Druid Guardian Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Thrash 2 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 3 Incarnation: Guardian of UrsocOff-GCD 4 Thrash 5 Wild GuardianOff-GCD 6 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 7 Maul 8 Thrash 9 Mangle 10 Thrash 11 IronfurOff-GCD 12 Mangle 13 IronfurOff-GCD 14 Thrash 15 IronfurOff-GCD

1 BarkskinOff-GCD 2 Lunar Beam 3 Lunar Beam 4 Cat Form 5 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 6 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 7 BerserkOff-GCD 8 Thrash 9 Red Moon 10 Thrash 11 IronfurOff-GCD 12 Mangle 13 IronfurOff-GCD 14 Thrash 15 Mangle

1 Lunar Beam 2 Lunar Beam 3 Red Moon 4 Thrash 5 IronfurOff-GCD 6 Mangle 7 BarkskinOff-GCD 8 Mangle 9 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 10 Cat Form 11 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 12 Incarnation: Guardian of UrsocOff-GCD 13 Wild GuardianOff-GCD 14 Thrash 15 Mangle

#showtooltip Lunar Beam
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc
/cast Wild Guardian
/cast Ironfur
/cast Berserk
/cast Lunar Beam

Ability	Top-player CPM
IronfurOff-GCD	20.9
Mangle	18.5
Thrash	14.6
Swipe	3.9
Maul	2.5
Frenzied Regeneration	1.9
Red Moon	1.8
BarkskinOff-GCD	1.5
Lunar Beam	1.3
Incarnation: Guardian of UrsocOff-GCD	0.6
Wild GuardianOff-GCD	0.6
Empowering VenomOff-GCD	0.6
Rake	0.5
Cat Form	0.5

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 BarkskinOff-GCD 2 Thrash 3 Moonfire 4 Moonfire 5 Mangle 6 IronfurOff-GCD 7 IronfurOff-GCD 8 Thrash 9 Moonfire 10 Thrash 11 IronfurOff-GCD 12 Moonfire 13 Moonfire 14 IronfurOff-GCD 15 Thrash

1 Thrash 2 Moonfire 3 Moonfire 4 Frenzied Regeneration 5 Thrash 6 Moonfire 7 IronfurOff-GCD 8 Moonfire 9 Thrash 10 IronfurOff-GCD 11 Moonfire 12 Moonfire 13 Mangle 14 IronfurOff-GCD 15 Thrash

1 Moonfire 2 Thrash 3 IronfurOff-GCD 4 Mangle 5 Thrash 6 IronfurOff-GCD 7 BarkskinOff-GCD 8 Swipe 9 Thrash 10 IronfurOff-GCD 11 Swipe 12 Thrash 13 IronfurOff-GCD 14 Moonfire 15 Thrash

#showtooltip Thrash
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Ironfur
/cast Thrash

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Rebirth
/cast [@mouseover,help]Rebirth;Rebirth

#showtooltip Remove Corruption
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][target=target] Remove Corruption

#showtooltip Thrash
/cancelaura Blessing of Protection
/cast Thrash

#showtooltip Skull Bash
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead]Skull Bash;Skull Bash

#showtooltip Growl
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead]Growl;Growl

#showtooltip Moonfire
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead]Moonfire;Moonfire

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	IronfurOff-GCD	26.0
2	Mangle	18.5
3	Thrash	16.2
4	Moonfire	13.7
5	Swipe	3.9
Z	Frenzied Regeneration	2.6
X	Maul	2.5
C	Red Moon	1.8
V	BarkskinOff-GCD	1.5
R	Lunar Beam	1.3
F	Incarnation: Guardian of UrsocOff-GCD	0.6
T	Wild GuardianOff-GCD	0.6
G	Empowering VenomOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+1	Rake	0.5
Shift+2	Cat Form	0.5
Shift+3	Incapacitating Roar	0.3
Shift+4	Bear Form	0.3