Guardian Delve advice

So I’ve been doing a lot of delves since I enjoy solo content, and I’m finding that for some reason I’m struggling a bit with Guardian druid. I like to play all the different tanks for the joy of being able to fight big mobs and live, and druid feels very squishy in tier 8 and 9 delves for me compared to warrior or monk. Everything I can find says Guardian is a very strong tank right now, though, so I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong.

I’m using a delve build I found on Wowhead that gives what seems at face value like a pretty good blend of survivability and utility, and as far as I can tell I’m doing the rotation correctly. Are there any survival tricks for Guardian that rookies like me forget that more veteran bears can help me out on?

Have to be a little more specific on what youre finding troubles with per se.

I treat delves like world quests. Brann set to DPS and i just gather up and grind down what mobs i need.

Druid have enough self healing that i dont find an issue with not running Brann as heals

Probably want to open up any pull with at least one cooldown [Barkskin, Lunar Beam, Incarnation, Survival Instincts, Rage of the Sleeper…] – bears are pretty squishy when they don’t have any stacks of Ironfur up, and using a cooldown to open helps with smoothing things over to get into a pull and get ironfurs going.

On the druid tree, I’m a little surprised that the build you’re doing doesn’t pick up Thick Hide [4% DR] and Verdant Heart [+20% healing taken during Barkskin and Frenzied Regen].

On the Guardian tree, I’m afraid I’m not very well versed in a maul/raze-centric build. I prefer focusing on thrash/frenzied regen, though I’m curious that the build doesn’t pick up Dream of Cenarius [Chance based on crit chance from non-periodic damage to get a free, instant regrowth usable in all forms that heals for 130% more, up to once every 20 seconds] – It can definitely offer some spot healing in a pinch, especially if you have a lot of crit.

Gearing-wise, you might want to try acquiring more pieces that have heavy versatility on them, particularly an amulet and ring given their gigantic secondary stat allocations. [You could also get an alchemy stone made for you, which gives flat vers with an agility proc, and boosts healing potions by 40%.] The more versatility that you stack, the more effect versatility has when it comes to damage reduction.