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Kyrian Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Balance Druid Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5
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Allegiance to the
Kyrian
Covenant for Balance Druid provides you with many benefits, two new active abilities, access to three soulbinds; these soulbinds, and much more. In this guide, we will explore what are the perks for aligning yourself with the Kyrian, explaining their Covenant Abilities and Soulbinds and how they modify and enhance your toolkit both inside and out of combat. We will also recommend the best soulbinds for Kyrian Balance Druid and explore how they impact your rotation, gearing, and talent builds, updated for .
If you are looking for information on how strong the Kyrian Covenant is for Balance Druid, as well as details on which covenant is best, please visit our
Best Covenant for Balance Druid
guide.
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About the Author
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Changes To Kyrian Balance Druids in 9.2
You and your Kindred Spirit each gain a bonus secondary stat based on their Covenant. This bonus is halved for your Kindred Spirit, however both bonuses are doubled while the bond is Empowered.
Kyrian: Mastery increased by 150.210.
Night Fae: Haste increased by 8%.6%.
Venthyr: Critical Strike chance increased by 8%.6%.
Necrolord: Versatility increased by 8%.
Inventory Type: Neck, Shoulder6%.
Inventory Type: Neck, Shoulder
Kyrian Balance Druid Covenant Abilities
Kyrian Balance Druid Class Ability:
With perhaps the longest tooltip I have ever seen, the Kyrian class ability for Druid is Kindred Spirits or
(I probably will use the term interchangeably).
So for those who cannot figure out what it does from the tooltip (don't worry, I can't either), you tether yourself to another person. Once you tether yourself to them, you gain access to the
ability assuming they're a DPS. If you link to a tank or healer then you get a different ability, the abilities give you damage reduction that is redirected to the tank or the healers healing gets redirected to you. This is quite bad as a DPS specialization nullifying your damage potential and turning it into redirecting damage or increasing your healing and gaining 0 damage from it, so make sure you link to a DPS. Once you press
then you guys both get a buff. 20% of your damage is given to them and 20% of their damage is given to you over the duration of the empowerment. While you are doing damage you are spending the pool of bonus damage
BUT YOU ARE ONLY ABLE TO SPEND IT AT A RATE OF 15% BONUS DAMAGE PER DAMAGE INSTANCE
. In other words, It is a 15% damage increase that is capped at 20% of your partner's damage and vice versa.
Basically, you are giving them bonus damage and they are giving you bonus damage that shows up on the meters. The bonus damage pool can also be consumed by taking damage, absorb shields, or healing. The general rule of thumb is that we assume that 15% of this pool is going to get removed via taking damage in sims.
You
CAN
link to yourself which is just a flat 15% damage gain, but it is generally seen as inferior. You would need to be doing something like 2x the damage of other classes on a 1m CD window for it to be worth it, and since moonkin isn't a high burst 1m CD class, that is not normally an issue. I personally like to link up to Fire Mages or Marksmanship Hunters as those 2 specs have a lot of burst in 1 minute intervals, but test it out and see what works best for you.
If you could not follow that, I am so sorry.
Kyrian Conduit for
is the Kyrian conduit and it grants Cooldown Reduction to
and is generally seen as okay as our other potency options are very lackluster. If you are running it + Mikanikos you can get some really interesting CD timings.
Balance Druid Conduit Guide
Kyrian Signature Ability:
&
summons a Swolekin to bring you drinks. These drinks are top notch and remove diseases, poisons, curses, and bleeds from you and gives you back 20% of your HP. It does not share a cooldown with a health potion or
meaning that you can have 3 personal heals.
It is pretty niche, but honestly if you can get effective uses out of the
style effect then Kyrian can be good.
Kyrian Exclusive Legendary for Balance Druids
is the Kyrian specific legendary for druids. You and your linked target gain bonus secondary stats based on their covenant. This legendary is really solid and you should run it if you are Kyrian. It is over-budget stat wise and owns.
Other Legendary Interactions for Kyrian Balance Druids
is the other main Legendary for Kyrian Balance Druids. Every 300 Astral Power spent you gain
for 12 seconds. If lined up with your Kyrian bond it can make for big pools of damage. Typically you would prefer to wear the Kyrian specific legendary as of right now though.
Balance Druid Legendary Guide
Best Kyrian Balance Druid Soulbinds
Best Kyrian Balance Druid Renown 80 Soulbind
Mikanikos and Pelagos are both pretty close damage wise at Renown 80. Overall Mikanikos edges out Pelagos due to the fact that you do not have to pick up orbs.
