Best Covenant for Windwalker Monk in Shadowlands Shadowlands 9.0.2

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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.

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.

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Best Covenants for Windwalker Monk

Best Raid Covenants

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Best Mythic+ Covenants

Covenants

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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 PopularityWindwalker Monk Covenant AnalysisKyrian

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.

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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.

神鹤引项踢血肉铸造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.

尼娅的工具：锉刀争先打击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.

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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.

Best Covenant for Windwalker Monk in Shadowlands Shadowlands 9.0.2

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