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Kyrian Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Guardian Druid Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5
来自 Pumps
2022/05/31
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Allegiance to the
Kyrian
Covenant for Guardian 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 Guardian 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 Guardian Druid, as well as details on which covenant is best, please visit our
Best Covenant for Guardian Druid
guide.
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Changes to Kyrian Guardian Druid in 9.2
Players may now equip two legendaries, one covenant and one generic one.
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%.
Kyrian Guardian Druid Covenant Abilities
Kyrian Druid Class Ability:
The Kyrian Class Ability for Druids of all specializations is
: a 1 minute cooldown where you bond with an ally, and the effect is different based on whether you are tethered with a DPS, a Healer, or a Tank.
If you tether to a DPS you grant them a 40% damage redirect to you for 10 seconds and you collect 20% of the damage they deal into a pool
. You drain from this pool to empower your damage, healing and your absorption by 15% for up to 20 seconds after activation this ability or until you have used up the entire pooled amount. The absorb aspect of this means that all hits against you for this time will get reduced by 15% very similar to
.
If you tether to a Healer you grant them a 40% damage redirect to you for 10 seconds and gain 30% of all their healing replicated to you for the duration.
If you tether to a Tank, you redirect 40% of the damage you take to them for 10 seconds.
If you tether to yourself you gain 10% damage reduction for 10 seconds.
This is an extremely powerful Covenant with multiple utility uses. In a raid situation the tether to another tank or a healer who is using big healing cooldowns will make this our most powerful defensive Covenant as guardian druids.
An extra 40% mini shield wall on only a 1 minute cooldown or an enormous amount of bonus healing incoming from a healer fits extremely well into our toolkit and allows us to rotate our defensive cooldowns more easily and more often.
Tethering to a DPS also provides quite a decent DPS boost and this Covenant is not very far behind other pure DPS choices from a damage output perspective.
The main weakness of the tether is solo content, the lone empowerment when we are by ourselves is quite bad, only a 10% damage reduction often makes it feel like you may as well not even have a Covenant choice while being alone. Luckily most content is in a group and the more players to choose from in your group the better this gets.
Overall quite a powerful defensive Covenant choice with some significant increased damage and healing potential.
Kyrian Druid Class Conduit:
is the Kyrian specific conduit. It reduces the cooldown of
by 10% at rank 1 and is quite strong overall as most cooldown reduction effects are.
Guardian Druid Conduit Guide
Kyrian Signature Ability:
has quite a few little features he can provide but the main one is
, a bonus healthstone/healing potion type item that heals 20% of your health and removes all diseases, poisons, curses, and bleeds affecting you.
This can be incredibly strong for certain raid encounters and will definitely be strong for most mythic+ dungeons as they almost all have some significant debuff that can be cleansed by this.
Kyrian Exclusive Legendary for Guardian Druids
: 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.
This is yet another external buff that can be applied to a single raid member to further push them up the DPS rankings, it is quite a strong one as with the new Mikanikos trait (
) and the conduit (
), the cooldown on the tether empower is rather short granting both you and your linked partner a large amount of stats on average.
Also has the added "value" of increasing the morale of one of your raid/group members while making the others very sad they aren't receiving your fancy tether.
Other Legendary Interactions for Kyrian Guardian Druids
Kyrian doesn't have any large synergies with any of the guardian Legendaries and just uses the generic legendary combinations. You can find out more about what legendaries and best and when to use them in the guide linked below.
Guardian Druid Legendary Guide
Best Kyrian Guardian Druid Soulbinds
Best Kyrian Guardian Druid Max Renown 80 Soulbind
Mikanikos becomes immediately better than other options at Renown 57 when you can reach his capstone trait.
The below Soulbind Calculator is valid starting at Renown 60. Conduits are socketed in order of highest priority from top to bottom in order to facilitate the greatest benefit when empowering conduit rows from renown. Please see our Guardian Druid Conduit Guide for more information on Conduits including Empowered Conduits.
