Give us cosmetics, utility abilities, convenience features, and the ability to unlock new content via our choice of Covenant instead.
Covenant abilities increasing DPS/HPS force competitive players to look at them differently. Raid bosses have never in WoW history been more challenging, and the PvP pool has shrunk such that gaining even modest ratings has never been more frustrating.
Players WILL feel obliged to choose the Covenant that makes their character perform optimally in this environment, even if it goes against the Covenant faction they’d prefer based on flavor. Doesn’t take a genius to guess how this will make them feel about the system.
Don’t make the same mistake you made with BFA Blizzard. Don’t ignore player feedback this time. You do NOT know best.
Play the game YOUR way. If to you min/maxing and being in a cutting edge guild or group is what you desire then yes you will be stuck with a specific spec and a specific covenant. You will be free to be in other specs when not doing cutting edge content and you will still be very effective i am sure, but yes you will not be min/maxed in those specs.
To many the idea of min/maxing to the degree of what you are talking about is not important. They play with friends and if they can only get to +17 and not +18 then so be it, they are still having fun and happy. You just need to play the game ‘your’ way whichever way that is and make choices according to how you wish to play.
Me? I’ll choose my covenants thematically or as the whim takes me. Choice should hopefully matter so yes, I don’t want to see them easily swappable. Making that change should have consequences.
