You could change the choice though, you just get different azerite gear. For my azerite traits, I choose A, B, C. But I don’t feel great about that choice, so actually I’ll just farm a new piece of azerite gear, and I’ll choose traits D, E, F.
The point is, it is a meaningful choice, because it is a choice that you can not easily go back on.
You are talking about gear, which doesn’t matter. I’m talking about the system as a whole. You were never held in stone to your particular azerite trait choices.
If you had to pick a piece of azerite armor, and as soon as you equipped it and picked all the traits, and you could never take it off again, that would be an example of a choice that you couldn’t swap. But they didn’t do that, and they would never do that.
What’s more likely is that people will realize that covenants make up about 2% of dps anyways, so no one will really care.
Ah, thank goodness you revealed your absolute sheer lack of knowledge on this system, for a second there I actually thought you might have had an informed opinion.
If you think there is even a remote possibility that it’s close to 2% you simply haven’t been paying attention.
If you’re not in the beta then this isn’t productive, because your opinion is most likely shaped by whatever streamer you follow. The reality is that most covenant abilities aren’t even that impactful. You can watch videos of some of the highest ranking players in the world, running M+ on beta, and they’re barely ever using them.
For mage, it is likely that the best covenant ability will be the one that has an OP conduit, as the actual abilities are that negligible.
Night Fae only shows does healing 8 yards from the player(me).
In arena if i’m sticking to the pillar and my party mate is getting tunneled leaving the pillar is suicide. Night Fae will do 0 healing in arena as it stands.