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Balance Druid PvP Covenants, Soulbinds, and Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2(已归档)
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Welcome to Wowhead's Balance Druid Arena PvP Guide, up to date for 9.2! In this section of the guide, we will cover each Covenant and its viability for Balance Druids. We explain the usefulness of each Covenant to a Balance Druid in PvP, allowing you to make the best decision for your PvP playstyle. Recommendations for Soulbinds will be explored for each Covenant.
About the Author
Ribs has been playing Balance Druid since the days of The Burning Crusade. A completionist in PvE, PvP and everything in-between! Multiple Gladiator/Hero achievements and a raider in the guild <Might> on Zul'jin.
You can reach out to Ribs on Discord: Ribs#1685
Overview 9.2
Talents & Racials 9.2
Rotations & Strategy 9.2
Gear 9.2
Covenants 9.2
Macros & Addons 9.2
Covenants
Covenants are a key part of the Shadowlands expansion. Selecting a Covenant gives you access to exclusive abilities - one that is Covenant-wide, and one that is specific to your class. You will also be given a choice of Soulbinds to enhance your power. For more information on Covenants, click here.
Soulbinds
Soulbinding is a new progression system that allows you to bind yourself to a significant member of your Covenant and share some of their power. Each Covenant has three potential Soulbind options with unique bonuses which can be powered up through a Soulbind tree. As you gain Renown with your Covenant, more rows of your Soulbind tree will be unlocked. Conduits add further possibility for customization, filling empty sockets with one of three bonus types. For more information on Soulbinds, click here.
Conduits
Conduits are available in three types; Potency, Endurance, and Finesse. Potency Conduits increase your spell power, Endurance Conduits provide additional defense, and Finesse Conduits provide you with additional utility. Some Conduits are the same across classes but some are specific to your class. For more information on Conduits, click here.
Best Covenant for Balance Druid in PvP
This section will discuss the factors that come into play when choosing a Covenant. Below you can see a quick summary of how good each covenant is inside each aspect of PvP. For more information on signature and class Covenant abilities as well as the recommended Soulbind, see the table below.
Arena
Battlegrounds
Kyrian
Excellent
Very Good
Necrolord
Excellent
Bad
Night Fae
Good
Excellent
Venthyr
Bad
Good
Changing Covenants - Factors to Consider
Patch 9.1.5 made it significantly easier to change Covenants. After reaching Renown 80 on one of your characters and earning the
声名显赫
achievement you are granted the ability to freely swap Covenants on
ALL
of your characters. (see:
Covenant Swap in Patch 9.1.5
for more info.)
This opens up the three solid choices Kyrian / Necrolord / Night Fae to be played at any given time. Kyrian will most likely be your go to still as it compliments our kit very nicely, with Necrolord being solid if you are having trouble surviving or running into very high damage teams.
Covenant Analysis
It is my recommendation that if you are solely an Arena player that is looking to push rating, Kyrian or Necrolord are going to be your best choice. If you play Balance Druid in other forms of content such as RBGs, Mythic+, Raiding, and Arena then you should consider playing Night Fae. All choices are Gladiator-viable and will not be a hinderance to your Arena journey.
Kyrian:
增效羁绊
+
静谧之瓶
Kyrian is an overall amazing Covenant decision, primarily through the use of the Pelagos soulbind, which provides us the
战斗冥想
ability. This is a Mastery buff which provides a direct damage boost on top of
增效羁绊
. This buff can be extended by picking up small blue orbs off the ground, however this does not necessarily need to be a primary focus of yours in an arena match.
静谧之瓶
is a nice throughput item that is capable of cleansing a large number of effects, and can be modified by the Pelagos Soulbind ability
耐心之瓶
. This ability, when used preemptively and in combination with
狂暴回复
, is effectively your entire health pool.
Necrolord:
激变蜂群
+
血肉铸造
The Necrolord covenant ability
激变蜂群
is not overly powerful, however it does find its' DoT enhancing power greatly improved when used in conjunction with the
生死循环
Legendary power. Necrolord's playstyle as a covenant largely relies around spreading out your damage against all targets possible, enhancing their effects with
激变蜂群
and winning through a combination of immortal-tier defensive power, and sustained spread output, which a lot of healers struggle to deal with. Necrolord is largely played with a Shadow Priest as your partner in 3v3, to provide dispel protection, additional healing throughput, and a very dampening composition.
