The point is so you can’t swap them pretty much on a whim like essences. They aren’t supposed to be something you switch constantly.
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They are there to annoy the playerbase and to make as little sense as possible. That way, when the complaining and unsubbing starts, they can come back and say, “look, we listened” after reversing course.
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Blizz. just let us clear raids every day. Like what is the point of this once per week thing? like but why dude?
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Probably gear would be my guess.
Not having to wait isn’t content either… neither of those things are content.
It was explained at length in recent interviews why they don’t want every conceivable system to be immediately swappable. Re-watch them.
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Because this game needs meaningful choices that impact gameplay. This is an mmoRPG, you shouldn’t expect to be great at every type of content on the fly. This isn’t Fortnite, character development and character progression should be meaningful.
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Conduits are mostly passive. They are the same thing as Azerite. Doesn’t really impact gameplay when you have no control over it.
Except that’s what they did. 
Their opinion just happens to share what some big streamer thinks. That happens all the time, your opinion shares what somebody else’s opinion is. And vice versa. Is Kayne West taking opinions of some nobody who thinks that Beyonce should’ve won the grammy? No, it just happens to be a coincidence.
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And the controversy surrounding the addition of dual-spec and it costing what was it 1000g ish at the time. No matter it wasn’t cheap for its time when it was introduced in Wrath.
Do you ever get tired of saying the same thing over and over again?
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Does it bother you that much?
Doesn’t bother me at all. Was an honest question
Change My View: Essences are one of the worst systems of all time, because in addition to all their other faults, it has bred a level of entitlement never seen in World of Warcraft’s history. Every major system will now be whined about “why I can’t freely do X like essences”.
WoW is an RPG. Man up, make a choice, and live with the consequences.
I mean Blizzard is eventually going to backtrack on it anyway, might as well do it from the start. Why? Because they will never be balanced which defeats the entire purpose. It’s Azerite all over again and everyone is just going to use cookie cutter loadouts.
The people that are actually going to be taking a hit from this are the people that just casually play the game and want to fool around with different things. Once that happens, Blizzard will cave, they always do.
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So what did you do in Legion when you couldnt swap relics and they got destroyed?
I am kinda on the fence with this. I am glad you get to swap between soulbinds freely so really that is where you can change your lay out based on the content you are doing. I understand blizz wanting something to feel like a big choice and you must stick with it. I just do not know how practical that will be in actual game play. I am worried about all of these systems being balanced.
WoW is already not an FPS. It doesn’t need more restrictions on it in order to make it something that it already isn’t.
Get a better argument, stop repeating what Ion says, have some thoughts of your own. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
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What I’m worried about is that there’s going to be another annoying message telling me that my soulbind slots are empty every two seconds. I ALREADY KNOW THAT! Lol.
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For decision making to even be a factor, some restrictions need to be in place.
Choosing a covenant or conduits or soulbinds tasks the players to ask themselves: “Which situations do I want to best be prepared for (single-target, AoE, heavy movement, this enemy arena comp vs. that one, etc.)? Which situations am I okay being less prepared for as a trade-off?”
If you can just change them up for every trash pull, every boss encounter, every arena comp, etc. then you’re just offloading the decision making to third-party guides without actually specializing your character.
I dont watch that clown…‘waiting’ isnt content.
Neither is travel time…even if blizzard cant figure that out.