I want to play Bastion, but the traits are atrocious for DPS.
You claim you want the DPS differences to be minimal through conduits, but these are all just buffing the phial, which is also bland compared to the other covenants, and do nothing for actual damage. There’s a bit of CC in there, but it’s bad compared to others as well.
Bake some stat bonuses into these.
Valiant Strikes: You and your nearby allies’ critical strikes grant you stacks of Valiant Strikes. Once you maximize your stacks, you heal nearby allies for 5% of their maximum health over 10 seconds.
Let this increase our critical strike chance with our own crits, be unaffected by our allies crits, and still have the heal. It may not parse the highest for fury, but it’d at least be usable and fun in PvP/M+.
It’s especially bad when Venthyr have nice damaging traits to them in comparison to other Covenants such as Kyrians or Necrolords, who seem to be more focused on the defensive side. While it’s nice to have defenses, it’s very situational compared to the Venthyr whose traits are pretty much great in any situation.
Having a couple soulbinds retooled to be more focused on damage in both Kyrian and Necrolord Covenants would actually be great!
I hope you do a balancing pass on Covenants at some point. Kyrian is my preferred one but looking at those abilities feels underwhelming. Steward is going to have to do something pretty substantial down the line.
I have! I had an internship at the Wild Animal Park (now called Safari Park) and got to be around incredible animals. I especially liked our Eurasian eagle owl.
Aw well here’s hoping our new owl friends still act like owls since they’re birds running on cat software. Similar to how foxes are dogs running on cat software
I only have two choices.
Ardenwaeld or Bastion.
My mages, warriors and monks have more in common with Bastion.
My rogues, warlocks, it makes more sense to be in Ardenwarld.
The paladin ability looks really fun, but they look like they are worse for content. Im not a high end guy, but I like going for my best, so Ill go for them if it doesnt make me weaker
WoW gods help me. Hundreds of posts confirming raiding holy paladins are required to go down this trash heap of a convenant and their xmog. I’m really tired of being expected to wear stuff like this. I was really hoping the promise of being able to choose and play what covenant you wanted to, without compromise, was actually true. Faith in the system lost.