The new Necrolord Legendary -
Elementos astillados - is thematic, though upon release numerically underwhelming
The legendary is a weaker cousin of the Anima Power
Vara elemental astillada, providing half the benefit. Its best case use scenario is one where we'll consistently have 3-4 targets with
Choque de llamas active when we proc it.
To get an idea of the expected power level of this legendary without sims to assist us, we look to the only legendary that provides a similar benefit,
Recordatorio ancestral, and a bit of napkin math (elongated form of said napkin math can be provided upon request, though this comparison will be slightly tilted in favor of
Elementos astillados). In an ideal scenario (always 4 targets when you proc it),
Elementos astillados provides an average of a ~4.3% Haste Buff. Compared to
Recordatorio ancestral, which will give slightly different benefits based on the length of the fight in question though I'll use 5 minutes for this comparison (average sim length) which gives us an average of a ~4% Haste Buff.
In a Mythic+ scenario, we expect
Recordatorio ancestral to give us a ~3% overall dps boost as it stands, and so we can expect that
Elementos astillados will give us somewhere in the neighborhood of a ~3.5% boost that could be bumped up as far as 4.5% or so through use of the
Oleadas vertiginosas conduit. As a result, considering that
Ecos del Gran Cataclismo is gives us close to a 20% boost in a similar scenario, there's little chance we'll use this legendary as it stands. Even if it were buffed significantly so that its ideal use case were to compete with
Ecos del Gran Cataclismo for AoE (which would require at minimum somewhere in the neighborhood of a 200% to 300% buff), then it still wouldn't be able to compete with it on Single-Target where
Elementos astillados loses ~75% of its strength.
It does not change our choice in covenant at this time, for any content.
Elementos astillados is the first revealed covenant specific legendary for Restoration Shaman, and its not off to the greatest start.
Getting a chunk of haste after using
Oleada primigenia is alright, although not particularly intriguing. When it comes to healing it won't be the strongest option for Necrolord Shamans, especially because it has to compete with strong and consistent options such as
Núcleo de marea primigenia, and it directly competes with
Enfoque natural de Jonat with them both working off of
Oleada primigenia. In M+, a haste buff on demand might be more useful, but not sure yet if its strong enough there either.
The best case scenario (outside of the passive use) would be setting up
Elementos astillados into the
Precipitaciones intensas buff, where you'd have the strong
Lluvia de sanación,
Tótem de Marea de sanación and a lot of
Mareas vivass out, which all scale with haste - which still does not seem too strong and a bit niche. And while haste is a great stat for damage output, I don't see this legendary being useful for damage output, especially when you can just pick up
Piedra de temblor profundo instead.
All in all I don't think that this will replace any of the current legendaries and it is also not something you're going to swap covenants for.