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Best Covenant for Windwalker Monk in Shadowlands Shadowlands 9.0.2
来自 Babylonius
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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 Windwalker Monk, 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 Monk, we have compiled several references:
Monk Covenant Abilities
details the class-specific abilities unlocked upon choosing a specific covenant.
Monk Conduits
lists all available monk 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
This guide is written and maintained by Babylonius; former moderator on MMO-Champion; current owner and administrator of the
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Best Covenants for Windwalker Monk
This page is designed to discuss what Covenant is the best choice for Windwalker Monks in Raiding and Mythic Plus. If you're just looking for a quick guide, here you go:
Best Raid Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
BEST
Pelagos
Necrolord
Decent
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Good
Niya
Venthyr
Bad
Nadjia
Best Mythic+ Covenants
Covenants
Rating
Best Soulbind
Kyrian
Low Keys
: Good
High Keys
: Great
Pelagos
Necrolord
Low Keys
: Great
High Keys
: Great
Bonesmith Heirmir
Night Fae
Low Keys
: Great
High Keys
: Great
Niya
Venthyr
Low Keys
: Bad
High Keys
: Bad
Nadjia
Windwalker Monk Covenant Popularity
Below you can see the data on what are the most picked Covenants for Windwalker Monks. This data updates automatically and comes directly from Blizzard's API.
Windwalker Monk Covenant Analysis
There is obviously more to each Covenant than just the DPS it outputs, and since its a game, picking another option for any reason is a reasonable thing to do. Here is some more in-depth information on each Covenant.
Kyrian
精序兵戈
- This does quite a few things; provides 12.5% Mastery,
旭日东升踢
gives a buff that reduces the cost of all Chi-spenders by 1, and
幻灭踢
reduces the cooldown of
旭日东升踢
and
怒雷破
by 2 seconds rather than 1. This is the Covenant that has the most "going on", but it doesn't dramatically change how Windwalkers play during the buff. You will look to fit in as many
旭日东升踢
as possible, get every
怒雷破
into the
旭日东升踢
chi-cost-reducing buff, and fill with
幻灭踢
and
猛虎掌
to keep resources up and reduce the other cooldowns as much as possible. There is continued speculation as to whether it makes sense to largely ignore Mastery and spam
幻灭踢
as much as possible, but current wisdom is that this wouldn't be the best. However, there are interesting tricks that may be possible, like casting
怒雷破
and cancelling it immediately so that your
风火雷电
spirits continue to cast it while you go about using
幻灭踢
and
猛虎掌
still. This is currently believed to be the strongest Covenant ability for most purposes, especially given its cooldown synergy with
白虎下凡
to give it a little bit more "umph". The only "downside" to this is that Xuen does not currently scale with our Mastery, so that aspect of the benefit is lost.
洞察一击
- This provides more Mastery during the duration of
精序兵戈
, which just further cements that you'll want to continue alternating abilities and obeying the Mastery. The extra duration isn't as important since it already lasts longer than Xuen does and its 30s baseline duration is as long as two
风火雷电
casts.
召唤执事者
- This summons a little steward that provides some different things like a free talent change or a vendor. The big draw, however, is
静谧之瓶
, which is a healing potion that does not share the same cooldown as health potions. The potion also removes bleeds, which be useful in Castle Nathria and several dungeons where bleeds are prevalent.
Kyrian is generally the most flexible of the four Covenants. Due to its cooldown that results in a boost to single target as well as AoE by working in more
神鹤引项踢
, you can adjust how you use it to accommodate for what you're fighting. This makes it a strong Covenant for all content, with a slight edge toward Raiding where single target is a more important type of damage. If it has a weakness its the time in between the cooldown windows. This is typically more of an "issue" in Mythic+ where fights are shorter but more frequent than it is in Raiding, where fights are longer and burst evens out over time.
The strongest soulbind is Pelagos. His capstone ability
放下过去
works very well with the way that Windwalkers play anyway, but now it's magic damage reduction, so it doesn't provide any direct DPS increase.
This path is the best because it gives you two Potency conduits to slot in:
运筹连环
if you're looking to focus on single target, or
洞察一击
if you're looking for more general purpose. The other choices don't have any particular impact on your DPS, so I chose the defensive options of
接木成林
and
壮胆配料
.
Second to Pelagos is most likely Kleia, although whether or not you choose her final Potency slot or choose her final Endurance conduit in order to get
勇气外露
will depend on how high your
洞察一击
rank is and how much Mastery it provides, since
勇气外露
does not scale the same way. The higher rank
洞察一击
is, the more likely you will take that over
勇气外露
, although providing a hard "one-size-fits-all" breakpoint will be nearly impossible.
Necrolord
骨尘酒
- This is an interesting ability as it is the strongest of all Covenants in sustained AOE, but the weakest in Single Target, meaning that you'll really be a specialist in one and not very strong in the other. This ability is at its strongest in Mythic Plus or fights where you have a bunch of targets to hit during its window, and may promote just spamming the heck out of
神鹤引项踢
and ignoring Mastery, but that will take time to test and math out.
骨髓酒花
- This merely increases the damage that you do during its duration and lets you use it more. If you're going to go with Necrolord, this will be a very powerful increase in damage, but not enough to move this above the other Covenants.
血肉铸造
- This is a 4 second channeled ability that provides a shield that is equal to 20% of your maximum health. If you are near a corpse, this shield is increased to 50%. This ability will be someone difficult to use since you have to channel for 4 seconds for the full benefit. For any telegraphed damage, you will generally have a cooldown being used, so the additional buff may not be needed. Also, because it is channeled, it cannot be used as an emergency button. This may see some situational use where you have the time to cast it before a damage event, but in general, I don’t see how useful this will be.
