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Best Covenant for Shadow Priests in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.2.5
来自 EllipsisPriest
2022/05/31
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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?
While the decision of your Covenant is impactful, it is a choice that can be changed quickly once you reach Shadowlands' endgame. 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 Shadow Priest, updated for .
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Best Covenants for Shadow Priests
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!
Best Shadow Priest Covenants and Soulbinds for Raid
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Necrolord
Plague Deviser Marileth
Necrolord
Plague Deviser Marileth
Night Fae
Dreamweaver
Best Shadow Priest Covenants and Soulbinds for Mythic+
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Necrolord
Bonesmith Heirmir
Necrolord
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Dreamweaver
Night Fae
Dreamweaver
Covenant Choice Changes with 9.2 for Shadow Priest
Shadow's covenant choices are not changing going into 9,2. However, with double legendaries unlocked, Venthyr and Kyrian fall even further behind.
Best Shadow Priest Covenants for Raiding
Until Shadow gains access to double legendaries, the Necrolord and Night Fae covenants are fairly even in a raid environment. Once double legendaries unlock, Necrolord will be the primary choice for raiding.
Best Shadow Priest Covenants for Mythic+
Much like in raids, Necrolord and Night Fae are the top choices in 9.2 Both now use
暗影烈焰棱镜
as their primary legendary, and both covenant legendaries are likely to have some potential in keys.
苍白指令
for its single target and priority damage, and
邦桑迪的契约
for the ability to have
虚空形态
available for every pack.
Shadow Priest Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Shadow Priests. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Shadow Priest Covenant Analysis
Kyrian
You can use the cleansing effect from
静谧之瓶
if needed, but we have our own tools for cleansing ourselves through
净化疾病
,
消散
, and
群体驱散
(which also benefits our allies). You'll likely pick Kyrian solely for
Pelagos'
soulbind tree and the DPS you can get from that.
When it comes to the actual Covenant ability,
晋升者之赐
is absolutely bonkers. You'll want to use it with
虚空形态
,
能量灌注
, an Intellect Potion, and any on use trinkets you may have to boost its damage. One special note about it is that
晋升冲击
has a 1s global cooldown, which is hasted, it will feel a bit awkward as the rest of our spells trigger a 1.5s global cooldown, also hasted. It's worth waiting for it to be back up rather than missing a cast.
晋升者之赐
can be buffed using the
骁勇晋升
conduit, which increases the damage
晋升冲击
does and
晋升爆发
will deal 1% more damage per stack of
晋升者之赐
.
Necrolord
Shadow Priests get access to
血肉铸造
and
邪恶新星
.
血肉铸造
isn’t worth going out of your way to cast, though it is useful between pulls, or when extra survivability is needed in a pinch.
邪恶新星
does surprisingly well on lower target counts thanks to its square root scaling. Basically, it's stronger on lower target counts, but weaker with higher target counts. You'll want to use
邪恶新星
when you know targets will live as close to the full duration of
邪恶灌注
as possible.
Unlike Kyrian's Ascended Nova, you do not need to be in melee range to use this Covenant's ability and it will instead spread to targets within 15yds of its impact zone. There are two caveats:
邪恶新星
behaves a lot like shadow crash. You can target an enemy and cast
邪恶新星
-- however, it will lock its landing location based on where the target was standing at the time you cast it, also because of square root scaling, the damage of each application lessens with additional targets. If
邪恶新星
hits critters or other mobs with substantially lower health, then the damage to more important targets will decrease.
For soulbinds, you'll want to go with Marileth for Single Target focused content, such as raids and potentially very high Tyrannical dungeons where your boss and priority damage is of value. Bonesmith is the other, much more widely used dungeon option, with stronger AoE traits.
邪恶灌注
can be buffed using the
溃烂灌注
conduit, which extends it duration by 2 seconds and increases its damage.
Night Fae
Going Night Fae gives you access to
灵魂变形
and
法夜守护者
as a Shadow Priest.
灵魂变形
gives us access to a much needed blink, useful in both PvP and PvE in a number of situations, as well as additional movement speed alongside
身心合一
. Another upside to it is that it has a much longer duration inside of rested areas. which makes navigating cities that don't allow mounts in certain areas slightly faster.
When it comes to DPS,
法夜守护者
is interesting. Casting it provides your spells with 3 additional effects.
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
.
For soulbinds, all three are fairly close, but Niya stands out due to her passive
林地复兴
, providing a substantial mastery buff that can easily be stacked with Shadow’s other cooldowns. Dreamweaver is also powerful, though playing with so many abilities which increase your haste can be overwhelming if they are all active at once.
法夜守护者
can be buffed using the
法夜延音
conduit, which causes any of the Faeries to leave a reduced-power version of their benefit on the target for a short while.
Venthyr
Your Covenant ability with the Venthyr Covenant is
控心术
. The spell should be used when you can take advantage of full
精通:暗影交织
power and
饥渴虚空
's debuff (if talented). You can technically min-max it with periods where you know a mob will be dealing damage -- for example, a warrior using
剑刃风暴
against you. Additionally, you have access to
暗影之门
which can be a niche utility to go from A to B quickly, or an emergency CC using Nadjia’s passive
混沌代理人
.
As far as soubinds go, Theotar and Nadjia are fairly close to each other, assuming specific pathing. Draven isn't too far behind, but far enough that it's not worth consideration in any content.
控心术
can be buffed by using the
破碎认知
conduit. This causes
控心术
to last 2 additional seconds, deal more initial damage, and causes more damage or healing to be reversed.
Shadow Priest Mythic+ Covenant Analysis
Rather than repeat what I wrote above, I'll write some specific notes for each Covenant in regards to mythic + that pertain to it.
Kyrian
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.
Venthyr
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.
Night Fae
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.
Necrolord
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 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 Shadow Priest GuideNecrolord Shadow Priest Guide
Night Fae Shadow Priest GuideVenthyr Shadow Priest Guide
Shadow Priest Soulbind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Shadow Priest 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.
More Information Shadow Priest Covenants
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.
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 Priest, we have compiled several references:
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
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.
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