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Kyrian Covenant & Best Soulbinds for Affliction Warlock Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5
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Allegiance to the
Kyrian
Covenant for Affliction Warlock provides you with many benefits, two new active abilities, access to three soulbinds; these soulbinds, and much more. In this guide, we will explore what are the perks for aligning yourself with the Kyrian, explaining their Covenant Abilities and Soulbinds and how they modify and enhance your toolkit both inside and out of combat. We will also recommend the best soulbinds for Kyrian Affliction Warlock and explore how they impact your rotation, gearing, and talent builds, updated for .
If you are looking for information on how strong the Kyrian Covenant is for Affliction Warlock, as well as details on which covenant is best, please visit our
Best Covenant for Affliction Warlock
guide.
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Changes to Kyrian Affliction Warlock in 9.1
No major changes to
碎魂奉纳
for 9.1.
Pelagos
战斗冥想
's Mastery reduced by 10%.
Kleia
勇气外露
's chance to critically strike for every nearby enemy or ally increased to 2% (was 1%), up to 6% (was 5%).
Forgelite Prime Mikanikos
The amount of spells and abilities required to summon Bron with Bron's Call to Action has been reduced to 75 (was 90). Additionally, Bron's damage and healing has increased by 10%.
灵钢之钳
now reduces duration of stun and incapacitate effects by 15% (was 30%).
闪亮的流波之球核心
cooldown increased to 1 minute (was 45 seconds) and now triggers at 30% health (was 35%).
New Kyrian Legendary -
受难灵魂碎岩
- When
碎魂奉纳
generates soul shards, gain 100% increased movement speed and 40% increased critical strike chance for 8 sec
Kyrian Affliction Warlock Covenant Abilities
Kyrian Warlock Class Ability:
碎魂奉纳
The Kyrian Ability for all specializations of warlock is
碎魂奉纳
- a Damage over Time ability that comes with a couple extra caveats.
It has a 40 second cooldown and an 18 second duration; however, if the target does not die by the time the DoT effect is over, the cooldown will reset, allowing you to cast it again, effectively giving you a full uptime DoT.
碎魂奉纳
also comes with a secondary effect - if the target dies while under its effect, you'll instantly gain 5 Soul Shards. This can be gamed in scenarios where you have small targets available, and want to dump a bunch of
灾难狂欢
s, giving
碎魂奉纳
a hidden amount of variability. Baseline, you'll always have a reliable single target increase with the DoT effect, but you'll have a choice in multi-target scenarios for free extra shards.
Kyrian Warlock Signature Ability:
召唤执事者
召唤执事者
is about as basic as it gets. The only major benefit of the lil homie is that, every 5 minutes, he provides you with 3
静谧之瓶
s. These health potions are a little different from your typical health potions, however. First, they do not share a cooldown with either your Healthstones, or your typical health potions, so in essence you're getting a third quick heal from potions are your disposal in any given encounter. On top of this, these
静谧之瓶
s have the added benefit of being able to be used to remove a large number of debuffs - diseases, poisons, curses, and bleeds. This has plenty of real-world applications in both dungeons and raids, and can be extremely useful for dealing with a particularly nasty debuff.
Kyrian Warlock Conduit:
灵魂奉纳
This conduit kind of goes against the typical warlock playstyle, especially for single target - Usually, you'll want to have as many DoTs on your target as possible when you start dumping
灾难狂欢
s. This conduit kind of goes against that philosophy. Especially on single target, the gain from having an extra DoT on single target is far greater than the raw 10% damage increase. Unfortunately in 9.1, the potential use case for this conduit, which was in Mass AoE, is gone with the advent of
腐蚀播种
腐蚀之种
coming back.
Affliction Warlock Conduit Guide
Kyrian Exclusive Legendary for Affliction Warlock -
受难灵魂碎岩
Similar to the conduit, this Legendary kind of goes against the typical Affliction Walrock playstyle for pure single target. You'd rather just have the extra DoT on the target for
灾难狂欢
damage rather than the critical strike benefit this legendary provides. However, in mythic+, if you can get the crit buff early on in a pull and spam
腐蚀之种
with
腐蚀播种
, this effect can be quite powerful. I just don't see it being run anywhere else.
