Because they’re centered around building your character. Not ‘choosing’ your character, ‘building’ them.
You put in hard work, unlocking greater power and committing to a faction, until you are not just a Death Knight, but a Kyrian Death Knight. That mage over there isn’t just a mage but a Ven’thyr mage.
It’s got that old-timey RPG feel to it, and covenants have that in spades.
If you can swap, that becomes meaningless. Even if you choose to stick to your covenant, the fact that it’s so easy to swap makes it less real. It’s no longer a hard commitment but a cheap suit taken off and put on as the wearer pleases.
I personally want there to be more content like that, more choices like that. Don’t take it away because people can’t stand not being 100% maximized for every bit of content.
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Hold on, people want choices but not ones that matter, but they want ones that matter but not ones that matter, so watch out
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I learned all your secrets, now I’m leaving and sharing them with whoever I join next!
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So take a page from the flight crowd and just lock yourself to a single covenant for your own personal reasons and let the rest of us fly
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I would rather the oppression of mounts themselves be removed and for us to noclip through the sky at 500% instead. You can chain yourself to buying a 310% mount if you want, though.
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Yeah OP what you just wrote was
“You should enjoy this mediocre system” but with more words
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Would not of made it through this day without seeing another thread about covenants 
Smells like a ralphie thread.
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That might make sense if any of this was going to last forever. But it’s just another borrowed power system that will be a waste in a couple of years.
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Also just remember a lot of players aren’t going to care about what ever covenant they joined after they level everything up and unlock everything
They’ll just be back in their old mounts with their new raid tmogs running around and all that will remain will be the hub and the combat stuff
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For many people - having the choice of swapping things around has a LOT OF MEANING.
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conveniently that’s everything in the whole game except for your race, class, faction, and following that pattern which should be nothing new to anyone, covenant
Also why did you pick a game where there are race/class/faction restrictions in the first place? Seems like you’re going to taco bell to order burgers
So… Pathfinder? Let us play with locked Covenants for 12 months, and then we can break the game open and let people goof around with the powers however they want?
How about we design the game to be fun rather than adhere to old concepts that never applied to MMORPGs in the first place?
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I’m all for choices being not quite so easy to change but I rolled a Paladin to be a Paladin.
Not to be a vampire.
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Counterargument: we should be allowed to switch races and classes between each boss pull so that we never have to play “suboptimally.”
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Just out of curiosity, OP, are you as big a fan of all the other grinds in the game?
Reputation?
Artifact Power?
Cloak Level?
Echoes?
Coalescing Visions?
How about the 5 million for the brutosaur mount?
Just curious. Since you think adding a massive grind to this aspect of gameplay, on a scale we haven’t seen since Burning Crusade, is such a good idea.
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I love how the min-maxers are so willing to gate themselves to one type of content if they can’t be optimized for anything else. You realize that most of us would still send you an invite even if you’re missing out on 5% DPS right?
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I’d rather these dumb systems go away.
That way players don’t have to worry about needing this char to do mythic + because they have x covenant, or do x raid on their alt because it has this covenant
Blizzard never seems to learn from their mistakes.
Ah yes, my old friend slippery slope. I’ve missed you.
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While I agree it’s a ridiculous argument, it does beg the question of “Why is one limitation okay but not the other when we can apply the same argument to both?”.
We accept that we have restrictions in what we can easily change, but when another one is added people start screaming “freedom of choice!”.
Clearly there’s got to be something more than just freedom of choice, otherwise we’d be sliding down that slope.
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