 What up guys, this is going to be the soul bind and conduits video and here I'm going to talk very briefly about sort of what you need to do how it all works that sort of thing and Then we're going to go and take a look at all the different talents that are available in the different soul bind trees And we're going to take a look at the different conduits that are available And we're going to just as I said touch on that pretty pretty lightly Really quickly go over you know if I think stuff is is decent or not And then in the next video, we're going to delve a little bit deeper into kind of the nitty-gritty of it Really talk about which trees I think are worth it So that we can go through and rank the covenants And we'll do a tier list for disc and for holy for the different covenants and Hopefully that way we can pick one that's going to be the best for us for PvP Or PvE if you're that way inclined and That should kind of wrap up Generally the the soul binds conduits Covenant sort of stuff that we've been doing over the last couple of videos With you know something that we can have a takeaway from and actually make use of So without further ado, let's get into it So the way that you unlock these different soul binds is by doing the entry quests on your chosen covenant And you will actually unlock the first two guys pretty early on When you complete your chosen covenant quests The third one gets unlocked later in the day when you have finished I think the the entire of your covenants quest line that I think takes a couple of weeks As things unlock due to time-gated stuff. I'm not exactly sure of the details of it But it's kind of not the point of this video the main is the main point of this video is to kind of go through the system itself which is the talents and You will have three different talent trees Available to you depending on your chosen covenant So obviously it's advantageous to know what they are ahead of time so you can choose a coven accordingly Taking into account the two different abilities that the covenant also gives Now I'm not going to go through every single talent because it's Entirely pointless me reading these out to you. You can check them out for yourselves So I'm just going to kind of talk a little bit about how it all works We'll touch over a few and Then we're going to talk about the conduits So essentially what happens is you go down the tree as you normally would any sort of talent tree if you remember the legion artifacts something like that and You have these slots on the way down These slots are what you can put the conduits into once you've learned them There's three different types. You've got the finesse one, which is the lightning ball the endurance one Which is the shield and the potency one, which is the cross and there's different types of conduits for each type of slot You basically work your way down and you pick Whichever talents you want to they quite vary so some of the talents will be completely useless for PVP Some will be completely useless for PvE So you kind of want to check out what's available and kind of make a decision on What you think is going to be most useful for you. Some of them definitely won't be and you'll be like oh man You know, I don't care about the non file services It's like changing your talents and stuff, right or getting some random cloth, right? So this tier is pretty lackluster But there's some really good ones So you have three different options when it comes to the sore winds and you can actually switch between them relatively freely However, switching a Conduit in a slot actually has a weak cooldown resaying your conduit slots So when you spec for example from disc to holy ideally you want to have two different trees Available otherwise you are basically only going to be older respect once a week and it's going to be a fath so that's kind of what I've Understood from that so far. I'm not a big fan of the the one week cooldown, but Switching covenants is even harder from what I've gathered and You have to do a quest line In order to switch and I heard switching back is quite hard I'm not sure exactly how you do it, but again not the point of this video The point I'm trying to make is that you really want to Be sure of what covenant you're going for at the start and then pray it doesn't get enough to basically so in the next video what we're going to do is break everything down and Make a tier list first disc and holy for PvP and PvE Just general different content types so that we can Pick the correct covenant based on the content that we want to do the most or want to focus on So that's what we've got coming up This is the Kirian trees and we've got the Necrolord trees Some of the trees definitely more useful for PvP than others Some obviously more useful for PvE than others which makes sense some of them have a really good talents like We've got a duration of incoming Interrupt snare root effects released by 25% really strong. We've got one that Allies door of shadows to free from roots and snares. So this is really strong for priests. This priest that doesn't have a freedom This guy also has a really good final one Which is when you mind game someone you get a bunch of Versa and you give allies a bunch of versus So this is really strong Ventil looking really good in general. I'll just give that little spoiler then you've got other ones which is Ultimate form so it makes flesh crafts, you know immune you to CC. So this is just like a little taster of the stuff if you want to Check out all of the talents then I will link this talent tree in the description of the video. I will also link a Google sheet in the description which has a lot more information on Kind of the details This is where I'm making my tier list and Ranking the different Covenants Finally Which is a kind of a process first. I'm going through the conduits ranking those so that I can rank how valuable the slots are Then I'm going to rank the individual talents While including the slots that are available with those talents. I'm gonna give the soul bind an overall rating and then Finish up by using those ratings to give the covenant an overall rating based on the soul binds and the abilities that they give Again, this is preliminary. It may change depending on buffs nerfs, whatever Right now, it's not the focus of this video. I'm just giving you the rundown and I think it's time we move on to conduits So this is gonna be the conduits portion and we're just gonna go through the conduits that are available to us and It looks a little bit intimidating, but I promise you it's not we're just gonna be focused on this blue box for today I'm gonna talk about a tier list stuff in the next video now the way that these covenants sorry these conduits are distributed is You have obviously three different types potency endurance and finesse and there are a lot of potencies But not a lot that are useful for your current spec So you have four disc ones for holy ones for shadow ones and then four covenant potency conduits Of which obviously only one of them will be useful to you depending on the covenant that you've chosen Then we have three endurance conduits available and we have four Finesse conduits available that are kind of generic to your class So to start off with disc we have Exaltation Rapture's duration is increased by two seconds and its powered shield enhancement is increased