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

By Jaydaa Updated: 2022/11/28

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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: Kindred SpiritsKindred SpiritsBeacon of Light

Kindred Spirits 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 (Sunfire/Efflorescence/Ysera's Gift) 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.

Kindred SpiritsKindred SpiritsKindred SpiritsDeep AllegianceKindred SpiritsKindred SpiritsKyrian Druid Signature Ability: Summon StewardSummon StewardPhial of SerenityAscendant PhialCastle NathriaKyrian Exclusive Legendary for Restoration Druids

NEW Kyrian Legendary - Kindred Affinity 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%.

Deep AllegianceEffusive Anima AcceleratorKindred SpiritsOther Legendary Interactions for Kyrian Restoration DruidsKindred SpiritsSummon StewardBest 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.Effusive Anima AcceleratorKindred SpiritsKyrian Restoration Druid Covenant Rotation ChangesKindred SpiritsKindred SpiritsKindred SpiritsSummon Steward and Phial of SerenityKyrian Restoration Druid Talent Buildsat allKyrian Restoration Druid Gearing DifferencesKyrian Restoration Druid Soulbinds ExplainedPelagosKleiaForgelite Prime Mikanikos

Combat Meditation provides a large amount of mastery when using Kindred Spirits 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.

Let Go of the Past has been nerfed to only provide damage reduction instead of throughput, making it fairly lackluster.

Better Together 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, Newfound Resolve, is a decent throughput increase spawning roughly every 1.5 mins. The doubt can be difficult to spot, especially during more complicated encounters.

Phial of Serenity

Phial of Patience greatly increases the amount of health provided by Phial of Serenity, but turns it into a HoT over 10s as opposed to an instant on-use. This HoT does not contribute to Mastery: Harmony

Focusing Mantra provides cooldown reduction on Phial of Serenity 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, Valiant Strikes 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.

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

While not particularly helpful in raid as you'll constantly be in combat, Cleansing Rites 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 Pointed Courage is a powerful throughput increase via increased critical strike chance that is worth giving up the second potency conduit slot.

Resonant Accolades 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 Pointed Courage

Light the Path, 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 Valiant Strikes. Exceptional throughput.

Phial of Serenity

Through Ascendant Phial, she modifies Phial of Serenity 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 Castle Nathria, are no longer possible.

Bron's Call to Action summons an NPC that does damage and healing and you'll be summoning him significantly more often in 9.1.

Hammer of Genesis 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.

Soulglow Spectrometer 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.

Effusive Anima Accelerator provide significant cooldown reduction for Kindred Spirits when you have multiple enemies in range. Combine this with the Deep Allegiance conduit and you can have sub-30s Kindred Spirits empowerments. Exceptional especially when used in conjunction with Kindred Affinity, 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.

Phial of Serenity

Forgelite Filter causes you to automatically consume a charge of Phial of Serenity 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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Comment by 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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