Shadowlands Update 9.1.5 will be going on the PTR next week, and a lot of what you’ll find in it is the direct result of your collective feedback. It includes long-asked-for changes to make it easier to swap covenants and conduits, updates to make it so you don’t need to repeat covenant campaigns on alts, new character customization options for some races that were lacking them, and many more changes to help you play the way you want.
Conduit Energy is being removed - Conduits will be freely swappable without restriction.
When playing alternate characters, if you have already completed a given Covenant’s campaign on a different character, you will be able to immediately earn the Renown and third soulbind unlock without needing to replay the full narrative arc.
Once you’ve reached a high Renown threshold, you will thereafter be able to freely switch among any of the four Covenants without cooldown or restriction, as well as use cosmetic rewards that you have earned from one covenant even if you are currently a member of a different one. Both the Covenant switching and the use of cosmetic rewards will also apply to alts once the Renown threshold is reached on one character.
This makes me very happy. I’ve been wanting to play around with the NL legendary for burst but didn’t wanna accidentally cripple myself for weeks by ditching Kyrian if it wasn’t as good as I think it will be
Some more points I know people care about and might not be able to read the article yet.
Legion Timewalking
Can skip the maw starting quest
Drop rates for Runecarving recipes will be increased to 100% drop rate in any dungeon difficulty.
Alt Leveling Improvements
A variety of improvements will be introduced in support of a smoother experience leveling alternate characters through Shadowlands, such as an additional rank of Heirloom upgrades, and improvements to Threads of Fate such as the addition of Torghast as an option and Renown gains for completing bonus objectives.
They actually are not losing that many subs as people like to think, most people just stop playing and keep the sub running. They reported their earnings recently and did really well (thank god I bought Activision stocks back when they were $14 in 2013). WoW is still their #1 money making game (I don’t count Candy Crush ).
This is in direct response to FFXIV gaining more and more attention.
No just salty after talking a lot of friends into coming back for a cool themed expac to watch it get butchered and they all quit because of stupid design decisions.
Yeah, unfortunately for me I’m leaving in November and may not be coming back. Depends what my schedule is like, but I don’t expect having much free time at least for a couple years
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