Guardian Druid Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Guardian Druid Gear page for Midnight Pre-Season. 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.

For new and exciting Midnight specific changes, check out our Midnight hub below.

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Best in Slot Gear for Guardian Druid

Pre-Season BiS

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Pre-Season BiS List Guardian Druid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for the Pre-Season 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+, 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	Arcaneclaw Spear	Algeth'ar Academy
Helm	Voidlashed Hood	Seat of the Triumvirate
Neck	Necklace of the Twisting Void	Seat of the Triumvirate
Shoulder	Fallen Grunt's Mantle	Windrunner Spire
Cloak	Potion-Stained Cloak	Algeth'ar Academy
Chest	Maledict Vest	Nexus-Point Xenas
Bracers	Custodial Cuffs	Magister's Terrace
Gloves	Corewright's Zappers	Nexus-Point Xenas
Belt	Falconer's Cinch	Maisara Caverns
Legs	Legwraps of Lingering Legacies	Windrunner Spire
Boots	Eclipse Espadrilles	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire
Trinket #2	Vessel of Tortured Souls	Maisara Caverns

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.

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.

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

• 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.

Whenever you get a new piece of gear, enchant it or gem it, if possible. 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. Heart of Wind
2. Vessel of Tortured Souls
3. Jelly Replicator
4. Emberwing Feather
5. Rotting Globule

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.