Necrolord Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Blood Death Knight Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

Von Mandl Aktualisiert: 28.11.2022

NecrolordBest Covenant for Blood Death KnightCovenant Changes with 9.2 for Necrolord Blood Death Knights

Spell Changes:

NEWMonströse Gliedmaße now 28.40% AP damage per tick, up from 23.67%.
NEWBrutaler Griff has received a 100% performance boost at all ranks - it now starts at 30% bonus damage, and caps at 60%!

Covenant Legendary Tuning:

Raserei der Monstrosität: Monströse Gliedmaße know grants 20% bonus damage for 12 seconds, up from 10%.

Covenant Changes with 9.1.5 for Necrolord Blood Death Knights

Spell Changes:

NEW Monströse Gliedmaße now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets instead of being strictly capped to 5 targets.

New Covenant-Exclusive Legendary:

NEW Necrolord Legendary Raserei der Monstrosität: Monströse Gliedmaße lasts 4 seconds longer, and grips a total of five times, up from three, granting a total of 15 Knochenschild, up from 9. Each time it successfully grips something, your current target is affected by a debuff increasing their damage taken from you by 10% for 12 seconds.

Necrolord Blood Death Knight Covenant AbilitiesNecrolord Death Knight Class Ability: Monströse GliedmaßeMonströse Gliedmaße

It attempts to grip when used

It can grip the same target repeatedly, but no more than once every 4s

It generates 3 Bone Shield charges on cast, and each 6 seconds after that, or a total of 9 bones over its duration.

It cannot grip targets immune to movement, or targets less than 8 yards away from you

It also cannot grip targets out of combat

Necrolord Death Knight Conduit: Brutaler GriffMonströse GliedmaßeAusdörrende SeucheNecrolord Death Knight Signature Ability: FleischformungFleischformungFleischformungVampirblutFleischformungit is not worth using Vampirblut purely for FleischformunginterruptibleEmenis wanderndes FleischRunenwandlungveryNecrolord Exclusive Legendary for Blood Death Knights

NEW Necrolord Legendary Raserei der Monstrosität: Monströse Gliedmaße lasts 4 seconds longer, and grips a total of five times, up from three, granting a total of 15 Knochenschild, up from 9. Each time it successfully grips something, your current target is affected by a debuff increasing their damage taken from you by 20% for 12 seconds.

This is a net 30% damage increase on Monströse Gliedmaße compared to not having the legendary. Nothing spectacular, 17 damage events vs. 13.

With it equipped, Knochenschild generation becomes... rather quick:

No legendary	Raserei der Monstrosität
Time since cast	Bone shield charges	Time since cast	Bone shield charges
0s	3	0s	3
6s	3	3s	3
12s	3	7s	3
	11s	3
	15s	3

The first 1s off feels like a bug, but the remaining are all 4s apart (as expected), and the ability lasts 16s (up from 12s), totalling 15 Knochenschild charges, up from 9. In theory, this sounds great. In practice, in all scenarios, you will overcap charges provided by this, thus reducing the value it provides. Additionally, In Mythic+, the moment you press Tanzende Runenwaffe with this already up, you are guaranteed to cap charges no matter what you do due to the increased parry and Knochenschild's internal cooldown, making this also a case where you will cap and diminish the value of this legendary. As their cooldown lines up exactly, you have an incentive to desync them by a minute, which may not always be possible.

KnochenschildTanzende RunenwaffeMonströse GliedmaßeKnochenschildmuchTanzende RunenwaffeKnochenschildErinnerung an EinigkeitOther Legendary Interactions for Necrolord Blood Death KnightsBlutrote RunenwaffeGrabsteinKnochenschildRaserei der MonstrositätGrabsteinMarkzerfetzerHerzstoßBest Necrolord Blood Death Knight SoulbindsBest Necrolord Blood Death Knight Max Renown 80 Soulbind

Marileth: 46 defensively (Wogende Manöver), 55 (Kevins Schlammling)

Emeni: 45 defensively (Widerstandsfähige Näherei), 54 (Pusteleruption)

Bonesmith Heirmir: No major power spike

In Mythic+ specifically, Emeni is useful as most of the soulbind's kit is geared towards your group - more primary when using Monströse Gliedmaße for you and your group (for a very long time!), extra bonus damage from fully channelling Fleischformung, and two potency conduits. Unlike in raids, this does not turn into a loss when the 2-piece set bonus is equipped.

Everywhere else, Marileth is now the de facto best choice. Thanks to having three potency slots without sacrifices (two of which really benefit from our 2-piece set bonus), a large amount of extremely valuable traits and the guaranteed mastery from Flüchtiges Lösungsmittel, we're now just defaulting to him everywhere. Just remember to cast Fleischformung every 2min in raids, and on cooldown to suck up corpses in Mythic+. You don't need to fully channel it, you can just have one tick to gain the value of the soulbind.

