Kyrian
Class Ability: Geißelnder ObolusCurrently, Kyrian is the strongest covenant due to the combination of this spell and the Soulbinds within this covenant. This ability is very strong, especially for Destruction. This spell is also duplicated by
Verwüstung and adds a lot of power to this spell. However, if your target dies while affected by
Geißelnder Obolus, the cooldown is not reset. This means you can't just alternate between low health targets. This is both a strong option on single, two targets, and heavy cleave.
Covenant Ability: Provost beschwörenNot the most interesting covenant ability, but he can sell you food and drinks, help you change your talents for free, and even play you a song!
Covenant Conduit: SeelenzehntIncreases your
Chaosblitz damage by 10% for 10 seconds if a target dies while affected by
Geißelnder Obolus. Keep in mind, if a target dies while affected by this dot, you gain 5 Soul Shards, meaning you're able to cast at least 2, probably 3 buffed bolts. This is a decently strong conduit in situations where you'll be able to proc this often.
Necrolord
Class Ability: DezimierungsblitzThis ability is very strong on single target, and especially during execute phases where you're able to gain even higher % increases on your
Verbrennen damage stacks. As mentioned above, this ability was nerfed when combined with
Feuer und Schwefel. This nerf makes this spell less attractive on multiple targets, but still very strong on single target.
Covenant Ability: FleischformungThis ability is situationally a very nice defensive boost. While it can be kind of annoying to channel, there are a few Soulbind options that make it a bit less annoying such as
Emenis wanderndes Fleisch. That being said, reaching this Soulbind perk takes you away from a potency conduit slot which is not ideal.
The Soulbind tree for Necrolord is overall decent. Tt offers perks such as
Mit gutem Beispiel vorangehen which makes for a nice boost to your stats. Another noteworthy mention here is
Ultimative Gestalt which makes you immune to crowd control effects while casting
Fleischformung. This could potentially be very strong in certain scenarios.
Covenant Conduit: Tödliche DezimierungNot very strong.
Dezimierungsblitz's strength isn't as much in its missiles damage, but rather in the empowered
Verbrennen. That being said, this is by no means useless and still a decent buff to the abilities damage, especially during execute phases.
Night Fae
Class Ability: SeelenfäuleThis ability was made more attractive by having its health cost removed and damage on the main target buffed, but still, it's capped to 4 targets and it's unlikely you will end up using the
Blutsauger part of this ability. If you were to argue in favor of this ability, the defensive value it adds through the healing is actually quite decent. Overall, the damage this dot deals isn't bad either, especially not in dungeons where you're able to constantly apply it to 4 targets.
Covenant Ability: SeelengestaltThis class ability isn't amazing, but through the Soulbind tree, it actually becomes slightly more interesting. First off
Horn der Wilden Jagd adds utility to your group. 10% movement speed however isn't very much and it's certainly not on the same level as a
Anstachelndes Gebrüll or
Totem des Windsturms.
Unermüdliches Laufen adds a nice layer of defensive value to this spell.
Ansturm der Wilden Jagd can turn your
Seelengestalt into an engage type ability that gives the ability an interesting twist.
Covenant Conduit: SeelenfresserNice damage increase to this ability. The radius increase means it could possibly hit a target it would have otherwise missed which is obviously also nice.
Venthyr
Class Ability: Drohende KatastropheThis ability is an interesting one as it can apply either
Fluch der Sprachen or
Fluch der Schwäche to an entire group of mobs on a relatively short cooldown. The damage of this spell isn't bad, but compared to the alternative covenant class abilities this doesn't compare.
Covenant Ability: SchattentorA decent addition to your mobility kit, but nothing game-breaking. It's worth noting this ability can also be modified through quite a few Soulbind traits:
Clearly, Venthyr revolves around the Covenant ability quite a lot, but this isn't enough to make this Covenant a viable choice.
Covenant Conduit: Katastrophale HerkunftNot very interesting, this ability is already underperforming significantly compared to the alternative Covenant abilities.