此站点大量使用JavaScript。
请在您的浏览器中
启用JavaScript
。
正式服
PTR
Beta
经典怀旧服
报告
链接
Best Covenant for Enhancement Shaman - Shadowlands 9.0.2
来自 wordup
[Last updated
2021/01/07，13:16
]
[View Changelog]
目录
小知识
目录
指南导航
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 Enhancement 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
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 by Wordup, an Enhancement theorycrafter who works closely with other moderators within the
Shaman discord Earthshrine
and other melee communities. You can find him on
Twitter
&
Youtube
.
Best Covenants for Enhancement Shaman
As a primer we've created the table below to highlight the relative strength of each covenant in both Raid and Mythic+ scenarios. You can click the headers for each covenant to be taken to a dedicated page with a respective guide on what they provide for you!
Best Raid Covenants
Covenant:
Rating:
Best Soulbind:
Kyrian
Good
Pelagos
Necrolord
Average
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Very Good
Niya
Venthyr
Very Good
Nadjia the Mistblade
Best Mythic+ Covenants
Covenant:
Rating:
Best Soulbind:
Kyrian
Low Keys
: Good
High Keys
: Very Good
Mikanikos
Necrolord
Low Keys
: Average
High Keys
: Poor
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Low Keys
: Good
High Keys
: Good
Korayn
Venthyr
Low Keys
: Very Good
High Keys
: Excellent
Nadjia the Mistblade
Important thing to note here is while they are put in brackets of how much they contribute, the absolute worst option is still only somewhere around 2-5%~ worse depending on a given scenario. This means while your chosen pick might not be the best on paper, it's not going to be a dealbreaker if you opt into something else. The primary differential comes from the healing that can be used (especially in Mythic+ scenarios) that in some cases turn your Covenant ability into a healing cooldown rather than a strictly damaging tool.
Best Enhancement Shaman Covenants for Raiding
Castle Nathria has a very large amount of diversity in the encounter types, varying between Single Target, AoE, Cleave and Burst profiles being desirable. Ultimately for Enhancement, a lot of the choices you make for each ability are quite small, as they mostly fulfill the same goal in different degrees as a filler spell in between the hectic cooldown juggling the spec plays with.
The stronger choices in
Kyrian
and
Venthyr
largely lean on how non-invasive both
暮钟图腾
and
收割链
are to the rotation, alongside their flexibility in different encounter types.
While both the other options in
Necrolord
and
Night Fae
do have some encounters where they can be solid (such as Sludgefist), the applications are much less varied and the soulbinds that accompany them don't do enough to bridge that gap. However, they are still entirely realistic choices for Nathria's expected requirements.
Best Enhancement Shaman Covenants for Mythic+
For Mythic+, Enhancement's ideal covenants lean very heavily toward
Kyrian
and
Venthyr
again. Much like in Nathria, the flexibility the abilities offer and the superior soulbind options make this a more complete package to accentuate what Enhancement is good at which is cleave and AoE. Adding in burst cooldowns to go alongside our more sustained toolkit with both
暮钟图腾
and
收割链
add in an extra layer of ways to open up on group pulls. They also both come with relatively simple, strong power gains from their soulbinds.
Both
Necrolord
and
Night Fae
are much more specialized in what the abilities do. While they can be useful for a quick burst of damage on lower target counts, they scale up very poorly in larger pack sizes which tends to make up the majority of content in Mythic+, hurting them a lot.
Night Fae
however does come with a solid set of Soulbinds that can be extremely useful for some content there (in particular
灵茧守护者
for surviving those unpredictable one shots and
繁华原野
for its synergy with some of our cooldown options), while
Necrolord
fares a lot worse in that department with very few good options available.
Enhancement Shaman Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Enhancement Shamans. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Enhancement Shaman Raiding Covenant Analysis
Kyrian
While
暮钟图腾
doesn't have a big wow factor as an ability, it is a solid flexible choice throughout Castle Nathria. It can be saved for add spawns of which many fights have, pre-placed to prime it for burst periods (think
泥拳
's
毁灭冲击
or
德纳修斯大帝
's
罪孽回响
spawns). Its cooldown is also low enough that you are usually able to weave it into most encounters fairly easily, and is simply all around a hard thing to misuse. It also adds a little bit of extra off-healing utility with the extra charges that can be triggered with things like
治疗之泉图腾
, though this is quite minor.
You also get some additional benefits with
召唤执事者
's
静谧之瓶
as an emergency heal that also may end up interacting with some (though definitely not all) of the Bleed effects present in Nathria.
There's also some strong utility soulbinds - in particular
Kleia
's
骁勇打击
can help keep your group stable and her soulbind even comes with the very powerful
勇气外露
deeper in the tree to make up for the weaker initial binds.
Pelagos
is more of an opening bind that gets weaker later, but all three of the choices have solid picks for different situations.
Necrolord
Unfortunately the
Necrolord
ability
始源之潮
can be quite difficult to decipher from the tooltip. The way it works is:
Deals Shadow damage to your current target and applies
烈焰震击
.
This grants you a buff that will cause your next
闪电箭
within 15 seconds to fire again on any enemies (including your target if applicable) with
烈焰震击
present.
You can cast this for a small heal, but
this will not apply
激流
; all on a 45-second cooldown.
While
始源之潮
may be the most unique it's also the most awkward to make use of. Lots of the synergies it seems like it would have (
火焰新星
and
风暴守护者
immediately come to mind) either work against the way you play, have unusual counter-synergies or have extra execution requirements that are not worth the payoff. In Nathria as well, lots of encounters have important windows at 30 seconds or 1 minute making a 45 second cooldown fit in poorly. While the raid does lean strongly toward single target situations and this a more single target/low cleave option, what it does isn't strong enough for it to shine in many situations.
