New Monk Covenant-Specific Legendaries in Patch 9.1 PTR Build 38709 - Monk Guide Writers Review Effects

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New Covenant Specific Legendaries9.1 PTR build 38709

Our Guide Writers and Experts have given their thoughts on the Patch 9.1 PTR Class Changes and new Legendaries for Build 38709. Check out all of our released opinion articles for the build below.

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Monk Covenant Legendaries in Patch 9.1

NEW (Necrolord) Your abilities have a low chance to cast Bonedust Brew at your targets location.
Inventory Type: Shoulder, Chest
NEW (Kyrian) Weapons of Order calls forth Niuzao, the Black Ox / Xuen, the White Tiger / Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent to assist you for 12 sec.
Inventory Type: Legs, Feet
NEW (Night Fae) Your abilities chance to reset Faeline Stomp is doubled. Enemies and allies hit by Faeline Stomp are affected by Fae Exposure, increasing your damage and healing against them by 8% for 10 sec.
Inventory Type: Waist, Hands
NEW (Venthyr) Fallen Order summons 1 additional adept for 24 sec. While you have an active adept your abilities that critically hit reduce the cooldown of Fallen Order by 3 sec.
Inventory Type: Wrist, Finger

Brewmaster Monk Opinion & FeedbackPeak of SerenitySkyholdTwitterWoW at NightMonks have received 4 new Legendary powers on the Patch 9.1 PTR earlier this week: Llamamiento a las armas (Kyrian), Brebaje generoso (Necrolord), Armonía de silfelino (Night Fae), and Enseñanzas siniestras (Venthyr). Up to this point in Shadowlands, Kyrian has been the de facto Covenant choice for Brewmaster Monks, due to the strength of Armas de orden and Ampolla de serenidad, excellent soulbinds, and a general lack of weaknesses. The greatest strength Kyrian has isn't simply that it's better than other Covenants, it's that it's much more versatile. Every other Covenant has scenarios in which it can compete with Kyrian, and many more scenarios in which it can't. Kyrian is always good. More importantly, Último barril de Cerveza de Trueno is the go-to Legendary whenever you are tanking anything challenging, and Pasiones carbonizadas is the Legendary of choice for maximizing raid DPS. They are both great bonuses.

Do any of the new Legendaries change anything for Brewmasters?
No. Let's break them down anyways.

Llamamiento a las armas (Kyrian)

Kyrian, presumably as punishment for being the best Brewmaster Monk Covenant, has the weakest Covenant legendary, maybe of any class/spec in Shadowlands. Llamamiento a las armas is a shockingly weak bonus -- half a Invocar a Niuzao, el Buey Negro cast whenever you use Armas de orden. We're talking DOZENS of DPS! Invocar a Niuzao, el Buey Negro already has a reduced cooldown thanks to Caminar con el buey, so this doesn't even wind up being as much of a DPS gain as the baseline skill -- a cooldown that isn't exactly putting Brewmasters anywhere close to the top of the tank damage meters. Yeah, there's really nothing positive to say about it. Both of the current go-to Brewmaster Legendaries far, far outperform it in almost every possible scenario. Even if you want to maximize your DPS over a very, very brief window just for fun, Deleite del invocador is a better bonus. This one is useless.

Brebaje generoso (Necrolord)

Brebaje generoso, the Necrolord bonus, is probably the most interesting of the entire group. Unfortunately, interesting doesn't mean good. "Low chance" is ominous wording. At present datamining, it's listed around 1.25 procs per minute. Personal testing (an hour spent demolishing the small AoE dummies in Orgrimmar) seems to show it's under 1 ppm, which isn't great. Additionally, in the interest of determining whether procs would extend the duration of a hard-cast Brebaje de polvohueso, or simply reset the debuff duration to 10 seconds, I literally could not get this bonus to proc while Brebaje de polvohueso was already active. Whether it's blacklisted from being able to proc during that time, or if the proc rate is just simply that low, either way, I'm not thrilled. That's an hour of my life I will never be able to get back. Ultimately, the problems with this Legendary are the same problems that affect Necrolord as a Covenant. Even when Necrolord is at its best, it's just not as good as the standard Kyrian/Último barril de Cerveza de Trueno setup. When it's at its worst, it's a lot worse.

