It doesn't seem like "banned" is an appropriate description. More like "disabled".
I'm really glad that Blizz balanced all of the specs before adding in secondary systems, so that they can all perform within relatively equal levels!....oh wait.
Just the Frost Shards of Domination are banned? That's unusual. My guess is that the rest will get banned too when it's complete.
So...are they reactivating Legion legendaries and artifact weapons for these?
What about legion legendaries/artifact and HoA?
My guess is that they're trying to make a more stable power level in the game, so that there can be evergreen content like Final Fantasy has. It's a not-insignificant criticism that WoW (specifically, WoW in Legion onwards) tends to trash itself in the long run with the borrowed power mechanics, so this could mark them taking steps towards avoiding that problematic design philosophy.But the first step for that is tossing out expansion gimmick mechanics, since they're impossible to balance around.While I don't think they'll get rid of the borrowed powers for the rest of this expansion, the first step is disabling them in content meant to be evergreen (Timewalking challenges).
What is this? The classes are unplayable without covenant abilities - legendaries - soulbinds/conduits and they'll disable them? Have fun
Hopefully they retune the fights well enough that we don't need any of that stuff.
Doing mage tower in Shadowlands without Shadowlands is going to be weird.
More deserved hate to borrowed power systems.
rip guardian challenge without the range extender
? In legion we had access to a fully built artifact weapon, legendaries, AND raid tier sets. Why ban everything? Are we going to have to grind legion sets to do this? Are they even going to be available?
I think they now know that player don't want borrowed power system any more. they want wow like in WoD and before . in next expansion Patch 10.0 we don't have a system like this anymore. I think they need to add a cosmetic system. Like Class skin or some thing to change the graphic of ur spells. Covenants are really good for cosmetic. If they released them without any ability and soul bind player would love them so much. So I hope we won't see any borrowed power in next expansion .
HOOOOOOO boy is this going to be a nightmare then.Some classes are extremely barebones in their current state without their SL borrowed power, and it's not like we're getting any of Legion's borrowed power back either. They literally cannot make this as hard as they did when this was first released then.
