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Best Covenant for Elemental Shaman in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.0.5
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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 Elemental Shaman, 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 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.
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
Starter Guide
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 by Gistwiki, one of the mods of the shaman discord
Earthshrine
and one of the minds behind the Elemental Shaman website
Storm, Earth, & Lava
. Feel free to bug me through Discord in Earthshrine or
Twitter
if you have any questions!
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 Raid Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Low Renown: Good
High Renown: Good
Low Renown:
Pelagos
High Renown:
Kleia
Necrolord
Great
Low Renown:
Emeni
High Renown:
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Low Renown: Good
High Renown: Great
Niya
Venthyr
Good
Nadjia
Best Mythic+ Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Good
Pelagos
Kleia
Necrolord
Great
Low Renown:
Emeni
High Renown:
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Low Renown: Good
High Renown: Great
Low Renown:
Dreamweaver
High Renown:
Korayn
Venthyr
Low Renown: Good
High Renown: Underwhelming
Low Renown:
Nadjia
High Renown:
Draven
Best Elemental Shaman Covenants for Raiding
In the raiding sphere, single-target damage tends to be the most valuable. The Night Fae provides the strongest pure single-target damage, though requires that you commit to that single-target damage. The Necrolords however, are right behind them and are also generally more versatile.
Both Kyrian with
暮钟图腾
and Venthyr are viable, but are weaker on that front than the above 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, most notably through
尼娅的工具：锉刀
, is focused almost entirely on single-target damage to the point that she falls 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.
As Elemental tends to be at its strongest when we're able to keep multiple
Flame Shocks
up, and because
始源之潮
is the only covenant ability to interact meaningfully with our spec, the current preference is Necrolord. Night Fae has the highest highs in terms of damage for a given situation, but lacks versatility in scenarios where a more varied damage profile is necessary.
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, and while different weeks will require a focus on one or the other our Covenant focus for M+ will remain on Necrolord as it currently provides a good balance of both as it's strong in both categories.
Depending on your group, and how powerful specializing into single-target over AoE or vice-versa might be for you at a given time, Night Fae is once again a viable option. Considering how well our burst will tend to synergize with
争先打击
, no Elemental that favors M+ should feel bad about swapping to Night Fae now that we have full soulbind tress unlocked.
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.
Even after the nerf to
放下过去
,
Pelagos
is the best Kyrian Soulbind for Elemental, to the point that even at Renown 34 when
Kleia
gets the ability to pick up
勇气外露
, which for other specializations pushes her into the top spot, Pelagos will still come out on top.
Mikanikos
may eventually see some use in M+ if you're pulling quickly enough to maintain a high uptime on full stacks of
源生重槌
but currently we expect him to be largely unused.
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. 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.
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.
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
while
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, applying
烈焰震击
for us and duplicating our next
熔岩爆裂
at 80% strength. On top of this, it's currently the strongest competitor for single-target. 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.
Soulbinds are quite simple for Necrolord. At low renwon use
Emeni
& at high renown use
Heirmir
.
身先士卒
is extremely strong, and is the only soulbind trait to provide a benefit to your party/raid members. At high renown, 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, and currently there is no reason in PvE to use
Marileth
.
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.
Necrolord is the most versatile Covenant when it comes to the varying strengths required for M+ from week to week, and as such is the current Covenant of choice in that content. If specialization in single-target or AoE is necessary for you though, strongly consider Night Fae as it has higher highs than Necrolords but at the cost of gaining slight weaknesses elsewhere. It is worth noting though that none of the Covenants are prohibitively far behind one another at the moment based on current simulations, and no Covenant should feel like a handicap based on current tuning.
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 Soublind 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.
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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
...
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