Wrong. As in everything in wow there are certain things better for every class and spec. There has never been balance across all classes and specs
As I came in recently without much research into shadowlands I can tell you regardless of what they wanted to call it, it’s a talent row.
Go back a ways to the old talent trees it was literally 3% damage to this, 1% haste to that, etc., with a rare choice of a special passive talent or active ability. Sound familiar?
All Blizzard has done is take most of the original talents and abilities and take them away and add them in different ways with each expansion. With a nice decorative borrowed power system. Sad really, just got back to the old talent tree and work on real content.
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They’re locked because they don’t want people to switch - they want you to level a new toon entirely.
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well they should of thought about that before promising balanced content with a 70$+ price tag. if they work like a class then how would you feel if your spec was 100% overhauled but you were not allowed to change it, despite you disliking the new it?
i bet you would reroll on the spot or quit all together, we gain nothing by making them unchangeable.
I feel like some poople just cant admit they were wrong about them so they fight to the death trying to justify why they have to be this way wile the majority of the player base is shoehorned in to a covenant that they hate.
Literally shut up. 17 years of a game and you are STILL shocked with how they design the game.
Just be quiet.
There’s actually a very good reason for keeping “convenants” locked. That way, no one messes with the nuns after hours.
What?
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You can swap covenants right now, nothing is locked. There is a process to get back to your old one, but that would actually be more content of farming your way back in, not less.
Well to be fair, it is two abilities and 3 soul binds but I mean why let something like facts get in the way of a completely inaccurate point.
You only pledge your devotion to one covenant at a time. They loan you out to help the others, but you are supposed to mean something to your chosen people.
The only benefit to unlocking covenants, as others before me have stated, is that it gives the meta-following min/maxers the freedom to disregard the current limitations, in favor of selecting a different thing for their covenant, and still being allowed to select the spell their sims told them to.
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Casual players could change them to test and experiment on their own. To them, being able to make these kinds of choices is meaningful.
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is this satire i honestly can’t even tell at this point. the way it’s written makes me think it has to be.
No, actually in 9.0 they all asked us to go beat Sire Denathrius who was apparently a grave threat to the ENTIRREEEE SHADOWLANDS. Now in 9.1 we’re going in to fight the henchmen of the Jailer who is a grave thread to the ENTIREEE SHADDOWWWLANNDDDSSS.
Like do you want our help or not? Lemme use your god damn powers.
So, when I was in the Marines, we went to Somalia to fight warlords or whatever. There were other branches of the military there, too, but I didn’t work for them, even though we had a similar goal. You pledge your services to one covenant, to restore their area’s anima. It just happens to help others, as well, but those other covenants aren’t going to be favorable towards you, because you aren’t restoring any anima conductors in their area. You’re not restarting their travel network. They don’t care about you, unless you do more for them than a few world quests. Their citizens are still starving for anima, if you are giving it all to your chosen covenant.
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It’s been unnecessary from the start, but Blizzard is intent on making it hard for us to just enjoy the covenants. The still want to punish us for not being able to just pick one and stick with it so, shrug.
If they just decoupled the abilities/soul binds from the covenants (the things that affect power/gameplay pretty heavily) I’d gladly pick one and stick with it for each character, but alas no.
This is a better analogy when we’re the “hero”/Maw Walker in their world.
Canonically, though, are you a hero to any covenant other than the one you choose? Do any of them really know that Denathrius was the one redirecting all of the anima, or that I was the one who stopped him? Am I the only Maw Walker, or are there hundreds, or thousands, of others in Oribos/Shadowlands pledging their services to the covenants?
If I am the only one, I can see how non-necrolords look at me unfavorably, because I am not really helping them in any measurable way, other than a few make-me-queasy world quests, that I begrudgingly do because it helps my standing with Necrolords.
If there are more, though, it intensifies, because I am a nobody to those other covenants, unless I am the actual person who stopped Denathrius. Even then, I chose another realm to restore, so I can see how they don’t care about me.
Yes, to all of them.
Especially now at the end of 9.0.