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Best Covenant for Shadow Priests in Shadowlands - Shadowlands 9.0.2
来自 djriff
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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 Shadow Priest, 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 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.
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
Beginners
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
The author of this guide is
djriff
, Moderator for Warcraft Priests, the Priest Discord. If you want to learn more about me or my work with the shadow priest community, check out
WCP
.
You can reach djriff on Twitter at
@djriff1428
or on discord using @Djriff#0001.
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!
Raiding
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Great
Pelagos
Necrolord
Good
Emeni
Night Fae
Decent
Niya
Venthyr
Decent
Theotar
Mythic +
Covenant
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Decent
Pelagos
Necrolord
Great
Emeni
Night Fae
Decent
Niya
Venthyr
Decent
Theotar
Best Shadow Priest Covenants for Raiding
All of our covenants are viable for raiding. However, if you plan on swapping between healing and dps'ing as your raid needs it, Venthyr is a good pick; at the time of this writing, that's the go-to pick for Discipline Priests. It also performs quite well in PvP situations for both specializations, if that's something you're interested in. Currently, one of our BiS trinkets comes from PvP, and you'll have a slight advantage in PvP content if you choose to go Venthyr.
Best Shadow Priest Covenants for Mythic+
Necrolord tends to be one of our better Covenant in keys; however, this only applies to keys where the mobs you are fighting will live the full duration of
邪恶灌注
you apply via
邪恶新星
. In cases where the mobs die before the 15s duration is up, this Covenant loses almost all its value. Other Covenants are fairly close in Mythic +, so really you can just go with whatever takes your fancy. For Kyrian,
晋升新星
does pretty poorly in higher keys, to the point it's not worth using it.
Every Covenant has its opportunity to shine in Shadowlands dungeons. There is a plethora of debuffs you can negate by being Kyrian, a dizzying array of skips possible with two of the four Covenants, and bonuses in each dungeon based on a given Covenant to be shared with your group.
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
As I said earlier, 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.
When it comes to the other soulbinds, they just don't measure up, Pelagos is too strong.
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
is hardly worth casting, except in a pinch where you'll need the extra survivability.
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 is a caveat:
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.
For soulbinds, you'll want to go with Emeni, as they're quite a bit ahead DPS-wisein all scenarios. Once you've got your renown up, you'll want to swap to Bonesmith, as he's much stronger.
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
is semi-useless for us as majority of the time you'll be talented into
身心合一
. One upside to it is that you'll have 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 10%, 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%. For Shadow Priests, this currently uses
虚空爆发
to reduce its cooldown.
For soulbinds, all three soulbinds are fairly close (within 1% of each other) with proper pathing and conduits.
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.
As far as soubinds go, Theotar and Nadjia are fairly close to each other, assuming specific pathing. Draven isn't too far behind (literally 1%), so you can go with whichever soulbind you want in this case and have it only minimally impact your potential DPS.
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.
Whatever you decide to pick, godspeed, and don't forget to start your swap quest, just in case, to save yourself a week.
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 Soublind 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.
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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
kyfzsrjytdjtrsdk
..."low keys?" ..."high keys?"
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.
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