Guardian Druid Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Guardian Druid for Midnight Pre-Patch. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Guardian Druid, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more. As a note: The Midnight Pre-Patch has included a massive stat and item level squish.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Guardian Druid

Overall BiS List for Pre-Patch Manaforge Omega Gear BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List

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Midnight Pre-Patch Overall BiS List for Guardian Druid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Guardian Druid in Midnight Pre-Patch from all sources, including Raiding, Mythic+, Delves, The Great Vault, and Crafted.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference between Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful, and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, despite my not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Harvester's Interdiction	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes or Great Vault
Helm	Skymane of the Mother Eagle	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Duskblaze's Desperation	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Ritual Pauldrons of the Mother Eagle	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Haste	Reshii Wraps Campaign Quest
Chest	Vest of the Mother Eagle	Fractillus/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands	Leatherworking crafted with the Duskthread Lining Embellishment
Gloves	Winged Gamma Handlers	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Harvested Creephide Cord	Trash Drop in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Breeches of the Mother Eagle	Loom’ithar/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Band of the Shattered Soul	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship	Jewelcrafting crafted with the Elemental Focusing Lens Embellishment
Trinket #1	Brand of Ceaseless Ire	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Ticking Sack of Terror	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder or Great Vault

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Manaforge Omega Raid Gear BiS List for Guardian Druid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Guardian Druid in Midnight Pre-Patch from the Manaforge Omega Raid.

Note that this BiS List is for items from the Raid. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is what you send to your Raid Leader/Loot Council when they ask you what your BiS gear is from the Raid.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference between Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful, and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, despite my not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Marvel of Technomancy	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Skymane of the Mother Eagle	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Duskblaze's Desperation	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Ritual Pauldrons of the Mother Eagle	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Haste	Reshii Wraps Campaign Quest
Chest	Vest of the Mother Eagle	Fractillus/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands	Leatherworking crafted with the Duskthread Lining Embellishment
Gloves	Winged Gamma Handlers	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Harvested Creephide Cord	Trash Drop in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Breeches of the Mother Eagle	Loom’ithar/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Band of the Shattered Soul	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship	Jewelcrafting crafted with the Elemental Focusing Lens Embellishment
Trinket #1	Brand of Ceaseless Ire	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Araz's Ritual Forge	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega

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Midnight Pre-Patch Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Guardian Druid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Guardian Druid from Midnight Pre-Patch Mythic+.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Mythic+. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear by farming Mythic+ dungeons.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference between Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful, and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, despite my not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Harvester's Interdiction	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes or Great Vault
Helm	Skymane of the Mother Eagle	Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Cabochon of the Infinite Flight	Tazavesh, the Veiled Market or Great Vault (729)
Shoulder	Ritual Pauldrons of the Mother Eagle	Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Haste	Reshii Wraps Campaign Quest
Chest	Vest of the Mother Eagle	Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands	Leatherworking crafted with the Duskthread Lining Embellishment
Gloves	Gloves of Haunting Fixation	Halls of Atonement or Great Vault
Belt	Durable Information Securing Container with Static Charge	Overcharged Delves
Legs	Breeches of the Mother Eagle	Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Stalwart Guardian's Boots	Priory of the Sacred Flame or Great Vault
Ring #1	Signet of Collapsing Stars	Tazavesh, the Veiled Market or Great Vault
Ring #2	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship	Jewelcrafting crafted with the Elemental Focusing Lens Embellishment
Trinket #1	Tome of Light's Devotion	Priory of the Sacred Flame or Great Vault
Trinket #2	Ticking Sack of Terror	Tazavesh, the Veiled Market or Great Vault

As of Patch 11.2.5, you are able to unlock and purchase specific items that you may be missing with Puzzling Cartel Chips. You can purchase a total of 3 items so choose wisely. Below is a list of some of the best items to purchase with Puzzling Cartel Chips for Guardian Druid:

• Brand of Ceaseless Ire (729)
• Tome of Light's Devotion (729)
• Harvester's Interdiction (729)
• Interloper's Reinforced Sandals (729)
• Band of the Shattered Soul (729)

Here are some useful items that might assist you in levelling faster in Midnight:

• Gunshoes
• Ethereal Augment Rune/ Crystallized Augment Rune
• Goblin Glider Kit
• Checkered Flag
• Banner of Cooperation / Standard of Unity / Battle Standard of Coordination

Patch 11.2 provides players with the Reshii Wraps artifact cloak. This begins at item level 694 and be upgraded all the way to 730 throughout the season, this is the only cloak available in pre-patch and will not be replaced.

For Tanks the cloak has an absorb proc and a semi cheat death effect, you can further increase this effect by equipping the Interloper's Reinforced Sandals from The Soul Hunter in the new raid.

The Reshii Wraps also come with a new socket named a Fiber Socket, this can be socketted with a single Fiber to give you a secondary stat of your choosing, the best Fiber to use at any given time will depend on the rest of your gear and the content you are doing but in the majority of situations you will be using the haste socket Pure Chronomantic Fiber.

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets, this should not be a replacement for simming yourself, at least not if you want to minmax sub-1%!

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

Midnight Pre-Patch changed the set bonuses from TWW Season 3 to generic damage increases:

• Druid - Midnight PrePatch - 11.2 Class Set 2pc
• Druid - Midnight PrePatch - 11.2 Class Set 4pc

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests, such as Gilded Undermine Crest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

1. Chest
2. Legs
3. Rings and Neck
4. Trinkets
5. Head/Shoulder/Belt/Bracer/Boots/Cape

You may only have two embellishments, present on equipped crafted gear at a time.

Guardian generally prefers to craft low stat budget, flexible items that can easily be swapped to another embellishment at will.

• The Charged Halberd with the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension embellishment is a great initial craft unless you have easy access to the first five bosses on mythic and can naturally loot one without hindering your groups progression.
• Rune-Branded Armbands have the least conflicting gear issues. Applying a simple proc embellishment like Elemental Focusing Lens to these makes them quite competitive.
• Adrenal Surge Clasp — crafted by Leatherworkers, the Adrenal Surge Clasp is a tank belt with primary stat proc from damage taken. This effect can be doubled with the Writhing Armor Banding, consuming both of your embellishment slots.

The Matrix Catalyst is a feature that allows you to convert any piece into "Tier" while retaining item level, socket, and tertiary perks. This can help you to optimize your gear further, similar to the old reforging system.

Whenever you get a new piece of gear, enchant it or gem it, if possible. In The War Within, sockets can come with or be put on: Head, Belt, Wrists, Rings, and Necks. The optimal enchants and gems for Guardian Druids are on the page linked below.

The following is a list of the most noteworthy trinkets available overall, ranked in order of power assuming equivalent item level. If you do not have any of these, your best bet will be to use a stat proc trinket with a reasonably high item level. This list only has our most powerful trinkets, any trinket not listed here is considerably weaker.

1. Ticking Sack of Terror
2. Brand of Ceaseless Ire
3. Ringing Ritual Mud
4. Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
5. Tome of Light's Devotion

Offensively, you can refer to the chart below (courtesy of Bloodmallet.com). Note that these are only recommendations based on general sims; you should sim yourself for the most accurate results.