I have no respect for the covenant system as a whole, because of the restrictions and because of how flimsy it is from a narrative standpoint. Who the &*!@ are these guys to reject our help, the one person in the Shadowlands who can help them, just because we want to help someone else first?They all eagerly accept our help at first, and then once we offer more help to one faction, suddenly the rest want nothing to do with us? Except, if I remember correctly, they still do. We still interact with the others.It's a cool idea, but one of the weakest systems with regards to the narrative that they've created. So now we have to struggle to experience all the stories, be it via alts or a single character, we have the annoying conduit system, we have important abilities that might not match the covenant we like most so we either can't perform our best or we don't love our covenant, and so on.This is truly an abysmal system. It could be a pretty good idea with some significant reworking in terms of mechanics and narrative, but the current execution (and the execution it will go live with) are just so scuffed. So scuffed.
I wonder if most who think this is a good idea don't realize how bad some of the abilities are and don't realize WHY some are complaining besides them thinking everyone just wants all the options, how some of them are just ones you WON'T click , and bad for multi-role classes. Possibly people who only play one spec or so and don't really do content in general. Or maybe they don't even know how useful some of these abilities are? The whole system is good IN THEORY, but often bad in practice when we know they can't balance well that some people feel it's bad because some just help fix the classes weaknesses so much that it's hard to ignore or fits too well. some that just help the class so much that it would be as if ignoring an entire talent row that's actually good. Not even racials are as good as some of this. Besides that a lot have pretty long cooldowns.blizzard is pretty bad at balancing. It's not GAME changing but it's useful. especially stuff like necrolord for rogues and night fae for DK's. With rogues not only giving a shield but it's they give a ranged skill. Not just about what's meta or what has the best % it's also about what's really fun and makes people enjoy the class more. So, deciding between aesthetic, gameplay, story, all with one pick isn't always well received for people.
I've been to the necrolords before, but Draka doesn't have a quest for me.
Lack of freedom regarding anything in wow never felt nice. Sure I may never leave my preferred covenant but the looming notion that I don't have the freedom to try out other covenants again without penalties will always leave a bitter taste...
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