Originally Posted by
Zyky
There's a difference between wanting to be successful and wanting to be carried. I consistently see people with sub 1k io's refusing people into their groups with 1800 io's for a simple 15 key. The community has this garbage perception ever since gearscore addons, in-game item level, and raider.io have been put into the game, it creates this idiotic perception of what's "good" and what's "bad". Meanwhile you have these same players denying Cutting Edge Raiders, who decide to invest more time into raiding than doing M+ for something as simple as a 15 key because all they look at is this idiotic arbitrary number that really doesn't mean shit until 3k io because of how many carry groups are out there.
As for covenants, this is the situation that's currently being faced, each covenant is excessively powerful for different aspects of play for many classes. I'll use Mage as an example since I'm currently most versed in their situation.
- Necrolord is currently the best for Raiding, because it's a cooldown that provides a 10% Spell Power increase and lines up with both Arcane and Frosts specs cooldowns and will line up with Combustion when using the now buffed Kindling talent.
- Venthyr is currently the best for M+ because of the overall Covenant ability being 1 minute cooldown teleport ability which is going to allow for major skips within the dungeon. On top of their spec ability being an extra form of control, aka a snare > root > silence.
- Kyrian is currently the best for PvP because if it's frequent burst addition being so strong a 30 second cooldown that increases your damage by 10% on top of doing a large amount of damage in the first place is huge in PvP.
So for a player like myself who does all three forms of content at a high level(Every Cutting Edge, Multi-Class Gladiator, several season 3500 io player) this is a massive problem for the game and it's going to force me to choose what's most important, therefore punishing me for wanting to be successful and to do everything the game has to offer. This is the case for many classes right now in Shadowlands and Covenants are going to cause an even further divide within the community.