This isn’t even close…
OP has it right. You have ALL the class abilities but you do not have your races abilities. It is the same. You don’t have shadowmeld if not a Nelf, that doesn’t mean your warrior is nerfed or you were robbed of abilities, you just chose a race and it has abilities.
I tend to see it in the following way: “Does the way it is going live make my play less enjoyable? Can it be changed in a way that does not harm another player’s experience?” If the answer to both is yes, then I don’t see why it should not be changed. If the answer to one is yes, but two is no, then I maybe should live with it so as to avoid someone else having to eat the crap sandwich. In the present case, I don’t understand why it would be problematic to make covenants more accessible.
These will have the same issues I mentioned in Legion beta. Blizzard cannot balance so many variables. They are not capable of doing it. I saw it in Dablo III, Legion, BFA, and now SL. So, in the absence of being able to balance, allow me to freely pick what i want to do and when I want to do it. Make it a grind to unlock it all. That is fine. I don’t understand the need to make covenants such a big defining choice when the outcome of the choice is not close to being equal in any way. There is even wide disparity within the same covenant if you change specs. Not being able to change skills when I switch from UH to Blood or Survival to BM, just makes it less fun overall. To me anyway.
Not meant for you, it was the OP
Choosing a covenant doesn’t lock you out of any content like raids or dungeons, it only locks you out of some cosmetics and the covenant quest line…
Much like how you couldn’t do my paladin questline in legion, etc…
Doesn’t even matter. This new class-centric expansion has already fallen flat on its face. They didn’t bother to design the new covenant abilities with the entire class in mind. Some specs have a strong ability, the others will be lame ducks.
It’s bad design.
No it 100% does not. Stop posting this nonsense. You can walk right into mythic right now…where’s your mythic clears? You can freely change essences so why can’t your clear mythic N’zoth?
No, it’s not bad, you just don’t like it. You don’t like making meaningful choices, that is fine, but not everyone else is scared of making a decision that might put them like 2% less effective in niche situations than others…
Less choices creates more diversity…I have never in all my time seen such nonsense.
The ripcord won’t be pulled.
I choose not to clear Mythic N’Zoth because I’m not grinding raid content atm. Still getting my main sorted for SL.
But it’s accessible and that means it’s easy. Your words not mine. Why can’t you do it?
oh, my bad haha. well still I think the mix and match can help bridge gaps between higher and lower performing specs. at least in some areas. I think its worth a shot…if its completely broken a bit into the xpac, then yeah pull the chord
I mean… Draenei/BDK with Draenei %damage taken and Gift of the Naaru can be pretty impactful.
Ah great, we have another one. Listen friend, educate yourself on the topic before you start making stupid statements like this, alrighty?
I can do it. I just choose not to. That’s the difference.
You first.
Are you serious here? I chose to play X class and Y covenant which alone is meaningful. But when they nerf the Y covenant just how meaningful is it? When Y covenant can only really serve 1/3 of my class (because you know that some specs in my class will also get nerfed – see Sub rogue).
The #pulltheripcord movement is trying to save players from the inevitable hassle that comes with your “meaningful” choice: it will suck really bad one day and the repercussions will suck out your life force – just like Azerite did and many players left the game due to how suffocating that felt.
Back in my day we all fretted over min/maxing racials.
But…performance wise racials are as close as they could ever realistically get. I think the spread between worst and best is pretty negligible for any spec I’veever looked up.
That being said races tend to get looked at for utility these days. Top guilds went troll for Jaina literally just this expansion.
Did you see the covenant abilities on Beta? Did you see them being tested? I’ll assume you didn’t if you still think that the difference is 2% or anywhere near that little.
You mean from the meaningful choice of having to do a quest to go back to your covenant if you want to go back? This is the penalty…not hard.
No most left BFA because the expansion has been boring and slow…