World of Warcraft Shadowlands has been delayed to "later this year"

[WYP]

Blizzard needs more time to polish new features.



Read more about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' delay.

 

[looz]

This is fairly uncommon, only other expansion Blizz has delayed is TBC, and that's a while back. I liked Preach's take on this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd4kT9Ag8Mo

 

[Warchild]

The prepath lull could be terrible. Gearing right now is only interesting because of the corruption traits. However, remove that and what do you have?

Everything would need to be retuned.

I wonder if its due to Raytracing or graphical polish. That or the disasterous covenant idea.

 

[looz]

Well could be that best specs deal literally double the damage of worst specs in the hands of hardcore raiders. Or that for some specs the covenant abilities are responsible for 40% damage. Could also be that some talents have been broken since alpha. :lol:

 

[Warchild]

Could be? try "IS" the covenant abilities are so broken and overpowered...

 

[Greenback]

Some body did a proper numbers run of the covenants and the differences it makes, and picking a covenant may also picking a spec as the other specs are bad or mediocre in that covenant. Covenant Break down I think this shows what a majority asked when the system was announced, how are they going to balance 36 specs, and it shows they really can't

BellularGaming

If you watch preach and BellularGaming video's you really get the sense that as of now the whole system is broken

 

[Warchild]

Thought as much. I havent heard a single good thing about that system yet. Except that you are streamlined into choosing specific ones based on the spec you want, and if you plan on staying that spec its pointless changing without ending up with poor conenant abilities.

 

[Greenback]

Thought as much. I havent heard a single good thing about that system yet. Except that you are streamlined into choosing specific ones based on the spec you want, and if you plan on staying that spec its pointless changing without ending up with poor conenant abilities.

They had trouble just balancing Azerite they spent the whole of BFA trying to fix instead of content, SL involves covenants,conduits and legendaries,I can see this having even less content and people needing to swap covenants after nerfs each patch

 

[Warchild]

I dont see a problem if they make covenant swapping less expensive/grindy. but we will see when its live.

 

[looz]

I think you should just have different characters for different content, since covenants are so difficult to swap. TBH I am fine with that, I'm generally an altoholic, but last expansion just wasn't feasible.

 

[Greenback]

I think you should just have different characters for different content, since covenants are so difficult to swap. TBH I am fine with that, I'm generally an altoholic, but last expansion just wasn't feasible.

At the moment it's possible that you'd need 3 of the same class in different Covenants for each spec e'g pala holy is Kyrian but ret is Venthyr, Venthyr is bad for both other specs and Kyrian is mediocre for both other specs,
I'm a altoholic so bad I maxed out 2 accounts and had to start deleting characters, but honestly I don't want to be playing the same class 3 time on 1 server, I like playing the versatile classes like pala, monk, druid and shammy but the way it's looking I don't think it's going to work that well