
Void Reaper's Contract - Powerful damage proc. Great if you can get it but if you are being selfless then you would be a lower priority for this trinket than other agi classes that can equip Void Reaper's Warp Blade in your raid group since this would activate the 2-set effect (Monks, DH's, Enh Shaman's and Outlaw Rogues).
Ara-Kara Sacbrood - A strong passive option for damage, even with the nerfs to it.
Defensive Trinkets
Swarmlord's Authority - Decent passive absorb procs combined with a potent on use absorb effect on a very short cooldown. This trinket will likely be a lock-in for key pushing.
Foul Behemoth's Celicera - Noticably more beneficial in raid, where the longer encounters allow you gain a notable amount of additional HP over several uses. This is less prevalent in keys since when you leave combat the additional HP becomes a shield, could be played around a bit by chain pulling or using at the start of pulls.
Silken Chain Weaver - Difficult to acquire one of relevant item level, however if you do manage to acquire a Champion track (Tier 7+ Delves) or Hero track (Tier 8 Delve Vault slot) then this will likely be a very strong defensive option for dungeons. DISCLAIMER: Currently, the attack speed reduction part of this trinket is not functioning. If this changes then this disclaimer will be removed but for now be aware that this massively reduces the power of this trinket.
Cantrip Items
Wings of Shattered Sorrow Not a very strong effect for tanks but it does come with a full stat budget in addition to the proc. It's fine to wear but would not reccomend going out of your way to get it.
Seal of the Poisoned Pact Full stat budget ring with an additional free damage proc. We should also be able to take advantage of the additional dose effect via Bramblespulsing damage (not the reflect portion). Regardless, this will be one of your BiS rings.
Sureki Zealot's Insignia Another full stat budget item with an additional free proc, this time providing stats to you simply for being healed. This one also has the added benefit of making your healers like you more. One of, if not the, BiS necks for Bear.
Harvester's Interdiction Full stat budget weapon with an additional damage proc. Unfortunately, this weapon is only available from Mythic+ so to get a Mythic track weapon you'll need some luck on your side in the Great Vault. The damage proc is only worth around 0.5% damage compared to a standard weapon of the same ilvl, so sim yourself to see if a Heroic track version is better than any Mythic track weapons you acquire.
Miscellaneous
Macros
BoP Cancelaura macro
A situationally useful macro for tanks primarily. BoP (Blessing of Protection) is a paladin external that will remove many harmful debuffs from its target, the downside is that it renders the target immune to physical damage so mobs will target someone else since they cannot hit you as the tank while Bop’d.
This macro will remove the Blessing of Protection buff from yourself, meaning that mobs will continue to target you rather than your allies but you will still have the applicable debuffs removed by the BoP application.
/cancelaura Blessing of Protection
Set Mouseover as Focus macro
A macro that is more useful in some content than other (Keys and pvp primarily) but still a useful tool to use is the focus targets. To set a mouseover target as your Focus target simply mouseover over the mob and press this macro:
/focus [@mouseover,exists,nodead]
Note: To select a different mob as your focus you can simply mouseover the new mob and press the macro again. To completely remove any mob as your focus you can simply mouseover nothing and press the macro once more.
Mouseover Combat Res macros
An essential macro for all druid specs. This macro will attempt to cast Rebirth at your current mouseover target so long as they are a friendly character and are dead.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,dead] Rebirth
Many players prefer to use a more advanced version of this macro which will cast either Rebirth or Revive based on whether the player is in combat or not. This is entirely personal preference but the macro would look something like:
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,combat,help,dead] Rebirth;
/cast [@mouseover,nocombat,help,dead][] Revive
One Key Shapeshift/Fluid Form macros
Some people prefer to have a single keybind that will allow them to shift between Bear Formand Cat Formrather than binding both forms seperately, which is typically done by a macro.
