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Druid Double Legendaries in 9.2: Combinations for Balance, Feral, Guardian and Restoration
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07/2/2022 em 08:00
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Jaydaa
Earlier this year, Double Legendary testing started on the PTR with the addition of the
Lembrança da Unidade
pattern, allowing players to wear both a normal legendary and your covenant-specific legendary at the same time. Our Druid Guide Writers have theorycrafted a first look at the Double Legendary combinations you're likely to equip in both
Sepulcro dos Primogênitos
and Mythic+ in Patch 9.2 - Eternity's End.
The timeline and acquisition of Double Legendaries has changed on the 9.2 Eternity's End PTR. Check out our post below to learn how and when you'll be able equip two legendaries.
Double Legendary Acquisition in Patch 9.2
Our Guide Writers have provided initial thoughts on which Double Legendary combinations you'll likely equip in Patch 9.2. Check out all of our released articles below.
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Balance Druid GuideFeral Druid GuideGuardian Druid GuideRestoration Druid Guide
Disclaimer: All theorycrafting is based on the current tuning of the PTR using all the latest class and systems changes including Double Legendary and a complete 9.2 4-Set Tier bonus. Additional tuning and class changes may dramatically affect the recommendations seen below. This is merely a preview of each spec's Double Legendaries and final recommendations will be published closer to 9.2's launch.
Tettles
, our Balance Druid guide writer, has given their extensive thoughts on the Double Legendary combinations for Balance Druids in Patch 9.2!
Tettles
Best Balance Druid Double Legendaries for Sepulcher of the First Ones
Venthyr:
Indulgência Pecaminosa
&
Pulsar Arcânico Primordial
The popular 9.1 Covenant of Venthyr for Balance Druid is back again, but this time less potent with nerfs coming into 9.2. Venthyr in Sepulcher is strong on specific encounters in which you value the potent 3 minute cooldown and can get high effective value out of it. Venthyr also is quite strong prior to getting double legendaries and can definitely see some play at the beginning of the patch again. You need to be way more diligent about your dump at the end of your
Frenesi Voraz
window as the nerf to
Indulgência Pecaminosa
forces you to dump earlier and the 4-set
Infusão Umbrática
allows you to dump more Astral Power at the end of your Ravenous window.
Pulsar Arcânico Primordial
is the second legendary of choice because it synergizes perfectly with our 2 piece. With the
Abraço Umbrático
2-set you just generate so much astral power that you are able to proc pulsar and cycle eclipse states at an insanely fast rate. The 4-set
Infusão Umbrática
also grants you gains for pulsar similarly to you using these abilities at full cost which is an incredibly cool interaction.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Pulsar Arcânico Primordial
Night Fae is potentially back on the menu with all of the changes. The covenant still has a bit of a lower ceiling than Venthyr, but can be used in raid assuming a couple of conditions are met. For one you need the fight to not just grossly favor venthyr and be on 3 minute intervals timing wise when you would like to cooldown (like sanctum was). The other big condition is related to adds and AOE. Since Night Fae is almost strictly a Single Target covenant bosses that have low priority adds up whenever you need to be convoking is a potential issue.
The strengths come in the fact that you can proc a
Pulsar Arcânico Primordial
every time you want to press
Convocar Espíritos
which is a pretty nice interaction. Night Fae in raid can be pretty decent, but the decision on whether you play Venthyr or Fae for a fight is going to be determined with a lot more studying.
Best Balance Druid Double Legendaries for Mythic+
Venthyr:
Indulgência Pecaminosa
&
Pulsar Arcânico Primordial
Venthyr is a lot more flexible as a whole than other options due to the lack of real AOE from other options typically. At the same time, Venthyr in dungeons is going to be the same old. This means Venthyr can still be quite strong, but it still suffers from similar issues in 9.1 of knowledge of cooldown timings and just general player use. If the things do line up well for Venthyr it can be one of the most potent abilities in the game for Balance Druid, but if used incorrectly then you will be out a lot of damage.
It is still pretty good,
Pulsar Arcânico Primordial
is turbo strong with the 2 and 4 set, and you are never upset to play Venthyr.
