Andybeef's Guardian Druid PvE Build

Druid class icon Guardian Druid specialization icon
Guardian Druid
Highmountain Tauren icon
Highmountain Tauren
447 ilvl
Dragonflight Season 2
4012 Rating in Mythic+

Andybeef (Tarren Mill EU) is a top Mythic+ Guardian Druid in World of Warcraft Dragonflight Season 2, achieving a rating of 4012 with 447 ilvl equipment.

Here is the breakdown of his 11.0.5 PvE character build, featuring stats, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems. Use this as a reference to enhance and inspire your own Guardian Druid build.

Stat Priority

Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.

Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is how Andybeef's Secondary and Minor stats are distributed:

Secondary Stats

+1038
16% Critical Strike
+5495
32% Haste
+1262
11% Mastery
+4848
24% Versatility
  1. Haste
  2. Versatility
  3. Mastery
  4. Critical Strike

Minor Stats

+0
0% Avoidance
+820
6% Leech
+250
5% Speed
  1. Leech
  2. Speed
  3. Avoidance

Class Talents

Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Druid specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Druid class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Druid's overall capabilities.

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Take a peek at Andybeef's selected Talents below:

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Guardian Druids with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style.

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Take a peek at Andybeef's selected Talents below:

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Guardian Druid class fantasy, enhancing character builds.

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Take a peek at Andybeef's selected Talents below:

Gear

Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.

Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here is Andybeef's gear for each equipment slot:

Embellishments

Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.

Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are Andybeef's embellishments:

  1. Toxic Thorn Footwraps icon
    Thriving Thorns
  2. Life-Bound Cap icon
    Toxified

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here are the specific enchantments chosen by Andybeef for each equipment slot:

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.

While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, here are the gems currently socketed by Andybeef:

  1. Energized Ysemerald icon
    Energized Ysemerald
    4
  2. Energized Malygite icon
    Energized Malygite
    3
  3. Fierce Illimited Diamond icon
    Fierce Illimited Diamond
    1