I want some part of this identity-choice to be present without destroying the balance of classes and specs. This seems to ruin both. I don't want to grind two covenants at once! Like hell, that seems just as soul destroying as I've come to expect from BfA.I'd much rather see Blizzard keeping covenants virtually exclusive, and so they are FORCED to balance them nearly perfectly. If they can't balance them perfectly then the power choice should be COMPLETELY reworked. Either you have a gameplay choice on a minute to minute basis to get the most out of combat, or you have a BIG identity choice that actually matters TO YOU way down the line.If this stays I will definitely be excluded from a lot of content, because I'm way past the era of trusting Blizzard and allowing them to forcefully toy with my time. Games are a visual-audial experience, a competitive atmosphere or an escape from reality into a fantastical world. Not a parellel system of society were we work for free to make Blizzard money! Remember that physical labour comes with a certain satisfaction from creating something tangible. Working in a game is utterly horrible in comparison!
It is... somehow not nearly as cancerous as I imagined. Yet again, could have just removed the covenant system entirely. Or leave only consmetic options inside. Or have mechanical rewards the same for all the covenants and have the only difference with cosmetic rewards.
Oh my god I love it. It's not even a grind! You have no control over when you can rejoin! My god... To the "it's not so bad" people, this is exactly what the complainers were worried about. Blizzard making you wait an arbitrary amount of time. Want to rejoin a covenant? Go ahead and give us 1/4th of your monthly sub.
Any achievements linked to grinding the 4 covenants in the beta?
Good enough to change once in a while! and make your choices people, we can't have everything.
This whole thing just embodies Blizz's pattern of misunderstanding and tendency to band-aid fix. Over and over and over.
Such a shame. They should remove this and make people HAVE to stay with the covenant they pick its not a surprise when you quest through you see what powers you'll have with each one see the xmogs mounts and all of that we should be. locked to our choice like I dont play a warlock and cry i can't go stealth and sap and stun people like a rogue and you guys crying about balance and dmg output lol look how drastic classes are this game wont ever really be balanced
Like a covenant ability is going to make you perform well..
#pulltheripcord or delete covenant abilities all together i dont find any of them all that amazing as it is very poorly thought out idea
"Ok honey, you get to pick what's for dessert tonight.""I want CAKE and COOKIES and ICE CREAM and CANDY BARS!""How about you just pick one? You can have one of the others next week.""NO! I want them ALL NOW! Stop art'fically time-gating me!"
I wish your choice was permanent. for the longest time, probably since 16 years ago, we've been wanting and needing paths our characters can take to make them individuals in the world. we finally have a path we can carve out and give our characters identity and meaning and uniqueness. I wish it was permanent or at least much much harder to change. The swapping should be challenging and grueling since your are leaving a culture for another and back again. we're learning a culture's art so it should be met with near insurmountable tasks and rep and at a detriment to ourselves while gaining their acceptance, until we re-establish ourselves within their peoples.
A reasonable change and the comments are STILL full of people whining about time.Wow was lost to whiny children.
Covenants should be free swap anytime anywhere.
What the heck?This is too simple.The process should be 4 weeks and each boss should give %0.25.You shouldnt able to access any covenant ability during these 4 weeks and you must pay 2000 gold tax to enter each zone hourly.