wow The Soul Ash Covenant Problem: You Can't Craft a Rank 4 this Week if You Didn't Do a Table Mission

[Starym 3,800]

 

So far the extreme lopsidedness of the Covenant mission/adventure table companions and troops have been a relatively minor thing that players have been frustrated over, as Venthyr and Kyrian are incredibly weaker on the missions than Night Fae and Necrolords. However, this week it's turning into a more serious issue, as players that have done all of Torghast from the start will not be able to craft a Rank 4 legendary, missing only 30 Soul Ash.

Currently you CAN finish the new Soul Ash missions as Kyrian and Venthyr, but you'll need to have leveled your companions extremely regularly, picking up the majority of the extra XP missions since launch (with multiple level 30+ companions needed). We've seen Kyrian and Venthyr players complete these missions (and compiled some hints from them for Ventyr here   and Kyrian here), but if you're even a slightly more casual player, or just didn't know that the Command Table would be this important, you most likely won't be able to get a rank 4 this week. While it would be ok to require specific strategies and companions, even looking up guides for the weaker Covenants for SOME extra rewards, this is definitely not that.

Even after doing everything in Torghast since launch, which most people feel they had to do and pushed hard at, will not be enough Soul Ash this week, as you'll end up with 1920 while needing 1950. With all the drama and nerfs, tuning etc. that came with Torghast, which only awards Soul Ash, it's very surprising Blizzard have done so little to tune the Covenant adventures, when they have a solid chunk of Ash available over the weeks.

Considering the Necrolords and Night Fae have been doing the Soul Ash missions since week 1, which was completely impossible for the other two Covenants for weeks (basically until the addition of the new set level missions for the vast majority of players) this is just ridiculous at this point. The Night Fae even have a completely broken and OP composition with 1 companion and nothing but troops that can actually do level 60 elite missions! There was absolutely no way to know which Covenant would actually be "strong" in the missions, or that they'd even be relevant at all in the main gearing process, so for those players that didn't choose their Covenants strictly based on what was optimal in terms of class abilities, this could have been a factor.

Players have been suggesting various solutions, including Soul Ash "reparations" aka for Venthyr and Kyrian players to get some free Soul Ash (and tuning), but this is becoming a pretty big issue and a large imbalance, even if the Covenants suddenly become exactly identical today. We hope Blizzard address this, as so much focus has gone into Torghast with the same reward currency as the tables, so at least some attention or even acknowledgement that the issue is being worked on (outside of the 1 comment in 1 interview we got) would be nice.

[Gari 0]

does anyone know why I didn't get a soul ash mission this week

 

Neither the weekly one or any other ( i didn't even do the last week's mission) im kyrian btw

 

is blizzard playing with me or what :(

[ResoWho 68]

and here iam with 4x ilvl 190 legendaries

 

@Gari i havent had a soul ash quest in the last 2 weeks so you arent alone

Edited December 23, 2020 by ResoWho