Guiltyas
, our Feral Druid guide writer, has given their extensive thoughts on the Double Legendary combinations for Feral Druids in Patch 9.2!
Guiltyas
With the addition of double legendaries in 9.2 it's time to think about combinations of legendaries. Before we get into that I want to point out a huge issue with the way the way double legendaries functions, you'll be able to equip both a normal legendary and a covenant legendary. The issue here is that not all covenant legendaries are created equally, they range from
Espíritos Celestiais
which is universally useful in every situation and is a significant increase to
Enxame Descontrolado
which is almost completely irrelevant on a decent chunk of content, Blizzard should heavily consider doing an additional tuning pass on the covenant legendaries.
Best Feral Druid Double Legendaries for Sepulcher of the First Ones
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Elo Frenético
This will probably be your most common legendary combination once you've gotten your tier, on most fight lengths this will be the highest throughput legendary. It has decent synergy with the 2 and 4pc from the tier set, with the 2pc meaning more damage from the damage effect of the
Elo Frenético
and additional damage from the 4pc due to the CDR from frenzyband. There's no incredible synergies or interactions but it remains likely the best option being between -1% and 5% better than the next best option.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
Prior to tier this will likely be your best option on single target, and even post tier it may be best on certain fight lengths. There's no interactions at all between these two legendaries and is simply a case of combining the two best throughput legendaries. On certain fight lengths this is the best combo by around 1%.
Best Feral Druid Double Legendaries for Mythic+
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Elo Frenético
Again this will probably be a fairly common legendary combination once you've gotten your tier. It has decent synergy with the 2 and 4pc from the tier set, with the 2pc meaning more damage from the damage effect of the
Elo Frenético
and additional damage from the 4pc due to the CDR from frenzyband. If using this in M+ it will likely be simply to maximise aoe damage from the 4pc, it's hard to evaluate how valuable that will be on the live game however as currently the set for feral is HORRENDOUSLY bugged (snapshotting mastery, tripple dipping with
Fúria do Tigre
), but it's likely this will be a solid option.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Anseio do Predador-alfa
This might be more of an option for higher keys, particularly once you've gotten tier.
Anseio do Predador-alfa
when combined with
Ira Primeva
and the Tier set gives you a decent amount of funnel. In high keys funnel can become extremely valuable allowing you to take out challenging mobs in a big pull fast enough to keep your group alive, a niche that is currently primarily filled by rogues. Once you have Tier this also avoids sacrificing too much AOE potential due to the CDR from the
Anseio do Predador-alfa
procs and the 4pc bonus.
Necrolord:
Enxame Descontrolado
&
Círculo de Vida e Morte
The Necrolord legendary currently only functions on AOE, with the 4pc applying a fairly hefty damage over time effect (if, as mentioned, hilariously bugged), this legendary combination on Necrolord can amp up the 4pc damage even further. This legendary combination does have some issues if you're not chain pulling fast enough as you can drop swarm stacks, but if you manage to maintain the stacks this may even be the highest overall throughput legendary combination.
Pumps
, our Guardian Druid guide writer, has given their extensive thoughts on the Double Legendary combinations for Guardian Druids in Patch 9.2!
Pumps
Best Guardian Druid Double Legendaries for Sepulcher of the First Ones
Guardian has several strong legendary combinations that synergize quite well depending on your end goal. This results in a multitude of fun and unique play styles depending on the situation. While i haven't included
Determinação da Ordem Natural
in any of the combinations below, it remains a very strong defensive option if the fight requires it and goes well with any covenant.
The Kyrian covenant legendary,
Afinidade Irmanada
, recently saw a massive nerf on the PTR;
Afinidade Irmanada
stat bonus for the Druid reduced to 6% (was 8%) and the stat bonus for their partner reduced to 3% (was 8%).
This change is absolutely massive and definitely shifts our covenant choice back to Night Fae for prog. However, Kyrian will still be an excellent option once you are able to equip 2 legendaries, just not quite as strong as before.
The Venthyr covenant legendary is still fairly strong (even after the nerf) and will continue to be an excellent choice on AoE heavy encounters.
