Reading a lot of things about Necro legendary 9.2, Is it going to be our new covenant. I love Venthyr . Any thoughts? Still some time for changes.
Your best bet is leveling up as many covenants as you can since tuning might (please) still happen.
I’ve gotten Night Fae almost to 80 (79 atm) and Necro is currently at 65…can never be too prepared!
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I had my spriest in Necro and put her night fae, not sure if Iput her back if she would have to do it all over, But I like the mobility of venthyr, door of shadows is great in so many situations, but we will see.
I still think the covenants should have been purely cosmetic/lore to avoid players feeling the need to swap and change at every update based on the balance whims of Blizzard. It allows for far fewer options and restricts players without good reason.
Imagine being a player who wants to run Frost for most M+ and raid encounters but wants to also switch to Arcane or Fire for certain dungeons or raid bosses. You could potentially be looking at having to swap between 2-4 times, and can’t do that mid-raid.
Player options has been an issue since Legion with the artefacts and legendaries, and it’s gotten worse each expansion. I genuinely miss the good old days of being able to swap spec based on the encounter (admittedly this was also when each spec had its own niche) without much of a hassle.
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Isnt it even worse because of gear? most of frost is Crit gear, and fire is Haste? i can’t switch to fire atm b/c most of my gear is Crit.
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Yes and no. Certainly there’s more of a ‘gap’ in the secondary states between specs than we have seen in the past but it’s not typically an issue unless you’re really pushing for that min-max and not generally something you would have to worry about for Normal/Heroic save for maybe the Sylv fight.
Frost can make do with ~20-25% crit so you don’t really focus on it. It loves Haste and Vers, while Mastery is utter bollocks. Arcane on the other hand hates Haste, but loves Crit/Mastery. Fire I’m not sure on, haven’t touched it since Legion.
I guess my desire to switch comes from a more casual raiding perspective. I have no interest in Mythic raiding anymore, and no desire to push keys so my wanting to switch specs between encounters is more from a personal preference than trying to increase my output by 3%.
Sadly swapping specs often and easily hasn’t really been a thing since Legion introduced legendaries and artefacts. Prior to that you could manage spec swaps with only 1-2 pieces of gear needing to be changed (and rings were a great stat dump).