Balance Druid Conduit Guide
Kyrian Balance Druid Rotation Changes
Generally Kyrian does not change your rotation much. I try to track cooldowns on my partner to make sure I can use my
at appropriate times to get the most out of the bonus damage. I do try to help them out and dump damage into the pool when I can as it really is shared damage, but you can be a greedy player and not care.
The general rotation though is largely the same.
Balance Druid Guide
Kyrian Balance Druid Talent Builds
Your talent build does not change
at all
while picking this Covenant.
Balance Druid Talents
Kyrian Balance Druid Gearing Differences
There are absolutely no gearing differences when you choose the Kyrian Covenant.
Kyrian Balance Druid Soulbinds Explained
All Kyrian players have access to the same three Soulbinds:
Pelagos, Kleia and Forgelite Prime Mikanikos
. They are the NPCs you complete the zone story with, and allow you to 'attune' yourself to them to gain access to a tree of upgrades centered around your base toolkit (through Conduits) and Covenant abilities (through special, game-wide traits).
This tree progressively unlocks based on completion steps (such as finishing the campaign) and your Renown level with the Kyrian Covenant.
We've summarized the optimal traits for each Soulbind below, along with potential Conduits to use. Bear in mind that Endurance and Finesse conduit choice will largely depend on which encounter you're progressing on, as their value changes dramatically based on the requirements they enforce.
Pelagos is pretty competitive with Mikankos soulbind. He has 1 great DPS trait and has easy access to double potency conduits. His great treat is:
which is a fat amount of mastery every time you hit your Kyrian ability, so once a minute.
The
buffs up Pelagos by a pretty considerable amount over most other soulbind options as a whole. The mastery is incredibly valuable. You may also notice that I do not take the
conduit. This is intentional as this conduit is generally not that great. If somehow you could make use of the CDR with your partner it could be decent, but generally it is just seen as worse. 1m CDs are standard, 52s CDs are weird.
We also gain
&
as more damage traits that we select for Pelagos which are incredibly engaging and fun.
An example tree to follow on this soulbind is as follows:
is definitely something. I don't think it's good outside of potential prog raiding, but it is something.
is incredibly strong, but unfortunately the lack of a potency slot +
just makes Kleia not great.
Overall this tree is not great. You may also notice that I do not take the
conduit. This is intentional as this conduit is generally not that great. If somehow you could make use of the CDR with your partner it could be decent, but generally it is just seen as worse. 1m CDs are standard, 52s CDs are weird.
was added in 9.1, but that does not change that Valiant Strikes are still mostly a healer trait.
An example tree can be seen below.
Picking Mikanikos grants access to the following notable traits:
: you get to summon Swolekin's robot buddy to fight along-side you. He actually does VERY little damage and takes a long time to activate. He is really funny to see fighting with you though.
grants up to 15% haste and is great in Mythic+ environments, but not worth using over a second Potency Conduit.
1m CDs are standard, 52s CDs are weird. However, with the capstone trait you can get your CD on link down to sub 40s or so. This makes Mikankos generally the preferred soulbind option for Balance Druid.
An example tree can be seen below.
Double Legendaries for Kyrian Balance Druid
Patch 9.2 adds the option of using two legendaries at the same time, with the restriction that one of them is your Covenant legendary. This change empowers Kyrian Balance Druid even more. You can learn more about it in our Legendary Guide.
Balance Druid Legendary Guide
What are Soulbinds in Shadowlands?
Soulbinds are important Covenant characters players encounter in the Shadowlands. Soulbinds bind themselves to players allowing them to use their powers to strengthen characters while in the Shadowlands.
Learn more about Soulbinds in our in-depth guide.
Soulbinds in Shadowlands
Balance Druid Kyrian Soulbind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Balance Druid Kyrian Soulbinds traits stack against each other in terms of raw power, powered by
Bloodmallet
. Make sure to check above for an actual analysis about how strong each Soulbind is.
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评论来自
zeusal
At iLvl ~210 Night Fae - Niya is simming +215 dps higher than Kyrian - Pelagos. The ability is also easier to execute and less inconsistent. I think this guide is leading people down the wrong path if they are focused on dps. That is a 3.91% increase in DPS just from covenant/soulbind change. I would miss my free potions however and better layout, armor.
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