Best in Slot
The best item for every equipment slot and up to four alternatives, ranked from the spec's simmed stat weights. Trinkets are simmed directly. Pick a fight style below.
For Guardian Druid in Patch 12.1.0.69587 on cleave, the best weapon is Twin-Strike Polearm and the best trinket is Font of Venomous Rage, across 13 ranked slots.
Updated Sep 7, 2026
Patch 12.1.0SimC 3f6f8c4items compared at item level 334
Top picks
The best cleave weapon for Guardian Druid in WoW Midnight Patch 12.1.0.69587 is Twin-Strike Polearm from Adderis and Aspix. The two trinkets to wear are Font of Venomous Rage and Mindpiercer's Sigil. 13 slots are ranked, every item compared at item level 334; stat items score by the spec's simmed stat weights and trinkets carry their simmed DPS gain.
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The Venomous Abyss
189 Agility / 142 Haste / 59 Versatility
of best
Pinned for the set bonus. The alternatives below are ranked normally and are what you would wear before completing the 4-set or in a fifth tier slot.
of best
Avatar of Sethraliss, Temple of Sethraliss
189 Agility / 118 Critical Strike / 83 Haste
of best
Entombed Sentinels, The Venomous Abyss
310 Haste / 95 Critical Strike
of best
of best
Jewelcrafting, Midnight Crafted Gear
199 Critical Strike / 199 Haste
of best
Jewelcrafting, Midnight Crafted Gear
216 Haste / 182 Mastery
of best
The Venomous Abyss
141 Agility / 104 Critical Strike / 47 Mastery
of best
Pinned for the set bonus. The alternatives below are ranked normally and are what you would wear before completing the 4-set or in a fifth tier slot.
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
138 Agility / 74 Critical Strike / 74 Haste
of best
The Writhing Coil, Altar of Fangs
141 Agility / 88 Critical Strike / 62 Versatility
of best
Vashnik the Malignant, The Venomous Abyss
141 Agility / 99 Critical Strike / 52 Mastery
of best
of best
of best
Tailoring, Midnight Crafted Gear
103 Agility / 56 Critical Strike / 56 Haste
of best
of best
Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, The Venomous Abyss
106 Agility / 78 Critical Strike / 35 Versatility
of best
The Venomous Abyss
189 Agility / 131 Critical Strike / 70 Haste
of best
Pinned for the set bonus. The alternatives below are ranked normally and are what you would wear before completing the 4-set or in a fifth tier slot.
Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, The Venomous Abyss
189 Agility / 139 Haste / 62 Mastery
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
183 Agility / 99 Critical Strike / 99 Haste
of best
of best
Xathuux the Annihilator, Murder Row
106 Agility / 71 Haste / 42 Critical Strike
of best
Nek'zali the Soulcoiler, The Venomous Abyss
106 Agility / 74 Critical Strike / 39 Haste
of best
Engineering, Midnight Crafted Gear
103 Agility / 56 Critical Strike / 56 Haste
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
103 Agility / 56 Critical Strike / 56 Haste
of best
The Council of Tribes, Kings' Rest
106 Agility / 71 Critical Strike / 42 Versatility
of best
The Venomous Abyss
141 Agility / 106 Versatility / 44 Mastery
of best
Pinned for the set bonus. The alternatives below are ranked normally and are what you would wear before completing the 4-set or in a fifth tier slot.
Kystia Manaheart, Murder Row
141 Agility / 98 Critical Strike / 53 Haste
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
138 Agility / 85 Haste / 64 Versatility
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
138 Agility / 74 Critical Strike / 74 Haste
of best
Melidrussa Chillworn, Ruby Life Pools
141 Agility / 88 Critical Strike / 62 Versatility
of best
Dazar, The First King, Kings' Rest
141 Agility / 85 Critical Strike / 66 Haste
of best
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
138 Agility / 74 Critical Strike / 74 Haste
of best
The Coiled Altar, The Venomous Abyss
141 Agility / 103 Mastery / 47 Haste
of best
Ikuzz the Light Hunter, The Blinding Vale
141 Agility / 95 Versatility / 56 Critical Strike
of best
The Venomous Abyss
189 Agility / 134 Haste / 67 Critical Strike
of best
Pinned for the set bonus. The alternatives below are ranked normally and are what you would wear before completing the 4-set or in a fifth tier slot.
