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Best Covenant for Elemental Shaman in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.2.5
来自 HawkCorrigan
2022/05/31
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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?
While the decision of your Covenant is impactful, it is a choice that can be changed quickly once you reach Shadowlands' endgame. 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 Elemental Shaman, updated for .
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About the Author
I'm HawkCorrigan or Hawk for short.
I play Elemental Shaman on a semi-hardcore level on Draenor, primarily focusing on PvE content.
Usually you can find me lurking around the Earthshrine Discord as one of the Elemental MVPs, answering various question,
or you find me hanging around WoWAnalyzer and Simulationcraft where I maintain the respective Elemental Shaman modules.
I am also one of the active maintainers for
Storm, Earth and Lava
.
If you want to get in touch, contact me on Discord as HawkCorrigan#1811.
Best Covenants for Elemental Shaman
As a quick reference, we've created the below table to give a relative idea of their strength at a glance. Don't hesitate to click the headers to go to their respective guides!
Best Elemental Covenants and Soulbinds for Raid
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Night Fae
Dreamweaver/Korayn
Night Fae
Dreamweaver/Korayn
Necrolord
Plague Deviser Marileth
Best Elemental Covenants and Soulbinds for Mythic+
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Night Fae
Korayn
Night Fae
Korayn
Necrolord
Bonesmith Heimir
Necrolord
Bonesmith Heimir
Best Elemental Shaman Covenants for Raiding
In the raiding sphere, single-target damage tends to be the most valuable. The Night Fae provide the strongest pure single-target damage, though requires that you commit to either single-target or AoE damage in the form of the choice of your soulbind. The Necrolords however, are right behind them and are also generally more versatile.
Both Kyrian and Venthyr are viable, but are in general just slightly weaker that the other options.
To expand on why Night Fae is less versatile, we need to talk about their soulbinds as that's where the majority of the power of this covenant lies. Niya & Dreamweaver, most notably through
尼娅的工具：锉刀
&
梦境探索者
respectively, are focused almost entirely on single-target damage to the point that they fall behind Necrolord options during cleave/AoE. Korayn, most notably through
争先打击
, is focused almost entirely on AoE to the point that he falls behind Necrolord options on single-target.
Both Necrolord and Night Fae are incredibly good for raiding in 9.2 when double legendaries and the tier set are available. Necrolord has very versatile soulbinds, working well with all types of fight styles. Nightfae is very potent when uptime on
风暴元素
can not be guaranteed otherwiese or multiple add waves are available.
Best Elemental Shaman Covenants for Mythic+
Depending on the week (
残暴
or
强韧
), Mythic+ dungeons can place a higher importance on single-target or AoE damage. With the tier set and double legendary available, Night Fae will be the recommendation for random groups. If you are in a group where either single target is a concern, the group needs someone to play Necrolord for the buffs or your group does not play big pulls, Necrolord is a very competitive choice.
Before you have access to the tier set and the second legendary, both Necrolord and Night Fae are also equal in power.
Elemental Shaman Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Elemental Shamans. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Elemental Shaman Raiding Covenant Analysis
Kyrian
The Kyrian ability
暮钟图腾
is the option that provides the best balance between single-target and AoE for Elemental currently, and while it's not always the best choice it is never a weak choice.
Like most of our Covenant abilities,
暮钟图腾
doesn't interact meaningfully with our rotation and will end up being used on cooldown unless you need to save it to use for burst AoE.
Mikanikos
is currently the strongest soulbind for Elemental. The cooldown reduction provided scales well with
狂暴暮钟旋涡
and Bronn also provides good damage.
The Kyrian Signature ability is
召唤执事者
. The Phial's ability to heal, as well as cleanse harmful debuffs, is very useful as Elemental is a relatively squishy spec and having another way to keep ourselves alive in sticky situations is quite useful.
Venthyr
The Venthyr ability
收割链
deals strong AoE damage, but negligible single-target damage.
元素导能
now also applies
烈焰震击
to all targets hit, which is a substantial amount of damage, given that the targets survive for a significant amount of time. As such you generally will end up using it only when you'd otherwise cast a
闪电箭
on single-target but on cooldown in AoE. In a raiding setting, being strong on AoE but negligible in strength on single-target means that this will be the least-practical Covenant to choose for raiders at this time.
The biggest advantage of this covenant is the additional healing provided by
收割链
which can easily top off your group in a mythic+.
Both
Theotar
and
Nadjia
are solid early soulbinds, though Nadjia tends to stay on top the entire time for all settings.
General Draven
on the other hand, isn't strong enough to use at this time unless you're looking to try and take advantage of the survivability his traits provide.
The Venthyr Signature ability,
暗影之门
, is great for repositioning, but not a reason to choose Venthyr by itself!
Night Fae
法夜输灵
is a competitor for single-target, but falls off quickly when you introduce additional targets into the equation. It's not a bad choice for single-target, but because it's a channel on a specific spot on the ground rather than on an enemy or group of enemies and because it splits damage between all targets it lacks versatility and as such is a bit weaker. For 9.2 we will still press it during AoE to trigger
狂乱生长之种
.
