So there were brought up briefly in the interview with Morgan Day. It is clear the team isn’t quite sure how they want us to do conduit progression in 9.2 as each patch prior has been sort of a mess un steady progression. Rather then having conduits sort of flow from assigned content at a reasonable rate alongside our item level players found they had some or little conduit unlocked then had massive spikes if they choose to do the open world content in Korthia. Before that very minimalistic sources for each conduit and having to do a daily lockout Va’nari was hallow and unfulfilling. By the time you reaped rewards from ether source you where likely close to or already finished your primary goals for the patch.
One thing that worries me and this could be for nothing is Morgan saying that there is possibly only one rank up left for conduits. This could me a mistake as it would make little sense for both Heroic and Mythic SotFO to reward the same item level/ rank of conduit. At the same time it would be nice to not haft to run around for ages just for two ranks of conduits that are irreverent by the time you unlock them.
I hope we see a more uniform system with Conduits. The sources for conduits in 9.0 seem like they where just sort of thrown around to different places. They uniform system for ranking up all conduits was suspected to be in The Maw because there wasn’t really any other reward system aside from a few achievements and other collectables.
In 9.2 I think it would be best to have a few items to rank up conduits by selection. This item can drop for anyone and lets you pick a conduit at your forge of bonds and increases it’s rank (no more RNG). Have one that increase your conduits item level by say 2 ranks but caps off at 226. Then have another one that gives you one rank but goes to the maximum item level.
Have these items come from everything from winning and arena match to killing the weekly World Boss. The level of content and rank of your conduits determines which one you will get and how frequently you will see them. If someone has 239 conduits and is clearing Heroic Bosses in SotFO then they will semi frequently get the single rank upgrades. Are you a fresh toon doing all the world content with some 200 conduits, then you will see the caped multi rank up items from most calling box and as drops of world bosses and other weekly content.
The final suggestion I would make is to have a quest added to covenant sanctums when a character reached max level and is brought to there sanctum to do there first soulbind have the conduit quest give the player every conduit unlocked at 200. This would remove the wild goose chase that is checking WQ daily or praying they drop from M0s. On top of that you can get alts right in to the content they want to start doing without feeling like they are missing out on in some cases significant performance increases.