Best Covenants for All Shadowlands Healers in Raid and Mythic+

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Quick Look at Best Covenant for Healers in ShadowlandsWe highly recommend reading the comments to understand why the Covenant is the best in case tuning shakes things up. Changes Since Last Update

Mistweaver Monk best Covenant for Raid is Kyrian, instead of Necrolord.
Restoration Shaman best Covenant for Raid has added Venthyr.

Quick Look at the Best Healer Covenants

Spec

Best Covenant
Raid

Best Covenant
Mythic+

Writer Comments

Restoration Druid

Night Fae

Comments by Jaydaa

Mistweaver Monk

Kyrian

Necrolord
Kyrian

Comments by Anomoly

Holy Paladin

Kyrian

Comments by Pelinal

Discipline Priest

Venthyr

Kyrian

Comments by Jak

Holy Priest

Necrolord

Comments by Jak

Restoration Shaman

Necrolord
Venthyr

Comments by Niseko

Best Covenants for Healer Specs in ShadowlandsBest Restoration Druid Covenant in Shadowlands

Night Fae's Convocar Espíritos - Provides a fairly potent 2 minute burst healing cooldown and does it without any mana expenditure. Has a lot of synergy with the now very strong Alma da Floresta as the Recomposição Rápidas cast by the covenant ability do proc Alma da Floresta. Add in the fact that we can get 1-2 Crescimento Silvestres out of every cast and on the rare occasion a Florescer and we're looking at a very strong covenant ability overall that puts the others to shame.

Night Fae's Convocar Espíritos - For all the same reasons it's good in raid it's good in Mythic+, but what really makes Convocar Espíritos shine is its versatility. Even if we don't necessarily need the healing in a dungeon, we can shift to our affinity shapeshift and use Convocar Espíritos as a fairly potent damage cooldown giving us one of the few ways to cast the high damage AoE Chuva Estelar as a Restoration Druid.

Best Mistweaver Monk Covenant in Shadowlands

Minor change with Kyrian taking over the current slot as the best covenant for raiding for Mistweaver Monks. The healing potential of all 4 covenants is fairly close at this point, however, Kyrian provides the most versatility in the type of build you can run and also it will be strong in any of the available content at launch.

With Mythic+ the current covenant balance is much closer. Both Kyrian and Necrolord provide similar benefits in terms of healing output. If you can stay reasonably stacked to take advantage of Liderança pelo Exemplo, Necrolord will be a solid pick. Kyrian, when paired with Evocar Chi-Ji, a Garça Vermelha, provides additional burst healing while dealing damage.

Best Holy Paladin Covenant in Shadowlands

Kyrian is the best covenant right now in all situations for Holy Paladin. Although other covenants such as Venthyr are solid, they have less use cases and are less globally applicable. Necrolord is slightly behind in general tuning but is better after a buff this week. and Night Fae has been nerfed several times, making it a sub-optimal choice while being more niche to begin with.

In raiding, Preço Divino makes up a large part of your Holy Power generation, due to much lower Golpe do Cruzado usage. Combine this with a 1min cooldown being quite flexible in most encounters Preço Divino is the clear winner here.

For Mythic+, Preço Divino provides ideal flexibility allowing you to use it offensively or defensively, additionally due to the smaller party size you can instantly trigger, or place a Fulgor de Luz on your entire party with a single ability. Preço Divino is also beneficial in acting as a stop-gap inbetween wings. Paladins struggle the most in mythic+ outside of wings, and Preço Divino will help keep your party healthy until you can sustain with Ira Vingativa.

Best Discipline Priest Covenant in Shadowlands

The best covenant for Discipline Priest raiding at the moment in Beta is the Venthyr. The massive burst damage that Jogos Mentais can produce is exceptional for also being on a 45 second cooldown allowing consistent use with major ramp up windows and boss abilities. It's is a simple massive single target damaging ability that converts into Expiação healing and also reverses some of the damage that the affected enemy deals. When buffed by Cisma and used with or without Couraça Espiritual it creates some incredible on demand burst healing when you have a large quantity of Expiaçãos out on the raid. This week Mindgames received some solid nerfs to its damage along with Disc receiving nerfs to all of its damaging abilities. Despite this, Mindgames is still the top choice for raiding Covenant because of how well it synergizes with your ramp up windows and how low-GCD intensive that it is to perform.

In Mythic+, the Kyrian covenant reigns supreme for the excellent Expiação transfers it produces to make high level Prideful easier and safer. Prideful enemies often have a heavy amount of health and deal increasing levels of aoe damage to the group. While Dom dos Ascendidos is a long cooldown, you'll often have at least 3 minutes between each prideful enemy, and if you don't need it for prideful, the spammable Nova Ascendida can produce excellent AoE damage and generate high stacks for the Ascended Eruption's burst of damage and healing on trash packs.

Best Holy Priest Covenant in Shadowlands

Necrolord is a clear winner for raiding. The Unholy Nova ability produces solid healing on a low cooldown, with heavy control over where the ability will land to ensure it's maximum potential. With soulbinds, the Emeni bind has a sweet and easy to acquire bonus with Lead by Example offering up to 13% bonus intellect on demand. This is excellent to utilize before one of your raid cooldowns in Divine Hymn or Holy Word: Salvation but could also simply be used before casting Circle of Healing to get the Prayer Circle buff allowing for some rapid and heavy hitting Prayer of Healing.

In Mythic+ the Necrolord continues to hold up as an excellent option for dungeon content. Some of the biggest challenges Holy Priest will have is the Prideful enemy and some select Tyrannical bosses. The seasonal Affix prideful is one large enemy that deals increasing levels of damage to your group until it caps (at 20 stacks) or is killed. Holy will benefit the most with a stacked team, a bursty covenant ability and follow up buffs. This is exactly what Unholy Nova provides with Emeni. As stacks increase, communicating with your team to stack, then cast Unholy Nova on your party and follow through with Holy Word: Sanctify or Prayer of Healing to sustain your team through the worst of the damage is remarkably effective.

Best Restoration Shaman Covenant in Shadowlands

Necrolord mainly due to Onda Primordial being a fantastic ability. This kind of strong and impactful spot-healing is what I personally look for when it comes to progress raiding, on top of being really fun to play and having the throughput. The soulbinds were weak for a long time but the recent shakeups got the Necrolord options into a decent spot.

Venthyr is in a great spot as an alternative however, being very easy to play with a fire-and-forget ability enables you to get a lot of throughput out without playing optimal or predictive, which might even give you better results than Necrolord.

Kyrian keeps getting their soulbinds nerfed, but is still in the playable territory.

After things settled down a bit, Kyrian soulbinds getting nerfed and me taking more time to look at Mythic+ Venthyr does look like the most promising option overall. Great damage & healing contribution while not requiring too much input with some interesting soulbind traits.

Necrolord still stands out as just being fantastic for dealing with all kinds of damage, double Onda Curativa into the tank is strong in general and so is the ability to deal with the group being spread and still getting AoE healing out. The clear drawback here is that there's not much damage coming from this ability apart from the occasional multidotting. How important damage and healing flexibility is depends on what your goals are however.

Kyrians awkward totem which is now combined with soulbinds getting brought in line isn't quite best anymore, but its definitely playable just fine, and so should be Night Fae.

Best Covenants for All Shadowlands Healers in Raid and Mythic+

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