Kyrian Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Restoration Druid Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

Par Jaydaa Actualisé : 28/11/2022

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Changes To Kyrian Restoration Druids in 9.2

Legendaries

Kyrian

You and your Kindred Spirit each gain a bonus secondary stat based on their Covenant. This bonus is halved for your Kindred Spirit, however both bonuses are doubled while the bond is Empowered.
Kyrian: Mastery increased by 150.210.
Night Fae: Haste increased by 8%.6%.
Venthyr: Critical Strike chance increased by 8%.6%.
Necrolord: Versatility increased by 8%.6%.

Kyrian Restoration Druid Covenant AbilitiesKyrian Druid Class Ability: Âmes sœursÂmes sœursGuide de lumière

Âmes sœurs takes 2.5s to cast to bind to a new partner.

Empowering the bond is off the GCD making it very non-intrusive to utilize.

Bonding with a tank would be the obvious choice as you want the beacon healing you provide to be largely effective; however, the damage redirect may only be situationally useful for yourself.

Bonding with a DPS provides additional healing, damage, or a self-absorb shield as a reservoir based on the damage of the bonded DPS, which can be quite large especially when that DPS is in cooldowns or AoEing a large number of targets; however, the beacon healing is likely to be less effective as DPS generally take less damage than a tank. Notably, the reservoir built by the DPS can be consumed by either damage, healing, or taking damage meaning any semi-passive effects (Éclat solaire/Efflorescence/Don d’Ysera) or incoming damage can consume the reservoir making it difficult to funnel all of it into one specific form.

Bonding with a healer is kind of the worst case scenario as they only offer self-healing which is only situationally useful and the beacon healing is likely to be less effective as they generally take less damage than a tank.

Âmes sœursÂmes sœursÂmes sœursAllégeance indéfectibleÂmes sœursÂmes sœursKyrian Druid Signature Ability: Invocation de régisseurInvocation de régisseurFlasque de sérénitéFlasque d’ascendantChâteau NathriaKyrian Exclusive Legendary for Restoration Druids

NEW Kyrian Legendary - Affinité spirituelle You and your Kindred Spirit each gain a bonus secondary stat based on their Covenant. This bonus is ]halved for your Kindred Spirit, however both bonuses are doubled while the bond is Empowered.
Kyrian: Mastery increased by 210.
Night Fae: Critical Strike increased by 6%.
Venthyr: Haste increased by 6%.
Necrolord: Versatility increased by 6%.

Allégeance indéfectibleAccélérateur d’anima jaillissantÂmes sœursOther Legendary Interactions for Kyrian Restoration DruidsÂmes sœursInvocation de régisseurBest Kyrian Restoration Druid SoulbindsBest Kyrian Restoration Druid Max Renown 80 SoulbindConduits are socketed in order of highest priority from top to bottom in order to facilitate the greatest benefit when empowering conduit rows from renown. Please see our Restoration Druid Conduit Guide for more information on Conduits including Empowered Conduits.Accélérateur d’anima jaillissantÂmes sœursKyrian Restoration Druid Covenant Rotation ChangesÂmes sœursÂmes sœursÂmes sœursInvocation de régisseur and Flasque de sérénitéKyrian Restoration Druid Talent Buildsat allKyrian Restoration Druid Gearing DifferencesKyrian Restoration Druid Soulbinds ExplainedPelagosKleiaForgelite Prime Mikanikos

Méditation de combat provides a large amount of mastery when using Âmes sœurs by empowering the bond, along with extra spheres you can walk through to extend the effect. As a Restoration Druid we have pretty good mobility so collecting the spheres shouldn't be too difficult.

Renoncement au passé has been nerfed to only provide damage reduction instead of throughput, making it fairly lackluster.

L’union fait la force provides additional mastery just for being within 3 yards of an ally. It's a pretty tight area, but if you can make it work then it'll be worth it.

The new 9.1 capstone trait, Nouvelle résolution, is a decent throughput increase spawning roughly every 1.5 mins. The doubt can be difficult to spot, especially during more complicated encounters.

Flasque de sérénité

Flasque de patience greatly increases the amount of health provided by Flasque de sérénité, but turns it into a HoT over 10s as opposed to an instant on-use. This HoT does not contribute to Maîtrise : Harmonie

Mantra de concentration provides cooldown reduction on Flasque de sérénité whenever you defeat an enemy. Healing any ally that damages these enemies does count as you defeating an enemy, so no damage from you is required.

Though not a direct increase to our healing spells, Frappes vaillantes provides a way to quickly heal a player in your party by 20% by utilizing your critical strikes including ticks from your HoT. With the recent 1 minute cooldown and 20 stack cap, this trait has been severely nerfed, likely contributing only about 1% of your total throughput.

Mentorat grants your allies 5% max health which while not huge is definitely helpful for survivability. It also has the added side-effect of buffing Frappes vaillantes.

While not particularly helpful in raid as you'll constantly be in combat, Rites purificatoires is a nice small survivability increase in Mythic+ as you tend to drop combat between packs of enemies.

If you can sneak your way into melee or the ranged are fairly clumped then Courage exemplaire is a powerful throughput increase via increased critical strike chance that is worth giving up the second potency conduit slot.

Accolades résonnantes can provide a lot of additional healing but only to already healthy targets so the life saving potential isn't high on this one. It's not bad and will compete against the 2nd potency slot if you can't make good use out of Courage exemplaire

Éclairer le chemin, the capstone trait of 9.1, provides a significant amount of crit to your as well as a crit proc to your and your ally healed by Frappes vaillantes. Exceptional throughput.

Flasque de sérénité

Through Flasque d’ascendant, she modifies Flasque de sérénité to provide full immunity to debuffs for 8 seconds. This can be situationally amazing to cheese mechanics. However, most egregious cases of this traits use, such as removing many bleeds in Château Nathria, are no longer possible.

Appel à l’action de Bron summons an NPC that does damage and healing and you'll be summoning him significantly more often in 9.1.

Marteau de la genèse is potentially good in mythic+, but in any encounter where you either aren't damaging, or only have one target available it's not a good option.

Spectromètre brillâme provide a single-target healing increase to an ally. Unfortunately, it's a bit uncontrollable as we're likely to heal multiple targets at once with our HoTs, but it's a nice increase nonetheless.

Accélérateur d’anima jaillissant provide significant cooldown reduction for Âmes sœurs when you have multiple enemies in range. Combine this with the Allégeance indéfectible conduit and you can have sub-30s Âmes sœurs empowerments. Exceptional especially when used in conjunction with Affinité spirituelle, for even more secondary stats for you and partner. This combination really shines in Mythic+ where you'll typically have more than one enemy for additional cooldown recovery.

Flasque de sérénité

Filtre du forgelite causes you to automatically consume a charge of Flasque de sérénité to heal yourself. While nice for automation purposes, this trigger can actually leave you in hot water if it was automatically used when you weren't in danger of dying but is now on cooldown when you desperately need the healing.

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Commentaires

Commentaire de RealEthereal

It looks like the Night Fae and Venthyr buffs from Kyrian leggo are backwards. Should be 8% Haste for NF and 8% Crit for Venthyr!

Kyrian Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Restoration Druid Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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