The Golden Serpent, Kings' Rest
189 Agility / 118 Versatility / 83 Haste
of best
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
183 Agility / 99 Critical Strike / 99 Haste
of best
of best
Sentinel of Winter, Den of Nalorakk
141 Agility / 95 Haste / 56 Critical Strike
of best
of best
The Twin Fangs, The Venomous Abyss
141 Agility / 105 Critical Strike / 46 Haste
of best
Engineering, Midnight Crafted Gear
138 Agility / 75 Critical Strike / 75 Haste
of best
Leatherworking, Midnight Crafted Gear
138 Agility / 85 Haste / 64 Mastery
of best
of best
Jewelcrafting, Midnight Crafted Gear
199 Critical Strike / 199 Haste
of best
DPS gain
Adderis and Aspix, Temple of Sethraliss
189 Agility / 122 Haste / 79 Critical Strike
of best
of best
Sentinel of Winter, Den of Nalorakk
189 Agility / 118 Mastery / 83 Haste
of best
Inscription, Midnight Crafted Gear
183 Agility / 99 Critical Strike / 99 Haste
of best
Blacksmithing, Midnight Crafted Gear
183 Agility / 99 Critical Strike / 99 Haste
of best
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Stat weights
Each item's stats are multiplied by the Guardian Druid stat weights from the weekly scale-factor sim (normalized: Agility 1.00, Haste 0.59, Critical Strike 0.49, Versatility 0.48, Mastery 0.47). Full stat priority.
Trinkets
Taken from the weekly simmed trinket leaderboard, 50,000 iterations per trinket on the canonical baseline profile, since trinket value is mostly effect. Trinket leaderboard.
Item level
Raid and Mythic+ drops at the Myth 6/6 ceiling (334), crafted gear at the crafted cap, everything else at its fixed item level. Stats scaled with SimulationCraft's item scaling from the game's DB2 tables.
Tier pieces and crafted gear
Tier pieces are pinned to rank one of their slot for the set bonus. Crafted gear is priced with its two crafter-chosen secondaries set to the spec's two best stats at an even split.
Top-player check
No top-player sample for this spec yet; the usage check appears once the top-player board has been seeded. Top Guardian players.
Not included
On-use and proc effects outside the trinket slot (flagged), embellishments, set-bonus interactions between slots, and the combined value of a full set. Rankings are per item on a fixed baseline, not a solved set. Paste your /simc string for your own gear.
Source and patch
SimulationCraft 3f6f8c453beaf245fecee52e9ea3e5c5bc6ad7fb, client build 12.1.0.69587, generated Sep 7, 2026.
For Guardian Druid on cleave: Head: Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Somnolent Stare; Neck: Sentinel's Vitriolic Chain; Shoulder: Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Plumage; Back: Fireproof Drape; Chest: Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Lunar Raiment; Wrist: Fury-fletched Armlets; Hands: Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Gauntlets; Waist: Primal Dinomancer's Belt; Legs: Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Leggings; Feet: Arctic Explorer's Legwraps; Rings: Alluring Bubbleband; Trinkets: Font of Venomous Rage; Main hand: Twin-Strike Polearm. Stat items are ranked by the spec's simmed stat weights and trinkets by their simmed DPS gain.
Twin-Strike Polearm, from Adderis and Aspix, scores highest against the Guardian Druid stat weights at the season ceiling. If it carries a proc effect that is not in the score, so treat it as a strong candidate rather than a settled answer.
Of the 13 best-in-slot picks, 8 come from the raid, 5 from Mythic+ dungeons and 0 from crafted gear. Open the best dungeons page for a per-dungeon breakdown.
No top-player sample exists for Guardian Druid yet, so the page cannot say. The check appears automatically once the top-player board is seeded.
Each item's stats at the season ceiling are multiplied by the Guardian Druid stat weights (DPS per point, from the weekly scale-factor sim). Trinkets come from the simmed trinket leaderboard. Items with effects outside the trinket slot are flagged because a weight cannot value an effect.
The 4-set bonus is worth more than a stat difference, so tier pieces are pinned. The alternatives are what to wear before the set is complete or in the fifth tier slot.
Every Sunday after the weekly SimulationCraft bump, when the stat weights and trinket boards are resimmed. The SimC commit in the methodology is the authoritative reference.
