Originally Posted by
Nythiz
There are 2 ways to go at things really:
1) You don't put any points in your guardian weapon and just level without spending points
2) You put ~6500 AP in your guardian weapon which gives you 13 traits. This is relatively extremely cheap (Those first 13 traits cost nothing compared to anything beyond that, you won't even really get behind picking this up)
I personally advice to go with #2; and the main reason is that you'll want to use Guardian at lot at lvl 110 as well to do world quests and the like. Guardian is an extremely potent spec for questing. (especially in suramar).
So getting 13 traits in Guardian is actually pretty straight forward, because what you want to pick up is the golden trait Embrace of the Nightmare. That golden trait turns your tanking cooldown into a huge DPS cooldown. With this alone you can pull like 15 mobs and just klll them all in 5 seconds flat. It's really good. Besides the other 2 golden traits are more for actual tanking than to help you quest/dps.
So the way to get that trait and pick up the best traits is as follow:
Iron Claws > Wildflesh > Perpetual Spring > Bloody Paws > Jagged Claws > Embrace of the Nightmare
As you can see there is still 1 trait up for grabs.
You can either go with 1/3 Vicious Bites, which increases your Mangle damage by 7%.
Or Bear Hug with increase Gore trigger chance by 5%.
I would personally go for Vicious Bites (at least that's what I did)
You'll likely be level 110 already before you get to grab all 13 traits. But I strongly advice you to pick them all up anyway. As I said before, you'll need the guardian spec to do a lot of questing in suramar and for world quests.
Guardian has very good time to kill as long as you aren't afraid to pull a lot of mobs. But even 1v1 it's a really good dps with the added benefit of having practically zero downtime and very little chance to die.