I am getting more serious in Mythic + and raiding now, and I hear the covenant I need to go to is Night Fae.
But I have 35k anima in Venthyr, and almost every option unlocked and upgraded, the command table followers in their mid 40’s.
So I am a little scared to start all over, is it worth it? Or is Blizz suddenly going to realize NF has been tuned higher than the other covenants and nerf NF and then boost the other covenants dps and add new talents, making my entire venture useless? And how long would it actually take to get back to the 12 row soulbinds unlocked?
Side note complaint: This whole system is BS. Same with the shards- it just further complicates and convolutes gear. The first 2 weeks or raiding in 3 difficulties I got all the shards of frost and blood and 2 unholy…all except the shard of Dyz unholy shard, which is my meta. Its been 3 weeks now and nothing. I am starting to get left out of raids because I don’t have my meta shards going and the dps loss is too substantial.
I am just desperate to get that xtra dps, which is why I oriiginally started getting concerned about changing to NF
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NF is currently best for havoc. Is it worth switching over? Meh…? Are you running mythic/progression content where that extra 1-3% is critical for your raid/m+ group?
Yeah. Borrowed powers should have ended with Legion’s artifacts going away. They were good. Borrowed powers since have been total crap.
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I am just running 15s and heroics. I do notice that if I run a 15 with another DH that is about the same gear as me that they are getting substantially more dps than me, except maybe on ST. I ran 15s and 16s a ton in BFA and have played the hell out of havoc as my main, and it is a simplistic class, so I know the dps isn’t a fault of rotation or what I am doing.
Seems crazy to respec covenants, but then again my covenant is getting boring.
What about making a DH alt and getting it to NF and see how it feels? I wish Blizz had a system that you could try out a covanents powers to see if you like it for a day, kind of like when you are originally choosing covenants.
According to Raidbots, Necrolords’s Emeni with 12th row unlocked outdoes everyone in both Mythic plus and raiding. I couldn’t beleive it at first, but I spent hours simming and it was clearly ahead of the pack.
I wish they’d get rid of this borrowed power crap completely.
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Yeah try being a mage where every spec has a different best covenant by a large margin. It’s awful. Gone are the days of going arcane for a low movement single target fight, switching to frost when you get to a cleave fight and going fire when you get to a high movement or heavy aoe fight. THATS what the mage was all about but now this crap forces us to commit to one spec which is NOT how mages should work.
Here’s to hoping blizzard never locks player power behind something like this again but I won’t hold my breath. Covenants are cool. I like the cosmetics and the sanctum stuff. It brought a ton of stuff to end game for casual players to do.
But putting these abilities and passives behind them was just the dumbest decision I think the dev team has ever done in the history of the game
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Covenants from an RP perspective are amazing. I love being kyrian on my DH. Makes me feel like I ascended to be a Solar (if you don’t know what that is, go look it up in D&D stuff)>
Covenants from a balance perspective are a dumpster fire that someone tried to put out by throwing nuclear waste mixed with gasoline on it.
Blizz really needs to move away from these borrowed power systems. The borrowed power system in Legion was fantastic - namely, the artifacts. (Legion legendaries were…meh, but got better.) BfA borrowed power systems were bad, especially corruption. Now the borrowed power systems we’re seeing are even worse - covenants, soul binds, and conduits started off unbalanced and haven’t been fixed, and switching covenants feels like having to go through the court system for a divorce from a highly toxic and vindictive ex. Now we have even more borrowed power in domination sockets, which are almost as bad as corruption in BfA was.
Blizz needs to get over their idiocy, get back in touch with the players, and stop locking us behind these moronic and misguided borrowed power systems.
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god i didnt even realize that. I feel like wow is either going to be reborn under new management and rise like a phoenix or its going to drown right here and now in the mud pit BLizzard dug for itself.
Stick with whatever cov you like the best. I’ve taken my DH to Kyrian and NF and regret it. Yea there’s an uptick in Dsp but neither of those covenants are content that Interests me so I’m headed back to Venthyr as of this Tuesday.
Any group worth running with knows that a dps that understands mechanics is far better than one with 1-3% more dps but might stand in puddles to pull off the dmg.
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this is a great piece of writing here my friend
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I switched from Kyrian to NF and don’t regret it one bit, The Hunt is truly an awesome ability and soul binds are better for dps. But I suppose it depends on your priorities.
I find that the mission table doesn’t really offer much to discourage you from switching. And anima can be transfered over, just buy stuff that costs anima and resell it once you switched covenants to get it refunded.
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Not to mention that anima falls out of the freakin sky in Korthia. On a day where i went around and did pretty much everything there i took home 4.7k anima
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is it hard to do it within an hour? I am afraid the opening NF quest will take longer. I have never done it. Is it fast?
You can skip the intro to your first soulbind but to unlock the other 2 you’ll have to complete the campaign storyline.
thanks all, I went nightfae. MY dps skyrocketed from 4-5k to 8-9k in ST and even into the 30s and 40s depending on the number of mobs in aoe. Absolutely amazing. And as far as anima, I got recapped in like 3 days and level 52 on my covenant as well. BLizzard may not make it super easy to change, but they make it really , really easy to catch up. loving it