Legendary Interactions for Kyrian Affliction Warlocks
No special interactions for either of the above abilities. Keep tuned if anything is added in the future!
Affliction Warlock Legendary Guide
Best Kyrian Affliction Warlock Soulbinds
Best Kyrian Affliction Warlock Renown 40 Soulbind
Pelagos by far has the highest raw amount of DPS gain available to the player on his soulbind tree. The amount of mastery that
战斗冥想
gives every 60 seconds far outweights any damage increases on either of the other two soulbind trees. This is true for both mythic+ and raid content.
Best Kyrian Affliction Warlock Renown 80 Soulbind
During 9.1, as you level your renown towards the new cap of 80, you'll want to stick with Pelagos the entire way through. Again,
战斗冥想
alone is enough of a damage increase over other soulbinds' offerings that you should never really swap away. At Renown 55, Pelagos becomes even stronger still, providing another large stat gain with
崭新决心
, further increasing the damage gain that Pelagos has over the other soulbinds.
Additionally, as you increase your Renown from 60-80, instead of unlocking new options in the soulbind tree, you'll instead unlock empowerments of the conduit slots you have available, in order from the top down. When a conduit slot is empowered, it essentially increases the power level of your conduits by 2, or 26 itemlevels. Because of this, once you start hitting those levels of Renown, you want to make sure your most important conduits are socketed in the earliest slots on the soulbind tree.
Kyrian Affliction Warlock Covenant Rotation Changes
The changes for Affliction warlock with
碎魂奉纳
are actually quite simple. In most scenarios, you can just treat it as an extra DoT for single target purposes. However, in multi-target scenarios, you'll want to weigh whether or not the potential of 5 soul shards for
灾难狂欢
spamming purposes is worth losing out on the 22+ seconds of time you'll have to wait for
碎魂奉纳
to come off cooldown to cast it again. Usually, in aoe situations, it's worth it to take the full soul shard bar.
静谧之瓶
usage
Realistically, there's no secret usage here. If there's a special debuff you know you can use the phial on in the next 5 minutes, don't use your
静谧之瓶
, instead opting for using personal cooldowns, external cooldowns, or your healthstone/regular healing potion for instead. Otherwise, treat these as just a third potion for healing purposes.
Kyrian Affliction Warlock Talent Builds
Your talent selections do not change as a Kyrian Affliction Warlock. There is one problem that we haven't really discussed about Kyrian Affliction Warlock before - on single target, you're essentially playing a 5 DoT build. While this may not sound that bad, juggling between
痛苦无常
,
腐蚀术
,
痛楚
,
生命虹吸
, and
碎魂奉纳
can be a pain for many players, and it might be worthwhile for some casual players to spec into
绝对腐蚀
just for ease's sake. This is definitely a worse option for single target damage, but it's a lot less hectic.
Kyrian Affliction Warlock Gearing Differences
Similar to previous expansions, warlocks like most other DPS classes prefer raw iLevel upgrades in general over specific secondary stats. While Haste and Mastery are still preferred, the pure raw stat upgrade often edges out the minimal gains you'd get from more properly itemized stats. That being said, it's always worth reminding you that it's always worth simming yourself, something that's incredibly easy with resources such as raidbots nowadays.
Kyrian Affliction Warlock Soulbinds Explained
Kyrian have access to three seperate soulbinds - Pelagos, Kleia, and Forgelite Prime Mikanikos. These are three seperate characters who you'll interact with while completing the Kyrian campaign, as well as just moving throughout the zone. Through the soulbind trees, you'll essentially attune yourself with these three, allowing yourself to gain access to different types of character upgrades - to your base abilties with conduits, and to the Covenant abilties through options in the soulbind trees. These trees unlock each week based on certain completion steps, such as your Renown with your Covenant, and your progression in the Covenant campaign. Optimal traits for each soulbind are listed below, but keep in mind that conduits are general going to depend on the type of content you're doing. For more information on conduits, check out the conduit guide.
