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Best Covenant for Frost Death Knight in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.0.5
来自 Bicepspump
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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 Frost Death Knight, 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 Death Knight, we have compiled several references:
Death Knight Covenant Abilities
details the class-specific abilities unlocked upon choosing a specific covenant.
Death Knight Conduits
lists all available death-knight 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
I'm Bicepspump, a semi-hardcore player currently playing on Kazzak. You can often find me on the
Death Knight discord
discussing rotations and builds, on my stream (
B1cepspump
), running some juicy Mythic +, or on my
youtube channel
where I've started doing video guides. Big shoutout to everyone on the Acherus discord that have given me valuable insight through numerous discussions. I take part in writing and optimizing the action priority list for SimulationCraft and continuously test different hypotheses using the SimulationCraft program. Furthermore, I work with the WoWAnalyzer website where I develop modules for the Death Knight specs. Please feel free to contact me on
Discord
as Bicepspump#6318, I'm always happy to have a healthy discussion! Outside of playing WoW, I work as a data scientist and enjoy playing other games such as Dota 2!
Best Covenants for Frost Death Knights
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! Different builds favor different Covenants so I've made sure to create tabs for you to look through!
Raid
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Necrolord
Good
Emini Build (Low Renown)
Bonesmith Build (High Renown)
Venthyr
Good
Nadjia
Night Fae
Good
Niya
Kyrian
Good
Pelagos
Mythic+
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Necrolord
Good
Emini Build (Low Renown)
Bonesmith Build (High Renown)
Venthyr
Good
Nadjia
Night Fae
Good
Niya
Kyrian
Good
Pelagos
Raid
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Necrolord
Good
Emini Build (Low Renown)
Bonesmith Build (High Renown)
Venthyr
Okay
Nadjia
Night Fae
Good
Niya
Kyrian
Great
Pelagos
Mythic+
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Necrolord
Good
Emini Build (Low Renown)
Bonesmith Build (High Renown)
Venthyr
Okay
Nadjia
Night Fae
Great
Niya
Kyrian
Okay
Pelagos
Raid
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Necrolord
Good
Emini Build (Low Renown)
Bonesmith Build (High Renown)
Venthyr
Okay
Nadjia
Night Fae
Good
Niya
Kyrian
Great
Pelagos
Mythic+
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Necrolord
Good
Emini Build (Low Renown)
Bonesmith Build (High Renown)
Venthyr
Okay
Nadjia
Night Fae
Great
Niya
Kyrian
Okay
Pelagos
Choosing a Covenant is a
difficult
choice to make. This is good because it means that they aren't vastly different in terms of power. They all bring something different to the table, both in terms of the Covenant Class ability, the Covenant Signature ability as well as the different Soulbinds. Do remember to value your own preference when choosing a Covenant, it's completely fine to pick a Covenant because you like the transmog or theme!
Covenant Choice Changes with Patch 9.0.5 for Frost Death Knight
None of the changes are significant enough to impact covenant meta. Kyrian and Night Fae will be slightly better but not to a degree where I'd recommend everyone to switch.
Best Frost Death Knight Covenants for Raiding
All covenants are within 1.8% of eachother for pure single target, making this a difficult choice.
Venthyr
has great potential in cleave where you can extend your
冰龙吐息
to 60+ seconds. This is a bit of a liability though since the increased
冰龙吐息
is more susceptible for disruptive mechanics.
Necrolord
is solid across the board. However it doesn't bring the best of anything in any situation.
Kyrian
brings the most single target by a small margin (0.6%) and has an early power spike. However, it doesn't scale very well in cleave and AoE
Night Fae
is second best for pure single target and really good for cleave and AoE. The strength gain and
湮灭
is really good. Furthermore, it brings the most amount of mobility, really useful for us slow Death Knights.
The winner is
Necrolord for its versatility across the board.
Kyrian provides the most amount of single target for
湮没
by a margin of 2%. However, Necrolord scales much better into cleave and AoE. It's generally more versatile and works in every scenario. I therefore recommend Necrolord.
Kyrian provides the most amount of single target for
湮没
by a significant margin (3.4%). There's a temptation to pick up Night Fae due to the big cleave and AoE. However, I do think you sacrifice too much single target (4.7%) for this to be useful. I'd say Necrolord is the most versatile, Kyrian is best for raiding and Night Fae is best for Mythic +. Overall, I'd recommend Necrolord.
Best Frost Death Knight Covenants for Mythic+
For Mythic +, we value AoE and cleave more. I therefore recommend choosing Necrolord for all builds. Venthyr is a possible choice for
冰龙吐息
but I don't think the duration increase is that useful. Packs in Mythic+ sometimes don't live for long enough to leverage the extra duration!
