Resto Druid, which covenant and why?

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Hello dear fellow resto druids, shadowlands knocking on our doors, lets discus which covenant you gonna use and why?

Since im more PvP oriented player my choices are following:

  1. Madraxus - insect swarm; short cooldown, instant cast, reliable and versitaile spell, i simply like that concept.
  2. Bastion - kindred looks nice but still insect is better for my playstyle
  3. Ardenwald - blinking is nice but 1.5min cooldown not make it reliant, burst of spells looks somehting very interuptable and somewhat random
  4. Revendreth - looks nice on paper but also looks somehting hard to maintain, and can backfire
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When deciding on the Covenant, you should look at not only the spells they provide, but the Soulbinds aswell. Some of those can be quite powerful.

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Hmmm are you sure soulbinds can offer more value than actual spells offered by each covenant?

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While channeling Fleshcraft, you are immune to crowd control. Finishing the full channel grants you another 4 sec of crowd control immunity.

This sounds pretty powerful to me in PvP. Granted, it’s from the same Covenant you already favour, but this alone would likely make me consider Necrolords if I were into PvP. Assuming that interrupts count as CC, that is. If they don’t, then nevermind, this is pretty weak.

Your damage to targets above 75% health and healing to targets below 35% health is increased by 10%.
When your spells and abilities are enhanced this way, you gain 10% increased movement speed for 5 sec.

This also sounds pretty solid. Imagine just running around moonfiring from a safe distance, and hopping back to travel form, with an extra 10% speed. I can imagine that being quite useful. And pair it with the Covenant class ability, which you can now channel from afar, because you could run further away.

Healing or dealing damage has a chance to grant you a stack of Redirected Anima, up to 10. Activating your Night Fae class ability grants you 1% maximum health and 2% increased Mastery per stack for 30 sec.

10% max HP and 20% mastery for 30 sec sounds pretty good to me, if your Mastery is strong in PvP (which, as far as I recall, is the case for resto druids).

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I only PVE and will be going Night Fae, which is currently the strongest ability for both raids and m+. It is an extremely strong cooldown.
Pretty sure the ability itself worth more than the soulbinds. Soulbinds look pretty meaningless in general.

For PVP im not sure. You can interrupt convoke . Venthyr could get you in a bad position.

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aaaaaand here we start again, the min/max-ing…

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It is what it is, convoke is just so much better than the other abilities and we’re lucky that night fae suits our aesthetic as well though I doubt it will go live like this.

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Mate, if you wanna stay 1.8k with 4/10 heroic raid, go for it, but why complain on a discussion forum post for people who care about preformance? Like why are you minmaxing by taking an aoe ability for the aoe situation, nerd? Oh, you took the pvp covenant when you want to push pvp, wow, get a life??

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i can actually imagine necro being really strong for pvp, since your healing is more about spot healing 1 target. and the shield is huge too. in arena especially i think necro will shine.

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The point is, PvP spells can always be somewhat usable in PvE, while PvE spells can rarely be usable in PvP :stuck_out_tongue:

Lorewise I woud love to be Wildwald, but I simply cannot pass that juicy insect swarm

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