Best Guardian Druid Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

By Pumps Updated: 2022/11/28

Conduits

Potency conduits enhance your class' throughput potential

Endurance conduits focus on your defensive toolkit, by providing things like cooldown reduction or amplification to sustain/defensive cooldowns

Finesse conduits enhance niche parts of the spec's toolkit

Conduit OverviewBest Potency Conduits for Guardian DruidsGuardian-Specific Conduits

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Unchecked Aggression

Provides quite a significant haste increase to our best cooldown, 15% haste in Berserk/Incarn at rank 1.

Good DPS gain

Savage Combatant

Mangle increases the damage of your next Maul by 15%, stacking up to 3 times. This is a minor DPS gain but at the cost of having to use Maul actively which can be quite a large defensive loss depending on the scenario. Generally out-performed by all covenant specific potency conduits.

Minor DPS gain

Avoid

Covenant-Specific Potency Conduits

Covenant

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Kyrian

Deep Allegiance

Reduces the cooldown on the Kyrian tether ability by 10%. Overall leads to more up time on quite a powerful ability and generally worth taking.

Great

Necrolord

Evolved Swarm

Increases periodic effects on targets affected by Adaptive Swarm by an additional 6%. Definitely worth taking, a significant dps increase, and a small healing increase.

Great

Good

Night Fae

Conflux of Elements

While channeling Convoke the Spirits, your damage and healing are increased by 15%. Very solid boost to Night Fae's Covenant Ability and definitely worth taking.

Great

Venthyr

Endless Thirst

Ravenous Frenzy increases your critical strike chance by 0.50% per stack, this gets significantly better in the later ranks, however is almost always worth taking regardless.

Great

Best Raiding and M+ Potency Conduits for Guardian DruidsSavage CombatantUnchecked AggressionAdaptive Armor FragmentBest Endurance Conduits for Guardian Druids

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Tough as Bark

Reduces cooldown of Barkskin by 10%, extremely powerful in combination with our best defensive Legendary, The Natural Order's Will, and in general reducing the cooldown of our defensives makes it more comfortable to cycle through them actively if they come up quickly.

Great

Layered Mane

Ironfur has an 8% chance to apply two stacks. As long as there is physical damage to be taken this one will have huge defensive value and scales quite well into the higher ranks.

Good

Well-Honed Instincts

When you fall below 40% health, you cast Frenzied Regeneration, up to once every 135 seconds. This one has huge value at the higher ranks reducing the cooldown all the way down to 56 seconds, but at the earlier ranks is of mediocre value.

Great

Innate Resolve

Regrowth and Frenzied Regeneration healing is increased by 12% on yourself. This one has medicore value until combined with several other things (Well-Honed Instincts + The Natural Order's Will) and again is one that scales better in the later ranks.

Good

Ursine Vigor

For 4 seconds after shifting into Bear Form, your health and armor are increased by 12%. This is one i can see scaling amazingly in the later ranks, especially from a raiding perspective with catweaving involved. Bbeing able to pre-shift hard hitting mechanics could make this one very strong but for now it is quite average.

Niche / Average

New Conduits in 9.1

Adaptive Armor Fragment - Potency - When you are healed by another player, increase your primary stat by 2% for 15 seconds. This can only occur once every 30 seconds. A decent 3rd potency for Guardian but nothing too large.

Condensed Anima Sphere - Endurance - When you take any damage, heal for a small % of your max health. This can only occur once every 10 seoncds.
The heal is relatively small but adds up over time and is quite a decent 3rd endurance conduit.

Best Endurance Conduits for Guardian Druids for RaidsLayered ManeTough as BarkWell-Honed InstinctsLayered ManeInnate ResolveCondensed Anima SphereBest Endurance Conduits for Guardian Druids for Mythic+Tough as BarkLayered ManeTough as BarkWell-Honed InstinctsInnate ResolveThe Natural Order's WillSurvival of the FittestBest Finesse Conduits for Guardian Druids

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Born of the Wilds

Reduces the cooldown of Mighty Bash, Mass Entanglement, and Heart of the Wild by 10%. This is one of the only finesse conduits in the game that is a DPS increase. 10% off Heart of the wild is actually quite significant making this easily our best finesse conduit.

Great

Good

Front of the Pack

Increases Stampeding Roar's radius and duration by 15%. A nice little boost to our raid utility although generally not worth taking 2 finesse conduit slots. If the situation ever arises, this is our second best finesse conduit.

Average

Born Anew

Rebirth grants the target 50% movement speed for 8 seconds, and Well Fed, increasing their primary stat by 20 for 1 hour. Very niche minor bonus when using our battle rez on players. Definitely not worth a conduit slot.

Below average

Tireless Pursuit

For 3 seconds after leaving Cat Form or Travel Form, you retain up to 40% movement speed. Could come in handy in Mythic+ for pulling mobs, but again not good enough to warrant a conduit slot.

Niche

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Comments

Comment by HushGlowie

Is Innate Resolve a better conduit option than Tough as Bark now since the lego for it is outdated?
Also partially off-topic lol... as a Venthyr Guardian Druid that just switched from The Natural Order's Will(235 Helm) to Ursoc's Fury Remembered(262 Legs) I'm wondering if it's worth taking Earthwarden over Survival of the Fittest? And if I switch those I might as well swap from Brambles to Blood Frenzy as well, or would that be a decrease in DPS? Just trying to stay alive the best I can while maximizing DPS. Any tips are helpful.

Best Guardian Druid Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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