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The Ultimate Guide to Evoker Covenants: Choosing Your Path in Shadowlands

Figuring out the best covenant for your Evoker can be a daunting task, especially with the complexities of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. The short answer, based on current information and how the game was designed is: Kyrian emerges as the strongest all-around covenant for Evokers, both for Preservation (healing) and Devastation (damage) specializations. This choice provides a robust combination of a powerful signature ability and potent soulbinds that benefit the class’s playstyle. However, the other covenants still offer viable options, particularly for niche situations or if you favor certain playstyles over raw power.

Understanding Covenants and Their Impact on Evokers

Before diving deeper, it’s crucial to understand how covenants work in Shadowlands and their limitations in the current expansion, Dragonflight. Covenants are factions you could join within the Shadowlands expansion, each with a unique signature ability, a covenant ability, and soulbinds.

Shadowlands Covenant Abilities

Signature Abilities: These are mobility or utility-focused abilities granted by your chosen covenant.
Covenant Abilities: These are combat abilities that differ based on your class.
Soulbinds: These are talent trees tied to specific characters within each covenant that enhance your abilities with potency, endurance and finesse conduits.

Covenants in Dragonflight

It’s important to understand that while you can still choose and swap covenants, Covenant abilities and legendaries are disabled outside Shadowlands content in Dragonflight. This means your choice of covenant will only impact your gameplay in Shadowlands content such as old dungeons, raids, and leveling.

Now, let’s break down how each covenant stacks up for Evokers:

Kyrian: The Top Choice for Evokers

Kyrian stands out as the most optimal choice for Evokers across the board.

Why Kyrian is Good for Evokers:

Signature Ability: Summon Steward: This ability provides access to a Phial of Serenity, which functions as a powerful self-heal, and can be used to remove debuffs. This provides a significant survivability increase, which is always valuable for both roles.
Soulbinds: The Pelagos soulbind is frequently the preferred option as it allows the use of 3 potency conduits which enhance the effectiveness of abilities.
Overall Strength: Kyrian offers the best balance of offense, defense, and utility, making it ideal for a wide range of content, from mythic+ dungeons to raids, and even open world content. It provides consistent, impactful benefits.

Night Fae: A Solid Alternative

Night Fae is another viable option, particularly for those who value mobility and burst healing.

Why Night Fae is Good for Evokers:

Signature Ability: Soulshape: This ability grants excellent mobility, which is invaluable in a variety of situations.
Covenant Ability: Boon of the Covenants: This is a decent ability that grants a health pot and versatility increase combo when utilized.
Soulbinds: The Dreamweaver soulbind offers very good Potency Conduit support, but the other nodes are less effective than other covenants.

Venthyr: Situational Strength

Venthyr provides specific situations that it shines but has a lower overall impact than Kyrian.

Why Venthyr is Good for Evokers:

Signature Ability: Door of Shadows: This ability provides short range, high mobility teleport which is valuable in specific encounters that require quick movement.
Soulbinds: The Venthyr has good soulbinds, but not as good as Kyrian for potency, however they offer good Endurance conduits.
Situational Use: While Venthyr can be a powerful option, it is often better to stick with Kyrian due to better overall effectiveness.

Necrolord: The Least Optimal Choice

Necrolord is considered the least favorable choice for most Evoker specializations.

Why Necrolord is Not Ideal for Evokers:

Signature Ability: Fleshcraft: While this ability provides some utility, it is less practical for Evoker gameplay.
Covenant Ability: The Necrolord Covenant ability does not synergize with the current Evoker abilities.
Soulbinds: The Necrolord soulbinds offer the least attractive benefits in comparison to the other Covenants.
Lower Performance: Necrolord generally underperforms in comparison to the other three covenants and isn’t recommended.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Evoker Covenants

Here are some frequently asked questions to provide a deeper understanding of Evoker covenants:

1. Can I Change Covenants?

**Yes, you can freely switch between Covenants** once you’ve reached Renown 80 with any character in your account. This requires the achievement **Renowned**. After that, you can switch between covenants without restrictions, even rejoining ones you’ve previously left.

2. What Happens When I Switch Covenants?

When you switch covenants, you **lose all covenant-specific benefits** from the previous covenant. This includes **renown, covenant abilities, appearances, soulbinds, mounts, titles, and sanctum upgrades.** Your progress in the old covenant does not transfer to the new one.

3. Do Covenants Matter in Dragonflight?

**Covenant abilities and legendaries are disabled outside Shadowlands content in Dragonflight.** Your covenant choice only has an impact when you’re playing in areas such as Shadowlands dungeons, raids, or other Shadowlands content.

4. What is the Best Covenant Ability for Preservation Evoker?

For Preservation Evoker, the **Kyrian's Summon Steward** and **Night Fae's Boon of the Covenants** are considered the most impactful. **Summon Steward** provides extra survivability and is typically the better overall choice.

5. What is the Best Covenant Ability for Devastation Evoker?

For Devastation Evoker, the **Kyrian's Summon Steward** is still the most impactful ability and offers utility, along with good synergy with soulbinds.

6. Can Evokers Dual Wield?

**No**, Evokers cannot dual-wield. They can equip Daggers, Staves, Fist Weapons, One-Handed Swords, One-Handed Axes, and One-Handed Maces, as well as off-hand items, but they cannot equip two one-handed weapons simultaneously.

7. What Legendaries Can Evokers Use?

The most relevant Legendary for Evokers in Shadowlands is Nasz’uro, the Unbound Legacy, a fist weapon with a powerful legendary effect, often useful for Augmentation Evokers as well.

8. Is Evoker a Good Class?

Yes, Evoker is a fun and powerful class with a lot of mobility and utility. Whether you choose to play as a **Preservation healer** or a **Devastation damage dealer**, you’ll find a relatively streamlined and engaging playstyle.

9. Is Preservation Evoker a Good Healer?

**Preservation Evoker is a very strong and unique healer.** They utilize multiple resources (mana & essence) and have powerful spells that can be charged up. While they have a slightly slower pace, their spells have a large impact.

10. Can I Boost an Evoker?

Dracthyr Evokers are not eligible for level 60 boosts or paid race changes. They can change factions, but their race cannot be changed during the process.

11. Is it Easy to Switch Covenants?

**Yes, it is very easy to switch covenants** after you’ve reached Renown 80 with any character on your account. You can switch freely without losing progress in other covenants.

12. Which Covenant Has the Best Campaign?

The Kyrian Covenant Campaign is often considered the most consistent, as it directly addresses the Forsworn storyline and explores the lore of Bastion.

13. Can I Join More Than One Covenant?

**No, you can only be a member of one Covenant at a time.** Joining a new Covenant will overwrite your current membership.

14. What is the Least Popular Covenant in WoW?

While popularity can fluctuate, generally Necrolord is considered the least popular Covenant choice by many players.

15. Can I Do All Four Covenant Campaigns?

**Yes, you can complete all four Covenant campaigns** on a single character. Each campaign can be done once per character.

Conclusion: Make an Informed Choice

While Kyrian currently stands out as the top choice for Evokers due to its robust combination of utility, survivability, and consistent power, the other Covenants offer unique benefits and may suit specific preferences. If your focus is solely on Shadowlands content, consider your personal playstyle and your preferences for mobility, healing output, and damage to help decide between the options. Ultimately, the best covenant is the one that you enjoy playing the most!

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