Advanced: Kyrian

Ratings

• Overall: Good
• Raiding: Good
• Mythic+: Good

Recommended Path

Ratings

• Overall: Bad
• Raiding: Bad
• Mythic+: Bad

Recommended Path

Conduit Slots

• Guaranteed: 1x Finesse, 1x Endurance
• Choice 1: 1x Potency OR 1x Endurance
• Choice 2: 1x Potency OR 1x Endurance OR 1x Finesse

Soulbind Nodes

1. Valiant Strikes – When you land a critical strike, you receive a stack of Valiant Strikes. Stacks up to 20. If a nearby party member drops below 50% health, the stacks are consumed to heal them for 1% of their maximum health per stack.

This can be a strong Soulbind Ability for healing if you have high Critical Strike. Historically Windwalkers have a decent amount of chance to Crit, but not a ton, so this is an average amount of healing for free.

2. Mentorship – When your health is above 90%, your nearby party members’ maximum health is increased by 5%.

5% is a small amount and as 90% health is the threshold at which it disappears, it’s gone too quickly to make a difference. Its better than nothing, but only just.

3. Ascendant Phial – Phial of Serenity makes you immune to Curse, Disease, Poison and Bleed effects for 8 seconds.

This is huge to get rid of otherwise undispellable bleeds or debuffs that you or your co-healers cannot dispel due to class limitations.

4. Cleansing Rites – After 5 seconds out of combat you gain a shield for 10% of your maximum health.

Good for world content, decent for Mythic+ depending on how much you chainpull (more chainpulling = less time out of combat = less useful), useless for raids as you don’t reset combat on bosses.

5. Ever Forward – While above 90% health, your mounted movement speed is increased by 10%.

A small movement speed increase for world content and in some open-air dungeons that allow mounting, otherwise it doesn’t do anything.

6. Bearer’s Pursuit – Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to decrease your target’s movement speed by 45% for 20 seconds.

This can be really good for kiting mobs in Mythic+ and for keeping distance from the opponent in PvP. In raids however you won’t see a use for this.

7. Pointed Courage – You gain 1% increased Critical Strike chance for every nearby enemy or ally, stacking up to 5%

This is immensely strong depending on the number of players around you in raids. If you don’t have to massively spread in a fight, you’ll likely see a near-permanent 5% increase in Critical Strike chance. Being a melee you’re very likely to be at full stacks all the time

8. Resonant Accolades – When you receive healing while above 70% or you heal an ally above 70% health, 4% of the healing done is repeated over 5 seconds

This is a marginal amount of healing. Say you heal an ally from 70% to 95% health, this Soulbind ability will land your target at 96% health. You won’t be aiming for this.

Conduit Slots

• Guaranteed: 1x Finesse, 1x Endurance
• Choice 1: 1x Potency OR 1x Endurance
• Choice 2: 1x Potency OR 1x Endurance OR 1x Finesse

Soulbind Nodes

1. Bron’s Call to Action – After using 90 damaging or healing spells and abilities, your next spell or ability summons Bron. Bron knocks back enemies when he’s summoned and then attacks and heals your targets for 30 seconds.

He does no major damage or healing. It’s a required Soulbind ability to move into the rest of the tree, but apart from that it’s pretty useless.

2. Forgelite Filter – When reduced below 35% health, Phial of Serenity automatically heals you and consumes a charge.

Sort of a nice safety net, but having control over your Phial is more valuable as 35% health is still easily recoverable yourself in most situations.

3. Charged Additive – Using Phial of Serenity knocks back nearby enemies.

Thunderstorm lite when you use your Phial can be pretty useful in world content if you need to get away from mobs that are aggroed to you and heal at the same time. In Mythic+, however, it is more likely that your tank will complain because you knocked the mobs away from him as well.

4. Regenerating Materials – Casting or receiving healing has a chance to improve the remaining durability on your armor.

This might be useful when you’re wiping over 300 times to a boss and you can’t cover your repairs anymore. Otherwise, just a flavour thingy.

5. Resilient Plumage – You take 20% reduced fall damage and after taking fall damage, damage you take is reduced by 20% for 15 seconds.

This can be really useful in fights where there’s knock-up and falling effects as a 20% damage reduction is huge. Fights like Fallen Avatar come to mind. Unless we get fights with such mechanics though, this will be useless.

6. Soulsteel Clamps – After standing still for 5 seconds, incoming stun and incapacitate effects are reduced by 30%. Lasts for 5 seconds once you start moving.

Pretty big for PvP and some Mythic+ trash to reduce the effectiveness of CC. Raids however don’t really have that kind of stuff so it’s useless there.

7. Hammer of Genesis – Damaging a new enemy grants you 3% Haste for 10 seconds, stacking up to 5.

Pretty solid for Mythic+ for when you pull new trash packs and Haste is more useful, but unlikely to be very useful overall.

8. Sparkling Driftglobe Core – When reduced below 35% health, you stun nearby enemies for 3 seconds. Can only occur once every 45 seconds.

A nice safety net in Mythic+, but maybe a bit iffy in Sanguine weeks (although pairing with Ring of Peace could see some really creative plays!). In raids, most adds are immune to stun, so this won’t help you there.