Shadowlands wouldn’t need “saving” if Blizzard wasn’t so stubborn. Every change in 9.1.5 could have been implemented during Shadowlands’ release period. If they did all this from the start, Shadowlands would just be seen as a good expansion. Some of these changes were literally talked about during the PTR stages of Shadowlands, and they’re only now being changed. They need to stop waiting so long to make the changes, and just make the damn changes.
Shadowlands sucks because of the systems and alt-gating. It’s too late to change my mind about that, no matter how drastically they change the systems at this point. It will always be remembered as Systemlands.
All that being said, I am definitely looking forward to playing next patch. I haven’t swapped covenants once this expansion, so that will be a cool thing to try. Especially since we keep the transmogs now. I just hope we keep the Fun Guy/Gal title too. 
Cosmetics are also usable by all characters of that armor class now. So you can swap to buy other covenant cosmetics as well with your main! Which I love… but I already lvl some alts for some of those covenants. Guess it will free up more of my time to do stuff I want.
Yea I noticed during super squirt lvling pet battles I could use the other covenant pets… which I thought was weird… I asked when did they change that? And now they say this stuff. Must have been planned for a while now.
I would say its because of sub loss or pressure – but they literally did this same stuff at the X.1.5 patches for both Legion and BFA
It does kind of seem that way.
My opinion was that if Blizzard “continued on course” they were in a position of strength, but if they changed course then it showed a lack of confidence in the metrics they were seeing. So up until this point I didn’t really believe the “hater hype”, as in conjunction with last quarters financials they seemed to be plenty good shape, but this lawsuit and scandal may have done a number on them if they’re making these changes like this in a 9.1.5 patch.
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I’m pretty sure we’ve always been able to battle with other covenant pets, we just can’t summon them.
If it’s anything like the Winter Veil pets, we can battle with them any time of the year, but can only summon them during Winter Veil.
9.1.5 might bring a few people back but I think it’s up to 9.2 to shake things up completely.
Obviously. 9.2 is going to be the big “mini-expansion”. Multiple patch islands, big end-of-expansion raid, the return of tier sets, most likely a replacement for Torghast, some kind of new meta-progression to replace Renown, etc.
This is good, I’m glad to see they’re not being stubborn about it. But what’s concerning is that they either don’t have the insight to see this problem before launch or just flat out refuse to do anything about it until players speak up.
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But they are. They did same thing in Legion and BFA. And they’ll probably going to do the same thing with future systems. Ignore feedback for 3-12 months and then “fix” thing to bring back players.
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I hope this is sarcasm. They waited almost a year to implement things players have been asking for since the PTR.
I’m glad for the changes, but Blizzard is DEFINITELY stubborn over this.
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They could’ve been even more stubborn and said “F you deal with the system as it is”
Ideally they wouldn’t have put this 
in the game in the first place. But that’s like asking a 5 year old to perform heart surgery.
I had Jitgglesthecat out as a Venthyr Also why is that cat’s name censored the heck??
At least, I didnt switch and experienced the suffering of catching up during the transition of switching covenants.
What I will do now is just save tons of animas to buy all the mounts and tmogs of other covenants.
Kyrian, here I come although I am perfectly fine as Night Fae.
If we can switch Covenants, we should also be able to switch to Meta Classes on the go. All we need to do is just to whine.
So when we say we don’t want systems and their reply is to just tweak more systems… I’m supposed to feel joy?
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is it retroactive or not?
i did some covenant switching in the past - ill be able to use all the mogs?
HAHAHAHA I totally forgot about that!!! The forums actually censor that pet’s name if you try to type it out! You can’t even post wowhead links for it.
“What pet are you talking about?”
“No one will ever know…”
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The Ripcord has been pulled!!! REPEAT…THE RIPCORD HAS BEEN PULLED!