So despite Ion saying they need to stop being scared of making systems that are contained within their own expansions, they still give us something that we'll only have for the duration of the expansion, and as a nice little ^&*! you on top, we can't even use it anywhere else but the expansion.Come the #$%^ on, Blizzard. Give us new World of Warcraft content, not new World of Warcraft: Expansion content. I was so hopeful when Ion said that. But WoW will never feel like one cohesive game.Oh and to Blizzard and all those constantly parroting how important covenants are going to be, like class and faction? I am my class and faction everywhere. In all parts of the game. Covenants aren't the next big thing. They're not a major character progress decision. They're literally just the latest gimmick in an ever growing pile of gimmicks that have a lifespan of two years.
Yes, this is totally something you would expect if blizz were able to balance it. Lol
Makes perfect sense! The Shadowlands are the planes of the dead the borrowed power shouldn't work in the realms of the living. As for Arena's and BG's I agree with Tackett they shouldn't work there either UNLESS it's a BG or Arena based in the Shadowlands.
hmmm... I understand the logic behind this, BUT... for me it was the only consolidation that when I have a "bad" Covenant ability, I would be able to use it in old content (and until this, I did not mind the Covenant lock, but this just sucks) :-/
well this isnt world ending like everyone here is saying it is but its still really annoyingwith the outrage though im betting it will be reverted eventuallyhope its reverted soon so i dont have to hear people complain about something like this for weeks
Who asked for this change? More dev time WASTED is this (useless and harmful) kind of thing.
wtf is this who is this for who thinks this is a good idea LET US HAVE FUN FFS!
I really hope they decide to nix this limitation at least during Shadowlands. I could understand at the end of the expansion but at the start feels premature.
This is so dumb, literally blizzard devs are concerned with adding more restrictions than improving the game experience, all these borders on stupid
its crazy we are in a constant war with blizzard every day I come here and theres a new post on another decision stupidly convoluted and out of touch of the playerbase and after bombardment of negative feedback they will fix it or wait 3 patches later to finally settle. its easy to see non of the employes are qualified for the job of making a video game, but for gods sake cant they stop to think for a bit before adding things like that? they are slowly making us mental its so bad it made asmongold turn off the game instead of going for another mount run. in my opinion, all the developers should play their own game, and we need to demand that, and we 100% need to demand the immidiate firing of ion hazzikostas as long as he is charge it will keep going. fire fire fire fire ion hazzikostas
Player complain about covenant abilities being too restricted? Restrict them more!Classes must define the character's main abilities, with this change players will feel the borrowed power problem even more. What about the "RPG elements", Ion? In what RPG you lose your main powers according to the zone you are?
Well, I can see why Blizzard would do this, the covenant abilities are pretty powerful some of them would make certain fights much easier. However being level 60 when the content is 50 also makes it easier. I'm not sure if you can destroy your cloak (for ny'a) and necklace, but it will be something you take around with you in your bags, or have it easily accessible in your bank. Which is going to make goblins super useful for old content 'cause bank access every 30-60 minutes whatever the cooldown is.However what if you que'd for rated arena's outside of shadowlands, would the game think you're not there and not activate the shadowland expansion features? Either way if soul binds work, and your HOA works, that alone plus being 10 levels higher should make ny'a easier. You just won't have something like memebeam/guardian of azeroth and your covenant main ability.
I mean, remove the ability to solve the power problem? This design idea is just bad. And all this is because they don't wanna let us chose what ability to use, all they need to do is a recolor depending on the player's covenant.
dont worry guys, everything will be ok. This is temporary while they are working on adding another system that lets you select your favorite borrowed power system doing other content. There is also another system added on top of this called Borrowed Power Energy that recharges 1 charge on a daily basis that allows you to change this. Why are we limiting this? Well we dont know.
Sigh, I miss legion and how fun that was.
Does blizzard even care anymore? I mean really, how much do they hate their playerbase? This expansion is shaping up to be worse than bfa.