Should you main a Guardian Druid in Shadowlands?



Bear tanks are one of the most overlooked tanking specs in WoW. They are actually above average in terms of damage intake and DPS and offer a unique and challenging playstyle at the upper end of raiding: catweaving.

Many people sleep on Guardian Druids because their basic kit is simple. Their active mitigation is one of the easiest to manage of all tanks — they do however have a lot of interesting talent chocies on going defensive vs offensive, their legendary toolkit is deep, and you can also elect to bring catweaving into your rotation to spice things up!

This video goes over what has changed from BfA to Shadowlands, outlines covenant choices, legendary choices, and has a discussion on talent choices. There is special emphasis on multi-speccing druids in the Shadowlands specific sections as well.

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28 thoughts on “Should you main a Guardian Druid in Shadowlands?”

  1. It's between protection paladin and baer for me.. Baers are great and you also get all the nice benefits of druids for other content (like stealth, speed when running legacy raids, etc) but I'm starting to fall in love with paladins atm, so it'll be hard to pick which one I'll go with first. (Luckily, it seems alting will be much easier in SL compared to previous expansions.)

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  2. What do you think about oath of the elder druid? Hotw for 10 seconds every minute seems amazing for multispecing, as well as the 75% spec buff bonus, then you also don't need to talent hotw. I'm thinking night fae with that legendary to start with, playing all 4 specs depending on my mood and the content.

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  3. Hey man, love your making content but when you Try to put your face like this intense in the screen. You should cut a less its almost like your breakdance over the screen. Parhaps prepare more what to talk about and try to cut a lot less. Its not natural this way to watch, keep up your work and you got my attraction to watch… boomkin is the way lolz

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  4. Guardian is a insane tank. A lot of world best tank players main guardian in SL . No other tank is atm so strong in physical mitigation. But ofc you must handle to be the worst magical mitigation tank😏. Btw night fae is great if you play hotw and resto affinity talents. You can shift out if possible in right time and boost your group health up from ground to top in 4 sec.

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  5. Over the past couple days I've had a real itch to try tanking and particularly look into Bear tanking because as much as I love Druid, feral is sad and I'm not sold on moonkin. Maining bear would allow me to keep an eye out for feral if it ever got a buff and still maybe get an invite for groups still. Your vid is helpful and full of great energy and excitement for a positive future for bears, which is what I was looking for

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  6. Returning player here after 15 years. I played back in 04 on the original release into TBC but stopped after. My first ever class was a Tauren Druid, I always enjoyed the idea of shapeshifting and the nature aspect of the druid in general. I started retail a couple months ago and have been playing Bear all the while testing other classes (I'm a super curious person) so I played warriors and plenty more classes, most recently I gave the monk a try as I tend to favor survival classes, I really enjoyed BrM monk but truthfully, bear is still my number one. I actually enjoy all the specs of a druid, balance is fantastic to me, feral is fun when you know how to play it properly and the healing is all naturey which I love. I'm the type to switch things up and druid ticks all the boxes for me :))

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  7. hey bud, i love your content. just a personal taste thing: You're getting a LITTLE too liberal with the mid sentence cut and pastes. Like 4 in one sentence at times feels a little much. but keep up the videos!

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  8. I've thought about druid but knowing I missed mage tower cool skins I turn away from it from depression. I didn't play druid in legion so I missed the best things they have.
    Very sad looking back on it 😢

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  9. SUNFIRE DOT with balance affinity is so much better. you moonkin into more armor and you would not believe the damage of the sunfire aoeing It is crazy crazy. I have said this from the get go. I you play your druid for all it can do stameding sprinting stunning kiting knockback it is way funner. I have played all tanks except pallies since I am die hard horde. stampeding to get your dot up is a huge dps increase because sunfire hits all targets near your target.

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