Necrolord does enough AoE damage to outpace Night Fae or Kyrian. In a single target environment, you're simply not going to use
神鹤引项踢
to get use out of the Chi-cost reduction, and a 10 second window where you'll do more damage is not as useful for Windwalkers that generally have one of the lowest Actions Per Minute of DPS specs. If you are choosing Necrolord, you'll get more mileage out of it in Mythic+; where its currently the strongest covenant.
However, Necrolord has one of more useful secondary abilities with
血肉铸造
and many of the Soulbinds have ways that modify this to make it even more useful. You do trade DPS potential for utility, but there are certainly situations where that is a worthy trade.
If you choose to go Necrolord then its likely you'll look to use Plaguesmith Heirmir once you have access to him, as his first slot is a static 3% Agility increase. Before that, you'll use Emeni.
Night Fae
妖魂踏
- I know others have said it, but I cannot overstate how magnificently gorgeous this ability is. They should build a full class around this ability, its looks, its color scheme, its artwork... just masterful. Speaking of "masterful", this ability was recently changed to work with, continue, and benefit from, Windwalker's Mastery. This was an enormous Quality of Life improvement to this ability, even if it came with a nerf to its damage to adjust for the increase from Mastery. This makes using it on cooldown and when you get resets a lot more palatable.
法夜之道
- This is potentially the weakest of the Covenant-specific Conduits simply due to numbers. In situations where you're likely to use
妖魂踏
to its fullest potential, this just magnifies that potential. In Mythic Plus, 5 targets to hit is a very common occurrence. You are at the mercy of getting a Faeline that hits them all, but given the size of some packs and how closely they can be stacked, this shouldn't frequently be a game-breaking problem. However, this Conduit's lack of strength is made up for by several of the Soulbinds having very strong final rows of slots.
灵魂变形
- This is another mobility cooldown. This will instantly blink you forward 15 yards and also grants a 50% movement increase for 15 seconds. As was said above; Monks have a large number of mobility spells and cooldowns. Having another blink is nice, but there isn’t a huge benefit for monks on this one. If you do like to potentially roleplay as a spectral fox, you now have a pathway to live out that fantasy in WoW.
Night Fae makes up for its lack of variance in different content with consistent strength. Although you largely use it the same in all types of content, its strong enough in those content to merit taking. Although it lacks the burst potential of Kyrian, its consistent and regular uses mean that you won't see the same peaks and valleys you will with a more burst-oriented Covenant.
In regards to Soulbinds, Niya pulls ahead of the other soulbinds due to her initial ability that increases your Mastery. Niya's left-most capstone ability,
尼娅的工具:锉刀
is a large amount of sustained damage, which is what pushes Niya toward the top of the Soulbinds. Similarly, her middle capstone ability can provide a large amount of DPS if you're interrupting frequently.
Even though Dreamweaver is similar to Pelagos in that you can get both Potency conduits AND a DPS increasing capstone, the initial ability does not provide any DPS increase and the capstone provides haste, which is rarely very necessary for Windwalkers. Dreamweaver may become the dominant Conduit once you're able to fill up the tree and depending on how frequently you'll be able to utilize the interrupt damage from Niya.
The 3rd Soulbind, Korayn is also incredibly strong due to
争先打击
.
Venthyr
陨落僧众
- This Covenant ability saw a sizeable nerf that saw its potential plummet. Couple that with its very boring "set-it-and-forget-it" usage, lack of interactions with Xuen or
风火雷电
, and you've got a button that's very underwhelming to use. The best part about this is that the "fallen monks" that are summoned scale with all our stats, which gives great hope for the potential of that being a mainstay in our other "summon" abilities, although that has yet to happen and there have been issues with the "fallen monks" not doing a great job of keeping their own Mastery going.
注能映像
- You'll certainly use this conduit if you're going to go Venthyr, but adding a modifier to something that's already not great doesn't make it magically better.
暗影之门
- Very situational in terms of power. Monk is already an extremely mobile DPS so moving quickly from place to place is not something we struggle with. The ability also has a cast time which will limit its usefulness in combat. You may be able to use this to skip packs in Mythic+ or positionally setup for certain encounters. You are however, at the mercy of WoW’s pathing, which is suspect at best. Even when you have full line of sight of your target location.
Venthyr started the Alpha/Beta cycle as being enormously ahead of anything else. However, it was necessarily and unceremoniously, nerfed hard. Due to its loss of damage and the fact that you're at the mercy of the Pet/Guardian AI, this is a very uninteractive Covenant to pick. Although the secondary ability
暗影之门
may prove to be essential in some Mythic Plus strategies, the lack of control over
陨落僧众
makes it difficult to get a lot of power out of the big part of this Covenant.
The interesting thing about Venthyr is that currently all three Soulbinds are very close to each other and can largely come down to personal preference with which one you'd like the most. Overall, the Venthyr Covenant seems to be focused on simplicity rather than strength, as many of its aspects are focused on providing passive damage increases rather than things you can control.
Windwalker Monk 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 Windwalker Monk GuideNecrolord Windwalker Monk Guide
Night Fae Windwalker Monk GuideVenthyr Windwalker Monk Guide
Windwalker Monk Soublind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Windwalker Monk 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
Affiiance
Just wanted to say thanks for all the work doing this guide, its extremely helpful! Can't imagine how much work figuring all of this out is with so many variables.
评论来自
mikedarling905
i guess i am going necrolord, although not a huge fan of the abilities.
评论来自
OphyJenkins
Thank you for the guide. It has helped me so very much. I am going Night Fae since it is "great" for both Raid and Mythic+ and I might actually do both this expac. Besides, I have plenty of alts to go with other covenants.
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