The soulbinds however, are quite interesting.
Dreamweaver
is the strongest early choice, with a cheat death of sorts in
灵茧守护者
as the first ability you get from her and both potency conduits by Renown 13 (by far the fastest) she's strong enough on her own to potentially justify taking Night Fae for progression.
Niya
overtakes her in damage at Renown 25 when she gets access to her second potency conduit and strengthens that lead at Renown 30 via dropping the second potency conduit in favor of
尼娅的工具：锉刀
, before Dreamweaver overtakes her again at Renown 54 with
梦境探索者
.
Korayn
isn't the strongest single-target soulbind at any point, situations that allow him to get higher than average damage out of
争先打击
&
荒猎团战术
allow him to shine occasionally as well.
灵魂变形
is a pretty great spell for Elemental, giving us short-range mobility (up to four teleports in 12 seconds) to enable repositioning.
Necrolord
始源之潮
is the only Covenant ability that interacts in a meaningful manner with the rest of our rotation by default, applying
烈焰震击
for us and duplicating our next
熔岩爆裂
at 80% strength. This should be used on cooldown as quickly as possible for single-target, and should be used to apply a Flame Shock to a new target when more than 1 target is available to get additional duplicated
熔岩爆裂
s. Access to
团结
also gives a mini-Bloodlust effect whenever the duplicated
熔岩爆裂
s are triggered.
Soulbinds are quite simple for Necrolord.
凯文的小软泥怪
is extremely potent in pure single target, if the slime does not need to switch it's target. In AoE the combination of
炉脉幻想
&
海尔米尔的军械库：髓噬宝石
allow Heirmir to surpass this benefit.
Finally,
血肉铸造
is a strong defensive to help survive big telegraphed hits. Elemental already has a few of those, and one more is always nice!
Elemental Shaman Mythic+ Covenant Analysis
For the most part, the use of our Covenant abilities and the relative strength of Soulbinds don't change in M+ for Elemental and the above paragraphs can be used as an overview of their what their strengths and weaknesses are.
If you are looking to do AoE damage, running Night Fae with
狂乱生长之种
provides high frontloaded AoE burst and works well if you can benefit from
争先打击
.
Necrolord is the most versatile Covenant when it comes to the varying strengths required for M+ from week to week.
It works especially well in dungeons like Theater of Pain where pull sizes are rather small.
Choose Necrolord if you don't want to commit into AoE and value higher single target damage. Night Fae will be better when pulls are big and if you can get reasonable use out of
争先打击
.
Elemental Shaman 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 Elemental Shaman GuideNecrolord Elemental Shaman Guide
Night Fae Elemental Shaman GuideVenthyr Elemental Shaman Guide
Elemental Shaman Soulbind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Elemental Shaman 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.
More Information Elemental Shaman Covenants
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.
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 Shaman, we have compiled several references:
Shaman Covenant Abilities
details the class-specific abilities unlocked upon choosing a specific covenant.
Shaman Conduits
lists all available shaman conduits, organized by type, and their ranks.
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评论
评论来自
Darkautumn
Chain Harvest is the best ability on 3 bosses in the new raid (that have a lot of AOE components) and the heal component is also amazing for topping up 5 people in the raid. Necrolord is kind of weak on most AOE fights, takes a while to set up, and is only 1-2% stronger than Kyrian totem on pure single target fights.
评论来自
jedipwnces
Thank you so much for putting this together. I'm just a casual player, so I may pick a covenant for story over functionality, but the description of all the skills and how they compare to one another is so helpful. I've been kind of oblivious to how any of them actually fit into my rotation of existing skills. I really appreciate the time and thoughtfulness put into creating this guide!
评论来自
GabrielFM
The tooltip for
Primordial Wave
(the enhancement part) is wrong. It says that
Your next Lightning Bolt will also hit all the targets affected by your
Riptide
...
评论来自
IceWolfDK
Sure elemental doesnt get much in changes. But what about soulbind strenght? Since we are both getting expanded trees, as well buffnerfs to them.
评论来自
lynspottery
Considering one covenant setup is best for raiding but not for open world or mythic dungeons, I do not understand why you can't have your covenant attached to your spec. Too often I see one covenant working best for one spec, while a totally different one being recommended for a different spec for the same class. I run elemental shaman but often use a different setup for open world/mythic dungeons versus what I actually use for raiding.
Since Bliz has restricted covenants, it makes no sense for two totally different covenant options being offered for the same spec depending upon activity. I just can't see how I can make the best use for different activities when one setup works great for one activity but is horrible for the other activity. This has got to be the worse system setup I've ever seen. I much preferred how Legion was setup, or even how BfA was setup than how it is being done in Shadowlands.
评论来自
Scaryfox
I appreciate you putting this guide together because I was thinking about playing another Elemental Shaman. So, I'm glad that more things to consider since I want to play Necrolord for once.
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