Armonía de silfelino (Night Fae)

Night Fae also gain an interesting bonus with Armonía de silfelino, and it's probably the best power of the bunch. Doubling the reset chance of Pisotón de silfelino significantly improves its reliability as an offensive and defensive skill, and that's terrific. Unfortunately, that's the end of the good news. The problem here is that the big issue with Night Fae Monk -- how badly it gets punished by movement -- does not really get fixed by this bonus. Night Fae Monk has two other, smaller issues that are similarly unaddressed. First, it's only good in AoE. This doesn't make it competitive in single target. Most of the bosses in the upcoming raid are primarily single target encounters. Not good. Also, it's a somewhat-unreliable sustained AoE DPS increase. Burst damage is generally much more important than sustained damage, and Kyrian is much, much better at adding burst damage. Ultimately, this bonus is compelling on paper, but doubling the reset chance of Pisotón de silfelino doesn't compete with Último barril de Cerveza de Trueno, and 8% more damage and healing on targets as a tank just isn't very good. There's a very, very small chance this could be competitive and popular in the upcoming patch, but probably not.

Enseñanzas siniestras (Venthyr)

Lastly, Venthyr Monks are virtually nonexistent, and for good reason. Their Covenant ability stinks. Enseñanzas siniestras adds a tiny bit more juice onto Orden caída, but frankly, it's just not good. Even under optimal AoE conditions, this Legendary bonus only shaves away roughly 30 seconds of cooldown time. That can't compete with any of the other Brewmaster Legendary options, not even a tiny bit. Beyond that, the Venthyr Covenant ability's only remotely competitive niche is single target encounters. It's still worth than Kyrian, but it's at least slightly more competitive. This bonus really only scales well into AoE, where Venthyr is extra-bad. This bonus is just awful. It makes no sense, and there is absolutely no situation in which you should ever use it. Ever. A cynical person could argue that's intended -- why waste time designing a good Legendary for a bad Covenant?

Here's the wrapup:
The current go-to setup of Kyrian Monk running Último barril de Cerveza de Trueno is a terrific tank. It's absolutely as tanky as any class in Sanctum of Domination testing thus far. None of the new Legendary powers threaten to change that -- or to be useful at all. That's fine.
Mistweaver Monk Opinion & FeedbackAnomolyPeakOfSerenityPeak of SerenityTwitch channelYoutube channelSo Blizzard finally dropped the new set of Covenant Legendaries for Monks. We'll look at each one today individual, then discuss at the end if these will shake up any of your current selections.

Brebaje generoso (Necrolord)
Our Necrolord legendary will trigger a Brebaje de polvohueso on the target of any of our spells or abilities. This means any healing event or damage event has the chance to trigger the Brebaje de polvohueso cast. This is a full cast of Brebaje de polvohueso, so it will trigger any appropriate spell or ability interactions. It has the same 8 yard radius as the cast-able ability. It will also trigger soulbind abilities such as Emini's Ejemplo de liderazgo. The proc rate is currently set is 1.25 PPM, and it is unaffected by Haste. With the random nature of the ability trigger, this can swing wildly in power. You could trigger it on an add or boss, with only a handful of individuals getting hit with the splash. On the other side, if it triggers in a clump of raid members, before a large amount of damage, this can be extremely powerful.

Llamamiento a las armas (Kyrian)
Next up is our Kyrian covenant legendary. This will trigger a cast of our celestial (Invocar a Yu'lon, el Dragón de Jade / Invocar a Chi-Ji, la Grulla Roja) for 12 seconds after every Armas de orden cast. This provides some additional healing each time we cast Armas de orden. It will always ensure we have an additional cooldown on a two-minute timer. It also means we can ensure we have Invocar a Chi-Ji, la Grulla Roja up for every Armas de orden cast. This also always you to move your 3 minute Celestials to a different point in the fight and cover additional healing needs of your raid. Overall, a pretty ok legendary, nothing spectacular though.