Guardian Druid Conduit Guide
Guardian Druid's best Soulbind at 80 renown is Mikanikos for the majority of content,
makes the cooldown on tether extremely short while also providing great burst damage on demand.
Kyrian Guardian Druid Covenant Rotation Changes
This page only highlights the specific use case of the class and signature abilities. To see how they fit within the context of the entire spec, we encourage you to view other pages in the guide related to the context you are looking for:
Guardian Druid Rotation Guide
Offensively - Kindred Spirits tether should ideally be off cooldown on a the highest DPS player who is using their offensive cooldowns.
Defensively - Kindred Spirits tether should be used on the other tank if it is safe for them before taking a large amount of damage, or alternatively if not safe for the other tank, use it on a healer who is using their raid healing cooldowns.
The Phial from the steward should just be used as a healthstone/health potion unless there is specific debuffs to cleanse.
Kyrian Guardian Druid Talent Builds
Your talent build should not change at all if you are Kyrian.
Guardian Druid Talents
Kyrian Guardian Druid Gearing Differences
Your gearing preference and stat preference remains the same with Kyrian. You will be prioritizing gear with the highest item level and then Versatility > Haste > Mastery > Crit, defensively. For offense, you will have to sim yourself for optimal stat priority.
Kyrian Guardian Druid Soulbinds Explained
Kyrian's have access to three Soulbinds:
Pelagos
,
Kleia
and
Forgelite Prime Mikanikos
. These are the NPCs you complete the zone story with, and allow you to bind yourself to them to gain access to a tree of upgrades centered around your toolkit, via Conduits and Covenant abilities.
This tree progressively unlocks based on completion steps (such as finishing the campaign) and your renown level with the Kyrian covenant.
Pelagos grants you four impactful traits:
Activating your Kyrian class ability increases your mastery for 10 seconds and occasionally expels Sorrowful Memories. Walking through Sorrowful Memories extends the mastery buff by 3 seconds, 1 minute internal cooldown.
3% less magic damage taken is nice.
A small mastery increase for you a friend, nice bonus.
The capstone trait and only reason to play Pelagos, massive stamina and primary stat increase with an RNG proc which can give you huge uptime on this strong trait.
An example tree to follow on this Soulbind is as follows:
We may choose to change the first potency conduit for a finesse conduit later on in the renown levels if we no longer need the reduced cooldown of the tether.
Kleia provides some good nodes:
Some free bonus healing that may save lives.
5% increased max hp above 90%, generally won't see much use as we are tanks and often below 90% but a small perk nonetheless.
After 5 seconds out of combat, gain a shield for 10% of your maximum health, great for pre-pull and heading into the next pack.
Another hugely powerful node, 5% crit should be almost permanent in both raid and m+.
A nice little crit node and some movement speed.
More great critical strike, love that.
This tree grants us a lot of crit and can be great for DPS.
Picking Forgelite Prime Mikanikos grants access to a few interesting traits:
Bron has pretty decent damage/healing output and is summoned fairly often.
Automatically consumes a charge of Phial of Serenity when reduced below 35% health, this can be good or bad depending on whether you actually wanted to use a charge or not.
Less repairs, free gold, very nice.
Provides quite a decent amount of haste but loses a lot of value in a raid environment, much better in mythic+.
Decent damage/healing increase.
A good damage nuke and a potential 20 seconds off your covenant ability.
A very strong tree now, with cooldown reduction galore and a fun Bron proc.
Double Legendaries for Kyrian Guardian 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 Guardian Druid even more. You can learn more about it in our Legendary Guide.
Guardian 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
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c0ca1n3
The problem with using
诚挚忠心
conduit is that it makes
战斗冥想
less functional. Since
战斗冥想
may only occur once every 1 min, reducing the cooldown on
志趣相投
to 54sec would mean less uptime for
战斗冥想
, not a good trade off imo.
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