Guardian Druid Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.1
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Guardian Druid, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Feral Tank Druid gems and enchants.
Best Gems for Guardian Druids
Professions have changed greatly in Dragonflight, and there are now multiple ranks of enchants/consumables. You may want to consider using lower-ranked consumables in easier content and save the expensive stuff for the hardest content.
Profession Consumable Ranks
As part of Dragonflight's overhaul of Professions, many crafted items and consumables may have multiple ranks of quality that impact their effects. For consumables, there are potentially three ranks of an item that may be used, with Rank 3 items (shown as item level 415 in-game and with three gold stars) providing the most powerful bonuses. However, higher quality consumables will generally be more expensive and not always necessary depending on the content you are doing. You should be willing to use whatever rank of an item is most within your budget, and save higher-quality consumables for content where you will really need the extra boost!
If you would like to learn more about quality ranks on profession items, or the overhaul to professions as a whole, please see our overview below.
You should use Energized Malygite in all your sockets.
Best Enchants for Guardian Druids
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Consumables for Guardian Druids
Best Phials and Potions for Guardian
In Dragonflight, flasks have been removed and replaced with Phials. There are many phials, and you can change depending on different scenarios. Below I have listed several useful phials for Guardian.
Phial of Tepid Versatility
Phial of Glacial Fury (slightly higher damage)
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power will generally be the highest DPS
potion.
For AoE DPS, you may use
Potion of Shocking Disclosure as a cheaper
alternative.
In Mythic+, you can use Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
as your
potion for the defensive benefit from the agility gained, which will largely
increase your armor from
Ironfur.
In Dragonflight, you will use Refreshing Healing Potion as your
healing potion. Healing potions do not share a cooldown with
Healthstones, so you can use both if you have access to a
Warlock.
Best Food for Guardian
You should eat Deviously Deviled Eggs for the buff to your Agility
unless a feast is available.
Dragonflight Extra Consumables Guardian
Some Weapon oil and Weightstones in Dragonflight stack with your enchants, each providing a sizeable bonus. All of these can be equally good for us, given different scenarios.
Primordial Stone Gems for Guardian
Primordial Stone Gems are a new feature added in Patch 10.0.7, which are socketed into the Onyx Annulet. This ring with the best gems socketed will be more DPS than any other ring in the game, including Mythic Raid ones throughout Season 2. The grind for the rings is relatively swift and fun, so it is worth acquiring. Below is a list of the best Primordial Stone Gems for Guardian Druid:
Changelog
- 06 May 2023: Updated Enchants and Consumables after tuning changes.
- 01 May 2023: Added Shadowflame Wreathe weapon enchant and updated Primordial stone gem note for Patch 10.1.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Updated Primordial Stone Gems recommendations.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Pumps who has played since Vanilla and has tanked in Honestly, the #1 Oceanic raiding guild, since Mists of Pandaria. He also played in the first MDI Mythic+ Dungeon Tournament, where his team placed second. His mindset on tanking has always been taking the utility and damage one can bring to the raid to the next level. He was the #1 Rank DPS Guardian Druid for 5 tiers in a row and top the 1-6 for the last 12 tiers, playing Guardian Druid, Brewmaster Monk and Protection Warrior mainly based on what is the strongest for progression at the time. You can find him on discord — Pumps#0734 — and on Twitch.
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