Armonía de silfelino (Night Fae)
Now onto our Night Fae friends and their new covenant legendary. This legendary doubles the reset chance for Pisotón de silfelino and also triggers Exposición de sílfide on any targets hit by your Pisotón de silfelino. The reset chance is interesting as you will get more chances to reset the ability while fighting in it. This does suffer a bit as the graphical animation for Pisotón de silfelino does not last very long for other players, so you may find it hard to stay within the faelines while fighting. The 8% increase in healing is a nice touch, but from a numerical perspective, this is one of the weaker legendaries available to us.

Enseñanzas siniestras (Venthyr)
Finally we come to our friends over in Revendreth! The Venthyr covenant in general is not played much, and this legendary will not change that. The legendary itself will trigger an additional adept from Orden caída. It will also reduce the cooldown of Orden caída by 3 seconds each time you crit with an ability while your adepts are active. This means that for roughly 24 seconds, you will reduce the cooldown of Orden caída each time one of your abilities or spells critically strikes. This can trigger from damage or healing events, so there is a chance of a larger amount of cooldown reduction. Right now, under some conditions, getting 60 seconds of cooldown reduction does not seem out of the realm of possibility.

Now that we have laid all 4 of our covenant legendaries out, how good are they? Right now, when compared against our currently available, none of them will over take the likes of Lágrima de la mañana or Enseñanzas ancestrales del monasterio. They do offer a noticeable power increase to our covenant abilities, but will not be an option with their current tuning. I could see in the future, if we are ever able to wear two legendaries, Brebaje generoso or Llamamiento a las armas being a worthwhile second legendary for us.
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Last week, Windwalkers finally got to see what their legendaries would be for 9.1.

Llamamiento a las armas (Kyrian)

How it works
Whenever you use Armas de orden, you will summon a Xuen that lasts for 12 seconds. During this time the Xuen should function the same as if you had cast Invocar a Xuen, el Tigre Blanco. Currently that is not the case as there is a bug currently in which if both Xuen's are out, they will only cast Relámpago del tigre potenciado as if there were one, and when one despawns, the remaining one will no longer cast Relámpago del tigre potenciado. We assume this is a bug that will get fixed, and if it does then this will functionally increase Xuen's strength by 50%.

How it compares
Because of the incredible strength of Deleite del invocador, Llamamiento a las armas really doesn't have a chance to be considered for the top spot. There is a theoretical chance that in sustained AOE situations, with using Mikanikos, Llamamiento a las armas's value is increased enough due to more casts of Invocar a Xuen, el Tigre Blanco which means more summons of Xuen. However, even in this more extreme case, its only likely to get closer to even with Deleite del invocador, not outright surpass it.

Sims:

Armonía de silfelino (Night Fae)

How it works
Currently there is a 6% chance for any ability to reset the cooldown of Pisotón de silfelino, this legendary would then increase that change to 12%. This is a pretty sizable increase. As long as you're standing inside the shape on the ground, you'll have a higher chance to get the cooldown of Pisotón de silfelino reset. In addition to the reset, any enemy target that is hit with Pisotón de silfelino will receive a debuff that increases the damage that you do to them by 8%, any ally that is hit with Pisotón de silfelino gains increased healing from you for 10 seconds.

Using Pisotón de silfelino when the target still has the debuff will just refresh it, so its unclear whether or not we'll want to just use it right away for maximum chance at resets or whether we'll look to hold onto a cast of Pisotón de silfelino in order to maximize the uptime of the debuff. The nice thing about the debuff is that its a set-and-forget debuff, so you still benefit from the damage bonus if you're unable to stand on the line for it.

How it compares
Armonía de silfelino is incredibly strong. Deleite del invocador was previously the best legendary, and didn't have very strong synergy with Pisotón de silfelino. Armonía de silfelino has incredibly strong synergy with Pisotón de silfelino, which makes it far and away the best legendary for Night Fae. While it does put a much larger emphasis on standing inside the line for maximum resets, if you're able to do that then you'll see a 4-7% increase in damage, especially in AOE situations where the damage that comes from Pisotón de silfelino is more impactful. All together this pushes Armonía de silfelino ahead of Deleite del invocador for Night Fae, and into the top spot for this covenant.

