Guardian Druid Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (11.1.7)

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Guardian Druid, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

We highly recommend using Raidbots to sim your character's ideal gems and enchants, as they might differ from our general recommendations.

The best stats for Raiding Guardian Druids are Haste and Versatility, so that is what we will be gemming for.

You should use Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Quick Ruby/ Quick Onyx/ Quick Sapphire/ Deadly Emerald. Fill in remaining sockets with Versatile Emerald.

The best stats for Mythic+ Guardian Druids are Haste and Versatility, so you can use the same list from above.

Corruption enchants are a returning feature for Patch 11.1.5. and are enchanted on your helmet slot.

Most of these currently provide a 0.5-1% DPS increase except for Greater Rune of the Void Ritual which is roughly 3-4%. This makes it the best Corruption enchant by far currently. These come from the Horrific Visions event which you can buy and try different helm enchants and decide which one you like best.

Disclaimer:The Helmet enchant will only be available once the Horrific Visions open up on May 20th.

You should be drinking the Flask of Alchemical Chaos at all times.

Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust/ Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should keep a stock of Algari Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Algari Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

Since our secondary stats are stronger per-point than our primary stat, you should be eating secondary stat food at all times, either Beledar's Bounty, Outsider's Provisions, Jester's Board, Empress' Farewell personal food, or the The Sushi Special Feast. They are all identical.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!