I wonder if Covenant abilities will somehow stay in 10.0+?
Will they be baseline?
Turned into Talents/PvP Talents?
Phased out/made obsolete?
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They will most likely go away in 10.0. Or be restricted to SL zones.
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Wish they would stay. Sorta tired of abilities created for an expac then thrown away.
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I hope not, mostly to drop the borrowed-power issues. But you’re most likely correct; Blizz has a trend.
At the same time, I feel like some classes would feel naked/weird without these covenant abilities.
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Yeah, hopefully they drop the borrowed pwr nonsense tbh.
They’ll get the same treatment as azerite armor and essences. Unless of course blizz pulls a cata with post-SL everywhere in combination with closing the veil. Then it will be sl zones only.
Exactly. It would be nice if they kept adding/evolving to the classes xpac to xpac
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Some of the Torghast powers would be nice as talents. Seems like they put a ton of work into anima powers, so they should keep them in the game.
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I’m certain the actual damage/healing spells will go away, but… what about things like Soulshape? We’ve got this whole system of collecting soulshapes, and Blizzard even went out of their way to add more to collect.
To think of them just removing that whole system at the end of SL seems so pointless.
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Nobody minded when your Garrison ability was limited to WoD
Nor with some exclusive legion artifact powers that didn’t become talents/baseline abilities
Soulshapes will definitely be missed.
As for covenant abilities most I can see them doing is making them a talent for some specs but definitely not all simply because some really dont fit the class as well as others.
We had at least 56 (2x28) essence spell animations in bfa (rank 3 and 4).
All of those are now sitting in bags only used during timewalking or mog farming.
Blizzard will do what they want.
I only PVP, and I can’t imagine not having Mindgames
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They kinda eluded to the idea that they’d stick with us as talents.
I could see them sticking around - but - we all have a different idea of which “one” would be best-fitting for our class/spec. And we’re all right…but it would be tough to keep the availability of all of them without actually still having covenants.
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I can imagine Blizz having a simplified version of the Covenants leaders in SW/Org or something like that
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Essences were power items, so that at least makes sense in some way. But soulshapes are just cosmetic modifiers for a movement ability… I dunno. We’ll see, I guess.
A smart thing for blizzard to have done given their push for customizing our characters in shadowlands. Would have been to add spell cosmetics. And what other way to add the first wave of cosmetics than azerite essence spell animations over base spell effects. Reaping flames for smite, purification protocol for solar beam, unbound force for arcane missiles. That sort of thing.
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Since by 10.0 you served your covenant and they no longer need your help, you will no longer have access to them.
This is probably how they strip them.
I do wish we could keep like the Night Fae and Venthyr travel abilities, but they will be this expansion’s flight whistle.
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That would have been really cool. A shame. xD