Shadowlands Conduits - Item Level, Ranks, Upgrading, and Replacing

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Conduit Updates for Shadowlands Patch 9.2: Eternity's End

There are no changes to Conduit functionality in Patch 9.2: Eternity's End. A selection of conduits drops from bosses in the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid at the following iLevels:

Raid Difficulty	Conduit Item Level
Raid Finder	239
Normal	252
Heroic	265
Mythic	278

For more details check out our Sepulcher of the First Ones loot guide:

Sepulcher of the First Ones Raid Loot Drops

In addition to this, 4 items have been added allowing you to learn all available Conduits for your class, and upgrading them to a specific item level:

Incense of Infinity teaches and upgrades all Conduits to ilvl 200;
Font of Ephemeral Power teaches and upgrades all Conduits to ilvl 226;
Decanter of Untapped Potential teaches and upgrades all Conduits to ilvl 239;
Vessel of Profound Possibilities teaches and upgrades all Conduits to ilvl 278.

What are Conduits?Soulbind PotencyEnduranceFinesse

Potency Conduits improve the power of your spells and are spec or Covenant specific. There are four for each DPS and Heals spec, two for Tank specs, and four Covenant specific Conduits.

Endurance Conduits provide your class with additional defensive value through damage mitigation or increased healing. There are three Endurance Conduits available to all specs and another two available only to Tanks.

Finesse conduits provide additional utility to your class. Each class has four Finesse Conduits which are usable by all specs.

Where to Get Conduitspersistent collections systemUnbound Reality FragmentCordial ReputationWhat are the Best Conduits?

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Guardian DruidFeral DruidBalance DruidRestoration Druid

Beast Mastery HunterMarksmanship HunterSurvival Hunter

Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage

Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

Conduit Ranks

This is a Mage Conduit:

Grounding Surge (Finesse Conduit) Successfully interrupting an enemy with Counterspell reduces its cooldown by 2.5 sec.
Ranks: 2.5, 2.8, 3.0, 3.3, 3.5, 3.8, 4.0, 4.3, 4.5, 4.8, 5.0, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 6.0

This is the lowest Item Level version, Rank 1. At the highest Item Level, Rank 15, the Conduit would read:

Successfully interrupting an enemy with Counterspell reduces its cooldown by 6.0 sec.

Conduit Rank

Item Level

145

158

171

184

200

213

226

239

252

265

278

291

304

317

330

Upgrading Your Conduits* For your Covenant ability Conduits, the items below will only teach/upgrade the Conduit related to the ability of the Covenant you're currently in, so to upgrade all four Covenant conduits, you will need to purchase and use the items a total of 4 times.

Incense of Infinity teaches you all your available Conduits and upgrades all known Conduits to item level 200. This item is sold by Au'Dara near the flight path at the Ring of Transference in Oribos for ,

Font of Ephemeral Power teaches you all your available Conduits and upgrades all known Conduits to item level 226. This item is sold by Vilo in Haven, Zereth Mortis for , and requires Friendly with The Enlightened.

Decanter of Untapped Potential teaches you all your available Conduits and upgrades all known Conduits to item level 239. This item is sold by Vilo in Haven, Zereth Mortis for , and requires Revered with The Enlightened.

Vessel of Profound Possibilities teaches you all your available Conduits and upgrades all known Conduits to item level 278. This item is sold by all Shadowlands reputation vendors for , and requires completion of the 9.2 Campaign Questline and obtaining one of the following achievements: Shadowlands Keystone Hero: Season Three, Elite: Shadowlands Season 3 or Mythic: Sepulcher of the First Ones.

