Fury Warrior Best Covenants, Soulbinds, and Conduits - Dragonflight 10.2.5 (2024)

Last updated on Jan 15, 2024 at 15:00by Archimtiros67 comments

Please be aware that as of the Dragonflight Pre-Patch and Dragonflightexpansion, all Covenant abilities, Soulbinds, and Conduits will only function whilewithin the Shadowlands. This page will temporarily remain as a reference.

This page assumes that you are already familiar with Covenants, Soulbinds, and Conduits.If that is not the case, we have a number of pages that can help you get up to speed:

• Covenants Guide, which explainswhat Covenants are, what perks they bring, and how you can join one;
• Warrior Covenant Abilities,which lists all the abilities that Warriors gain by joining each Covenant;
• How To Change Covenant?, which tells youhow you can switch Covenant (rejoining a former Covenant will require you to perform anumber of tasks to regain their trusts);
• General Soulbind Guide, which explainswhat Soulbinds are and how you can pledge yourself to them to open up their Soulbind tree;
• Warrior Conduits, whichlists all of the Conduits available to Warriors.

There are several things to know about Soulbinds and Covenants before youread the rest of this page and its recommendations:

• Upon reaching Renown 80 with a single Covenant, players will unlock theability to change Covenants freely without incurring a cooldown or losingRenown. This allows players to quickly specialize for different types of content,although Renown still needs to be obtained with each Covenant in order tounlock their full range of benefits.
• Renown can be instantly increased to level 40 using the Broker Mark of Distinction, immediately unlocking the majority ofSoulbind talents. The remaining 40 levels of Renown can be unlocked quicklyin Torghast, Battlegrounds, or defeating raid bosses, as well as bycompleting daily calling quests or weekly Covenant quests.

Because you can now change Covenants without a cooldown, there is muchmore freedom to specialize based on content type. Kyrian and Night Faecontinue to be best in multitarget and Mythic+, although Necrolord becomes verypowerful with the addition of the Fury Warrior 4-Piecetier set bonus, and is currently thedominant Covenant for raiding.

Necrolord has historically been one of the weaker Covenants, asmuch of its power comes from buffing other players rather than the Warrior.With the addition of the tier set bonuses in Patch 9.2,however, its power increases dramatically, easily becoming the strongest raidingCovenant due to the powerful feedback loop between Conqueror's Banner, Glory, and Recklessness. This results in greatly increasedRage generation, which in turn extends the duration of those cooldowns, fueledby constantly casting Rampage and Raging Blow. It does have aweakness in that it is more susceptible to downtime than other builds, asthose cooldowns can run out if Rage is not continually generated and spent,though this can be mitigated somewhat with proper timing. Necrolord can alsoperform very well in Mythic+, but will generally have a harder timemaintaining cooldowns without very efficient chain pulling, so most playersnot in well coordinated groups will perform better as Kyrian or Night Fae.

Kyrian lacks the single-target priority damage of Venthyr, butmakes up for it in multi-target situations, particularly Mythic Plusdungeons and a handful of raid encounters. Much of this is due to the additionof Elysian Might, which allows for stacking cooldowns every minute formassive burst damage.

Night Fae competes very well with Kyrian, ranging from beingsituationally stronger in single target to weaker in multitarget. Although Ancient Aftershock is a stronger attack, it has a longer cooldown andis still capped at 5 targets, making it less useful in most Mythic+ content.

Venthyr had high potential for pure single-target damage, but hascontinually failed to live up to expectations. While part of this is due tomore encounters having multiple targets, something that Venthyr has no goodtools to take advantage of, Condemn also has limited damage windowsand any interruption during those times drastically reduces its damagepotential. As a result, Venthyr has fallen out of favor in all formsof content.

We cover our thoughts on the Covenants and their Soulbinds inthis section further below.

In the list below, you will find the best Conduits, organized by type. Formore information, please see the Conduits sectionof this page.

• Best Potency Conduits: Depths of Insanity, Hack and Slash, Veteran's Repute
• Best Finesse Conduits: Inspiring Presence, Safeguard
• Best Endurance Conduits: Stalwart Guardian, Condensed Anima Sphere

Depths of Insanity is strong in virtually every situation, while Hack and Slash becomes invaluable when combined with the tier setbonus. The third Potency slots will vary based on Covenant, with Veteran's Repute easily outperforming everything else as Necrolord.

