As I get older my time gets more and more precious to me, above and beyond the value of money. 2 Weeks to change a decision that I was told should be about my aesthetic choices and is actually a major contributor of my power and capabilities is far too long for me.
This is a system that we told them from the start was bad.
This is a system that has had an enormous amount of feedback on Alpha/Beta and that is going to go live unbalanced, and ultimately… broken. Because it cannot be balanced with the way it is designed.
2 Weeks is $7.50 of a player’s sub fee that goes out the window in order to get back to a point they were previously at in their original choice in order to just compete with people who clicked a different button.
2 Weeks of grinding and not being able to progress while people who clicked a different button are able to gear faster, do quests faster and more efficiently, who will have more advantage in PvP.
And what happens when Blizzard nerfs that choice in live because of the numbers difference that has been there since Alpha.
That’s another 2 weeks to switch back, or switch to a different choice.
This system has no redeeming qualities. It is in every aspect a waste of Developer and Player time.
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Laugh with my guild and discord and move on.
This is demonstrably false and always has been
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Join a guild that doesn’t really care. Form your own group of players who don’t really. Problem solved.
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Or I could just change my covenant and move on? It’s not like you are locked into that choice forever.
Guilds that dont care are basically really bad and never push content.
Remember, this isnt a 1% difference - its around 20%
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The guy’s exaggerating in a literal sense, but the essence of what he’s saying kind of remains true. Most of us will be able to play the game and achieve our goals no matter what mess of suboptimal talents and covenants we pick. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be an attempt at balancing them and it doesn’t mean those huge percentage differences are OK.
I just think you’re worrying too much about it. Unless you’re pushing Mythic raids or high-level Mythic+ keys (which no one is yet because the expansion isn’t even out), I think you need to relax.
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Legendaries are giving most of the power not covenants and there are plenty of sims that prove this. This idea of covenants doing so much is false. Also if you arent in a top 10 guild your choice doesnt matter. Quit acting like you are.
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Care to share your source of 20%?
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No covenant will be king forever!
You can simply switch to whatever becomes the best.
Idk how conduits and soulbinds work when you swap though.
False…Completely false. The sims I have seen show the covenants for your class are very close together. In fact there are sims in the mage discord by Frosted himself showing how close the covenants are. I have resources for other classes and specs too. There is no 20% difference.
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Lmao who actually thinks anyone is going to be denied for groups based on their covenant? What are you saying
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20+% based upon prior systems. Not having the right legendary in legion, not having your mop/wod lego, not having ideal azerite traits or essences. All before the implementation of corruption, which easily sways the figures but by what extent we don’t know (not even really with warcraftlogs cause people’s tendency to fudge/cheese kills for higher parses).
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PSA: Don’t listen to this guy everyone.
There are massive differences between the covenants.
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I always see this response and it just doesn’t work
“Wtf ur not in Method, why do u care if you character is significantly at a disadvantage due to a choice you made that is timegated by 2 weeks to change”
Your claim that the majority of the power comes from legendaries is just wrong.
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Then if I’m wrong with the resources I can easily link and are easily seen in class discords, what information do you have?
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Thank you for your speculation. I’m glad we settled the source of this panic.
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Dude even legendaries have been simmed with no covenant then simmed with each covenant, what are you even on?
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