This macro will:
- Check if you are not in Bear Form, and if so will attempt to switch you to Bear Form
- If you are already in Bear Form, it will attempt to switch you to Cat Form
#showtooltip
/cast [noform:1] bear form
/cast [form:1] cat form
With the addition of Fluid Forma variant of this macro has become fairly popular for use during combat that allows lets you press Rake (or Shred) in Bear Form and Mangle in Cat Form using a single key bind.
This macro will:
- Check if you are not in Bear Form, and if so will attempt to cast Mangle
- If you are already in Bear Form, it will attempt to cast Rake
Note: If the macro is not shifting you when you press it then check that:
- You have Fluid Form talented
- You are in range of the target to cast Rake/Shred/Mangle
- Mangle is not on cooldown
#showtooltip
/cast [noform:1] Mangle
/cast [form:1] Rake
Bear Form Required Ability macros
Several spells require you to be in bear form in order to actually function. You can add a condition to the macro to first check if you’re in bear form (and if not, then cast it) before casting the desired spell.
This macro will:
- Check if you are in bear form, and if not will attempt to switch you to bear form.
- Will cast Growl at your current target
#showtooltip Growl
/cast [noform:1] bear form
/cast Growl
This macro will:
- Check if you are in bear or cat form and if not switch you to bear form.
- Check if you have an active focus target and if so will attempt to cast Skull Bash at it.
- Will attempt to cast Skull Bash at your current target.
#showtooltip skull bash
/use [noform:1/2] Bear Form;
/use [@focus,harm,nodead][] Skull Bash
Ursol's Vortex and Mass Entanglement macro
This macro is useful because Ursol’s Vortex and Mass Entanglementare mutually exclusive as they are two halves of a choice node, meaning they can share a keybind.
This macro will:
- Cast Ursol's Vortexat your cursor location if the spell is known
- Cast Mass Entanglementat your mouseover target so long as your mouseover is a hostile target and the spell is known
- Cast Mass Entanglementat your target if you do not have a mouseover so long as your target is a hostile target and the spell is known
#showtooltip
/cast [known:102793,@cursor] Ursol's Vortex;
/cast [known:102359,@mouseover,harm,nodead][known:102359] Mass Entanglement
Mighty Bash and Incapacitating Roar macro
Similar to the above, this macro is useful because Mighty Bashand Incapacitating Roarare mutually exclusive being two halves of a choice node.
This macro will:
- Cast Incapacitating Roarif the spell is known
- Cast Mighty Bashat your target if the spell is known
#showtooltip
/cast [known:99] Incapacitating Roar;
/cast [known:5211] Mighty Bash
Soothe and Remove Corruption macro
It can be useful to macro certain spells that require mutually exclusive conditions together onto one keybind. The following does that using Soothe(requires an enemy target) and Remove Corruption (requires a friendly target). There are many different spells that this can be done with so simply change the name and possibly the conditions to suit your needs.
This macro will:
- Attempt to cast Remove Corruptionat your current mouseover target if they are friendly.
- Attempt to cast Sootheat your current mouseover target if they are hostile.
- Attempt to cast Sootheat your current target
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Remove Corruption;
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Soothe
Cooldown with trinkets macro
Macroing big cooldowns together with trinkets and cantrip effects is often a sensible idea, it makes things easier for you as the player since you only have to press a single key to trigger multiple effects that you would want to happen at the same time. This ultimately requires that all or all except one effect be off the GCD. It is generally best to not do this with trinkets that trigger GCD or channeling effects. Refer to the trinket section for info on which trinkets this is applicable to.
This macro will:
- Attempt to cast berserk or incarn (if talented).
- Use whatever trinket is located in Trinket slot 1 (top).
- Use whatever trinket is located in Trinket slot 2 (bottom).
- Use whatever cantrip effect is located on your Weapon slot
Delete rows as required before using this macro or you may not use the correct trinket slot with your cooldowns.
#showtooltip
/cast berserk
/use 13
/use 14
/use 16
Useful WeakAura(s)
Ironfur Tracking WeakAura by Naemesis
Kitch's Guardian WeakAuras by Kitch
Xora's Bear WeakAuras by Xora