So I’m not even a month in and I’m going to have to change my covenants on both the characters I play
I started off as venthyr on a survival hunter, I still love that ability but sadly let’s face it, the ability was hot garbage
Once I started doing arena I provided me with very little value aside from a few top RNG moments but once I swapped to kyrian I had streamlined burst and it has been a much better choice all round for everything I do in game
Now they’ve nerfed kyrian on rogues in PvP, oh the sub tears I must be trying
But I’m not; I’m an outlaw rogue; I play outlaw in PvP and they just completely gutter stomped the ability out of existing purely because sub has 2 passive damage modifiers in shadow dance, a damage modifier in symbols for death, shadow blades which was basically a damage modifier granting way more damage, a 100% crit chance with symbols and a stupid legendary they were never going to be able to balance
So I’ve been slammed once by covenants just purely for taking a bad option and slammed twice because blizzard don’t know how to balance PvP at all and just deleted an ability because it was broken on 1 spec
Either they hire some random guy off the forums to tell them were the balance is broken or they blood do something about these stupid convents and nerfing the living life out of them
i like the idea of the covenants but the added spells of course we all knew what was gonna happen which make it suck imo. you got people like me who love 1 covenant but because we try to min max for w.e. reason ( i just min max cause i want to squeeze out as much dmg/healing as i can im not hardcore or w.e. ) so basically we forced to take covenants we don’t really care for outside of the whole min maxing stuff.
either way though im just waiting to see people who are skilled using weaker covenants for their class/spec. the covenant i want the ability is kinda weird feeling to use thus why i didn’t really choose it either.
i don’t pvp so can’t really say i mean i do but casually and i suck. the whole ability thing though we all knew they were going to nerf/buff stuff but not when thus why it was a mistake.
the way i look at it is like houses where people have built them but they did a piss poor job to the point they have major issues. i seen one online from a streamer their home they were renting had a drainage pipe on a slopped hill so when it rained all the water and leaves clogged the drain and flooded the house when it was storming.
I like the speed boost that the fae people have and the door of shadows that the vampire people have. The other ability on both my 60’s is garbage, so I just don’t really bother with them much.
I actually thought they’d tune covenants to be on par with the OP ones… but apparently in the recent interview with ion, he’s happy how everything is and doesn’t see reason to change it…
So now as a Venthyr Warlock, I was just confirmed my dps loss to cast ability will always remain of my hot bar… unless I change covenants …
I think this is an important step to try though. Is actually a pretty cool thing that brings forth more meaningful customization. Tossing it away so quickly with so little data wouldn’t be a good idea.
Specially since is not like 99% have gone to their “ideal” covenant. It is a majority yeah but is less than 50%.
Their last quarterly meeting looked great - with all the game purchases and luring people into 6 month subs. But I feel like it might not be so fine 5 or so months from now.
