Imagine picking something so important in a game because someone else said you had to, then the game devs changing things around making that choice irrelevant. Possibly making your personal choice the best for your class - what you wanted all along. Just pick what you want and forget the rest. Everyone knows all this will get massively nerfed/changed by 9.1, 9.2 anyway.
you won't not get invited, except perhaps very early on, but you'll get looks from your raid members. It shows a bad message that you're willing to compromise performance for, well, anything else.
No idea where these people find these covenant picks.E.g. for the WW Monk there is a much better guide with extensive discussion about covenants, and a very lengthy chapter why Kyrian is a bad choice (see https://www.cuckhead.com/news=317117/windwalker-monk-state-on-shadowlands-beta-covenant-abilities-legendaries-spec-co#covenants ).Also this discussion leaves out the fact that there are also optimal covenants for professions. E.g. as an Alchemist you should pick Nightfae in the beginning to become Revered faster for cauldrons (see Eternal Cauldron ).
Ok if you ignore all that and said go with the covenant that suits best with class lore/raceWhat would yall pick then?
What a !@#$show of a design system. Just pick whatever you like. They're going to buff you and nerf you to the ground. APATHY AT ITS FINEST!
The best option for balance went from night fae to venthyr to necro and now Kyrian. These guides are useless. The performance difference is ridiculously small to warrant a “best”, especially in m+ where dmg profiles are often more important than a 0.5% average simmed dps advantage in a patchwork fight. Just check your class discords and ignore these compiled lists.
Blizz would have done best if they just give every covenant the same things just with cosmetic differences.
I'm still going to pick based on my Class fantasy, transmog and race I play. But I am concerned about how this kind of classification will raise the bar for people with the same mind set as me when it comes to doing raids and M+.
I really hate Mirrors of Torment on my Frost Mage, I tested it out in Torghast and I never got the full benefit from it, apart from the last boss. It just doesn't feel fun to press at all and just feels meaningless. I feel like there's no fun option for Frost at all.
why is there a bis list I want to be kyrian :(
Some covenants for specs are gonna get butchered as patches go out so might as well choose the most appealing one rather than choose the best performing one than climb up a mountain to change your covenants once 9.1/9.2/9.3 roll out.
It really sucks when you play, pve and pvp
Great post! Still waiting to see a PVP version by pro players. Especially interested in the opinions on SV and MM hunter for arena. :)