Guardian Druid Tank Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Guardian Druid Gear page for Midnight Season 1. 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.

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

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Best in Slot Gear for Guardian Druid

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

2.1.

Overall BiS List Guardian Druid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Season 1 of the Midnight Expansion.

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+.

While BiS lists can be used as a reference, you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next.

TipsWhich Are the Best Bosses/Items To Target for My Guardian Druid?

Generally speaking, the highest item level always wins, as our stats are all quite close in relative strength. The exception with this is trinkets or items with special effects, as some effects are far more powerful than the item level would suggest. For Raid - Chimaerus drops high item level loot with strong pieces like weapon and trinket on the loot table. Any boss that drops tier to allow you to enable your tier set bonus is massive value as well. Guardian is luckily a tank spec that enjoys all 4 stats, so gearing is extremely flexible and easy.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Alnscorned Spire	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Helm	Voidlashed Hood	Seat of the Triumvirate
Neck	Eternal Voidsong Chain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Shoulder	Seedpods of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst, or Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Chest	Trunk of the Luminous Bloom	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors with Arcanoweave Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	Arbortenders of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst, or Vorasius in The Voidspire
Belt	Silvermoon Agent's Utility Belt with Arcanoweave Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Legs	Phloemwraps of the Luminous Bloom	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Void-Claimed Shinkickers	Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy

2.2.

Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Guardian Druid

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 1 Mythic+ Dungeons.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Algeth'ar Academy: Your best on-use trinket drops here: Algeth'ar Puzzle Box.
• Maisara Caverns: Weapon most importantly, and a few other usable items.
• Windrunner Spire: Great trinkets from here.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: The ring combo from here is excellent.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Traitor's Talon	Maisara Caverns
Helm	Voidlashed Hood	Seat of the Triumvirate
Neck	Pendant of Aching Grief	Windrunner Spire
Shoulder	Seedpods of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Soulhunter's Mask	Maisara Caverns
Chest	Trunk of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst
Bracers	Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors with Arcanoweave Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	Arbortenders of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Silvermoon Agent's Utility Belt with Arcanoweave Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Legs	Phloemwraps of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst
Boots	Eclipse Espadrilles	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Emberwing Feather	Windrunner Spire
Trinket #2	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy

2.3.

Raid Gear BiS List for Guardian Druid

This list contains the best gear setup, only using gear from the Dreamrift, Voidspire, and March on Quel'Danas Raid.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Gaze of the Alnseer: Our best passive trinket. Drops from Chimaerus, who also drops our Tier-Set chest and best Weapon.
• Vorasius.
• The Eternal Egg: Another good passive Trinket option. Drops from Belo'ren.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Alnscorned Spire	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Helm	Mask of Darkest Intent	Midnight Falls
Neck	Eternal Voidsong Chain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Shoulder	Seedpods of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst, or Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Chest	Trunk of the Luminous Bloom	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors with Arcanoweave Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	Arbortenders of the Luminous Bloom	Matrix Catalyst, or Vorasius in The Voidspire
Belt	Silvermoon Agent's Utility Belt with Arcanoweave Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Legs	Phloemwraps of the Luminous Bloom	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Void-Claimed Shinkickers	Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls
Ring #2	Signet of the Starved Beast	Vorasius in The Voidspire
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	The Eternal Egg	Belo'ren

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.

There are a great number of Trinkets available for Guardian, and we generally want to play a combination of a powerful on-use trinket like Algeth'ar Puzzle Box or Emberwing Feather, and a passive trinket providing potent secondary stat buffs or raw damage procs.

Aim to pick up one trinket from each of these categories as a pair:

Guardian Druid Trinkets

On-Use - Algeth'ar Puzzle Box or, alternatively, Emberwing Feather
Passive - Gaze of the Alnseer or, alternatively, The Eternal Egg

There are quite a few other valuable trinkets out there, so make sure to click on our ranking chart to see if they are worth equipping.

Click for Guardian Druid Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Guardian
S Tier	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box Gaze of the Alnseer
A Tier	The Eternal Egg Gloom-Spattered Dreadscale Umbral Plume Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige Light Company Guidon Heart of Wind Emberwing Feather
B Tier	Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia Solar Core Igniter Tumor of the Swarm Manaheart's Binding Flame Jelly Replicator Eye of the Drowning Void Vessel of Tortured Souls Rotting Globule
C Tier	Ampoule of Pure Void Kroluk's Warbanner Latch's Crooked Hook Void Stalker's Contract
D Tier	Solarflare Prism

Midnight's patch 12.0.5 introduces two new systems:

• Nebulous Voidcore can be used to target items from specific bosses or dungeons, by letting you bonus roll a guaranteed piece of loot from a specific drop-location. Which item you will receive is random, but once an item has been acquired in this way, your next use of a Voidcore will grant one of the remaining items you haven't yet acquired.
• Ascendant Voidcore can be used to greatly increase the itemlevel of Hero or Myth track items if they have reached the highest possible itemlevel already, as well as Radiance-Crafted items at max quality. This will further boost their power. This only works on Weapons and Trinkets.

For more information on how to acquire these items, make sure to check out our dedicated guide below.

Which item you want to chase after depends heavily on the items you have already acquired through i.e. the Great Vault, or whether you expect to defeat certain bosses on Mythic difficulty regularly, as you do not want to waste your Voidcores on items you may be able to get on a higher difficulty track in a few weeks. The priority is as follows:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Myth Track Weapon
2. Mythic Gaze of the Alnseer OR Mythic Umbral Plume
3. Remaining BiS List items

Using your Ascendant Voidcores follows a similar priority list as using your Crests:

1. Your Weapon is the highest priority
2. Your on-use trinket
3. Your passive trinket

You will also want to prioritize Myth track items over Hero track ones, unless you do not expect to get a Myth track variant of said item. I.e. it is fine to upgrade a Hero track Umbral Plume or Gaze of the Alnseer if you do not expect to kill Mythic Belo'ren or Chimaerus anytime soon.

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. To find out more about professions and crafting in general, below is a link to the dedicated professions overview page.

Guardian Crafted Gear Priority

• Aln'hara Pikestaff with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors/ Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers with Arcanoweave Lining
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

• The Aln'hara Pikestaff with the Darkmoon Sigil: Void embellishment is a great initial craft unless you have easy access to the first few bosses on mythic and can naturally loot one without hindering your groups progression.
• Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors and Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers have the least conflicting gear issues. Applying a simple proc embellishment like Arcanoweave Lining to these makes them quite competitive.

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.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free. To find out more about the Midnight Gear Upgrading System there is a dedicated page linked below.

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.

Guardian Druid Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots