Wowhead: How do you plan to handle the balancing of Covenants and Legendaries after launch when players have already invested resources in those decisions.
Ion: “The answer there is conservatively. We understand that when players have a permanent or heavy investment in something, we don’t want to change that out from under them. That said, if it turns out that there are outliers that are really harmful to overall game balance – that the community figures out some combination or synergy that we’ve overlooked – things like the Blaster Master, Mechagon Bracers, Lucid Dreams Fire Mage synergy come to mind where it’s like yup this is just way out there, then yes we would make tuning changes but we would do that with a eye towards not upsetting the ranking of things. If something is the best for certain situations by a whole lot, we would bring it down but maybe not quite as much as pure balance would dictate or as we might have done if we had faced the same issue in Beta, so that players aren’t regretting their choices or feeling like they should have done something else.”
I have a heavy investment in the Night Fae covenant. I’ve put 10s of thousands of anima and a lot of time into it and I absolutely feel like I should have done something else, but not because I don’t like the story or transmog(I abso-freaking-lutely love the transmog and story so far).
My guild will probably be starting mythic prog in a few weeks and I don’t want to go in doing 1000+ HPS less than I should be because of my transmog and story choices. I don’t care if I’m scoring 100 parses or anything like that, I understand I chose the worst covenant, I just want to not feel compelled to switch covenants for ridiculous reasons like blizzard not balancing a covenant ability for one spec.
Additionally, Divine Toll has really, really good synergy with our best talents and legendary, and conduits(the holy shock crit one inadvertently increases DT healing 
), how is that not “some combination or synergy that we’ve overlooked”?