Shadowlands Conduits
Pelagos has one of the strongest traits on any of the soulbind trees:
战斗冥想
- every 60 seconds, casting
碎魂奉纳
will increase your mastery by 350 for 10 seconds. Occasionally during this buffs, balls of light will spawn next to your character. Picking these balls up will increase the duration of the buff by 3 seconds. There's some nuance to proccing this buff on cooldown - Because
碎魂奉纳
has an 18 second duration and only refreshing its cooldown when its duration is up, you'll need a few seconds of dead space every third
碎魂奉纳
cast to instantly proc the mastery buff. A sample sequence of this would be as follows;
Cast first
碎魂奉纳
at x seconds into the fight. This procs
战斗冥想
.
Cast second
碎魂奉纳
at x+19 seconds into the fight, instantly after the dot expires and refreshes the cooldown of
碎魂奉纳
.
Cast third
碎魂奉纳
at x+38 seconds into the fight, again instantly after the dot expires.
Delay your fourth cast until x+60 seconds into the fight, delayed by roughly 3 or 4 seconds. Usage of a weakaura to indicate the internal cooldown of
战斗冥想
would be extremely useful for this.
New for 9.1
崭新决心
- During combat, you'll randomly proc a soul that you'll have to look at to gain a main stat and stamina buff. This is actually quite powerful, and further makes pelagos the best available soulbind for Affliction Warlock.
Pelagos has the advantage of being a large amount of free stats at dependable times. This leads into good burst windows for
灾难狂欢
spamming.
An example tree to follow on this soulbind is below:
Kleia is a far more defensive choice than Pelagos. You'll gain access to:
骁勇打击
- essentially you end up healing someone in your party when they get low.
师徒一心
- extra heath when you're healthy. Useful for living through potential one-shots
净化仪式
- free 10% shield when you're out of combat for 5 seconds. Useful for scenarios like mythic+ where you're out of combat a lot of times in between pulls.
New for 9.1
照亮道路
- Your Valiant strikes give .25% crit each, up to a maximum of 5%. If your valiant strikes proc, healing an ally, you gain 5% crit for 12 seconds, but cannot benefit from the critical strike portion of this effect for a minute.
Even after 9.1, Kleia is still a more defensive oriented soulbind, and not recommend for warlocks to progress with. I could see a world where the large amount of crit you gain from this tree could be useful, but for now it's not enough to match pelagos.
An example soulbind tree to follow is below:
Unfortunately, Forgelite Prime Mikanikos doesn't really have much to offer. The capstone trait,
行动的召唤:布隆
, isn't that useful for warlocks. You do gain a sort of semi-cheat death in the form of
掌炉大师的滤网
, which uses a charge of your
静谧之瓶
when you drop below 35% health, but realsitically you can just hit that button yourself in a scary scenario. These traits aren't worth passing up on the damage from Pelagos.
New for 9.1
溢流心能加速器
- Does a small amount of damage whenever you cast
碎魂奉纳
, and reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds. The CDR on
碎魂奉纳
is pretty much entirely meaningless - the damage gain from this is very minimal.
Even with the changes in 9.1, I wouldn't recommend choosing mikanikos. However, in the event you do, an example tree is listed below:
Double Legendaries for Kyrian Affliction Warlock
Patch 9.2 adds the option of using two legendaries at the same time, with the restriction that one of them is your Covenant legendary. This change empowers Kyrian Affliction Warlock even more. You can learn more about it in our Legendary Guide.
Affliction Warlock Legendary Guide
What are Soulbinds in Shadowlands?
Soulbinds are important Covenant characters players encounter in the Shadowlands. Soulbinds bind themselves to players allowing them to use their powers to strengthen characters while in the Shadowlands.
Learn more about Soulbinds in our in-depth guide.
Soulbinds in Shadowlands
Affliction Warlock Kyrian Soulbind Simulations
Here is a preview of how Affliction Warlock Kyrian Soulbinds traits stack against each other in terms of raw power, powered by
Bloodmallet
. Make sure to check above for an actual analysis about how strong each Soulbind is.
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Let Go of the Past is incorrectly reflected here: it is now a damage reduction buff, not versatility.
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you have this in palegos tree which I think it should be
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