Replacing Conduitsnot destroyed when replaced in your Soulbind

Comments

Comment by nagaerman

"Conduits can only be reset and reselected once a week." oh my... why

Comment by Izual2022

I am afraid the current rendition of conduits could be a major negative factor for shadowlands. Conduits being tied to ilvl is going to be an issue at launch and an even bigger issue at each patch. Most people say they get specific Conduits from specific dungeons. I cannot speak for everyone; however, I highly doubt people will want to refarm +15 conduits every single tier of this expansion. I think a better system would be making them somewhat more grindy but more consistent. An idea would be your weekly anima can be used to unlock or empower specific conduits so you can maintain "meta" for conduits by doing what Blizzard already wants you to do (weekly anima cap). It could work similar to how the Artifact weapon tree did in legion, where you can do it multiple ways (there will always be a best way) and respec the conduits to redistribute the anima if you change spec or one gets buffed/nerfed. Otherwise every patch will be a race to 15+ spams of X dungeon so I can get Y conduit at max ilvl so I can sim 5% higher than last tier. Another issue tied to conduit ilvl is the fact there are discrepancies in Max ilvl of M+/Raids/Arenas. Does this mean that a conduit from mythic Sire Denathrius will be X ilvl higher than a +15 conduit from Plaguefall? That could tilt the "meta" solely by the fact that a certain class has their 3 best potency conduits in the raid and another has 0 or 1. This reminds me of the Relics from Legion which were (in my opinion) an annoyance more than anything else. If blizzard is determined to fill this game full of systems I believe they should be slow burn grind (with catch up mechanics that keep people in a reasonable gap) rather than luck of the draw. Hopefully some changes are made within the month but it seems unlikely.

Comment by Kryptaria

...you can use a Soulbind's left hand path for one spec and right hand path for another...

I'm in beta right now, on a druid. I set up my conduit path for tanking. Then I switched to resto, and I'm still locked into the same soulbind path and choice of conduits. I can't switch out anything that I've previously chosen.

Comment by Highone

If I get the same conduit (same ilvl) again, does it have any use?
EDIT: Meanwhile the anwser to that question became apparent. You cannot do anything with duplicate conduits (same ilvl). You either let them take space or delete them.
EDIT2: Due to the above reason, never open a calling cache when you have unused conduits in your bags! Because you may get the same conduit and waste your conduit roll when you could get a different conduit.

Comment by solidefy

UPDATE: So I figured it out. The guide is not wrong, its just worded in a confusing way.

The Active Soulbind you have for each spec changes automatically, not the selected conduits. So if you are Night Fae and use Niya for your Tank spec, then switch to your DPS spec and activate Dreamweaver (or whoever). When you switch back to Tank, Niya will be the active Soulbind again. Switch back to DPS spec and Dreamweaver is automatically activated.

Original Post:

Your Conduit choices are spec specific and will automatically change when you switch specs.

This does not seem to be the case in retail?

Set up Tank spec Conduits
Switched to DPS spec for the first time
Changed conduits to DPS-friendly sockets - Hit "Apply Conduits"
Switch back to Tank spec
Conduits are still the DPS ones I had just set

Am I missing something?

Comment by chimera

"Your Conduit choices are spec specific and will automatically change when you switch specs."

This is a lie.

Comment by Oakieboi

Does anyone know how we upgrade PvP conduits without spending more conquest? I bought my PvP conduit when I was a challenger, now that I'm a duelist, my conduit is still 213, but the vendor is selling a 226. Should I just have waited before purchasing it?

Comment by BlacKcuD

The cost of Unbound Reality Fragment is actually 1900 Stygia.

Comment by Kanuton

Since most people buy now have the allotted number of conduits (not sure if they are the same for all. For BM Hunter, it is 21), the only real chance to upgrade them is the purchase of "Unbound Reality Fragment" from Ve'nari. The upgrade through raid or mythic seems to only max to level 7 (226). There are 15 levels (330). So I focus on collecting Stygia. Here are some numbers on what it takes to upgrade all conduits by one level:

To update conduits, buy “Unbound Reality Fragment”: 1900 Stygia
To update all conduits (21), you need 40,000 Stygia
Weekly quests: 1,520 Stygia
A week worth of daily quests: 2,940
All possible Stygia per week: 4,460
To get all possible Stygia to get all conduits to the next level: 9 weeks

One very helpful way to speed things up: go after Elites (skull on the map). Most get you an additional ~50 Stygia

Comment by OneMoreBook1268

I have been trying to change my socketed conduit for an upgraded one I earned while questing. I can not find info on how to do that. Like I've been pressing shift and ctrl shift and alt shift and just a whole mess of possible combos and can not get it changed.

Comment by Haxedus

You can unlock all conduits to lvl 226 by visiting Vilo and buying Font of Ephemeral Power for a few gold. Making the grind for conduits unthinkable.

Shadowlands Conduits - Item Level, Ranks, Upgrading, and Replacing

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