#PullTheRipcord
For people unaware - ‘Pulling the ripcord’ was a comment used by Ion Hazzikostas with his interview with preach as the fallback plan for covenants if the systems aren’t well received. It would involve opening the systems up to (hopefully) allow swapping powers freely and not having punishing systems involved for wanting to experiment
This is about trying to get Blizzard to remember what the original vision for the game was for.
As Tom Chilton said during Blizzcast episode 2:
If you’re doing kind of high-end Arenas, high-end raiding, that kind of thing. Because we do want to encourage players to be able to enjoy a variety of different elements of the game.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080403205555/http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcast/archive/episode2.xml
This is not to be able to swap freely behind covenants, this is to have abilities unchained from covenants.
Ransoming power behind covenants does not encourage anyone to try more content. If you were looking to partake in a running race but got told you were starting 50 metres behind the starting line would you join in?
Blizzard asked for Feedback and it’s time we give them some.
Current System:
- Some people pick covenants based off power
- Some poeple pick covenants for other reasons
Proposed System:
- Everyone picks based off what they like the look of.
Which has a more meaningful choice?
We’ve got clear evidence that a large majority of players pick the strongest covenant, meaningful choice was just a PR spin to try to peddle an idea that has no realistic grounding in a MMORPG.
Current state of ranged covenant choice:
https://twitter.com/LimitThdlock/status/1381207016941756422/photo/1
Wowhead article on covenants:
https://www.wowhead.com/news/covenant-choice-popularity-for-shadowlands-dps-tank-and-healers-using-wowranks-319716
Amazing posts relating to this matter and the problems with covenants:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/covenant-system-design-flaws-discussion/611673
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/multi-spec-covenant-problem/650422
For people who say not to waste my time and Blizzard don’t listen to feedback:
Azerite Knowledge
Account bound essences
Conduits being destructible
Conduits having 1 week CD
Covenant Abilities not being used outside of Shadowlands Zones
Keystone Great Vault change
Changing the price of the WoW Classic Clone
Covenant breakdown for ranged DPS in keys 15+ and over
https://imgur.com/uKPWfeN
7.5% of the 9.2% For Necrolord are Elemental who are using their best covenant.
Posted this in a different thread but posting it here
Warcraftlogs lets you filter by covenants.
For Mythic Sire logged kills for Boomkin as of 6/5/2021 the numbers are below.
Night fae:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26#boss=2407&class=Druid&spec=Balance&covenant=3
Top 3 Parses:
- 7939
- 7892
- 7779
Kyrian:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26#boss=2407&class=Druid&spec=Balance&covenant=1
Top 3 Parses:
- 6425
- 5935
- 5736
Venthyr:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26#boss=2407&class=Druid&spec=Balance&covenant=2
Top 3 Parses:
- 5266.20
- 1833.7 (buyer?)
- doesn’t exist because theres only 2 recorded kills in the world LOL
Necrolord:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26#boss=2407&class=Druid&spec=Balance&covenant=4
Top 3 Parses:
- 5259
- 3800
- 1634.70 (buyer?)
So, to summarise. Out of 3125 Kills of Mythic Sire, there are 8 Kyrian kills, 2 Venthyr, 3 Necrolord and 3112 Night Fae Logs. I know what some of you may be thinking - Druids are close to nature so Night Fae makes sense, This might be the case for a small portion of the mythic logs so we can look at another example.
For Mythic Sire logged kills for Affliction Warlock as of 10/5/2021 the numbers are below.
Night Fae:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26/#boss=2407&class=Warlock&spec=Affliction&covenant=3
Top 3 Parses:
- 9117
- 8971
- 8818
Kyrian:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26/#boss=2407&class=Warlock&spec=Affliction&covenant=1
Top 3 Parses:
- 7981
- 7510
- 7414
Venthyr:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26/#boss=2407&class=Warlock&spec=Affliction&covenant=2
Top 3 Parses:
- 8038
- 7422
- 6556
Necrolord:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/26/#boss=2407&class=Warlock&spec=Affliction&covenant=4
Top 3 Parses:
- 6816
- 6320
- 6315
Out of 2457 Kills of Mythic Sire, there are 153 Kyrian, 13 Venthyr, 8 Necrolord and 2283 Night Fae logs. I’m not sure I would call Night Fae the covenant with the strongest connection to Warlocks.
