The covenants in WoW: Shadowlands are still causing complaints among players. Kyrians and Venthyr feel significantly disadvantaged.
Meanwhile, World of Warcraft Shadowlands has been released for over a month and players have distributed themselves among the four covenants. However, two of the four covenants feel strongly disadvantaged. The Venthyr and Kyrians are complaining, as one of the major covenant features does not work as well for them as it does for the Night Fae and Necrolords.
What is the problem? It concerns the adventure feature. Here, players can send their adventurers on missions to receive various rewards. These can be equipment but also important resources like Soul Ash or even mounts.
Due to the available heroes, Necrolords and Night Fae can handle quite challenging missions. Kyrians and Venthyr are left empty-handed. In the elite missions that grant Soul Ash, they often fail, even though they are 10 levels or more above the required level.
In comparison: There are Night Fae and Necrolord players who complete level 60 missions with heroes at level 35 and thus obtain mounts and other great rewards.
Is Blizzard going to do anything about the broken adventure mode for Kyrian/Venthyr? from r/wow
What did Blizzard say? A few weeks ago, Blizzard addressed this issue. The problem here was that in the beta, they only tested the adventure tables with full equipment – all testers already had all adventurers of their covenant together.
In the live version, players unlock these adventurers gradually. It is suspected that only after about 4 months, when players reach Glory Level 40, will all adventurers be unlocked.
The problem is therefore that the covenants currently have very unbalanced adventurers. A problem that should fix itself over time as more and more adventurers become available.
System has more issues: However, the adventure table has more problems. One of them concerns the troops. These are basically “non-heroes” that can fill up your team when not enough adventurers are available. However, these troops vary massively from covenant to covenant. For example, Night Fae have extremely potent healers who can absorb large spikes of damage well.
But something else is troubling about the troops: They can level down. The troops always have the level that corresponds to the average of their own adventurers. If the player receives a new adventurer at level 1, the average level of the troops can decrease, and thus their combat power as well.
Whether Blizzard simply “sits this problem out” until players actually have their entire adventurer pool available or whether the developers will make adjustments for Kyrians and Venthyr remains to be seen.
Are you also “suffering” from this issue of your covenant? Or do you not mind waiting a little longer until your team is strong enough?
There have already been some changes in the past – the difficulty of Soul Ash missions has been reduced.
