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Best Covenant For Brewmaster Monks In Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.0.2
来自 Llarold
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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 Brewmaster Monk, 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 Monk, we have compiled several references:
Monk Covenant Abilities
details the class-specific abilities unlocked upon choosing a specific covenant.
Monk Conduits
lists all available monk 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 was written by Llarold! I’ve been tanking since Vanilla. During Mists of Pandaria, I saw an opportunity to begin writing guides, and I took it with the hopes of making myself a better tank and making the community into better tanks with me. I hope it’s working!
I am active in all of the tank class Discords but primarily contribute to theorycrafting discussions in
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(Monk and Warrior). I’m active on
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Best Covenants for Brewmaster Monks
As a quick recap, we've created the table below to highlight the notable differences between covenants. Don't hesitate to click the headers to go to their respective guides!
Best Raid Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Best
Pelagos
Necrolord
Decent
Emeni
Night Fae
Decent
Niya
Venthyr
Poor
General Draven
Best Mythic+ Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Great
Pelagos
Necrolord
Great
Emeni
Night Fae
Great
Niya
Venthyr
Poor
General Draven
Best Brewmaster Monk Covenants for Raiding
Castle Nathria is filled with fights that feature adds and bleed debuffs. Although there is a fair amount of movement in many of the encounters, there's nothing that necessitates the extra movement gained from a Signature skill like
灵魂变形
. While the bleed effects were removable through
静谧之瓶
via
召唤执事者
throughout raid testing, that was removed right at the end of the Shadowlands Beta. Nonetheless,
召唤执事者
is still a great power for any tank. It's an extra health potion with a shorter cooldown! That's a huge advantage!
Kyrian is arguably the safest, most reliable option available to Brewmaster Monks thanks to
精序兵戈
.
Pelagos
' soulbind tree is good, and Kyrian is a very strong all-around option for Brewmaster Monks.
战斗冥想
provides an enormous amount of stat budget that overlaps with your two major offensive cooldown (Weapons of Order, obviously, and
玄牛下凡
if you are using
玄牛伴身
), and that's terrific. It's good at dealing burst damage, it's a reasonably simple and easy skill to use, and it's always pretty good. Kyrian doesn't have quite the same potential upside as the alternatives, and it doesn't have the same "fun factor," but as far as safe, reliable choices go? It's great.
That being said, Necrolord and Night Fae are both extremely competitive alternatives. The Necrolord Covenant ability
骨尘酒
is arguably the strongest of the Covenant abilities available to Brewmaster Monk, and its only real downside is that it has a short duration. This is offset by its short cooldown in Mythic+, but in raids it is slightly weaker as a burst damage cooldown for lining up with other effects like potions, Bloodlust, and trinkets. It is the most consistent defensive bonus, although the margin is very, very small between all three of Kyrian, Necrolord, and Night Fae in terms of defense. The bonus
身先士卒
in Emeni's Soulbind tree helps ratchet up the value of Bonedust Brew even further, and it's a very competitive setup in all kinds of content.
Night Fae is also a competitive option with
妖魂踏
, which grants a lot of consistent, sustained damage. While it was generally a step behind the other two in single target for a long time, the fix to Niya's Soulbind trait
尼娅的工具：锉刀
that makes it work on bosses has made Night Fae extremely competitive even in single target! Beyond that, it's highly competitive in 2-target cleave, and pulls ahead comfortably in AoE. The major downside is the fact that it compels you to fight on the Faeline for resets, which means that being forced to move by boss mechanics can be a meaningful DPS loss. It does provide a meaningful self-healing and defensive increase, and the Niya Soulbind also grants
林地复兴
. It is worth a constant ~7% Mastery and Maximum Health, making Niya the best and most consistent Soulbind tree available to Monks.
Ultimately, Brewmaster Monks are in the unique position of having three highly-competitive Covenant options that are all really powerful and appealing in all forms of content. It's a tough choice!
Best Brewmaster Monk Covenants for Mythic+
Covenant power is slightly -- but only slightly -- different in Mythic+ than it is in raids for Brewmaster Monks. The defensive power and utility of
召唤执事者
remains unparalleled by other Covenant signature abilities. The bottom line is: Kyrian has a head start on all other Covenants for all 6 tanks, and the other Covenant abilities really have to overperform to catch up to the value of an extra health potion.
Fortunately for Brewmaster Monks, they have options!
骨尘酒
adds a lot of value that can make it competitive with Kyrian. The DPS increase it offers is surprisingly decent, and while it is not as effective a burst cooldown, it is available significantly more often -- around every 30 seconds. This makes it a much more reliable option throughout a Mythic+ run. While
血肉铸造
is no extra health potion, it's
okay
as an extra defensive layer for starting out Mythic+ pulls.
Offensively,
妖魂踏
adds the most damage of any Covenant ability in AoE. It's really good in Mythic+. It's not always as defensively consistent as Necrolord or Kyrian, but it's close thanks to a consistent average of 7 stacks of
林地复兴
. Again, it has the highest upside of any Covenant in AoE, it just requires a bit more effort to use competitively.
Brewmaster Monk Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Brewmaster Monks. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Brewmaster Monk Raiding Covenant Analysis
Kyrian
精序兵戈
is great. It's a large, powerful all-purpose cooldown. It grants a major DPS increase, stacking up to 32% more damage, and it grants a decent Mastery buff.
