I can't wait to be judged on my covenant choice. "why pick such a greedy covenant? you're supoosed to pick _____ to buff the DH/Mage" Every group is going to have this crappy discussion about your choice. It's going to be horrible.
Why not just give us ALL the covenant class abilities and the choice is just based on who we soulbind with (soulbinds+covenant ability)? Makes more sense. Save ALL of us from the dumb conversations from people who alt our class.
So let me get this straight, people are complaining because it takes too long to switch covenants, because they are afraid of not being picked up for mythics/raids?
I'm completely fine with making us work to change our covenants, it's supposed to be a meaningful choice not something you can just change on the fly. If you can't get a group then make your own, bam, problem solved.
I've already picked my covenants for my paladin, priest, and hunter. Based on what abilities sound helpful to me, thankfully they are all different too. I cannot wait for this xpac to drop, I'm getting myself prepared.
I also think that the prepatch will hit when the animation shorts are done, so I'm hoping for soon but not expecting until about September 21st.
It seems to me that without outright saying it, the general message from Blizzard and the team, is pick the Covenant you want because we WILL nerf and buff around community outcry.
Well that still kinda kills the point, does it not? If I complete the first 18 floors then jump in to start at 19; I will miss all of the Rougelike buffs we get throughout Torghast; will I not? That sort of defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it? Floor 19 CANT be higher tuned than floor 18 at that since again; We would have no power ups / buffs. From the wording of it; you may as well just say that "It's 18 floors max and you can just run that over and over" - The fun would be to truly have an infinite run where Blizzard just tossed the scaling out the window to match the crazy amount of powers one would get as you climb higher. Apart from just being called "Floor 19+" I don't get what separates it from a fresh run from floor 1 again.
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All in all these are really good news, except for covenants but that was to be expected.
Sounds like they are making a D3 style adventure mode leveling experience for alts. I’m excited for that. Going through story quests a second, third and fourth time is just so boring...
Blizzard has made no attempt to prevent that sort of mentality. They actively support systems like Raider IO and even added their own gear score system. Until Blizzard actually does something to prevent it, it will continue to be the norm, and as such systems should be implemented with that in mind - because no one wants to be denied access to a dungeon group or whatever because of their "personal" covenant choice where they actively chose to make themselves 5-10% weaker by choosing a subpar covenant just because they liked the aesthetic, story line, or ability more.
Speaking of Twisting Corridors, as we finalize tuning, Twisting Corridors should come into its own as the “Challenge Mode” wing of Torghast, offering eighteen-floor runs at a higher level of difficulty than the rest of Torghast, with cosmetic rewards for clearing certain thresholds.
Mhm, I like this. Now hoping it offers better cosmetic rewards than Horrific Vision, to be more like the feeling of getting a super cool weapon transmog like in Legions Mage Tower, or the transmogs from CMs in WoD and MoP.
I wonder how many systems they are going to have to usher in to fix this mess?
I 100% predict that the 9.3 patch notes will STILL be about covenant abilities and how they totally got it right this time.
The arrogance of the devs astounds me sometimes.
I guess all I can say based on what they wrote about Covenants is that I am not buying Shadowlands until they decouple player abilities from them. Shame, as in many ways I was hoping it would be a back-to-form expansion from Blizzard.