The Night Fae covenant legendary is interesting. It allows you to
Convocar Espíritos
twice as often which makes it easier to align with harder parts of the fight and also increases the uptime significantly of
Avigoramento do Bosque
from Niya, which is a huge health increase. This works particularly well on fights where you would use your convoke to heal the raid or where
Chuva Estelar
from
Forma de Luniscante
convokes are exceptionally strong.
Necrolord has the weakest covenant legendary by far and will need a complete rework to be of any value.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
This is the Catweaving combination paired with
Afinidade Feral
. Two of the best catweaving legendaries together at last, this combo will enable us to spike DPS more often and burst high priority kill targets easier. Generally, a single target focused build.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Legado do Adormecido
This is a balanced bear focused build, generally paired with
Afinidade com Equilíbrio
. Grants you the benefits of a shorter cooldown empowered
Encarnação: Guardião de Ursoc
, in addition to extremely high burst windows, leech and CC immunity often rolling from the tier set bonus.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Juramento do Druida Ancião
A legendary that has not been commonly used is
Juramento do Druida Ancião
, but with the addition of double legendaries this makes
Convocar Espíritos
align perfectly every 1 minute, which may be extremely useful for certain raid encounters where your group needs extra healing cooldowns.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Vislumbre Fugaz de Lycara
This could be a fun combo that attempts to get the most
Pele de Árvore
uptime possible and has great synergy with our tier set. May end up being extremely good on certain encounters if you are able to align the
Pele de Árvore
procs with critical points in the fight.
Kyrian:
Afinidade Irmanada
&
Legado do Adormecido
This is a primarily bear focused combination, meaning situations where cat/owlweaving is too dangerous.
Legado do Adormecido
has great synergy with our new tier set and is a fantastic legendary heading into 9.2.
Kyrian:
Afinidade Irmanada
&
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
This will be used on single target only encounters.
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
was already our best single target legendary and the covenant legendary only makes it even stronger due to the stat amplification.
Best Guardian Druid Double Legendaries for Mythic+
Kyrian:
Afinidade Irmanada
&
Fúria de Ursoc Lembrada
This will be used on AoE heavy encounters and Mythic+, with
Fúria de Ursoc Lembrada
generating a constant stream of absorbs to keep you healthy.
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Fúria de Ursoc Lembrada
A strong overall combo, shorter cooldown on
Convocar Espíritos
and absorbs from
Fúria de Ursoc Lembrada
leads to a well-rounded, high defense focused build.
Venthyr:
Indulgência Pecaminosa
&
Fúria de Ursoc Lembrada
Both of these legendaries saw a lot of use in 9.1.5 and now they can be used together to make a powerful AoE combination.
Venthyr:
Indulgência Pecaminosa
&
Legado do Adormecido
This is a higher damage AoE combo, 25% extra damage during
Encarnação: Guardião de Ursoc
in addition to the already massive gain from the covenant legendary enables us to have an absolutely enormous DPS spike every 3 minutes. The downside is the 30 second reduced cooldown on
Encarnação: Guardião de Ursoc
causes it to desync from
Frenesi Voraz
, which means you will often have to wait for 30 seconds each time to keep them together.
Jaydaa
, our Restoration Druid guide writer, has given their extensive thoughts on the Double Legendary combinations for Restoration Druids in Patch 9.2!
Jaydaa
Best Restoration Druid Double Legendaries for Sepulcher of the First Ones
Night Fae:
Espíritos Celestiais
&
Visão do Crescimento Interminável
If you've been playing Restoration Druid for all of Shadowlands, then you're probably intimately familiar with our legendary progression thus far. For Sepulcher of the First Ones, our double legendary selection feels like the culmination of the previous two raids where we'll take the best of what we've played before and mash them together. With no nerfs to either legendary in 9.2, it's almost destiny that we'd eventually arrive at this selection for raiding. 1+1=2 and that feels right and we even get an assist from our new tier set bonuses to tie everything together.