Sims:

Brebaje generoso (Necrolord)

How it works
This mechanic has a 1.25 proc per minute chance to drop a Brebaje de polvohueso onto your target and surrounding targets. This more than doubles the frequency with which you gain the benefit from Brebaje de polvohueso. This is an entirely passive legendary, and since Brebaje de polvohueso itself doesn't dramatically change how you play, you simply need to be aware of its presence, especially in AOE, and enjoy the increase in damage.

How it compares
Unfortunately even though this is very strong, based on the sims it does not currently beat out Deleite del invocador for Necrolord. Although more frequent Brebaje de polvohueso are good, the fact that Deleite del invocador lines up with every other Brebaje de polvohueso and all your other cooldowns, simply pushes that combination too far ahead for Brebaje generoso to compete.

Sims:

Enseñanzas siniestras (Venthyr)

How it works
Whenever you use Orden caída, you first summon a Orden caída Monk that stays the entire 24 seconds. This Orden caída Monk functions the way the rest of them do, just lasts the entire 24 seconds of the duration of the summoning portal. Once you press the button you don't need to worry about it again, it just goes about its business.

How it compares
Realistically, if you're playing Venthyr then you're not doing so because of all the DPS that you get out of it, you're doing it for the aesthetics or another reason. Enseñanzas siniestras does work well with the aesthetics of the Orden caída ability. However, because the Orden caída Monks do scale their abilities with haste, Orden caída does scale better with Deleite del invocador. Enseñanzas siniestras is simply not strong enough to beat out the increased haste from Deleite del invocador.

Sims:

Potential Covenant Changes

The main reason that you're likely here is for information about whether or not this changes what Covenant that Windwalkers want to use in various content. The short answer is... maybe.

Currently Kyrian is king in all content, despite the fact that Night Fae and Necrolord can beat it in very specific circumstances. While Brebaje generoso isn't enough to beat Deleite del invocador, thus keeping Necrolord where it is; Armonía de silfelino is strong enough to take the top spot for Night Fae , and even push it equal to or ahead of Kyrian/Deleite del invocador in many situations. However, they are, in reality, likely to be close enough that one shines in certain situations and the other is best in other situations.

For example, Armonía de silfelino and Night Fae are more built for AOE situations where you can get the debuff on multiple targets, as well as sustained damage situations where lining up cooldowns is less impactful, but consistent pressure is best. Kyrian and Deleite del invocador are more built for burst situations where you can line up all your cooldowns into small windows, but the damage between those windows isn't as impactful, its also more focused on single target damage, because you can adjust what buttons you press based on how many targets you are facing.

So currently it looks like players who want to focus on things like M+ will likely want to pick Night Fae and Armonía de silfelino due to the consistent multi-targets. You'll be slightly less useful on bosses than a Kyrian player, but more consistently useful on every single trash pack, rather than being very useful on some packs and less on others. Similarly, players who want to focus on boss damage, or burst damage, whether that's in M+ or in Raid fights, will want to stay Kyrian using Deleite del invocador.

Sanctum of Domination has a healthy mix of burst and sustain, AOE and single target, encounters, so its likely that we'll see Night Fae parse best on some bosses and Kyrian parse best on others. For general purposes, the overall recommendation may transition to Night Fae and Armonía de silfelino, but players who enjoy Kyrian and Deleite del invocador should be able to stay with that and see high levels of success.

Unfortunately Necrolord and Venthyr still have no chance of consideration.

TLDR

Night Fae has a strong chance at being the top overall Covenant in 9.1
Kyrian may still be best in pure single target and burst encounters.
Night Fae will almost certainly be best in sustained and AOE encounters.

Night Fae will use the new Covenant Legendary, Armonía de silfelino
Everyone else will still use Deleite del invocador.

There is still going to be a decent amount of work going on over the next few weeks until 9.1 goes live to improve all these things, so some may change, or the gaps between them may change. Not everything is currently working perfectly in sims, nor in game, and further tuning may happen if Blizzard wishes.

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