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Best Covenant For Assassination Rogue In Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.0.2
来自 Mystler
[Last updated
2021/01/07，13:13
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A core choice at the start of your journey in the Shadowlands will have you decide where your allegiance lies; would you rather support the Kyrian of Bastion, the Necrolords of Maldraxxus, the Night Fae of Ardenweald, or the Venthyr of Revendreth?
Choosing a covenant is the most important decision your character will make in Shadowlands, as the covenant abilities and soulbinds will significantly impact your spec's gameplay and performance. Through this choice, your rotation changes, certain bonuses appear in dungeons for your entire group, and you are able to follow the story in different paths.
In this Shadowlands guide, we will help you choose the right covenant for your playstyle, based on how much they impact your performance as a Assassination Rogue, updated for .
If you need to learn more about the basics of Covenants, Soulbinds, and Conduits, we have other pages that explain the mechanics of these new systems:
Covenant Overview
explains basics of the Covenant system and rewards
How to Change Covenants?
details how to swap covenants, which requires special tasks over time.
Soulbinds Overview
explains the basics of this new system including how to unlock and swap Soulbinds.
Conduit Overview
details these items which allow an additional level of customization to your Soulbind, and how you can upgrade and replace them.
Wowhead's
Soulbind Calculator
allows you to create your own soulbind path including conduits to share with friends.
Furthermore, if you are interested in a list of class-specific abilities for your Rogue, we have compiled several references:
Rogue Covenant Abilities
details the class-specific abilities unlocked upon choosing a specific covenant.
Rogue Conduits
lists all available rogue conduits, organized by type, and their ranks.
Overview
NEW
NEW Best Covenant
Gear
Talent Builds
NEW Legendaries
NEW Twisting Corridors
NEW Conduits
NEW Kyrian
NEW Necrolord
NEW Night Fae
NEW Venthyr
Pre-Patch
Beginners
Rotation, Priority, and Abilities
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Consumables
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
NEW Castle Nathria Tips
NEW Mythic+
Common Questions
NEW Simulations
About the Author
This guide is written and maintained by Mystler, an active Rogue theorycrafter who is also a developer on
SimulationCraft
,
HeroDamage
, and
HeroRotation
. You can find him on the
Ravenholdt
Discord Server,
Twitter
, and sometimes streaming on
Twitch
.
Best Covenants for Assassination Rogues
If you want to min-max your Covenant pick, here is a summary of how the Covenants look in Raids and Mythic+ content. You can click on each Covenant to go to their corresponding guide page. That said, each Covenant's best options are generally close enough that, similar to races, you should not feel bad for choosing whatever Covenant you prefer.
Best Raid Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Good
Pelagos
Necrolord
Fine
Emeni (Early Renown)
Heirmir (High Renown)
Night Fae
Good
Niya
Venthyr
Good
Nadjia
Best Mythic+ Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Fine
Pelagos (Early Renown)
Mikanikos (High Renown)
Necrolord
Fine
Emeni (Early Renown)
Heirmir (High Renown)
Night Fae
Great
Niya (Early Renown)
Korayn (High Renown)
Venthyr
Underwhelming
Theotar (High Renown)
Nadjia (Early or Alternative)
Great: This covenant can show a lead (usually below 2-3%) in the given situation, depending on renown level.
Good: This covenant is well suited for the given situation.
Fine: Covenant is not impressive numerically but you will still be fine if you picked it.
Underwhelming: Numbers are not impressive and can potentially feel a bit disappointing in the given situation.
Keep in mind that this guide focuses primarily on a DPS throughput perspective. Every Covenant has a lot of utility and survivability options and if you have good reason to go for those over min-maxing damage, then please do so. The purpose of this guide is not to tell you what to pick but only give a comment on where some strengths lie. Furthermore, we are mostly looking at the fully unlocked Covenants. In the early game of the expansion, things can fluctuate as you unlock more and more soulbinds, soulbind traits, and conduit slots.
Best Assassination Rogue Covenants for Raiding
As said above, Covenants are close. Nevertheless, there is a slight numerical lead in simulated DPS for the Night Fae at full renown and Kyrian while we are still unlocking the soulbind trees.
Both of these offer solid packages of abilities and soulbinds, both offensively and defensively.
Best Assassination Rogue Covenants for Mythic+
With current tuning Night Fae look strong and the Korayn soulbind comes in with an interesting pack of damage increases when it comes to dungeons. The Covenant abilities themselves make little DPS difference, so Korayn scores with the two powers
荒猎团战术
and
争先打击
. These perform pretty well when there is a regular flow of new enemies because of add waves and trash pulls. Not to mention that
争先打击
offers the option of gaming it to maximize priority damage. This might get a nerf at some point though.
