I’ve been reading this class forum for a decent time now but never seen anybody really talking about this!
The covenant system for dhs is purely bad! For an example, if you want to do pvp your only go to is night fae because other ones are so undertuned for pvp. If you want to push high keys as vengeance you must be kyrian! If you sign up to a 19+ and say you are night fae people are questioning you like why the hell you are fae? maybe I play havoc now and then and do some pvp? This puts you in the worst spot if you do play both havoc and vengeance. What is the point of having two spec if I cant switch to one and play that content as i wish! I really can’t push higher keys than 20 as night fae without guild friends. It is also a significant disadvantage over kyrian. People say fae is the best choice overall but it is not when it comes to trying to do content on the edge.
My argument is why are we even forced into this situation and can not have a stress-free gameplay experience. I really don’t want to think about my covenant when I’m doing a content. In what reality this was a good idea. And switching to the covenant you want is not an easy task as well. You have to grind and wait for it. Not only that but you lose all your progress on the covenant things.
I just wanted people to know this, and make sure similar-minded people’s voices are heard!. What do you think about this?
Maybe at some point in the future… like when all covenan unite to kill the big bad guy, they will make covenant much like talents… I mean that you can choose whatever you want since it’s one for all and all for one. Not expecting it too soon though. It would make sense towards the end of xp, for now it remains a problem. You can either focus on one type or Level another for pve XD. I know it’s dumb
It’s not just for dh, it’s for a lot of classes. This is one of those things that people will always remember when thinking about shadowlands just like bfa has “islands and warfronts”, legion had “maw of souls”, wod had…well…wod and so on and so forth. A lot of people asked, begged, bargained, threatened etc. the devs to remove the restrictions or untie the abilities from their respective covenants since alpha but yea…you can see the results for yourself.
did you sim yourself? is the dps difference that big you HAVE to be kyrian? Dunno, especially with the new UBC think NF will be pretty sweet with Korayn…immo -> fel rush with 25% more crit chance and 10% more dmg on almost every pull + with demonic immo is what 18 sec cd or some such…so you can nuke every 18 sec instead of every min if I’m not mistaking
Covenants in general are a big problem. They should never have been design as powers but rather something cosmetic and something you can progress towards earning your “wings” and pets and mounts and story. Something that should be switchable with a press of a button and not the “we ran out of ideas … oh i know let’s make them lose at least a week, hopefully, more with renown catchup, so we can buy ourselves more time”
Borrowed powers have been dogsht since legion creating a class completely based on borrow power that every expansion you strip everything that made them enjoyable and the worst thing is DH is probably the most affected. DH needs alot of these powers baseline and I still can’t believe dh lost spells and abilities in shadowlands while so many gained them.