MarilethEmeniNecrolord Blood Death Knight Covenant Rotation ChangesMonströse GliedmaßeTanzende RunenwaffeKnochenschildTanzende RunenwaffeHerzstoß

Cast Monströse Gliedmaße

Cast Tanzende Runenwaffe

Cast Grabstein

Cast Herzstoß

Monströse GliedmaßeFleischformungnot

You are able to do anything else to an enemy.

You will need to move in the next 3 seconds

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Flüchtiges Lösungsmittel empowers your Fleischformung by granting an additional buff based on the type of corpse of the enemies you kill. It provides a baseline 120 mastery for humanoids (because you're a humanoid. Right. Right?), 2% primary stats for beasts, 5% stamina for demons, and a 5% heal for undead.

With Schleimis reibungsfreie Beschichtung, every 30s, you have the option to gain a 15% absorb shield. Due to how we are prone to regularly dipping low by design, you will essentially proc this on CD without even having to think about it.

The first capstone trait, Ultimative Gestalt, causes you to gain 8% max HP in total over the duration of the channel. If you manage to finish the channel, you gain CC immunity for 4 seconds, and regenerate another 8% max HP over 4 seconds.

Wogende Manöver is, for all intents and purpose, a weaker form of stagger. It is nice as it is an absorb, which means that the damage gets counted twice in Todesstoß windows!

Kevins Schlammling, the final capstone trait, causes you to summon Kevin whenever you use Monströse Gliedmaße. Kevin lasts for 40 seconds, and debuffs your current target, causing it to take 2% extra damage. As you swap targets, Kevin applies more copies of this, giving you a strong incentive to melee different targets. He also heals your party for a relatively small amount each time they are hit.

Fleischformung

Mit gutem Beispiel vorangehen, the initial trait in the tree, functions as group utility. Your party members are granted 2% primary stat, and you gain up to 15% primary stat yourself. Primary stat isn't that great, but the impact on your team is quite nice. Unlike other specializations, our Necrolord ability cooldown is really long, however.

Emenis hervorragende Haut allows you to gain a small amount of extra HP when casting Fleischformung. It also happens to be the only non-net-loss Potency Conduit we can reach, so we'll just be using it.

Emenis wanderndes Fleisch allows you to cast Fleischformung while moving, which may be worthwhile in some cases to save time or keep moving while channeling.

Knirschende Zähne provides stacking haste when defeating mobs. Evidently, useful in M+, less so in raids

Widerstandsfähige Näherei is effectively 15% of your max HP in absorb every minute. All you need to do is get over 90% health once per minute.

Emeni's capstone, Pusteleruption, encourages you to use Fleischformung by rewarding you for spending those missed GCDs you spent channeling it, totalling 642% AP in nature damage split between all nearby enemies. Only special direct hits trigger the effect - healing or damage. As a result, you will likely need to be healed to do so. This is amazing to initiate pulls in Mythic+, however, and it's a very nice way to round off this soulbind

Gezahnte Schiftung deals a relatively large amount of shadow damage over time to attackers. However, it has a 1s ICD and overwrites itself, reducing its value by quite a bit.

Heirmirs Arsenal: Markgefüllter Edelstein grants you additional crit percentage every minute. Due to how Riposte works, however, this is a purely offensive trait, and likely something you will sim.

Auge des Metzen provides a significant amount of mastery while hitting targets above 90%. Great on fights with adds; relatively lackluster otherwise, but the rest of her kit makes this still worth it.

Gedächtnisausrüstung provides 3% additional execute damage. Also rather uninspired, but helpful, and the rest of her kit already makes up for this weakness

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Kommentare

Kommentar von Mag1tek

Might want to update the guide to account for the recent buffs. Abomination Limb now restores 9 Bone Shield charges over 12s (equivalent of 6 runes of Marrowrend), and Bonesmith Heirmir gives a constant 3% buff to Strength and Armor.

Also worth noting is that the "delayed death" feature that Heirmir's Forgeborne Reveries offers is probably most worthwhile for tanks. One of the reasons why a tank death is so harmful is because it usually happens unexpectedly, and that it often cascades to immediate deaths of the co-tank in a raid or DPS in a M+. But with Heirmir, you'll always have a warning. So long as the group has a battle rez available, you should be able to coordinate with your group to be ready with defensives and keep things stable for the few seconds it takes for the tank to get back up and re-establish threat. I'd expect it to prevent a wipe on occasion.

Kommentar von Arkthugal

"Emeni's Ambulatory Flesh allows you to cast Fleshcraft while moving, which may be worthwhile, but does limit your ability to suck up corpses with it."

This is actually NOT an issue. If you begin channeling near a pile of bodies, it seems to keep pulling from them even if you then move.

Kommentar von Mag1tek

Just got Emeni’s Pustule Eruption today, and I’m quite disappointed. It only composed around 4% of my damage in a M+. Heirmir is much stronger overall, both from an offensive and defensive perspective.

Necrolord Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Blood Death Knight Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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