With the continuation of a burst-centric meta in Arena, the defensive power that Necrolord offers cements it as one-of, if not the best covenant option for Balance Druids in 9.2.
Additionally, Necrolord's
血肉铸造
provides a significant shield when used in
熊形态
. This combined with the Soulbind Marileth's
终极形态
ability, you can potentially immune incoming stuns and crowd-control such as
肾击
. Marileth also provides
乌兹的和谐覆层
, a decent survivability booster if you're going to be focused during a match.
Night Fae:
万灵之召
+
灵魂变形
Night Fae is the subject of numerous angry forum and reddit posts over its signature ability,
万灵之召
. Convoke the Spirits is a massive damage cooldown when paired with
化身:艾露恩之眷
, capable of destroying an entire team by itself if allowed to cast until completion. However, the benefits of Night Fae do not solely exist with just
万灵之召
. Our go-to Soulbind Niya provides
林地复兴
which is a large Stamina and Mastery (damage) boost,
不休不疲
for some solid health regeneration while kiting, and
尼娅的工具:锉刀
which is a nice single target slow and small damage boost.
With the changes to
万物平衡
,
万灵之召
loses a significant amount of burst power, and greatly changes the playstyle of Night Fae, to be based around
天界万灵
or
古朴缚梦者
.
灵魂变形
is a great secondary covenant ability which is great for moving throughout the map, whether to cross, kite, or diving a pillar.
Venthyr:
饕餮狂乱
+
暗影之门
Venthyr is a difficult covenant to quantify in terms of power and usefulness. It has some amazing benefits, and some considerable drawbacks.
饕餮狂乱
is the primary signature ability. This acts similar to the Destruction Warlock's Infernal cooldown of BfA, where your damage ramps extremely hard if you can get enough casts off. Combining
饕餮狂乱
with
化身:艾露恩之眷
can result in some massive
星涌术
hits. The considerable drawback being that if for whatever reason you cannot continue casting, you will be take a considerable damage hit. Thankfully shifting forms counts as a spell cast, so there is some leniency.
Venthyr does have a unique niche in Battlegrounds as an AoE specialist, where the combination of
饕餮狂乱
and
化身:艾露恩之眷
combined with full dots on every target and
星辰坠落
creates chart-topping pressure. Combine this with
能量灌注
and an AoE-based Mortal Strike and you have some truly "unhealable dam".
暗影之门
is the secondary covenant ability, providing some mobility, and can potentially be a form of crowd-control with Nadjia's
混沌代理人
ability.
Similarly beneficial from our Soulbind Nadjia is the ability
漠然困境
which reduces the impact of being interrupted, which is going to happen a lot when you try to cast
旋风
.
Conduits
Conduits are socketed into your Soulbind tree in order to enhance your abilities and come in three different types, Potency, Endurance, and Finesse. The best of each are listed below:
Potency:
天降怒火
+
精准天象
+
元素汇流
(Night Fae) /
适应性护甲碎片
(Kyrian) /
进化蜂群
(Necrolord) /
无穷饥渴
(Venthyr)
Endurance:
精确本能
+
固有决心
+
韧如树皮
Finesse:
不息追猎
/
荒野之子
Our potency options revolve around always picking both
天降怒火
and
精准天象
, enhancing our burst potential, which is the cornerstone of the Balance Druid damage profile. In addition to these two conduits, we choose a third conduit based on which covenant we are:
Kyrian:
适应性护甲碎片
- This is picked primarily because no other options are significantly powerful.
诚挚忠心
de-syncs
增效羁绊
from
艾露恩之怒
and our Root/Beam combo.
适应性护甲碎片
increases your damage output outside of burst cooldowns, however it is not very noticeable, with that being said it's more significant than some other potential options.
