Venthyr Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Marksmanship Hunter Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

By TheAzortharion Updated: 2022/11/28

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Thrill Seeker is a fairly decent trait for most classes. Unfortunately, Marksmanship Hunters don't really like Haste so it performs worse for us in comparison. The major downside to this ability is that it increments in a way that desyncs from our cooldowns. That being said, it gives a fairly decent amount of Haste so despite Haste being bad, it still offers a decent benefit.

Dauntless Duelist is a simple damage buff against your primary target. In a raid environment, this is literally a straight damage buff to the boss. Dauntless Duelist loses value in AoE situations since you may only have one "Adversary" at a time, meaning other enemies do not benefit from the increased damage. Dauntless Duelist resets when combat is dropped, so Hunters can utilize Feign Death if you wish to swap your Adversary target mid-fight.

Fatal Flaw increases your Critical Strike or Versatility by 20% for 10 sec after Thrill Seeker expires. This is a hefty buff that may or may not line up with our burst. We will benefit from it approximately every minute.

Dauntless Duelist

Sinful Preservation gives you an absorb equal to 50% of the amount healed by Healthstones and Health Potions. A solid trait that is fairly decent if you have a Warlock in your group.

Soothing Shade offers a massive Mastery buff approximately once a minute. It typically lines up with our one-minute cooldowns but it can become out of sync. Marksmanship loves Mastery so this trait is pretty huge for us. The major downside to this ability is that it occurs at random and requires us to remain within the shaded area. This can be difficult while dodging mechanics sometimes.

Refined Palate simply increases the duration of combat potions. While it sounds good, now that potions are on a 5-minute cooldown, this trait isn't very good compared to some other options.

Wasteland Propriety gives us a pretty hefty Versatility buff every time we use Flayed Shot that lasts for 10 sec. Assuming we're using Flayed Shot on cooldown, Wasteland Propriety has an approximately 33% uptime throughout the encounter. This is pretty big considering that not only do we get 6% Versatility, but 4 nearby allies also gain 3% Versatility as well.

Party Favors gives you a large stat bonus for a 4 hour period. It is unique in the sense that you can pick which stat bonus you'd like to obtain. You can speak with Theotar in Sinfall to gain either a Haste, Versatility, Critical Strike or Agility bonus. We'll typically want to go with the Haste bonus.

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Built for War seems like a solid trait, and eventually, it might be. For raid progression purposes though, this is a pretty bad trait. Any trait requiring you to stay above a certain health threshold isn't typically great while trying to learn fights and do mechanics properly. Of course, this is highly fight dependent, as it depends on the encounters (or dungeons) damage profile. Once content becomes farm, you are much more likely to get a higher benefit from this trait.

Superior Tactics gives 10% Critical Strike every time you land a successful interrupt. If it were possible to interrupt enemies every 30 sec, this could be a good trait. Unfortunately, the only place where this trait is really beneficial is PvP.

Battlefield Presence increases your damage done by 1% and reduces your damage taken for each enemy within 100 yards, up to a maximum of 3 enemies. It's simply a straight 1-3% damage gain depending on the number of enemies present. Decent trait in single target, but excels in AoE.

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Service In Stone is General Draven's signature ability. First off, all damage taken while below 40% health is reduced by 10%. This is a huge benefit that just adds a passive damage reduction to our arsenal. In addition to the damage reduction, When we die, our corpse turns to stone and explodes, dealing 100% of our maximum health to nearby enemies and healing allies for the same amount. The damage from the explosion is fairly notable, but you shouldn't be dying in the first place. That being said, there may be a cheese method of suiciding as the boss is dying to force the explosion towards the end of the fight to make full use of this trait.

Hold Your Ground provides a solid stamina boost after standing still for 4 sec. It also increases healing done which will benefit Exhilaration and Mend Pet, but this portion is largely irrelevant to us. While it's not amazing, the bonus stamina can be pretty useful depending on the situation.

Regenerative Stone Skin turns 15% of all overhealing on you into a HoT that will be applied over the next 6 sec. Pretty nice quality of life trait that may help you recover from future damage events, despite being at full health.

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Venthyr Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Marksmanship Hunter Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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