Best Covenant for Windwalker Monk in Shadowlands 9.1.5

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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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Realistically, due to the relative difficulty of maximizing 精序兵戈 compared to 骨尘酒 or 妖魂踏, many players will see better performance as Necrolord or Night Fae over Kyrian. The gap between these three covenants is close enough that player skill will make the difference. Do not cost yourself damage by picking a Covenant you are not capable with.Windwalker Monk Covenant PopularityChanges with Patch 9.1.5 for Windwalker Monks陨落僧众

Ox Adepts now throw a Fallen Brew at the Monk after spawning, granting the Monk an absorb shield for 10% of the Monk's maximum health for 8 seconds.

Tiger Adept's Tiger Palm damage increased by 200%.

Tiger Adepts now cast Spinning Crane Kick if there are more than 1 enemy within range.

While Tiger Adepts are active, the Monk and their allies gain 5% movement speed, stacking with other movement speed increasing effects such as the Monk's Windwalking.

Windwalker Monk Covenant Raiding 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. 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.

神鹤引项踢精序兵戈溢流心能加速器精序兵戈战斗冥想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. As of 9.1 the damage from this ability can now crit, making this ability even stronger.
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.
血肉铸造 - This is a 3 second channeled ability that provides a shield that is equal to 40% of your maximum health with a 20% damage reduction during the channel. If you are near a corpse, this shield is increased to 50%. This ability will be somewhat 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. On fights where there is unavoidable downtime, its very easy to channel this for an added cushion from any upcoming damage..

神鹤引项踢血肉铸造Night Fae

妖魂祥和尼娅的工具：锉刀争先打击Venthyr

陨落僧众 - This Covenant ability saw a very sizable nerf near the end of Beta 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 underwhelming to use. 9.1.5 has seen a very notable increase in the damage potential for this Covenant, but its unlikely to beat out the other three in any situation. However, any Windwalkers who choose to play Venthyr can do so feeling better about their ability to contribute to their team's goals.
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.

暗影之门陨落僧众Windwalker Monk Covenant Mythic+ 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. 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.

神鹤引项踢精序兵戈溢流心能加速器精序兵戈战斗冥想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. As of 9.1 the damage from this ability can now crit, making this ability even stronger.
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.
血肉铸造 - This is a 3 second channeled ability that provides a shield that is equal to 40% of your maximum health with a 20% damage reduction during the channel. If you are near a corpse, this shield is increased to 50%. This ability will be somewhat 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. On fights where there is unavoidable downtime, its very easy to channel this for an added cushion from any upcoming damage..

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. The damage of a single cast isn't very high, but on multiple targets and with frequent resets this can result in a decent chunk of damage.
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.

妖魂祥和尼娅的工具：锉刀Venthyr

陨落僧众 -This Covenant ability saw a very sizable nerf near the end of Beta 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 underwhelming to use. 9.1.5 has seen a very notable increase in the damage potential for this Covenant, but its unlikely to beat out the other three in any situation. However, any Windwalkers who choose to play Venthyr can do so feeling better about their ability to contribute to their team's goals.
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.

评论来自 Chioy

Night Fae's Monk ability got some beautiful art

Best Covenant for Windwalker Monk in Shadowlands 9.1.5

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