Sure, but if you don’t make the investment then they still haven’t done anything to improve anima drops.
Which are abysmal.
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Then why do people need anima? There’s no point to anima outside of sinking it into the Covenant, so if you don’t want to do that…
It’s a sham outrage just for the sake of it.
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Did you miss the boatload of overpriced cosmetics for sale?
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Have you heard of cosmetics? They are pretty popular.
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They probably just want the cosmetics and are salty the covenant features are prioritized with this change/if you spent all your anima on cosmetics etc. Instead of the features you’re a bit behind on it/disadvantaged.
I like my Maldraxxi Wings.
But I need more anima and I need them for the sanctum. D:
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The vast majority of which are behind the features being given a bonus here. My point still stand.
Resources fuel my Dungeon and Raid Runs. Resources are herbs that becomes flasks, and potions, meats and fishes for food buffs, augment runes, gold to buy expensive enchants , gems, armor repairs. It really helps.
Sanctum Upgrades helps… Period.
Not really true. Most of the cosmetics are locked behind either just renown (no covenant upgrades required) or rank 5 of the covenant-specific building. It varies a little for each covenant, but in most cases the transit network, anima conductor, and mission table don’t lead to many cosmetic rewards.
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If they have to offer additional incentives to get people to utilize a system they’ve spent time and resources developing, perhaps that should send a message about said system…
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Some cosmetics are behind features, but they aren’t behind every feature. For instance, as a Necrolord I get no cosmetics from the mission table, or the Necropolis teleport, and there’s barely anything desirable behind the Anima network.
So if this wasn’t my main, I wouldn’t get any of those. I would sink Anima on Abominable Stitching and that’s it.
But I don’t get any extra anima from getting just Abominable Stitching, even if I go all the way to rank 5.
The investment to get Anima Upgrades in this case would decrease by 16500 Anima, sure. But it’s still not worth it.
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Not necessarily, there’s a ton just from Renown. And besides, specific sets are usually from specific features - so for example if someone went ham on upgrading their “Covenant Special Feature” and ignored the rest, they’re now starting from far behind and are going to have to either waste anima upgrading features they don’t care about or take longer to grind up what they need to buy what they’ve already unlocked.
The point of the thread is that Mortis is pointing out in this scenario that this change doesn’t help them at all - it’s not even worth it to try and upgrade anything to get the bonus. This update is effectively worthless for them.
edit - yeah what Mortis said lol
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You have at least another year to farm those, if you are not interested in the covenant upgrades you will have more than enough anima to get them. If you just do a full raid clear (including LFR), the “collect 20 souls” quest and target anima WQs for callings you should be easily able to make 1.2 - 1.5k anima a week without any heavy farming.
If all you are interested in is the cosmetics, that should get you there.
It is true. The cosmetics are all almost entirely behind the event feature, as you said, and behind the Anima Conductor currency. Without those, you barely need any anima for like five cosmetics.
It’s adding yet more rails to retail. I was focusing on transit and conductor. Got them to 3 on main and 3 and 2 on alt. Left the other two alone. No bonus for me because it has to be evenly spread to get the bonus. I have to stop working on my level 2 conductor now on my alt and work on the other sanctum upgrades I really don’t care about if I want to increase anima efficiency with the update. Stop telling me how to play, Blizz. Up the anima gain all around and let me continue choosing where I use it.
You can get plenty of grateful offerings from just rank 1 of the anima conductor. So beyond rank 1 AC and rank 5 of the covenant feature, the upgrades aren’t useful for cosmetics (again, certain exceptions for some covenants)
Ion and all Blizz devs should be forced to play (or more like chores) WQs daily and see how great systems they created
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Ion’s Shammy is 9/10 on Mythic Castle Nathria. His last Mythic+ was last March 3 on SoA+17 on time. I dont think he would need much of the Sanctum Upgrades. It’s not for him. It’s for people who’s WoW life centered on World Quests.
Yep. And why wouldn’t they be? Cosmetics (and mounts, and pets, but they all have same level of impact on “character performance”) are the only thing with any sort of lifespan in this game.
Come 10.0, all this Covenant nonsense will cease to matter. You’ll lose those precious Covenant Abilities, and all these systems investments will amount to nothing.
But, unless something fundamental changes, the Covenant appearances? If you like those, like parts of those, like those aesthetics? Those will still be just as usable, just as viable, just as effective in the next expansion, and expansions thereafter. Really, unlike stats which can last for… less than a full run of anything, aesthetics can last until something even more fitting/impressive for your style comes along, and that might never happen.
They’re tied/stapled to your character that you carry with you, they’re useful in perpetuity for their intended purpose, and everything else is yet another gimmicky fad mechanic that’ll die like all the other carnival goldfish features this game’s been hocking for far too long.
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That’s a phenomenal descriptor and I’m stealing it.
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