It is worth noting that every Covenant has its opportunity to shine in Shadowlands dungeons. Depending on your and your group's needs you have options to go for more utility and survivability instead of DPS by adjusting your soulbinds. There are also a number of skips and bonuses in each dungeon based on a given Covenant that benefits your group.
Why It's Really Up to You in the End
I have to stress it YET AGAIN. Covenants are a core choice of the expansion. They will accompany you throughout the entire expansion. They will serve as your hub and home that you will spend time with. Covenants are about zones, factions, with their lore, and tons of cosmetic things like transmogs, mounts, and more.
Choosing a covenant based on what's best for damage is akin to choosing a race based on what’s best for damage. You can make that choice, but you might not end up enjoying your time. Having fun translates into playing better and doing more DPS. If you dislike your new home zone and lose motivation to improve based on choosing the covenant that is an arbitrary best, then you made the wrong decision.
While you can change them, my recommendation to anyone who is in the target audience for this guide: Check all of them out, use the zone abilities while leveling to test the abilities, get familiar with the zones, lore, and look at the soulbinds. Then go for what you like. Please.
Assassination Rogue Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Assassination Rogues. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Assassination Rogue Covenant Analysis
Kyrian
The class ability is
申斥回响
, which is numerically the best ability in throughput. It is a strong hitting ability every 45 seconds just on its own. Then, there is an overcharged combo-point that, when consumed by using a damage-dealing finisher at that amount of combo points, will make the finisher work as if it used 7 combo points. The mini-game to meet a specific combo point threshold is not everyone's favorite but it usually works out within the 45s timeframe anyway, does not require much of a gameplay adjustment, and does not hurt too much if you miss it either.
Then, there is the very convenient signature ability
召唤执事者
. Not only does it provide some daily gimmicks like repair, talent changes, or playing music, it also gives you an additional source of healing and a powerful cleansing effect that works with a number of debuffs from raids and dungeons.
As far as soulbinds are concerned, Pelagos is a fair early option providing the power
战斗冥想
. Kleia can also be interesting with the group buff mechanic from
勇气外露
and some healing utility from
骁勇打击
.
The full package makes the noble defenders of Bastion are a fair all-around choice with a flexible package of benefits for offensive and defensive purposes.
Necrolord
The Necrolord ability,
锯齿骨刺
, is a relatively fun one to play with. It has three charges and on each use provides combo points, instant damage, and applies an endless damage over time effect. The number of combo points you gain is based on the number of active debuffs. Charges are reset if the target dies or is healed to full. This was a rather overpowered ability on beta for a while but was nerfed heavily and does not have high impact anymore. Another downside of the nerfs is that targets need to live for a while to make the DoT worth using the ability, since it only ticks once every 3 seconds. It’s not as good in shorter AoE situations as it first seems.
The signature ability,
血肉铸造
, whilst
very
interesting on paper, is hampered by one key issue: it requires you to channel for four seconds (and be stationary during it unless you have picked Emeni and sacrificed a potency conduit in your soulbind tree). Not being able to do anything due to having to channel an
extremely
long spell. These downsides will cause you to mostly use the ability only before the pull or during longer downtimes.
The soulbinds, while not bad, do not have anything that stands out with regard to the overall damage increase they provide.
海尔米尔的军械库：髓噬宝石
for Heirmir or
身先士卒
for Emeni are okay. Merileth tries to add some interest for add waves and Mythic+ groups with
烦烦的先发制人
, however, that power is capped. Nothing here is outstandingly powerful though.
Thanks to tuning being relatively close, there is nothing bad about picking Necrolords. Emeni is a good soulbind in the early expansion when you are still unlocking Renown levels. The numbers and benefits of the full package are just not as impressive as those of the other Covenants and Fleshcraft is disappointing.
Night Fae
The Night Fae offer the class ability
败血刃伤
. This ability is mainly a pretty strong damage over time effect with good damage per execution. If the target survives the entire duration of the DoT, there is a powerful damage tick and, as a little bonus, you get a buff allowing you to use one stealth-requiring ability (without empowering synergies like
诡诈
or
刺客大师印记
, since this is not true Stealth). Should the target die before the DoT expires, the cooldown is instead reduced by a third.