This section only covers which Conduits you should pick. For detailedexplanations on what all of the Warrior Conduits do, check out ourWarrior Soulbinds and Conduits Page below.

Sometimes a Conduit will be much better for a particular type of damage thananother. Because of this, we will sometimes label Conduits' position in theTier Lists by either Single-Target or Mythic/AoE.

All Covenants and Conduits are ranked relative to the best overall setup.

• Depths of Insanity
• Hack and Slash
• Veteran's Repute (Necrolord-only)
• Merciless Bonegrinder (Multi-target-only)

• Adaptive Armor Fragment
• Destructive Reverberations (Night Fae-only)
• Piercing Verdict (Kyrian-only)
• Ashen Juggernaut
• Vicious Contempt

• Harrowing Punishment

This tier list is very much a guideline and we absolutely recommend usingRaidbots to sim your own Conduit choices as you unlock them.

All of these Conduits are geared towards survival and defensive options. Thismeans that there is a bit more room for personal choice, though Stalwart Guardian stands out as the universal choice due to allowingmore frequent use of the main defensive cooldown. Condensed Anima Sphere adds a moderate amount of healing over thecourse of an encounter which combine very well with Fury healing to make thespecialization very strong against constant incoming damage events.

While these Conduits are meant to increase mobility and utility, theyinclude very strong group defensive options, which make them very goodbonuses. Inspiring Presence benefits the entire raid in small way,while Safeguard can become a very potent external cooldown athigher ranks.

Venthyr is the best Covenant for Fury Warriorsingle-target damage, due to the strong synergy with Massacre,making it the go-to choice for Raiding focused players.

Night Fae is no longer as strong in single-target as it was, butcontinues to be the best in multitarget due to the strong Soulbinds andpowerful Ancient Aftershock ability. There is still a chance forfailure, as enemies moving out of the ground-targeted effect results insignificantly reduced damage and Rage generation, though this should not be amajor problem for players with strong awareness.

Necrolord is much more powerful than previous, as it is nolonger restricted to a specific area on the ground and no longer requires aramp up before full benefit. That said, it is still a group buff, which oftenprovides more to your allies than the Warrior. Under the right conditions,such as buffing two powerful Fire Mages in tandem with their cooldowns, theBanner can be incredibly competitive or even better than other Covenants,but the increased effort required to ensure that the two closest players arebuffed every 2 minutes requires much more effort than other options.

Kyrian is somewhat weaker in single-target, though has becomesurprisingly effective in multi-target due to the Elysian Mightlegendary power allowing strong burst damage every minute in combination with Bladestorm and Recklessness.

• Plague Deviser Marileth is at least tied for the best performingSoulbind, although it requires channeling Fleshcraft mid-combat,which interrupts the normal rotation and precludes it from being saved fordefensive purposes.
• Bonesmith Heirmir is a great option due to completely passivebonuses that do not need to be micromanaged.
• Emeni buffs allies and provides a lot of movement speedbonuses which can be helpful in Mythic+, while Gnashing Chompers isa decent option for low-tier content.

• Forgelite Prime Mikanikos is now much more consistent and hasthe added advantage of reducing the cooldown of Spear of Bastion tobetter sync with other cooldowns, along with a great deal of haste from Hammer of Genesis, making him a very strong pick in all situations,particularly single target encounters with periodic secondary targets.
• Pelagos would appear to be the strongest Kyrian Soulbind, butthe damage increasing traits require precise positioning and movement whichmay not be conductive to all encounters.
• Kleia is less competitive in group situations due tothe likelihood of Valiant Strikes consuming critical strike stacksto heal allies.

• Niya and Dreamweaver are both very close in singletarget situations, largely dictated by the difference between Niya's Tools: Burrs and Field of Blossoms. If the player cannotstay within the field of effect, Dreamweaver loses value, making Niya asomewhat more reliable option.
• Korayn falls behind Niya in single-target, butoffers much more burst in Mythic+-type content due to First Strike.

• Nadjia the Mistblade is the primary single-target choice, due to Dauntless Duelist.
• Theotar the Mad Duke is very competitive, but somewhat less reliable due tothe area-of-effect restriction on Soothing Shade.
• General Draven is not recommended, due to offering very few consistentdamage dealing bonuses, although if you were able to constantly interrupt itwould push his value much higher.