Mists of Pandaria Classic Guardian Druid Enchants and Consumables

While it is easy to understand which Enchants, Gems, and Consumables you should use in Mists of Pandaria, they also have an outsized impact on your performance, especially when doing hard content such as Heroic Raiding.

Below is a list of the optimal consumables and enchants to help you get the most out of your Guardian Druid .

Slot	Main Enchantment	Secondary Enchantment
Shoulders	Secret Tiger Claw Inscription (Requires Inscription) Greater Tiger Claw Inscription
Back	Swordguard Embroidery (Requires Tailoring) Enchant Cloak - Greater Protection
Chest	Enchant Chest - Superior Stamina
Wrist	Fur Lining - Agility (Requires Leatherworking) Enchant Bracer - Greater Agility	Socket Bracer (Requires Blacksmithing)
Hands	Sha Armor Kit	Synapse Springs (Requires Engineering) Socket Gloves (Requires Blacksmithing)
Waist	Living Steel Belt Buckle
Legs	Heavy Leg Reinforcements (Requires Leatherworking) Ironscale Leg Armor
Feet	Enchant Boots - Blurred Speed
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Dancing Steel

Sockets	Gems
	Capacitive Primal Diamond
	Crafty Vermilion Onyx
	Smooth Sun's Radiance
	Jagged Wild Jade
	Smooth Serpent's Eye — Requires Jewelcrafting, can use up to 3

Gems tend to be used to help hit the high Hit / Expertise caps for tanks, as they also have to worry about enemy Parries rather than just having to remove Misses and Dodges. Due to Bear Form granting 50% higher Crit scaling and Crit being great for Rage generation, we will be mostly using Critical Strike gems once Hit / Expertise caps are done.

The best feast available early on is the Pandaren Banquet for 10-man groups and Great Pandaren Banquet for 25-man groups. Alternatively, or when min-maxing, you should use the best individual food, as those grant 450 Stamina.

• Stuffed Lushrooms (individual)
• Chun Tian Spring Rolls (individual)
• Pandaren Banquet (10-man feast)
• Great Pandaren Banquet (25-man feast)

Guardian Druids will prefer Mantid Elixir plus Mad Hozen Elixir instead of a flask, but if you are going into progression and need to save gold, you might want to use a Flask of the Earth, instead.

Virmen's Bite is the best potion for Guardian, and should be paired with your offensive cooldowns or boss increased damage taken phases in order to maximize its benefit.

Master Healing Potion can save your life in an emergency, so always keep some around as a complement to your class defensives.

Heavy Windwool Bandage are rarely of use due to forcing you to channel for their healing, but if everything else fails they can still make a difference, so try to carry some around just in case.