Let’s assume for a little that Blizzard won’t remove something from the game that is a dealbreaker for me, so I keep playing.
I have around 30k anima worth of stuff left to buy from Night Fae.
What should happen after that? Obviously there are all the things from the other 3 covenants, but I remember reading that they don’t share the reservoir anima pool.
So the correct course of action would be, to each time my bags are full, switch to another covenant, deposit, (optionally buy some transmog) and then switch back?
Of course this will only be viable once 9.1.5 launches.
Are they not going to either make the reservoirs shared or add some item that lets you store anima and then use it in another covenant’s reservoir after the patch releases? I vaguely recall reading about a feature like that being added into the patch.
As of right now, Reservoir Anima is not shared between covenants, nor will it be shared in 9.1.5 either. However, on the PTR, there’s a Bind on Account item you can buy for anima, and deposit it for the same amount. That lets you transfer anima between alts and covenants with only a little bit of pain.
Now, you can transfer anima between covenants right now too, but it’s a tad more tedious: before switching, you buy a metric ton of 250 covenant gear from the renown vendor, bank some of it if it doesn’t fit in your bags. Then switch covenants, and sell all of them back. This way, most of your anima is transferred to the new covenant.
The problem with this method is that while you can write a macro to buy items and just spam it, I have found no way to sell them back without having to click the confirmation window, and that makes the selling back part incredibly annoying. I spent 30 minutes selling items on Wednesday when I switched my main back to Kyrian. It was a colossal pain.
By the way, getting the 250 anima armor items is much more bag-space efficient than the tiny little anima items.
It’s 1:1 on the PTR. Not sure if it will stay that way, most of these BoA stuff usually come at a small cost. But even then, it would still be a huge QoL win: if I can deposit 30k anima in another covenant at the cost, of, say 35k anima, but without the need to buy items and sell them back one by one, clicking the confirmation button every time, I’ll spend the 35k anima for that 30k without any further thought.