Right now its really hard to switch between healing, tanking and damage because you have to change your azerite traits. Will Shadowlands have something like this?
At this stage, the alpha testers do not have access to the covenant system beyond the very basic class-specific covenant spells given via the questing experience. Right now its a theory crafting sort of thing what covenant is best for a particular spec, the thing about it though is with monks specifically the abilities change what they do based on what the monk’s current spec is.
I’ve been set on Night Fae since I first saw them in the announcement trailer, but I’ve found that one of the covenant ‘talent trees’ theoretically fits well with my playstyle already. I might recommend basing your choice off of which thematically appeals to you, and after that find the wowhead covenant calculator to see what the trees look like.
To answer the question though, we won’t have azerite pieces to worry about in Shadowlands, so it should be better for spec switching.
Its not really that hard this late in the expansion.
You should ready have 3 sets of azerite gear for ww, mw and brm. You can easily do that in 2 weeks.
So why would you need to go back and switch out azerite traits. Unless you are messing around with different builds.
I think it depends on the strength of the covenants. They are a big enough deal where it won’t be a choice for RP more like what is meta if you want to min max anyway. Or perform the best you can at a role. Blizzard has announced that it will be easy to leave a covenant but very hard to rejoin. So if one covenant is top tier for WW it may not be for MW or BM. At that point you’ll just have to stick with one that is your best for your main spec, even though it is weaker for your other Specs. On the bright side weapons are sharing for BM and WW now with 2hand.
Will we have something like it though? Like legendaries for only 1 spec? I’m not really worried about what the meta is for convents, I never look into things like that and I still perform well.
The legendaries have specific effects that can be selected by choice and not by rng from what I understand. They are made from a base item that crafters make and they are enhanced into legendary status by items you gather in Torghast. This is all from my understanding.
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