Yea, you get to try them all out before choosing which to join.
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I don’t care about the meta covenant because they’re going to continue tuning them anyways and I’ve become so casual I truly just don’t care about squeezing out every .5-2% of dps possible anymore lol. I’m just going based off of what I think fits my characters and has the least obnoxious covenant ability to use. Except on my spriest, I planned on going Kyrian for her for transmog and such but omg that covenant ability for shadow is terrible, and I’m not talking damage just how it’s used, so that’s not happening.
That said my druid will be going Night Fae because it just makes the most sense to me.
Same if I’m being fair. Although this toon is a druid, it’s not my main. Just my forum toon. I don’t like switching back and forth.
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since you get to test them all out while leveling and decide from there…havent even bothered to make much of a decision except that i like the night fae look the best
I already play Feral Druid so I clearly don’t let tier lists tell me what class to play. I’m certainly not going to let them tell me what covenant to play either.
I will go as far to say that even if they did post on a druid, it would not matter 
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Well, Blizzard just made it a lot easier I guess.
They apparently agreed that Valiant Strikes was overpowered. They recently TRIPPLE nerfed it to hell and back in beta.
It was changed from 40 max stacks to 20 AND given a 1 minute cooldown when it procs. During this time, it can’t gain more stacks. This cooldown procs even if only a few stacks are used. Meaning if it procs at like 1 stack, it does barely any healing AND goes into cooldown.
To top it all off, it also only gains stacks from your own crits now.
This may be record breaking levels of nerfs to something from one version to the next. They really wanted to make sure it didn’t go live in a state where anyone would consider picking it.
Agreed, the level of nerf on this skill is crazy I honestly think it would have been fine to have it proc only off your own abilities and then allow for it to heal anyone in the raid… I mean you’re talking best case scenario a 1.xx% to maybe 3% throughput increase if every single GCD is a crit.
Obviously letting it stack with everyone else’s crits would mean it could end up being overpowered (does that even matter? I feel like all soulbinds and conduits should have interesting things like this).
In it’s current state it is by far the worst starting conduit in the entire game and is effectively worthless by every metric, whoever thought this was a good hotfix needs to learn how to balance. Yeah you know what rather then actually balance it lets hit it with 3 nerfs all at once.
This will be reverted before launch I bet.
like most of my other brothers and sisters, I am too going Night Fae…for the fantasy aspect of it…I think they’re going to probably make everything even in a couple of patches anyway, and I’ll be happy I picked Night Fae as my main covenant 
I’m also really sad that I killed ursoc and now he’s gone forever…I guess that’s why i’m headed to hell lol
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15% damage every minute on kyrian is too good and infinitely better than rav frenzy or adaptive swarm considering the majority of our damage (as feral) comes from FB.
as balance druid im going for maldraxxus…
Ursoc is why I can’t go nightfae… if given the option to wage war on those murderous pigs I will merc every last one. RIP Ursoc. The poor anima abortion.
My main druid (this one) is going Night Fae no matter what. Kyrian is too cult like for me. Necro lords just doesn’t seem right for a druid, nor did the Venthyr. I mean uber werebear would be fun…but alas…night fae felt better.
Granted I’ll never been bleeding edge, so I’m good with that.
Worst case…I have another druid I can ‘optimize’ if needed.
Regards,
I’m just doing it for the Swolekin.
I’ll be choosing what best matches all my toons based on feel, so I’m with a lot of you here. My druid will definitely be Night Fae since I won’t be doing much with him anyway.
I’m disappointed that covenants were tied in with production. Their abilities should have been QoL and accentual only. Making them matter in dps or heal/tank throughput forces people into decisions and that feels wrong.
That is a major drawback to this expansion and down the road something they will regret I think.
I agree with this completely, but I’d also like to point out that for most people, which covenant you chose, as well as all its talents, will make up a 2-3% damage increased at best. That’s like choosing to be an Alliance player even though your group as Horde would do 3% more damage. It’s not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
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When I first posted this, it was because Kyrian was the best option for all specs, now it’s only the best option for 3… but that’s besides the fact.
Have you looked at the transmog options for each covenant? If the plate version of Night Fae had been leather, I’d be perfectly happy with them, but as it is, the leather version of Night Fae looks like Priest armor, and the plate version is the most Druid-like armor we’ve seen in many expansions. And that annoys me lol.
Tbh I don’t care too much about the xmog options because I probably won’t wear them due to everyone running around in them. Just how I am. It’s one thing to wear a mog where you know you’ll run into others in it, but when it’s all over the place meh.
What irks me is that sentiment of “you have to choose this one” due to min/max bs. I’ve always had a prob with authority and being told what to do lol.
Yeah, the plate Night Fae is the only good Night Fae Transmog and it’s a shame.
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Going Night Fae for PVP / RP