not at all, im basing it off of the fact that the world building doesnt make any sense, the idea that you side with a specific covenant but are still the hero/slave for all the others, the only benefit to picking one is that you gain a system to travel in a zone faster and you get some colorful spells.
if i pick venthyr, the night fae will still expect me to show up and defend them all the time through callings and im still the maw walker/hero for them from the leveling story, they still expect me to do everything for them, but if i try and use their travel network all of a sudden im hated and they cant cooperate with me, but i still need to be there and save them, but they cant help me with it, but i have to save them. it just doesnt make sense. it would be better if there was a way to gain favour with them like say renown with each of them and over time you could gain access to multiple abilities and swap through that,
but no its pick one and be happy with it, and be completely unable to have fun with the 4 CLASS ABILITIES they are adding to the game.
if that was the case then aff lock wouldnt have had the majority of the talents be dead for the majority of bfa, there was basically a single talent set up that was run for everything for the entire expansion and then some small tweaks were made in 8.3
so that type of logic is applied to everything, i have the keymaster achievement and i cant get invited to 10+ pugs because im a warlock, because even though i have the raiderio score and i am clearly more than capable of doing this content im a warlock which is bad in dungeons and therefore im not good enough for them.
the covenent class abilities are designed in the exact same manner that talents are, an earlier example i gave shows 2 of the ones mages have are designed the exact same as 2 talents that other classes have/use to have. and this is why they should be swappable,
would you be okay with them telling you that you had to pick talents at the start of the expansion and then go through a 2 day quest thing in order to swap talents? i wouldnt expect so, because its insane and terrible design and yet for some reason people are set on removing access to other talents for no reason.
covenants should be aesthetic and for story, there is absolutely no reason to be locking so much player power behind them, the story and aesthetics are enough to make it an important choice.
they have failed⌠miserablyâŚ
if they dont want there to be a âcorrectâ choice then why is it that mages are so up in arms about the difference between necrolord and others for arcane, why is it that every DK player i have seen have been saying that you have to take night fae for all 3 specs, why havnt i seen any warlock playing with anything other than necrolord, they have been completely unable to balance any system like this before, so i have absolutely 0 faith in it this time, hence why they themselves put this whole #pulltheripcord thing into the air in an interview. its neccesary and the only good option.
they also said that their main philosophy for shadowlands was player agency and then lock our choices between weekly lockouts and stupid quests, their philosophies dont mean anything at this point.
if they were implementing a system to work like classes why is it only giving 2 spells, im pretty sure there has never been a class that has 2 spells and an armour set, thats why we are saying it isnt like classes, because its completely different and way too bare bones to be implemented as such. this system is more like them implementing classes but once we have our choice of spec we are locked into it unless we go to a class trainer and do some arbitrary 2 day long quest to change spec, which would also be a terrible design decision.
the fact of the matter is that they have made a big mistake, if they were intended them to work like classes and be a choice that is impactful in that respect that locking so much player power behind them and implementing them in a way that they know would make people want to swap and them not allowing them is bad, and they can say as much as they want that they thought it would be fine, they have known for months now its not okay and its a massive problem, and yet they are just ignoring everything and refusing to even comment on it now, or do the right thing and pulltheripcord