Legion Guardian Guide

Updated for 7.2.5

Hey mates, brief introduction for me.

My Druid's name is Pumps, I am an officer/raid leader in the guild, Honestly. I also write most of our boss strats for prog.

Raiding at varying levels from world top 10 to world top 400. Currently a more relaxed world top 10-30.

I am on US - Frostmourne, a now Oceanic realm, even though there were dark days of 300+ ping always, it is now firmly the home of the majority of the top oceanic players.

My guide will mostly prioritize top tier progression raiding and is heavily subject to change at the start of any raid tier, as new builds/strats/changes come to fruition.

Patch 7.2.5 Changes - Credit to Faide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19EuF5KI2fNRIZEro8O1g_pbib5SL5CewdRInBuqnCaQ/edit

7.2.5 Opinion

I think we although we are probably no longer the top "tank" per se, our dps and utility is quite strong still, our healing in certain situations with the new 4p will be quite strong and we are definitely viable tanks going into Tomb.

What Changed from WoD to Legion

Overall with our very High Health pool with our new Mastery (which increases our Health and Healing taken) and solid Active Mit (100% uptime) we are looking to be quite smooth sponge tanks, excelling especially on more magic oriented fights.

Active Mitigation

Savage Defense - is gone completely and we now have 2 new Active mit spells;

Ironfur - Increases Armor by 65% for 6 seconds, multiple uses stack.

Frenzied Regen - has changed to a 2 (3 with traits) charge system of Heals you for 50% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec over 3 sec, minimum 5% of maximum health.

Damaging Abilities

Mangle - Hasn't changed that much, it's cooldown is reduced by haste and there is a new passive called 'Gore' which is a 15% chance on Thrash/Swipe/Moonfire to reset the CD on mangle and make it generate 4 extra rage.

Thrash - now has a cooldown and can be stacked up to 3 times like the old lacerate.

Swipe - Is back boys, now our new filler spell, has no CD and costs no rage.

Moonfire - Able to be cast in Bear form now and therefore an integral part of our new rotation.

Lacerate - Removed/semi baked into Thrash

Defensive Cooldowns

Barkskin - Similar to WoD but now has a slightly longer cooldown at 90 seconds baseline.

Survival Instincts - Got the same treatment as barkskin, still 2 charges but slightly longer cooldown at 4minutes each baseline.

Shapeshift CD - Powershifting

One of the more annoying lesser known changes is that power shifting is gone, powershifting was a macro that changed your form into the same form, so you cast bear form again and instead of putting you into human form it immediately changes you back to bear.

This was primarily for pvp but had extra rage gen power in pve.

However in Legion all shapeshifting has a 1 second GCD now so shifting in and out of bear for us now loses 2 full GCDs out and back in.

Other noteworthy changes

Incapacitating Roar baseline, it's not great.

Rebirth can be cast in Bear form

Lost most of our baseline heals, just keeping Healing Touch.

Can no longer have Mighty bash and Typhoon at the same time.

Lost Berserk as a cooldown, now baked into the Incarnation talent.

Maul no longer has any defensive benefit with the removal of Tooth and claw.

Resolve is removed for all tanks.

Some people might not be familiar with some of the slang of traits/talents/abilities/items that i use so just a reference key here.

Rage of the Sleeper

Embrace of the Nightmare

Global Cooldown

Stampeding Roar

Galactic Guardian

Soul of the Forest

(Survival of the fittest is also sotf thanks blizz)

(Blood Frenzy, same tier i mean come on)

Guardian of Elune

Damage over Time