Night Fae:
元素汇流
- Conflux increases our
万灵之召
damage, and is one of the best raw throughput increase conduits available for Night Fae Balance Druids.
Necrolord:
进化蜂群
- Evolved Swarm enhances the effect of
激变蜂群
, resulting in a sizeable increase to our spread pressure. Unfortunately as Balance Druid conduits are very weak, there aren't any 'better' options for our third Potency slot. An alternative to this slot is
适应性护甲碎片
.
Venthyr:
无穷饥渴
- Endless Thirst builds on the combined effects of both
饕餮狂乱
and
化身:艾露恩之眷
, greatly increasing the stats that we have, and therefore our damage output.
Endurance Conduits are absolutely make or break for Balance Druid and are extremely impactful in improving your survivability, to the point that Endurance Conduits are so powerful that you can sacrifice Potency conduits for them into a lot of enemy compositions.
精确本能
provides us with an automatic cheat-death effect,
固有决心
increases it, as well as your standard
狂暴回复
healing.
韧如树皮
will become more powerful as our conduits level up, especially when combined with
自然秩序的意志
; this is definitely something to look out for later in the expansion.
The Finesse conduits we have access to are not the most impactful.
不息追猎
will likely be your primary choice, giving you some more kiting power as it works with both
猎豹形态
and
旅行形态
.
荒野之子
can potentially be a nice boost to our crowd-control output if you end up playing
蛮力猛击
, or potentially
群体缠绕
into double melee.
Soulbind Trees
You may choose between
精准天象
or
耐心之瓶
depending on the composition you are facing.
耐心之瓶
is very strong, however into burst compositions you may not be able to get full benefit from the Phial's healing over time, in which case you may take the Potency conduit
精准天象
instead.
强强联手
isn't amazing, however it does give us access to a third Endurance conduit socket, enabling the use of
韧如树皮
, which can be an absolute game changer into some compositions as games go longer and cooldowns get de-synchronized.
虔敬者之路
Is definitely a potential option to use against some compositions with stuns and slows, however you are losing
韧如树皮
. Choosing between
虔敬者之路
and
强强联手
will largely depend on what compositions you face, and your playstyle. If you find yourself kiting and running then
虔敬者之路
may be better than
强强联手
for you.
We opt to put
劲烈星影
in our first Potency conduit slot simply because it is the weakest option and when you swap to
耐心之瓶
for a more defensive build, you do not lose either
精准天象
or
天降怒火
.
With the meta being based around burst damage and tight damage windows, Necrolord is an amazing choice for the tankyness it provides, the best soulbind for enabling this is Plague Deviser Marileth.
This tree enables provides the use of our best conduits, where we have access to three potency and three endurance conduits. In our third potency slot we will finally take
进化蜂群
to build on the rot playstyle that comes with playing Necrolord, and similarly to Kyrian, our third potency option will be
韧如树皮
. We opt for this path to make use of
乌兹的和谐覆层
and
黏性踪迹
, providing a lot of defensive utility in addition to
血肉铸造
, and giving us a slow against some of the more sticky melee that historically have given Balance Druid trouble.
Niya is our Soulbind of choice.
元素汇流
is amazing for amplifying your
万灵之召
damage.
尼娅的工具:毒药
is not worthwhile to take because we cannot proc it often enough.
For the most part, this tree is fairly set-in-stone, the primary point of differentiation is based around
精确射击
and
幸存者集结
.
精确射击
is effectively a 20% increased in movement speed with a 50% uptime, whereas
幸存者集结
provides another 'cheat-death' style effect which will come in useful against almost every composition you face.
Against double melee compositions you can opt to run
精确射击
for some kiting potential while also gaining access to
韧如树皮
. Against casters or any composition that revolves around setups and stuns,
幸存者集结
will be your best bet.
Nadjia is the strongest Venthyr Soulbind, as she provides a range of damage steroids in
兴奋追猎者
and
致命缺陷
, and interrupt reduction through
漠然困境
.
We take
无穷饥渴
to double down on our massive cooldown windows, where during the 30 second overlap of
化身:艾露恩之眷
and
饕餮狂乱
you are maximizing your damage output.
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