wow You Can Reset Soulbind Conduits Once Per Week in Shadowlands

[Stan 5,240]

Blizzard has made some improvements to Soulbind Conduits on the Beta. First, they no longer get consumed when replaced as they have been reworked into a permanent Collection just like Essences, but you can change them around only once per weekly reset.

Here's how the new Conduit Collection looks like on the Beta. Soulbind Conduits are sorted by type, and you drag and drop them into the empty Conduit slots. They won't take up valuable inventory space!

You cannot change any applied Counduits until after the next weekly reset, so you will not be able to socket an upgrade if you get a better Conduit that week under the current system.

[Mugendai 48]

I really don't understand the point of this, especially if you can't apply uprgrades

[leapingshadow 50]

19 minutes ago, Mugendai said:

I really don't understand the point of this, especially if you can't apply uprgrades

It's to avoid the problem of re-grinding Soulbinds from the previous system but having a weekly cooldown is to prevent the problem of too much choice ending up being no choice at all like Azerite gear. You would expect to go all the way back and change all your conduits for every boss fight, which isn't ideal.

[Ravenclaw89 27]

I like it, its a mid point where you can change stuff if you don't like it but not all the time.

[Smash 16]

Blizz stated that if you get an Upgrade on a Conduit that is already applied in a Soulbind, when you use the new one to add it to your "book" it will upgrade the ones currently placed in Soulbinds. If you get a brand new one and want to overwrite an old one, you will have to wait for the weekly reset.

The biggest problem with this feature is if you "Save" the Soulbind for the week, then you realized you made a mistake and put the wrong spec into the tree you wanted. You are essentially *filtered* for an entire week now. Which is very punishing for making a mistake, one that I anticipate may be made often. It also prevents you from testing out a new combination of Conduits without committing fully to it for a week. 

Which will only promote more of what Blizzard wants to avoid: Having every player look up what is the "Best" and simply using it. If I'm locked in weekly, you better believe I'm looking up a guide to tell me what I should be using. Not gonna take my weekly reset and play around with untested combinations. 

Blizzard is trying to stop the 1% that would exploit running back constantly to reset. If that's what they want to do with their time in a day, let them. Honestly, the best solution would to make up an entirely new currency. Have a max stack of say, 5. Now, you can go farm up these 5 resets, wouldn't take too long. Maybe 30 minutes or so. This would allow you reset up to 5 times (experimenting purposes, or making a mistake) quite easily. Now, if you wanted to do it more after you used up those 5, you would then have to go out and farm. Which only the 1% might do something like that in the middle of a raid night. Or, if Blizz doens't like the full idea of being able to farm them; then they can make them like Bonus Rolls. You can purchase 2 per week, have a max of 6. 

There are many more options that are better than a weekly lock-out that allow for player mistakes/experimentation to happen. Blizz takes such a narrow-minded viewpoint on everything because they think of how the 1% can exploit something to gain a minor advantage over other 1%'ers. I wish Blizz would stop treating us like Grade Schoolers. Where the one person in a classroom of 30 ruins something for the rest of the class. Find ways to "punish" them that don't completely ruin things for the rest of us. 

Edited August 20, 2020 by Smash

[Deadly 2]

This is the dumbest decision for them to make for the soulbind conduits. This completely screws anybody that enjoys playing multiple specs (Tank/DPS for example). You basically have to lock yourself into one spec for an entire week and then decide at the beginning of each week what spec to play? That is not fun at all.

[Mordd 10]

4 hours ago, Deadly said:

This is the dumbest decision for them to make for the soulbind conduits. This completely screws anybody that enjoys playing multiple specs (Tank/DPS for example). You basically have to lock yourself into one spec for an entire week and then decide at the beginning of each week what spec to play? That is not fun at all.

You can swap which is your active soulbinds as easily as talents, but adjusting the content of that soulbind is the weekly limit.. so you can have the others set up for other specs/activities if you want to.

[Lithari 194]

Well, lets hope we don't make a mistake and have to wait a week to undo such mistake....

[Smash 16]

3 hours ago, Mordd said:

You can swap which is your active soulbinds as easily as talents, but adjusting the content of that soulbind is the weekly limit.. so you can have the others set up for other specs/activities if you want to.

The problem with this is still the same. Let's say Soulbind #1 has the best traits you would want to Prot Pally. But it also has the best traits for Holy Pally. So, you have to decide which is more important and you can't change that decision for an entire week.

Some might not have a problem with one spec having a weaker Soulbind option. There are some people that use Prot for Raids, but play Holy in M+ and want to use the most optimal Soulbinds to do both. They simply couldn't and either Raiding or M+ would suffer at the end of the day. Maybe only a "minor" amount, that's untested as to how good each tree really is for comparison.

The fact remains that being locked on a weekly reset completely sucks and is only trying to punish the top 1%, but only punishes the entire WoW community. Especially for those of us that like to play multiple specs on the same character.