Help with Guardian damage mitigation

I feel like Im missing something severe.

Doing Mythics I’m rotating my Barkskin, Lunar, and always have at least 4 stacks or more Iron fur up, both my health regens and yet randomly I’ll get smacked with a one shot and it’s becoming disheartening.

I know I need trinkets
Vers 18% in Bear and MotW
Haste 25%
Crit 14%
Mastery 17%

Are my stats what’s causing this issue? I don’t know, I’m just looking for some guidance and what I could be doing wrong.

So I took a look at what it says your talents are on Raiderio.
And well…your talents are suboptimal, you wanna drop:

  • the 2 points in Survival of the Fittest on the Right side of the tree
  • Ursoc’s Fury on the Left Capstone path
  • Vulnerable Flesh
  • Tooth and Claw
  • Soul of the Forest

Instead take:

  • Innate Resolve
  • Reinvigoration
  • Earthwarden
  • Fury of Nature.

Additionally, consider swapping Brambles out for Dream of Cenarius as the free Regrowths do a lot more healing for you and are great to keep your team alive in a pinch, but its not ridiculously important if you just don’t wanna bind it.

Earthwarden will vastly reduce the melee damage you take over the course of a key, and the points in Fury of Nature will buff your moonfire, improving your consistent healing from Elune’s Favored. Right now you have a hodge-podge build thats inbetween what you wanna play for both hero talents without settling on either, fix that and youll probably be fine.

However if your build is correct and raiderio is stupid, then I’d suggest looking to what kills you randomly. Is it a really strong melee add (such as the enraging Ogres in Grim Batol) that you turned your back to? Is it spells being cast at you simultaneously without interrupts? Stuff like that.

If you consistently have 4 stacks of ironfur up and are playing the right talents you should be stellar. One thing to note with this build is that you dont press Maul, like EVER. Dump all your rage always into Ironfur, ALWAYS. Maul isnt worth the global unless you deliberately build for it with the other set of hero talents. That’s all I got, hope it helped.

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Thank you! I’ll give them a try tomorrow for sure. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything, I greatly appreciate it!