洞察一击
is a pretty minor boost to its power. It's not great, to be honest.
精序兵戈
is simple, but strong and versatile. It's not always the best choice, but it's
always
competitive.
On top of that,
召唤执事者
's healing potion is undeniable. It's a third instant heal, along with regular health potions and healthstones. It rules.
Necrolord
骨尘酒
provides a decent DPS increase while active (24.5% with Rank 1
骨髓酒花
), and it increases your Brew recharge rate. Its cooldown is reduced by Brew recharge effects, which means the average cooldown is significantly less than the base of 60 seconds. Without the cooldown reduction of the conduit, the average cooldown is around 33 seconds. Because
骨髓酒花
was capped at only 2.5 seconds of cooldown reduction per
骨尘酒
cast, this means the average cooldown is right around 30 seconds, and that holds up in both AoE and single target. As a result, it's reasonably competitive with
精序兵戈
in terms of the DPS increase, however, it doesn't have the same value as a pure burst damage cooldown to line up with other effects like Time Warp, trinkets, and potions, so while it may be a lot more reliable in Mythic+, the upside isn't quite as high in raids. It does provide a small degree more defensive value, but the difference is relatively minor.
血肉铸造
is okay. It's a shield based on your health pool, which is good, but it is really only useful for absorbing the first few hits at the start of a pull. It no longer prevents dodging and parrying while channeling, but it's still not a good idea to spend combat time channeling a shield when you could be performing your standard ability priority.
Night Fae
妖魂踏
has been redesigned and retuned several times, and it is back to being a very competitive skill. From a design perspective, it fixes a lot of problems Brewmaster Monk has. It adds much-needed burst AoE damage, it adds a consistent, minor heal, and it introduces a fun resetting offensive skill into Brewmaster's otherwise-static, boring rotation. The added Stagger value the buff grants is also very nice, essentially providing a second
坚定不屈
. The healing isn't a huge deal, but it can add up over the course of a fight or a Mythic+ run.
On paper and in Simulationcraft, Night Fae is the best damage option in AoE, hands-down. It's also extremely competitive in single target. That being said, there is a major shortcoming with
妖魂踏
: The shape and size of the Faeline. The length and pattern of the Faeline is inconsistent, and as a result, if you are forced to move after casting Faeline Stomp, you may not realistically be able to move to another location within the Faeline. This can interfere with your ability to trigger resets, which diminishes Faeline Stomp's value.
Ultimately, here's the good and the bad:
妖魂踏
is the best Monk Covenant skill at dealing AoE damage, and still very competitive in single target. It's powerful defensively, and really, really good under ideal conditions. The bad news is that being a Night Fae Brewmaster Monk requires more mental effort to remain competitive than being Kyrian or Necrolord. If a fight requires constant movement, it may just wind up being a little weaker than the competition no matter how well you play.
灵魂变形
is the weaker of the two mobility Covenant skills. It is less interesting, useful, or special than the Venthyr teleport, and it is less interesting, useful, or special than any of Monk's many, many baseline mobility skills. It is prettier than them, though, so that's
something
.
Venthyr
Venthyr is incredibly simple. You use
陨落僧众
, it summons adds that do damage and heal. No interaction whatsoever. But is it good? Eh, it deals competitive burst damage at the start of a fight, but its longer cooldown means that as fights drag on, it tends to fall further and further behind the competition. Beyond that, it's boring and doesn't have much defensive value. It's the best Covenant at keeping things simple, but it's not very competitive.
暗影之门
is the better of the two mobility Covenant skills, and it's very effective when you need burst movement. That being said, Brewmaster Monk has a lot of tools for quick movement, so this is overkill.
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Covenant Analysis
Brewmaster Covenant priorities shift a little bit when comparing Mythic+ and raid.
精序兵戈
and
陨落僧众
are consistent, effectively performing the same in both environments.
妖魂踏
is more appealing in Mythic+ thanks to the increased value of tank damage in a 5-man setting, and potentially being punished by movement less often. The healing has more impact in a smaller group with only one healer. It's arguably equal to Bonedust Brew as the top choice in Mythic+. It's a slightly less consistent option, but it also has higher potential. Do you want to take the risk, or play it safe?
骨尘酒
is very competitive with
精序兵戈
in terms of damage added, and it is, arguably,
slightly
superior from a defensive perspective. The value and cooldown of Bonedust Brew doesn't really change from raid to Mythic+, but the duration and severity of pulls does, so it's still worthy of comparison. Bonedust Brew is definitely not as good as
精序兵戈
and
陨落僧众
in terms of providing a big burst damage cooldown, but it is available much more often (~30s cooldown as opposed to 2-minute & 3-minute cooldowns). Consistency is more important than raw power in Mythic+, and the cooldown of Bonedust Brew is consistently around 30 seconds, so it's a reliable choice. It doesn't have the same degree of extracurricular value that Kyrian gains from
召唤执事者
, but it's undeniably a reliable, safe option for Mythic+, and arguably the best choice.
No matter which Covenant you choose, enjoy it -- just don't forget to start your swap quest!
Brewmaster Monk 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 Brewmaster Monk GuideNecrolord Brewmaster Monk Guide
Night Fae Brewmaster Monk GuideVenthyr Brewmaster Monk Guide
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