A neat addition to the Rogue utility kit is the signature ability
灵魂变形
which adds a directional teleport and movement speed increase alongside
暗影步
. This is very flexible mobility that is always nice to have. It is also worth noting that Soulshape lasts indefinitely when you are in rested areas.
The Night Fae soulbinds are also a solid package. Korayn offers
荒猎团战术
and
争先打击
that shine if there are regularly incoming adds or a lot of trash pulls in dungeons. Dreamweaver offers a more generic benefit with
繁华原野
and
蝴蝶效应
. Niya has the good starter power
林地复兴
and a pretty strong and flexible final tier.
All of this together makes Night Fae a good Covenant choice.
Venthyr
The vampiric inhabitants of Ravendreth provide some gothic flavor and can probably be considered a good single target damage Covenant.
As the class ability,
狂热鞭笞
is a very interesting addition to the class toolkit that is reminiscent of the
艾什凡的锋锐珊瑚
trinket. The first use applies a debuff on the target that stacks with each combo point you spend (on any target) and deals damage. When the target dies or you use the spell again before the debuff expires, the debuff stacks are converted to stacks on a Haste buff for you. This makes Flagellation a reasonable all-round class ability, currently tuned pretty well if you only look at the class abilities without considering the addition of soulbinds and conduits. Just remember that re-using the ability before the debuff expires is crucial to benefit from it.
With
暗影之门
, the signature ability is a bit disappointing for Rogues though. While a free teleport with a target circle can be a nice idea, it has a 1.5s cast time that negates some of the benefit. While the ability can be improved with soulbind tree choices, it is not very impressive and does not add that much alongside the movement utility that is already present in the Rogue toolkit.
The soulbinds are generally looking fine with each of them providing some increases. Nadjia looks like the best choice in general and offers
兴奋追猎者
and
无畏决斗者
for more damage.
Overall, the Covenant is fine and strong for single target damage. It can fall behind a little further as AoE situations come in, which (alongside the signature not being as useful) is the main reason it wasn't chosen as the recommendation at the top.
Have fun with your Covenant choice. If you find yourself unhappy with your covenant, you can always change covenants. There are catch up systems in place so that it won't take too long to get your renown back. You will have to start again on the buildings and (covenant-specific) mission table adventures though. If you want to go back to a covenant you've been in before, you can start a swap quest early to save some time.
Assassination Rogue Covenant and Soulbind Guides
Now that we have highlighted each Covenant's strengths and abilities for you to decide which is best, you can read our in-depth Covenant guides below. These pages detail the best soulbind paths for Shadowlands PvE as well as optimal covenant ability usage for each covenant.
Kyrian Assassination Rogue GuideNecrolord Assassination Rogue Guide
Night Fae Assassination Rogue GuideVenthyr Assassination Rogue Guide
Assassination Rogue Soublind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Assassination Rogue Soulbinds stack against each other in terms of raw power, powered by
Bloodmallet
. Make sure to check the individual Covenant pages for more details about each of them.
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评论
评论来自
Belix
Does anyone know if sepsis stealth procs master assasin talent?
Would be a fun setup for the crit window!
评论来自
Wowzir
It sure would be nice to know if the hierarchy for the Covenant comparison chart is
Great >> Good >> Fine
OFC the reason I worry is that the author may have intended them to mean
Great >> Fine >> Good
Ambiguity is NOT your friend when min/maxxing... lol
;(
评论来自
kaynen
Raid>mythic opinions only. Why are you all doing it like this. You seriously cant give solo opinions? Not everyone raids. If you go by % of players soloing, less then 4 in group, instance, raids and mythics. Solo and 2 in a group out shines most.
Not slamming this rogue dude. But Im a rogue looking up rogue. Im not linking to every toon page.
Anyway, you all should make a quick section for solo players. Im surprised it hasnt been done yet.
评论来自
BerettaNEWarrior
Great guide, btw. I particularly approve of the emphasis on big-picture consideration of Covenant as an experience and of the "texture" of each power. It's also interesting that the Rogue powers are mostly well tuned. I main Arms Warrior and if you're an Arms Warrior you picked Venthyr or you did it wrong.
(Ardenwealde myself, no regrets)
Looking at the selection most powers besides the Maldraxxi sound various kinds of useful. I fully intend to keep experimenting as I level through Shadowlands. I'm leaning towards Ardenwealde for Sepsis and Wild Hunt Tactics but Flagellation and Echoing Reprimand are also tempting though Fleshcraft has proven very useful in Torghast for a DH.
Lots of viable, flexible options well explained. Good show.
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