Frost Death Knight Raiding Covenant Analysis
Kyrian
Kyrian brings
失格者之梏
Class Ability which is a solid single target spell. It generally ranks first in terms of single target output among the Covenants. It also has potential in AoE through the spread mechanic of the DoT. However, this is really quite unreliable.
召唤执事者
provides a potion called
静谧之瓶
. This provides a solid heal as well as a cleanse of disease, poison, curse, and bleed. The cleanse can be used in multiple fights in Castle Nathria, making it a solid added defensive ability.
Kyrian also provides great Soulbinds, specifically, Pelagos.
战斗冥想
is picked up early which is great damage. Synergises especially well with
湮没
due to the synced cooldowns.
Venthyr
Venthyr provides
云集之雾
which does solid single target damage and scales really well in AoE. It also generates Runic Power and can often be used to take advantage of the additional gain when there are multiple targets (which is true for the majority of bosses). This synergises heavily with
冰龙吐息
due to the value of Runic Power with this build.
暗影之门
is a solid Signature Ability, helping us with our lacking mobility. Being able to teleport across mechanics or simply cover a lot of ground can be really useful!
Finally, the Soulbinds are solid for Venthyr. They bring good Soulbind spells early that give us lots of damage (
兴奋追猎者
or
抚慰阴影
). They also have good potential when we reach high ranks of Renown, giving us
精心准备
.
Night Fae
We get
消亡之债
when we choose to pledge our loyalty to Night Fae. This replaces
枯萎凋零
for us, effectively just adding the
消亡之债
effect to this ability. The ability is great for cleave and AoE through the
湮灭
cleave. It deals big damage and stacks up the strength buff quickly. For single target, it's mostly useful for dual-wield since you get 2 strength stacks every time you hit
湮灭
.
灵魂变形
is such a great ability for us slow Death Knights. Both a teleport and a 50% movement speed boost is such nice utility. When covering large ground or dodging mechanics, this ability will just be so useful, I love it.
When it comes to Soulbinds, things get interesting. Night Fae provides Dreamwever which both gives you a "cheat-death" through
灵茧守护者
as well as double Potency Conduits as early as Renown rank 13. It might be worth it to pick this up simply because of the early power spike.
Necrolord
憎恶附肢
is the ability we receive from Necrolord. This does solid damage and also provides Grip utility. The extra grip utility isn't that useful, sadly, but it's also not detrimental in Castle Nathria (luckily). The 3 procs of
白霜
is nice for AoE damage!
血肉铸造
presents a nice shield that is useful as a defensive ability. However, it requires you to channel for 4 seconds to gain it. This makes the ability less useful in raiding scenarios since you're most likely going to want to do something besides channel a defensive CD.
Soulbinds are mostly about Emeni that provides
身先士卒
as her first ability. This has a lot of potential and is generally a strong ability. Death Knights have a large CD on our Class Ability, making this spell less useful to us compared to other classes. Heirmir is also worthwhile to mention. The large amount of secondary stats that this late-renown option provides makes it a great choice for later in the patch!
Frost Death Knight Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Frost Death Knights. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Frost Death Knight Mythic+ Covenant Analysis
In addition to what I discussed for the Covenants in Raids, here are some points for Mythic +. All previous points also apply for Mythic +!
Night Fae is significantly more powerful in Mythic + since it adds such a powerful cleave with
消亡之债
.
Kyrian doesn't work as well in Mythic +, mainly because its
失格者之梏
ability doesn't scale as well in AoE as the other Covenants.
Frost Death Knight 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 Frost Death Knight GuideNecrolord Frost Death Knight Guide
Night Fae Frost Death Knight GuideVenthyr Frost Death Knight Guide
Frost Death Knight Soublind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Frost Death Knight 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
Songun
This doesn't make sense and it's a total mess. So hypothetically playing a dps everything it's fine with the covenant i pick then i decide to change my spec to tank and my covenant sucks. So that means i have to play damn "lotto" all the time because blizzard can make the balance between the covenants and the specs. That it's awesome..
评论来自
DocTater
I'm having a problem with my Frost DEATH night being recommended for the fairy covenant.
评论来自
Xedd1654
Thank You DocTater I feel the same way about my Frost DK identifying with a group of fairies, no offense Blizz, but it just does not seem proper :( I'm switching now ty and hoping it changes somewhat later on....
评论来自
LeroySchwartzer
Usually, I'm the kind of person who struggle to make choices.
On the RP side by itself I don't really know which covenant I feel closer to as a Frost DK..
And including the whole optimization aspect makes me even more lost ! xD
评论来自
Eighjan
This guide seems to not factor in that some (many?) players may not want to only Raid or do M+ as a major part of their end-game.
If either of those DO play a major part in what you do at L60 (max. at the time of posting this), then fine - I'm more than happy to just finish storylines &/or do WQ ad infinitum... if only there was a way to be Covenant agnostic/independant?
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