First and foremost, one of the biggest problems with the new covenant legendaries have to contend with is that our legendaries are very strong, and in many cases damage profile defining. If a new choice opening up compared to the current options can't achieve that, it's a bad sign.
Venthyr -
元素导能On the surface this might look interesting and finally be the boost that
火焰新星 needs as an activator, but it just has so many problems that I can't see it being used. Fire Nova as an ability takes away from alternative talents we could take and needs a supporting build, and is actually quite reliant on sustained
烈焰震击 uptime to gain relative value; largely due to the contribution from
鞭笞烈焰. Attaching this effect to a 1m30s cooldown (with a bit of unreliable CDR here or there) in
收割链 is going to make for an explosive moment, but it's going to take so much investment to get that pop and cost you damage elsewhere.
Lastly and most importantly, it pulls us away from using
毁灭之风 which can provide equivalent burst AoE (but more reliably), while also flexing into single-target without any issue. I can see a world where this may get used for very specific encounters, but the cooldown of
收割链 and disconnect between build choices in these situations vs. what this actually adds makes it feel a bit like a trap for people who want a fix to make Fire Nova usable. While I'd love that, this really doesn't seem like the cure.
Night Fae -
狂乱生长之种While there was a lot to go through with the Venthyr one above, this one really has few - if any - positive talking points. Currently our top performing single-target build uses
巫医的狼骨, an option that is
strictly better in every circumstance I can think of. The cooldown reduction provided by the Night Fae option is on average much lower, and it also doesn't provide the additional
漩涡武器 generation that comes as a free bonus with
巫医的狼骨. That there is a legendary that shares such a similar effect with no mechanical benefit to another raises some serious question marks here and I can't see any chance of this being used as it stands.
The bottom line for both these and the previously released
Necrolord legendary,
碎裂元素, s that right now none of these legendaries are enticing enough to encourage a swap either in covenant or legendary equip. None of them are contenders to even be worth crafting, and compared to what Enhancement has available, considering the reliance we've had on legendaries to cover some of the gaps in our toolkit, these are nowhere near the level of effects that could provide that.
Venthyr -
元素导能元素导能 has a lot of potential to be the new best legendary for Venthyr Shamans. Baseline, it about equals the amount of
激流s you gain from
始源之潮核心 - with the new legendary pulling ahead due to the cooldown reduction on
收割链 and because there's less potential for wasted
激流s. Making
收割链 a bit beefier doesn't hurt either, although you do lose the constant extra
潮汐奔涌 in comparison to
始源之潮核心.
I'm assuming they'll be trading blows. If the fight is more constant low ticking damage, it would favour
始源之潮核心, with most other fights fitting
元素导能 more due to being able to control the output better. Adding some damage (assuming there's a couple targets) also doesn't hurt.
Night Fae -
狂乱生长之种狂乱生长之种 (Night Fae) could be really good for some fights, although it is more situational. If you fit 2 uses of
法夜输灵 in between
治疗之潮图腾 casts, that
法夜输灵 becomes a 2 minute cooldown which can have a lot of potential, especially with
瓢泼大雨 as well. But yeah, overall a little more niche but as a Night Fae Shaman it should be worth crafting for whenever the cooldown reduction is more useful than
始源之潮核心.
I don't see them changing our covenant choice up since a covenant-neutral legendary is still keeping up and just so universally useful, but I do like them both more than the current iteration of the Necrolord legendary (
碎裂元素).