Advanced: Kyrian

Ratings

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

Recommended Path

Ratings

• Overall: Great
• Raiding: Great
• Mythic+: Great

Recommended Path

Conduit Slots

• Guaranteed: 1 x Finesse and 1 x Endurance and 1 x Potency
• Choice 1: Potency OR Endurance
• Choice 2: Potency OR Endurance OR Finesse
• Choice 3: Endurance OR Finesse

Soulbind Nodes

1. Valiant Strikes – Your critical strikes grant you stacks of Valiant Strikes, up to 20. If a nearby party member drops below 50% health, you consume these stacks to heal them for 1% of their maximum health per stack. After healing this way, you may not benefit from Valiant Strikes for 1 min.

This trait triggers very often as the 50% threshold is met very easily. This makes it do more overall healing, but also means it’s often on cooldown when you really need it.

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.

Because Phial of Serenity already gets rid of Curses, Diseases, Poisons and Bleeds this trait is only useful against re-applying effects which is very rare to see. 

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.

9. Spear of the Archon – Movement speed increased by 6% while out of combat. Gain 3% critical strike chance for 10 sec after damaging an enemy above 90% health.

This becomes very good on any fight where the opening burst is important or whenever you have adds spawning frequently. In dungeons this also has a high up-time.

10. Hope Springs Eternal – Your Phial of Serenity reduces damage taken by 10% for 8 sec and its effects are also granted to your lowest-health ally.

Because Windwalker has enough defensive tools already you won’t take this over the competing trait that gives you damage.

11. Light the Path – Your Valiant Strikes grant 0.25% critical strike chance per stack. When your Valiant Strikes heals an ally, you each gain 5% critical strike chance for 12 sec.

To get the most out of this trait you ideally never proc your Valiant Strikes. Sadly this is almost impossible not to on any difficult content.

Conduit Slots

• Guaranteed: 1 x Finesse 1 x Endurance and 1 x Potency
• Choice 1: Potency OR Endurance
• Choice 2: Potency OR Endurance OR Finesse
• Choice 3: Endurance OR 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.

This trait has been buffed in 9.1 and our little buddy now actually does some damage. He won’t solo any enemies, but it’s a welcome extra bit of damage.

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 20%. 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 30% health, you stun nearby enemies for 3 seconds. Can only occur once every 60 seconds.

A nice safety net in Mythic+ and PVP, 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.

9. Soulglow Spectrometer – Damaging or healing a target analyzes its merit over 15 sec, increasing your damage or healing to it by 1%, increasing by an additional 1% every 3 sec. Cannot start a new analysis of each type until the previous one has finished.

Not something you actively play around. Enjoy the bit of bonus damage.

10. Reactive Retrofitting – After taking Physical or Magic damage, gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 8% of your maximum Health for 10 sec. Each incoming damage type may trigger this effect once per 30 sec.

If you’re lucky it can save your life once or two. In most cases this will just be (little) passive healing

11. Effusive Anima Accelerator – Weapons of Order releases a blast of overcharged anima at your target’s location, dealing X Arcane damage split evenly between all targets over 8 sec. Reduce the cooldown of Weapons of Order by 8 sec per affected enemy, to a maximum of 40 sec.

This is where Mikanikos can show off it’s true potential. If this makes your cooldowns line up better with mechanics, burst timings, or enables you to get one more set of cooldowns out it pushes Mikanikos from very strong to veeeery strong. This will usually force you to play Xuen’s Bond in order to keep lining up Xuen with Weapons of Order.