by 10% Or if you expect to spirit shell then basically just the same thing to spirit shell Now the numbers in green are the rank Conduits actually increase in rank and they have I believe 15 ranks So 10% is the base amount on the level one conduit The level one conduit And this actually scales you can see here in the ranks column. That's all this is for this scales up from 10% All the way up to 25% So when you have the max rank conduit your powered shield enhancement is actually increased by 25% That's kind of how that works And it will be the same all the way through the the green number is the one that scales So we've got pain transformation pain suppression also heals your target for 10% Of their max health. So that's kind of reminiscent of the azerite trait in bfa Then one that I think could potentially be really good for pvp if radiance is used Is shining radiance powered radiance's healing is increased by 33% and this actually scales all the way up to 79% Which is actually an insane amount and it's going to be really interesting to see how this scales with Ultimate radiance the pvp talent because if this applies first And then ultimate radiance second then ultimate radiance obviously is gaining a lot more value from this And radiance is going to do an insane amount of healing Then the last one we've got a swift penitence the damage or healing of your first bolt of penance is increased by 25% And again, this one scales really high the scales all the way up to 60% So definitely definitely a solid one there Then we've got the holy potencies focused mending prayer of mending does 20% increase healing to the initial target Holy oration spells that reduce the cooldowns of your holy words reduce them by 5% more This is great scales all the way up to 20% We've got lasting spirit guardian spirits duration is increased by two seconds and increases healing received by an additional 10% scaling to 25 And we have resonant words casting a holy word spell increases the healing of your next heal or flash heal by 10% Again scaling to 25% The shadow potencies we have dissonant echoes void bolt deals 35% more damage flat While not in void form mindflay has a 15% chance to allow you to cast void ball Um, and then while in void form void ball has a 15% chance to reset the cool cooldown of void ball So you should be turreting void balls and that actually scales up to 36% which is quite a high proc rate Then we have haunting apparitions your shadowy apparitions deal 25% more damage scaling up to 60% which is a lot actually Mind devourer mind blast deals 7% increase damage and has a 10% chance to make your next devouring play cost no insanity And rabid shadows your mind bender slash shadow fiends attack speed is increased by 20% and deals 10% more damage I think it's important to know that you can actually use these conduits Um Even if you're not in shadow spec So if you have a rabid shadows condo in as disc your shadow fiend and or mind bender will still get benefit of this Um, which I think is a big deal And then we have the covenant potencies Courageous ascension ascended blast deals 10% increase damage and ascended eruption deals an additional 1% damage per stack of Boon of the ascended scaling up to 25% Shattered perceptions mind games lasts an additional three seconds just actually a lot considering its five seconds base Uh, and deals an additional 20% damage or healing scaling up to 35% We have festering transfusion unholy transfusion lasts five seconds longer and deals 10% more damage and healing And that skills to 25 as well and then fey fermata Your fey guardians leave behind a 60% effective copy of their benefit lasting three seconds When they jump to a new target and this scales up to 7.2 seconds. She's quite a long time Um, I think this is more of a PvE benefit. I think this one for sure more PvE. I'm not too sure about this one I feel like the the necrolord Covenant abilities and all that strong in general Right, we've got the priest endurance conduits now So we've got charitable soul casting power shield on an ally also shields you for 10% of the amount Uh for 10 seconds and this goes up to 25% Definitely definite potential with this against dark leaves. I would say Uh lights inspiration desperate prayer heals you for an additional 5% of your max health over five seconds And that's scaling to 20 And translucent image for the first five seconds of fade you take 5% reduced damage And that's killed up to 15% so considering fade is off global. This is really really valuable This is half of a faint plus it's off global So I think this is really strong And then we have the for finesse Covenant covenants, why do I keep saying that for for finesse conduits? Uh, we have clear mind to spell magic purify and master spell cost 20 less mana and this scales to 35% This is like so good So so good For a lot of matchups for this And then we have mental recovery after psychic scream and mind bomb or slash mind bomb rather ends affected targets Movement speed is reduced by 40% for five seconds Uh, not sure if this is going to be dispellable, but I think it's really strong all the same scales up to 70% We've got move with grace levitate grants 10% increased move speed scaling up to 25% which is nice as a passive Uh, but important to know that levitate will fall off if you take damage And then power and to others power infusion incurs a five second reduced cooldown when you cast it on an ally Scaling all the way up to change uses not percentages flat Um scaling all the way up to 20 second reduced cooldown though which is Not bad when it's a two minute cooldown actually Uh, you can combine that with the pi legendary that allows you to pi someone else and get it yourself as well I would say and and that's going to be really valuable So that is the kind of summary of the conduits we have available um obviously they go into the Relevant slots You can see and so then we can pick the different ones on the talent calculator as I said I'll link it in the description And you can see the different ranks that are available as well So this was the soul binds and conduits video obviously a lot of information there Uh, as I said we will put the Um spreadsheet and talent calculator in the description If you guys want to you know delve a little bit further into it Take a little bit more time to read stuff take it all in I recommend it It's going to give you the best possible understanding of kind of how this is all going to work and what you know What you like what you want to aim for what's going to be good for your uh desired content So that's all for now Next video is going to be about ranking the soul binds and ranking the conduits So that we can form an opinion on which Soul bind overall is going to be the strongest And then we're going to combine that information with which Uh covenant abilities we think are the strongest and hopefully come out with a tier list For different content types on which covenant Slash soul bind is going to be the strongest to go for Uh assuming no nerfs If blizzard do put in any significant changes or nerfs that will Change the outcome of You know our results Then it will be changed on the spreadsheet unless it's something considerable. I'm not going to make another video on it but By all means you know keep the spreadsheet to hand So that if anything does change you'll know about it Thank you very much for watching