Kyrian
Class Ability: Dîme spoliatriceCurrently, 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
Tumulte and adds a lot of power to this spell. However, if your target dies while affected by
Dîme spoliatrice, 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: Invocation de régisseurNot 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: Dîme d’âmeIncreases your
Trait du chaos damage by 10% for 10 seconds if a target dies while affected by
Dîme spoliatrice. 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: Trait de décimationThis ability is very strong on single target, and especially during execute phases where you're able to gain even higher % increases on your
Incinérer damage stacks. As mentioned above, this ability was nerfed when combined with
Feu et soufre. This nerf makes this spell less attractive on multiple targets, but still very strong on single target.
Covenant Ability: Chair recomposéeThis 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
Chair ambulante d’Éméni. 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
Montrer l’exemple which makes for a nice boost to your stats. Another noteworthy mention here is
Forme ultime which makes you immune to crowd control effects while casting
Chair recomposée. This could potentially be very strong in certain scenarios.
Covenant Conduit: Décimation fataleNot very strong.
Trait de décimation's strength isn't as much in its missiles damage, but rather in the empowered
Incinérer. 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: Pourriture d’âmeThis 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
Drain de vie 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: Forme d’âmeThis class ability isn't amazing, but through the Soulbind tree, it actually becomes slightly more interesting. First off
Cor de l’Hallali adds utility to your group. 10% movement speed however isn't very much and it's certainly not on the same level as a
Ruée rugissante or
Totem de bouffée de vent.
Course sans fatigue adds a nice layer of defensive value to this spell.
Charge de l’Hallali can turn your
Forme d’âme into an engage type ability that gives the ability an interesting twist.
Covenant Conduit: Mangeur d’âmesNice 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: Catastrophe imminenteThis ability is an interesting one as it can apply either
Malédiction des langages or
Malédiction de faiblesse 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: Porte des ombresA 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: Origine catastrophiqueNot very interesting, this ability is already underperforming significantly compared to the alternative Covenant abilities.