wow Conduit Weekly Cooldown Removed, New System Implemented

[Staff 1,488]

 

The very controversial Soulbind Conduit cooldown, which prevented them from being changed more than once a week will be removed soon and new, much more open system will be introduced. The cooldown in general is problematic for multi-spec players and player who take part in many WoW activities such as M+, raids, PvP and perhaps even Torghast.

The new system:

• Conduit Energy point are spent to replace one Conduit
• You start with 10 Conduit Energy.
• Gain 1 Conduit Energy point every day.
  • Caps out at 10.
• You can also gain another point of energy by acquiring a new conduit, meaning you can always try out a new find. 

We also recently found out that Conduits will progress the same as regular items, going over the previously assumed 210 cap, but you probably still won't be able to get them to a higher item level than the Mythic raid cap. You will be able to both buy new Conduits and upgrade existing ones using Manifest Aethershunt purchased from Ve'nari in the Maw to push them up in item level by ranking them up. This is the most recent table for rank vs. item level on the beta, with each rank being a 13 ilvl upgrade:

Conduit Rank	Beta Build 35978 (Old)	Beta Build 36086 (New)
1	155	145
2	165	158
3	180	171
4	195	184
5	210	200
6	300	213
7	300	226
8	300	239
9	300	252
10	300	265
11	300	278
12	300	291
13	300	304
14	300	317
15	300	330

You can also read more about Conduits in our guide.

Conduits (source)

We’ve also received a lot of feedback about the Conduit system. Many of you have expressed concerns that the current system will unreasonably limit experimentation and multi-spec play early in the expansion. While the existing weekly cooldown may provide sufficient flexibility once players have all three soulbinds fully unlocked, we agree that it is initially too limiting. A single weekly reset also fails to draw any distinction between someone who only wants to adjust a single conduit, and someone who wants to clear and rebuild their entire soulbind tree.

In an upcoming build, we will be replacing the weekly cooldown on changing conduits with a more flexible system: When first unlocked, the Forge of Bonds will be charged with 10 Conduit Energy, and placing a conduit into a socket will consume a single charge. Conduit Energy recharges at the rate of one per day, up to a cap of 10, and adding a new conduit to your collection immediately restores one Conduit Energy as well.

Our goal with this change is to ensure that, especially when players are acquiring new conduits and only have access to a small number of soulbinds and conduit slots, all players feel free to try out new upgrades and to adjust their soulbinds to support multiple specializations or activities. After the initial collection period for a given character, 7+ swaps per week should allow for more adaptation to suit specific roles or activities, while still requiring thoughtful decisions about how to customize each Soulbind for your playstyle preferences.

[Senou 40]

Still a crappy system. I cannot express how much I despise blizzard for being so freaking stubborn right now. After the delay the expansion HAS to be a massive success and with this *filtered* it just gets worse and worse.
The entire soulbind system needs to be fluid. Have different "trees" for every spec, and be able to change conduits at will. It's fine that you need to go to your sanctum to change them, but PLEASE for the love of god, to not lock players into specs! We had that for long and people hated it. People hate being unable to play the way they like to play.
If I want to play tank in M+ and DPS in raids I am forced to work with such a stupid system which in the end will make it impossible to handle both.
Why can't the devs listen? Why do they behave like stubborn children in a supermarket who don't get their sweets? I am so *filtered* done with them. "We dOn't waNt tO ChaNGe oUr sYstem." "PlAYers neEd tO mAkE a ChOiCE!"

[Mugendai 48]

1 hour ago, Senou said:

Still a crappy system. I cannot express how much I despise blizzard for being so freaking stubborn right now. After the delay the expansion HAS to be a massive success and with this *filtered* it just gets worse and worse.
The entire soulbind system needs to be fluid. Have different "trees" for every spec, and be able to change conduits at will. It's fine that you need to go to your sanctum to change them, but PLEASE for the love of god, to not lock players into specs! We had that for long and people hated it. People hate being unable to play the way they like to play.
If I want to play tank in M+ and DPS in raids I am forced to work with such a stupid system which in the end will make it impossible to handle both.
Why can't the devs listen? Why do they behave like stubborn children in a supermarket who don't get their sweets? I am so *filtered* done with them. "We dOn't waNt tO ChaNGe oUr sYstem." "PlAYers neEd tO mAkE a ChOiCE!"

 

I'm pretty mad at this system too, but tbh this is a huge step forward they made. I mean it's almost enough to be bareable. You usually don't raid more than 3 times a week, maybe 4 maximum if you're a super try hard guild, you won't have to change conduits more than 10 times a week, even if you do m+ and raids the same day, so it feels fine to me.

[Senou 40]

2 hours ago, Mugendai said:

 

I'm pretty mad at this system too, but tbh this is a huge step forward they made. I mean it's almost enough to be bareable. You usually don't raid more than 3 times a week, maybe 4 maximum if you're a super try hard guild, you won't have to change conduits more than 10 times a week, even if you do m+ and raids the same day, so it feels fine to me.

It is still massively limiting to the playerbase and while blizzard has already delayed the expansion to fix issues and make it as good as possible, they should start and listen to the feedback again. To me it feels like they went with the opinions and suggestions but stopped doing this the longer beta testers and ptr players were testing the new stuff.
By now it is obvious that most players dislike how blizzard is handling the covenant system and yet they refuse to adapt. We had the same issue with azerite or legendaries in legion. In essence soulbinds and conduits are a very similar system again but disguised in a talent tree like design.

[Dvanom 34]

Just do it! Remove the cooldown completely. What does the cd give?

im always multi speccing, healing raids and pvp, tanking or dps in m+ 

why I need to be punished when i want to change to a role which my raid or party need Atm?
 

they are too stubborn and it doesnt even make sense