Guardian Druid Tank Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)

Last updated on Mar 19, 2025 at 17:00 by Pumps 47 comments
General Information

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).

1.

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.

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Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Guardian Druid

2.

Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Guardian Druid

Vexie Fullthrottle Cauldron of Carnage Rik Reverb Stix Bunkjunker Sprocketmonger Lockenstock One-Armed Bandit Mug'Zee Chrome King Gallywix
3.

Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Guardian Druid

2.1.

Defensive Tips

  • Rotate a defensive cooldown for each Tank Buster Icon Tank Buster. This is also the taunt swap mechanic.
2.2.

Cooldown Usage

  • Great to save cooldowns for the Burn phase Mechanical Breakdown Icon Mechanical Breakdown.
2.3.

Mechanical Tips

  • Can use Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex and Typhoon Icon Typhoon to control the adds in the burn phase if required.
2.4.

Mythic Difficulty

  • Keep an eye out for the Oil Slick Icon Oil Slick that comes after Tank Buster Icon Tank Buster in Mythic and Heroic difficulty.
2.5.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Guardian Druid

2.6.

Defensive Tips

  • Rotate a cooldown for each cast of Eruption Stomp Icon Eruption Stomp. It is a massive magical hit, so keep in mind, Ironfur Icon 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 Icon 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.
2.7.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use cooldowns on CD.
2.8.

Mechanical Tips

  • Bosses need to be tanked at least 40 yards apart outside of intermission phase.
2.9.

Mythic Difficulty

  • No changes as a tank for Mythic.
2.10.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Rik Reverb for Guardian Druid

2.11.

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 Icon Ironfur is not effective against.
2.12.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use on damage cooldowns on CD.
2.13.

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.
2.14.

Mythic Difficulty

  • Ensure you do not get hit by 2 Resonant Echoes Icon Resonant Echoes in rapid succession as this will lead to you being mind controlled and could be quite deadly.
2.15.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Guardian Druid

2.16.

Defensive Tips

  • The taunt swap on this fight is Demolish Icon Demolish, which deals half nature and half physical damage. This is also a great place to rotate defensive cooldowns for each smash.
2.17.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use cooldowns on CD.
2.18.

Mechanical Tips

  • If you get a yellow arrow on your head, you need to roll around collecting the small green piles of trash.
2.19.

Mythic Difficulty

  • In Mythic, ball rolling becomes the highest priority aspect of the fight. You must collect enough trash or Junkyard Hyena's to grow into a Medium ball to then pick up the Scrapmasters before they kill people. You must then grow into a Large ball to either get rid of a detonating bomb or roll into the boss to deal huge damage.
2.20.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Guardian Druid

2.21.

Defensive Tips

  • The tank swap mechanic on this fight is in 2 parts. The first part is applied via auto-attacks called Gravi-Gunk Icon Gravi-Gunk, which slows you and increases your damage taken. The other is Pyro Party Pack Icon 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.
2.22.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use cooldowns on CD.
2.23.

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 Icon Wire Transfer.
2.24.

Mythic Difficulty

  • In mythic, you will be assigned a color either Red or Blue and must not touch anyone of the opposing color. This will alternate throughout the fight.
2.25.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Guardian Druid

2.26.

Defensive Tips

  • The taunt swap mechanic on this encounter is The Big Hit Icon 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.
2.27.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use damage cooldowns on CD.
2.28.

Mechanical Tips

  • Make sure you interrupt the Overload! Icon Overload! casts from the small adds with Skull Bash Icon Skull Bash.
2.29.

Mythic Difficulty

  • No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
2.30.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Mug'Zee for Guardian Druid

2.31.

Defensive Tips

  • The tank mechanic is Molten Gold Knuckles Icon Molten Gold Knuckles which deals high physical damage and some fire damage. This ability also knocks you back and applies Golden Drip Icon 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.
  • The other tank mechanic is Double Whammy Shot Icon Double Whammy Shot, which is a long red line you must stand in closest to the boss to be hit by and soak for your raid member targeted.
2.32.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use damage cooldowns on CD.
2.33.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Stampeding Roar Icon 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 Icon Stampeding Roar has value almost always.
2.34.

Mythic Difficulty

  • No Mythic Tips yet, check back in the future for updates.
2.35.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Guardian Druid

2.36.

Defensive Tips

  • In Phase 1, defensive cooldown on each Scatterblast Canisters Icon Scatterblast Canisters cast and when soaking 1500-Pound Dud Icon 1500-Pound Dud if low health.
  • In Phase 2, the tank will get hit by Trick Shots Icon Trick Shots, this is also an excellent time to rotate a defensive cooldown.
  • In Phase 3, Bigger Badder Bomb Blast Icon Bigger Badder Bomb Blast is a tank hit that you must run far away from your raid as to not hit them with the explosion circle.
2.37.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use cooldowns on CD.
2.38.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Stampeding Roar Icon Stampeding Roar for each of the big movements during Scatterblast Canisters Icon Scatterblast Canisters.
2.39.

Mythic Difficulty

2.40.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

2.41.

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 Icon Survival Instincts for large incoming damage.

  • Barkskin Icon Barkskin
  • Rage of the Sleeper Icon Rage of the Sleeper
  • Survival Instincts Icon Survival Instincts
  • Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc Icon Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
  • Maul Icon Maul with a proc of Tooth and Claw Icon Tooth and Claw active.
2.42.

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 Icon Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc — Our main, 2-3 minute cooldown.
  • Rage of the Sleeper Icon Rage of the Sleeper — Both an offensive and defensive cooldown, and can be used for either situationally.
  • Heart of the Wild Icon Heart of the Wild — A 5-minute cooldown that increases the damage done by our; auto-attack, Moonfire Icon Moonfire and feral abilities such as Rip Icon Rip and Rake Icon Rake.
  • Stampeding Roar Icon 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 Icon Bloodlust, your Potion, or even your other cooldowns, trying to look for opportunities to stack all of them.

3.

Changelog

  • 19 Mar. 2025: Updated Mythic Boss Tips.
  • 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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