People will test soulbinds but they won't test conduits! That's the thing. Soulbinds are easily changeable. It's like talents these days. Easy to change, easy to test stuff out without a cost to it. Conduits is a different story. You won't test a conduit if it means you have to destroy another conduit. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE
THEY HAVE ILVLS! You won't test stuff out when it's difficult to get them in a good version. And if you get them in a good version then you don't want to destroy themThey have ilvls. Hoarding them won't do a lot of good because of that.
Yes and the talk is about conduits, not soulbinds. The multiple paths in a soulbind isn't divided into tank/dps/heal and even if it were, there is still pve and pvp where you might need different powers.Soulbinds each have multiple paths dude. They aren't just "pick one".
They are definitely punishing if you want to play multiple specs in multiple types of content. All of Shadowlands is, honestly. The choice of your covenant means you have to decide what type of content you want to push the most. Then you have legendaries, where playing multiple specs is significantly more grind. And conduits is another layer that pushes a huge amount of extra grind if you want to play multiple specs. And choosing what type of content you want to push means you are choosing what type of content you want to be subpar.I'm very excited for these choices. They look good and fun to me and not punishing at all.