Blizzard's Midnight API restricts addon access to your personal buffs and cooldowns during M+ and raid — the exact content where aura tracking matters most. The addons listed here work within these restrictions and cover what WeakAuras used to handle.

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Guardian Druid · Raid

Curated for raid tanking — Survival Instincts and Barkskin layered across the heaviest tank damage phases, Ironfur maintained through swap mechanics, Rebirth pre-assigned to the highest-priority resurrection target, and Stampeding Roar timed to movement-heavy phases to reduce healer overhead. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.

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Elune's Chosen

Recommended raid build — Elune's Chosen with a strong single-target defensive profile, Survival Instincts and Barkskin layering across predictable tank damage phases, and Rebirth available for combat resurrection assignment.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

Druid of the Claw

Alternative raid build — Druid of the Claw with higher single-target damage output and enhanced Mangle crit windows. Trades some passive defensive throughput for better threat maintenance on heavy-hitting boss targets.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

Custom build

Record your own talent build alongside your addons — it's included when you share your setup. Get a talent string from the Wowhead talent calculator or export directly from the in-game talent tree (press N → share icon). Paste the URL or the raw string — both work.

Addons

Why no WeakAuras? Midnight's API blocks WeakAuras from reading your buffs and cooldowns. The addons here cover what it used to handle.

Boss encounters 2

Deadly Boss Mods (DBM)

Boss timers

613.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

Boss timers tell you when tank damage spikes arrive so Ironfur stacks can be pre-applied rather than reacted to after the hit. Survival Instincts and Barkskin require pre-planning across the fight timeline, and DBM's printed timers are how you build that plan.

Tracks: Boss timers · Mechanic alerts · Ironfur pre-application · Survival Instincts timing · Pull countdowns
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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GTFO

Advanced Ground effect alerts

95.9M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

As a tank you're often intentionally standing in damage to hold threat — the alarm specifically fires for hazards that deal lethal or out-of-place damage outside your intended tanking position. Install knowing it's significantly more limited than pre-Midnight — it covers specific tracked boss mechanics only, not general ground effects.

Tracks: Ground effect alerts · Audible alarms · Boss hazards · Tank positioning
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Meters & logs 1

Details! Damage Meter

DPS meter

345.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 10 May 2026

Damage, healing received, and damage taken breakdown. The most useful window is self-healing — Frenzied Regeneration and Leech should account for a significant portion of incoming healing; if low, you're healing too late or missing casts — and damage taken by ability shows which sources hit hardest and where Ironfur coverage is most needed.

Tracks: DPS meter · Frenzied Regeneration healing · Damage taken · Thrash uptime · Self-sustain
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Nameplates & targeting 2

Platynator

Nameplates

9.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 20 Apr 2026

Cast bars and debuff icons on enemy nameplates — for Guardian Druid, identifies priority interrupt targets in a pack so Skull Bash lands on the most dangerous caster without target cycling. Also helps time Incapacitating Roar and Typhoon when multiple casters are active simultaneously.

Tracks: Nameplates · Cast bars · Skull Bash targeting · Interrupt awareness · Typhoon timing
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

TargetedSpells

Targeted casts

743.8K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 2 May 2026

Visual and audio alert when a dangerous ability targets you — for Guardian Druid, gives you the reaction window to pop Barkskin before the hit or communicate to the off-tank that a swap is needed. At higher M+ and raid difficulty the incoming damage window is too tight to react without a targeted alert.

Tracks: Targeted casts · Audio + visual alerts · Barkskin timing · Survival Instincts · Tank swap awareness
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Cooldowns & tracking 2

OmniCD

Healer externals

33.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 27 Feb 2026

Tracks group cooldowns from the combat log — for Guardian Druid, the most important visibility is healer externals: if Pain Suppression or Ironbark is available, you can hold Survival Instincts and let the healer cover the spike instead. Also shows Rebirth cooldowns for confident combat-ress priority and interrupt coverage so you know when to hold Skull Bash.

Tracks: Healer externals · Rebirth tracking · Group cooldowns · Interrupt coverage
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

BetterCooldownManager

Personal cooldowns

938.2K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 15 Mar 2026

Configurable timers for your major cooldowns on screen. For Guardian Druid, shows Survival Instincts, Barkskin, and Frenzied Regeneration simultaneously so you can plan defensive layers before predicted damage rather than checking each spell individually under pressure.

Tracks: Personal cooldowns · Survival Instincts · Barkskin · Frenzied Regeneration · Stampeding Roar
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Raid 1

Northern Sky Raid Tools

Raid assignments

6.1M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 10 Apr 2026

Displays raid assignments on-screen — for Guardian Druid, shows the tank swap schedule so both tanks know when the swap is happening, and pre-assigns Survival Instincts and Barkskin to specific fight phases. Rebirth target is also pre-decided rather than called on the fly mid-wipe.

Tracks: Raid assignments · Tank swap timing · Defensive scheduling · Rebirth assignment
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Rotation helper 1

TrufiGCD

Advanced GCD timeline

1.3M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 Mar 2026

TrufiGCD records your GCD usage as a scrolling timeline. For Guardian Druid, the two failure modes it exposes are Rage capping — spending Rage on Maul when Frenzied Regeneration would have been the better use — and Ironfur clipping, where you're re-applying Ironfur while an existing stack still has time remaining and wasting the Rage.

Tracks: GCD timeline · Rage capping · Ironfur clipping · Cast history
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Frames & Action Bars 3

BetterBlizzFrames

Unit frames

4.8M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

BetterBlizzFrames enhances the default Blizzard unit frames rather than replacing them. For Guardian Druid, a target castbar tells you when an interrupt window is open for Skull Bash, and the focus frame castbar tracks dangerous caster mobs separately from your main target.

Tracks: Unit frames · Castbars · Rage tracking · Skull Bash timing
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Dominos

Action bars

22.2M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 10 May 2026

Dominos gives you full control over action bar layout. For Guardian Druid, a dedicated cooldown bar keeps Survival Instincts, Barkskin, Frenzied Regeneration, and Stampeding Roar at consistent visible positions near the centre of the screen.

Tracks: Action bars · Survival Instincts · Barkskin · Bar positioning
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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ElvUI

Advanced Unit frames

Tukui.org addon

Works in Midnight Updated 15 May 2026

Most of what ElvUI covers for Guardian Druid is better handled by BetterBlizzFrames (frames), Dominos (action bars), and Platynator (nameplates). Only install if you want a fully unified UI aesthetic and are prepared for the configuration overhead.

Tracks: Unit frames · Action bars · Nameplates · Full UI replacement
Requires: Full UI replacement · tukui.org — not on CurseForge

Open on Tukui.org

Utility & QoL 1

Raider.IO

Player scores

431.7M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 25 May 2026

Shows every player's Mythic+ score and raid progression in tooltips — as Guardian Druid, your score signals you can handle the tank responsibilities at the appropriate key level. Check your healer's experience before inviting: a healer who's done your key level before knows the damage patterns and can pre-stage externals rather than reacting to your health spiking.

Tracks: Player scores · Raid progression · Player tooltips · LFG integration
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Macros Coming soon

Survival Instincts + Barkskin layered macro, Rebirth on mouseover, Stampeding Roar timed to movement phases, Ironfur pre-tank swap

Stat Priority Coming soon

Agility › Versatility › Haste › Mastery (Nature's Guardian) — Mastery's armor bonus becomes proportionally stronger on encounters with predictable physical damage windows where Ironfur coverage is sustained; Versatility provides consistent damage reduction between spikes

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