Guardian Druid Tank Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Guardian Druid for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
This page covers tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Guardian Druids. Recommended talents and utility available in the toolkit to get the absolute most out of your Bear. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall Tank ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Guardian Druid
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Guardian Druid
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
- Rotate a defensive cooldown for each
Tank Buster. This is also the taunt
swap mechanic.
Cooldown Usage
- Great to save cooldowns for the Burn phase
Mechanical Breakdown.
Mechanical Tips
- Can use
Ursol's Vortex and 
Typhoon to control the adds
in the burn phase if required.
Mythic Difficulty
- Keep an eye out for the
Oil Slick that comes after Tank Buster
in Mythic and Heroic difficulty.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
- Rotate a cooldown for each cast of
Eruption Stomp. It is a massive
magical hit, so keep in mind, 
Ironfur has no effect. You should also
run away from the group with this mechanic as it knocks you up and spawns waves
around you. - On the lightning side, the tank mechanic is
Lightning Bash. This is
a massive Physical hit that then deals all unmitigated damage as Nature damage.
As a Guardian we are extremely strong at mitigating Physical so this boss is
great for us.
Cooldown Usage
- Use cooldowns on CD.
Mechanical Tips
- Bosses need to be tanked at least 40 yards apart outside of intermission phase.
Mythic Difficulty
- No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
- No massive hitting abilities on this fight, just rotate cooldowns
when actively tanking the boss as necessary. This boss deals Sonic damage which
Ironfur is not effective against.
Cooldown Usage
- Use on damage cooldowns on CD.
Mechanical Tips
- As a tank, you will want to face the boss away from the raid, as his auto attacks are a frontal cone. Generally, tanks swap at around 5 stacks of the debuff applied by his auto attacks.
Mythic Difficulty
- No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
- The taunt swap on this fight is
Demolish, which deals half
nature and half physical damage. This is also a great place to rotate
defensive cooldowns for each smash.
Cooldown Usage
- Use cooldowns on CD.
Mechanical Tips
- If you get a yellow arrow on your head, you need to roll around collecting the small green piles of trash.
Mythic Difficulty
- No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
- The tank swap mechanic on this fight is in 2 parts. The first part is applied
via auto-attacks called
Gravi-Gunk, which slows you and
increases your damage taken. The other is 
Pyro Party Pack which is a massive
fire damage bomb hit that you must run as far away from your group as possible.
This is a perfect place to use defensive cooldowns.
Cooldown Usage
- Use cooldowns on CD.
Mechanical Tips
- As a tank, it is imperative that you pull the boss to the safe quadrants
around the room. The safe quadrants are chosen each time the boss casts
Wire Transfer.
Mythic Difficulty
- No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-ARmed Bandit for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
- The taunt swap mechanic on this encounter is
The Big Hit, which is
purely physical and an excellent place to use a big defensive cooldown.
This also gives you a debuff that causes you to drop a lightning puddle under
you after a few seconds.
Cooldown Usage
- Use damage cooldowns on CD.
Mechanical Tips
- Make sure you interrupt the
Overload! casts from the small
adds with 
Skull Bash.
Mythic Difficulty
- No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Guardian Druid
Defensive Tips
Stormfury Finger Gun is one of the taunt swap tank mechanics. It
is a frontal cone that deals high nature damage over 4 seconds and must be faced
away from the group. Great option to use defensive cooldowns on.- The other tank mechanic is
Molten Gold Knuckles which deals
high physical damage and some fire damage. This ability also knocks you back and
applies 
Golden Drip which causes you to leave a travel of gold behind.
You must run around to drop the pools on the ground to drop your stacks but
also conserve space in the room.
Cooldown Usage
- Use damage cooldowns on CD.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use
Stampeding Roar to help your group soak fire zones
or run away from crawler mines. There is a lot of movement in this fight
so Stampeding Roar has value almost always.
Mythic Difficulty
- No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Guardian Druid
This boss was not testable on the TWW Alpha/Beta servers. Information will be forthcoming once it is available on Live servers.
Defensive Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Cooldown Usage
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Guardian Druid has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate
throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often
as needed with incoming hits and save bigger cooldowns like 
Survival Instincts
for large incoming damage.
Barkskin
Rage of the Sleeper
Survival Instincts
Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
Maul with a proc of 
Tooth and Claw active.
General Offensive Cooldown Usage
Guardian Druid has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:
- Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc — Our main, 2-3 minute cooldown.
- Rage of the Sleeper — Both an offensive and defensive cooldown, and can be used for either situationally.
Heart of the Wild — A 5-minute cooldown that increases the
damage done by our; auto-attack, 
Moonfire and feral abilities such as
Rip and 
Rake.- Stampeding Roar — 1-2 minute cooldown that greatly increases
the movement speed of your entire raid. While this is not an offensive or
defensive cooldown, this is a massive raid utility that should ideally be
assigned to specific points in the encounter to ease dealing with mechanics.
In addition to the general rotation, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to use your cooldowns as often as possible during an encounter. With that in mind, your secondary goal is to use them at the correct time.
I highly suggest using some Addon or WeakAura to track the estimated time to
die of your target/boss target.
Method
Raid Tools has this as an option if you are already using this addon.
By tracking time to die, if you know that you can only fit one more cycle of
your cooldowns in before the boss dies, you can choose to hold these cooldowns
to better line up with 
Bloodlust, your Potion, or even your other
cooldowns, trying to look for opportunities to stack all of them.
Changelog
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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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 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 mainly based on what is the strongest for progression at the time. You can find him on discord — Pumps#0734 — and on Twitch.
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