Necrolord
does however come with some very good Soulbind options, in particular
Emeni
granting
身先士卒
and
Bonesmith Heirmir
bringing
炉脉幻想
, both of which come right at the start of the tree. Unfortunately most of the other options in the trees aren't particularly compelling until they are completed, and while
血肉铸造
is a survival option the opportunity cost is so high, and the impact relatively low that it's unlikely to do much to change the game. That all being said, there are some encounters where you could see some use out of
始源之潮
's ability to pool up the buff before windows (such as
泥拳
), so it will still have some moments to work.
Night Fae
法夜输灵
is the longest cooldown of the choices, and also the most focused on single target. Due to both of these factors and the meteor effect of the damage, it makes it one of the least flexible choices.
That said, the cast itself is very potent for burst windows and can also be empowered by linking it up with
大地之刺
. There are definitely encounters where this could see use, but the requirement to stand still and channel is a dangerous prospect in a raid where there is often something to dodge or avoid when you'd really want to keep this on cooldown. The off healing burst this can provide when stored up can also be helpful if timed right, but that global cooldown plus the initial channel time investment makes this one of the highest oportunity cost buttons we can use.
灵魂变形
has really fringe uses to avoid or come up with some bosses due to the blink, but it has such an overlap with
幽魂之狼
you may often forget to make use of it.
The
Night Fae
soulbinds are very favourable for Nathria, and is probably the best part of the covenant for us.
灵茧守护者
as an opening option can be great for catching us before we die which isn't an unrealistic situation due to our weak defensive toolkit. Throughout the trees as well there are strong damage options that, since we tend to avoid potency conduits when we can brings the options up considerably. Big winners are
林地复兴
,
繁华原野
(especially due to the synergy with
毁灭之风
),
蝴蝶效应
and
荒猎团战术
.
Venthyr
Compared to the other options,
收割链
is very much a more AoE-oriented option that, while it's still always a valuable press even in single target, it really shines at the 5 target mark. There are a few opportunities to get a lot out of this burst AoE in Nathria on fights such as
凯尔萨斯之影
, but otherwise it's just very simple fire and forget. It also does contribute a good bit of extra burst off healing to those around you that also contributes to the cooldown reduction, but at 1.5 minutes it can sometimes be awkward to line up.
暗影之门
is fairly low impact due to the mobility options we have already, but some encounters do have small gains to be had by using this intelligently. It's also the only Covenant option that provides absolutely no off healing at all.
The real selling point for
Venthyr
alongside its AoE contributions are the soulbinds it brings. Due to our conduits being fairly weak the double Potency options aren't very appealing, and two of our options here with
Nadjia
's
兴奋追猎者
and
Theotar
's
抚慰阴影
as opening traits are pretty solid. To shore up the single target issues as well,
Nadjia
eventually gains access to
无畏决斗者
which while very specific in its goal pulls alot of weight for the covenant in general in single target situations. This means the covenant opens strong and stays solid throughout the Renown grind making it hard to really fault, especially given it performs great in Mythic+ too.
Enhancement Shaman Mythic+ Analysis
The majority of what rings true for the raid sections also follows for Mythic+, except with a stronger focus to the more AoE oriented covenants in
Kyrian
and
Venthyr
. Because the abilities are just purely fire and forget damage tools, there isn't a great deal of variation in how they interact with different content types outside of the pure numbers game of which is winning.
The benefit of additional healing provided by both of these are arguably the biggest decider in what makes them valuable picks. In particular
收割链
is effectively a group healing cooldown that will immediately top everyone and recover from bad situations, which can be especially useful during
傲慢
spawns.
Enhancement 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 Enhancement Shaman GuideNecrolord Enhancement Shaman Guide
Night Fae Enhancement Shaman GuideVenthyr Enhancement Shaman Guide
Enhancement Shaman Soublind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Enhancement 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.
Feedback
Thanks for reading our class guides! If you have any feedback about the guides, feel free to leave a comment in the section below and we will reply as quickly as possible. If you'd like to talk with any of our writers directly you can do so by joining our
Discord Server
and finding them there!
获取 Wowhead 高级会员
[As little as
less than $1 a month
to enjoy an ad-free experience, unlock premium features, and support the site!]
评论
评论来自
greganbu
So I’m pretty sure hope wordup see the first Sim build today ..and his choices for very good not there 🧐🧐🧐
贡献
在发表评论前，请留心以下提示：
您的评论必须为简体中文，否则将会被删除。
不知道如何发评论？参考我们的
格式指南
！
发表前最好先自行校对一次。
有问题可以访问我们的
论坛
来寻求帮助。
你没有登录。
请登录
或者
注册账号
来添加你的评论。
使用下面的表格浏览您的截屏。
[Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen.]
质量越高越好！
[Please review our
Screenshot Guidelines
before submitting!]
您没有登录。请
登录
后提交截屏。
将视频URL输入下列表格即可。
URL：
支持：仅限 YouTube
说明：您的视频需通过审核才能在站点上显示。
我们用
Wowhead 客户端
保证数据库的及时更新，向您提供额外的有趣的功能！
两大目的：
它还维护WoW的一个插件
Wowhead Looter
, 在您游戏时采集数据！
它将
采集所得数据
上传至Wowhead，保证数据库时刻掌握最新信息！
您可以用它追踪完成的任务、配方、坐骑、伙伴宠物以及头衔！
您还在等什么？立即
下载客户端
整装待发吧！
© 2021 Fanbyte
我们用 Wowhead 客户端保证数据库的及时更新，向您提供额外的有趣的功能！
两大目的：
您可以用它追踪完成的任务、配方、坐骑、伙伴宠物以及头衔！
您还在等什么？立即 下载客户端 整装待发吧！