Guardian Druid Leveling Guide from 1 to 90 — 12.0.5

Guardian Druid, thanks to being a tanking spec, our leveling options are plentiful. If you would like to spam dungeons to level, tank queues are often the fastest. If you would like to level solo, grouping up targets and AoEing them down works perfectly for us. We are also fantastic in a group, as DPS love to have someone gather and tank the mobs for them.

Leveling Information

Beginner Leveling Guides

If this is your first character, or want to know more about the leveling process in Midnight, we've got you covered with these two guides!

Basic LevelingMidnight Leveling

Item level is always more important than individual stats when leveling up. Always choose the piece of gear with the highest item level. Items with Speed tertiary stats can help speed up your leveling, especially during parts of extended time spent indoors. Heirloom gear is also useful while leveling, allowing you to ignore a lot of gearing for a large part of your leveling journey.

Itemization

Leveling Heirlooms

Learn how to use Heirloom gear to level your characters as fast as possible!

Heirlooms Guide

Here are some useful items that might assist you in leveling faster in Midnight.

• Gunshoes
• Ethereal Augment Rune/ Crystallized Augment Rune
• Goblin Glider Kit
• Checkered Flag
• Banner of Cooperation / Standard of Unity / Battle Standard of Coordination

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

In this section, we will highlight the most useful War Mode PvP talents to speed up your leveling process.

• Demoralizing Roar — Demoralizes all enemies within 10 yards, reducing the damage they do by 20% for 8 seconds. Great to further reduce damage taken on big pulls.
• Overrun — Charge to an enemy, stunning them for 3 seconds and knocking back their allies within 15 yards. Just another charge adding more mobility to your toolkit, allowing you to speed up levelling even more.
• Emerald Slumber — Causes you to enter a deep slumber for 8 seconds. While sleeping, all other cooldowns recover 400% faster. This is great, as it massively reduces the cooldown of every ability. Try to use it when not getting attacked, as damage will break the slumber effect.

Due to Guardian being unlocked as a talent specialization at Level 10, you should make use of the abilities provided to you in the intro quests until you are presented with the option.

• Buff yourself with Mark of the Wild.
• Enter Bear Form.
• Maintain Moonfire on the target.
• Use Barkskin on cooldown.
• Use Berserk on cooldown, ideally against multiple enemies.
• Cast Thrash on cooldown.
• Cast Mangle on cooldown on 4 targets or fewer.
• Fill downtime with Swipe.
• Spend Rage offensively against a single target with Maul.
• Spend Rage defensively with Ironfur.
• Use Frenzied Regeneration if your health gets below 50%.
• Make sure to always be in Bear Form while in combat.

Class Guides

Druid Class Guides

Finished leveling your character? Check out our max level guides!

All Druid Guides

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Guide Author

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This guide has been written by Pumps who has played since Vanilla and has tanked in Honestly, the #1 Oceanic raiding guild, since Mists of Pandaria. He also played in the first MDI Mythic+ dungeon tournament, where his team placed second. His mindset on tanking has always been about taking the utility and damage one can bring to the raid to the next level. He was the #1 Rank DPS Guardian Druid for 5 tiers in a row and top the 1-6 for the last 12 tiers, playing Guardian Druid, Brewmaster Monk and Protection Warrior based on which is the strongest for progression at the time. You can find him on discord — pumps. — and on Twitch.