And still no Heritage Armor updates for those races missing it. Always put off to a .5 release. Always the next release. All races should have access to this feature by now.
Maybe listening and adjusting to the feedback from Beta players would help avoid situations like this in the future.
I agree 100% I am happy but will be waiting for the next expansion before my faith is somewhat restored.
This is a great point.
These devs may understand metrics, but not player behavior. At all.
Sounds like an oxymoron, but the problem lies in how tunnel-visioned they are on their metrics.
I’m glad you’re finally listening to us. Going to be honest though, I’m personally burnt out on the systems and I’m not really interested in putting time back into the game at this point.
Maybe fix pvp and I’ll come back and do more than just raid log.
Some very good stuff here.
I would love to see a removal on Anima cap. I keep getting so much anima from Callings and Korthia dailes and nowhere to put it so it just sits in my bags taking up space.
When we switch covenants in 9.1.5, will we still have to do the upgrades to the Sanctums? Seems like the world is rich with anima thanks to the “Maw Walkers”, so will Sanctums be fully up and running? or will we still need to work on each them? (I realize I said I have too much anima, but since we’re capped at 100 souls, there would still be a monster amount of farming to get all the souls we need to fully upgrade them. It would be nice to be able to use the four Covenant Sanctum “Fourth Upgrades” without having to spend so much time to activate them to rank 5.
Looking forward to the updates though! Thank you! 
So, are we doing this again next expansion or are you going to actually listen to alpha/beta feedback?
No PVP changes? That and that only will make me resub.
I simply want to thank you, Kaivax, and others in your sphere, for communicating like this. I have been a member of WoW since 2006 and I remember when communication was like this. It’s nice to see it back. It helps me immensely to understand the logic and the approach.
And thank you for acknowledging the player BETA feedback that seemed to have been ignored. I think most players understand that not every comment and criticism will be addressed, but when it seems like a collective and strong voice gets ignored, it feels really bad.
Baby steps back? Make them count. Make them good. Make them stick. This new approach of more frequent communication is terrific. Thank you.
I kinda stopped thinking of switching covenants when i first read this post… but how long until i play the whole covenant campaign?
i wish those changes were here already, but since i usually run raids and M+, i really need to change things NOW.
Anyway, Thanks Blizzard for that update!
I’ll give you a grand slam for 10.0 Blizzard and it’s really simple. Have an ability called flying be in the game at max level on day 1 of the launch.
Signed "a large portion of the community has been vocal about wanting to see changes " since 2014…
I think I do remember doing that at the start… I guess that does explain it. If only that were useful lol.
Isn’t this the pull the ripcord thing people wanted since the launch?
Some thoughts as a casual whose sub expires in December:
Can you all do something about the 8 guild bank tab and just remove the classy achievement for the requirement, it’s been a 11 years.
you guys forgot the aoe cap. the thing that you did because of M+ and MDI that nobody else wanted.
None of these changes sound good… How could such a long post have no positive info?
-conduit energy… ok this was obviously need for the 1% but i set my conduits and forget them
-maw skip… this was needed 10 months ago. ive done the maw intro on my 49 characters already
-swapping covenants… why? all we want is the powers. im 10 months into grinding ember court and still not done with that BS AND you expect me to do it on ALTS to unlock all the cosmetics? ARE YOU INSANE!!!
-depositing anima from korthia… i cant deposit anima because im maxed out and my bag is full. i refuse to use it on crafting mats in hopes you will let me send it to alts instead. i want my offerings and anima on alts to be account wide or something. this is a cosmetic grind expansion so i have alts in the other covenants i dont feel the need to have to move my actual main around from covenant to covenant.
-no mention of the “on the offensive” issues making it impossible to complete. if the achivement is even account wide. i guess in the very least the covenant swap would allow us to buy these mounts.
-korthia dailies should offer a choice of rewards between rep, gold, anima, research, armor tokens. never a bop armor piece which is basically just a garbage amount of gold
literally nothing here is making me want to buy more game time and will this patch even be out by nov 1st when my game time runs out?
Don’t forget the long requested:
Red eyes and undead skin unlock for Blood Elves (maybe some tear markings)
Tails for worgen
Beards for trolls
Blizzard will definitely have big changes coming in the next two years, especially with the incoming competition for several other mmo’s like Ashes of Creation. They will adapt and overcome or fade away.
If your listening then change flying 
best part of this game is flying yet they take away.
It’s all good stuff, but I refuse to congratulate you for listening to us. You want a pat on the back for that? Invent a time machine, travel back a year, and tell the developers to do all this BEFORE the game launches rather than as a mid expansion band aid.
And why the salt?
Because you keep doing this. You keep introducing systems you have no hope of balancing, which fight against us, which waste our time, which offer horrible grinds and then you fight us as much as you can in changing them until as close to the end of the expansion as possible and THEN, THEN you fix them only to toss it all out in the trash with the next expansion and to begin repeating the cycle.
The only reason these changes are coming now is nothing to do with the lore, or the narrative, or how impactful the Covenant system was at the beginning. It’s because millions of players have voted with their feet and they’ve left and this is an attempt to show you are capable of listening. Which this does, you are indeed capable of listening.
When your backs are against the wall and you are bleeding subscribers faster than you’d like.
So I will take these changes. I will even acknowledge that they are good changes. But I won’t thank you for them because these should have been in place since launch and it was the arrogance of the dev team which blinded them to the fact that what they were introducing was going to end up in a horrible mess.
You want plaudits? You want thanks? You want the adulation of your community? Then take this as a lesson learned and apply it to 10.0. If whatever expansion comes next doesn’t require a mid expansion dismantling of your failed systems as Shadowlands AND Battle for Azeroth have both done, THEN you’ll get some thanks because you’ll have done something.
I will not gush over someone cleaning up the mess they made when they were told repeatedly not to go and make that mess and they arrogantly went ahead anyway.