For Castle Nathria, we primarily played with
Visão do Crescimento Interminável
largely due to it's ability to create a larger blanket of
Rejuvenescer
s. While it wasn't particularly exciting or gameplay-changing, it did offer significant healing on it's own but also provided additional
Maestria: Harmonia
and
Abundância
support. We could scale the additional
Rejuvenescer
s up simply by putting out more
Rejuvenescer
s to ramp for a large damage event. We'd let this foundational healing cover us as we utilize our burst cooldowns (
Convocar Espíritos
,
Florescer
, and
Tranquilidade
) to do the remaining heavy lifting. As long as the healing wasn't relegated to a few targets,
Visão do Crescimento Interminável
was generally the go-to option.
The introduction of covenant-specific legendaries was initially a rocky start, but we eventually landed on the current incarnation of
Espíritos Celestiais
that has taken top honors for us in Sanctum of Domination. It turns our 2-minute
Convocar Espíritos
into a 1-minute giving us greater access to a burst healing tool. While it does reduce the number of spell casts due to lower channel duration, we do still acquire full stacks and duration of our soulbind buffs
Avigoramento do Bosque
and
Campo de Flores
in addition to slightly less than a 1-in-2 chance of casting a
Florescer
. Greater access to burst healing means we can better cover more damaging events.
Once we unlock double legendaries in 9.2, we'll be able to have our cake and eat it too with both of these outstanding legendaries. We get all the benefits of both, but get an extra bit of synergy from our 2-pc set bonus where we gain an additional HoT
Florir da Renovação
via our
Rejuvenescer
healing. Both legendaries provide additional
Rejuvenescer
s which give an additional boost though nothing too crazy. Unfortunately, the additional
Recomposição Rápida
s from
Convocar Espíritos
don't feed into our 4-pc, so we can't win them all; however, we should have more targets to
Recomposição Rápida
without consuming more valuable HoTs thanks to both of the legendaries.
With flat healing and damage buffs, a killer double legendary combination, and a raid that plays into a lot of our healing strengths, expect a strong showing from Restoration Druids in Sepulcher of the First Ones.
Best Restoration Druid Double Legendaries for Mythic+
With the advent of 9.1.5 and the ability to freely swap covenants, we received a significant shakeup in our options for Mythic+, notably we're able to drop the all-purpose Night Fae for the more niche and specialized Kyrian and Necrolord covenants. Kyrian in particular has found considerable success in the current meta being able to provide additional damage to a DPS via
Afinidade Irmanada
.
Healing Focused
Necrolord:
Enxame Descontrolado
&
Infusão Verdejante
When your focus is healing a small subset of players, it's hard to beat Necrolord and
Enxame Adaptável
. The additional HoT healing in addition to the healing of
Enxame Adaptável
itself allows us to play an almost
Germinação
playstyle while still allowing us to keep the burst potential of
Florescer
. With
Enxame Descontrolado
, our
Enxame Adaptável
s split often enough that with some careful overlapping we can have enough to heal our entire party or deal damage to a large pack of enemies all gaining the addition HoT/DoT effect. Combine this with the single target burst combination of
Infusão Verdejante
and
Proteção Cenariana
and your tank will be covered for almost any situation. Many consider that sheer amount of healing unnecessary, and many will opt for the more damage-oriented playstyles.
Damage Focused
Necrolord:
Enxame Descontrolado
&
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
Kyrian:
Afinidade Irmanada
&
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
With a nearly flat 10% buff to our damage, things have generally been looking up for us in Mythic+. However, with the recent nerfs to
Afinidade Irmanada
, excitement has deflated a bit now that Kyrian and Necrolord are tighter than ever when it comes to damage.
Necrolord has all the same benefits as above, but can deal a solid amount of damage while buffing our DoT damage across the board. Combine this with the strong single-target damage legendary,
Tragada da Concentração Profunda
, and we can provide a fairly significant amount of damage, especially when trying to push bosses as quickly as possible.
While the numbers are still okay for Kyrian, your mileage may vary for those that aren't utilizing it to the fullest extent. It'll take better planning both at the macro level for how your group is planning on pulling the dungeon as well as at the micro with your bonded partner. Expect Kyrian to still excel at the very top end, but more casual players will likely default to Necrolord.
Is either enough to dethrone the stagnant Holy Paladin Mythic+ meta? It's unlikely, but don't sleep on Restoration Druid in Mythic+ either.
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