Best Covenant for Shadow Priests in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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Best Covenants for Shadow Priests

Best Shadow Priest Covenants and Soulbinds for Raid

Single Legendary

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Necrolord

Plague Deviser Marileth

Necrolord

Plague Deviser Marileth

Night Fae

Dreamweaver

Best Shadow Priest Covenants and Soulbinds for Mythic+

Single Legendary

Double Legendary

Bonesmith Heirmir

Bonesmith Heirmir

Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver

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盛怒法夜 follows your most recent 暗言术：痛 target (includes 暗言术：痛 inflicted when casting 吸血鬼之触 while talented into 哀难 or 咒罚).

护卫法夜 reduces damage on your target by 20%, useful to place on your tank unless someone else needs it. That is triggered by casting 真言术：盾 onto a target.

善行法夜 increases the cooldown rate of a major ability by 100%, and follows your most recent 暗影愈合. For Shadow Priests, the cooldown this applies to is 虚空爆发.

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晋升新星 does poorly in higher keys, so it's better to use 晋升冲击. Additionally, you'll need to be in melee to get the damage from 晋升爆发. If you can safely be in melee, spamming 晋升新星 is good in lower keys, but fairly meh in higher keys.

Nothing special here. Use 控心术 when you have the highest amount of damage from 精通：暗影交织 and the debuff from 饥渴虚空 if talented.

Be careful with manually applying 暗言术：痛 with this as you'll transfer your 盛怒法夜 while using 法夜守护者 to your new target.

Ensure targets will live the full duration when you cast 邪恶新星. Additionally, if they move away from where 邪恶新星 will hit, you've wasted the cast.

Shadow Priest Covenant and Soulbind GuidesShadow Priest Soulbind SimulationsBloodmalletMore Information Shadow Priest Covenants

Covenant Overview explains basics of the Covenant system and rewards

How to Change Covenants? details how to swap covenants.

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.

Priest Covenant Abilities details the class-specific abilities unlocked upon choosing a specific covenant.

Priest Conduits lists all available priest conduits, organized by type, and their ranks.

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评论来自 dre9000

Great guide, thank you very much!
But this page though seems to have outdated information:
"Pelagos has the best soulbind tree out of all of the soulbinds across all Covenants. (...) That being said, the Versatility has a nearly 100% uptime (...). This is achieved through Let Go of the Past."
This has been changed to reduced magic damage taken.

评论来自 Littlemerry

So Venthyr still way to go for pvp? Or is necrolord better. Mindgames could work alright on bosses tho right?

评论来自 Veilor

If I don't do higher level key mythics or raid much is Necrolord still good for solo stuff or what is prefered then? I know most guides tend to target Group activities but what of people that doesn't do much group things and might only do heroics and the occasional low level key mythics?

评论来自 OzanKurt

What about PVP?

评论来自 Aerynsun8449

Swap quest? Can you add into your guide how to start that? I like the covenant I pick...now. But two months from now will I still? I don't know. But I also don't know how to start the swap quest. Thanks.

Edit: Just found out, all you need to do it talk to the covenant leader on Oribos that you want to swap to, he or she will ask you "Aren't you already in a covenant" or words to that effect. You tell them you're not happy with them, Again, words to that affect. And they offer you to pledge your loyalty to them, swap complete.

As long as it's not into a covenant you're already been in and left before.

评论来自 zkoldz

the tool tip in game mention

Benevolent Faerie increases the cooldown rate of a major ability by 100%. Follows your Shadow Mends

instead of

Benevolent Faerie increases the cooldown rate of a major ability by 100%. For Shadow Priests, this currently applies to Void Eruption.

i m assuming its typo?

评论来自 Igni

You rank Venethyr as Decent for both Mythic+ and Raiding, lowest of the four. However, as of the first half of February, 49.5% of Shadow Priests - according to the Blizzard API - have chosen it. Is there any explanation for the discrepancy? Does your guide need updating due to changes that may have occurred between when you first wrote it and now?

评论来自 sofibo12345

Thanks for posting this very helpful guide :)

评论来自 Ozzy02

For 9.2 with Double Legendary, in m+, I find NF is a more effective covenant than Necrolord, mainly because of one reason: the relics. Necro's Unholy Nova will also hit the 3 relics and the relics often die in a very short amount of time (thus significantly reduces overall dps). I find myself having to delay the casting of Unholy Nova until one of the relics dies (and turns into an automa - and even then, the automa usually dies fairly quickly too), and resulting in a very awkward cd where Unholy Nova, Mindbender and Void Eruption are completely out of sync.

评论来自 Chibibowa

Venthyr would be so good if it wasn't inconsistent. They really need to give us a flat crit buff instead of that RNG based on damage prevented. If mindgames gave us 50% crit buff for 15 seconds on a 1 min CD (instead of now, 45% max if placed well, 10 seconds, 45 sec CD), it would make venthyr competitive over Necrolord or Night Fae.

Not that I'm asking for Venthyr to be the best covenant, but should be more in line with Necrolord or Night Fae.

Best Covenant for Shadow Priests in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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