wow Castle Nathria Covenants Distribution Per Spec for Each Difficulty

[Staff 1,488]

We are looking at Covenants distribution per specialization in Castle Nathria for each difficulty. The data provides a thorough insight into how Blizzard managed to balance Covenants in Shadowlands.

All the data was gathered from Warcraftlogs and posted by prljevics on Reddit.

Death Knight

Blood

Frost

Unholy

Demon Hunter

Havoc

Vengeance

Druid

Balance

Feral

Guardian

Restoration

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Marksmanship

Survival

Mage

Arcane

Fire

Frost

Monk

Brewmaster

Mistweaver

Windwalker

Paladin

Holy

Protection

Retribution

Priest

Discipline

Holy

Shadow

Rogue

Assassination

Outlaw

Subtlety

Shaman

Elemental

Enhancement

Restoration

Warlock

Affliction

Demonology

Destruction

Warrior

Arms

Fury

Protection

[Mordd 10]

Damn the 5th "Other" covenant is surprisingly popular!

 

(Guessing this is people who haven't joined one, or data was gathered when they were mid-transition...)

[Migol 433]

One problem with this is that the covenants aren't complete.   As a prot Paladin who raids and does Mythic+, Kyrian is the clear winner...up till Draven is fully unlocked for Venthyr.    At which point he's so powerful that I feel pretty much compelled to swap 😕

[Manbearpig 28]

"People will not pick covenants based on performance."

Go home Blizzard. You're drunk.

[Laragon 269]

31 minutes ago, Mordd said:

Damn the 5th "Other" covenant is surprisingly popular!

 

(Guessing this is people who haven't joined one, or data was gathered when they were mid-transition...)

I saw that too! Judging by how it "spikes" the the mythic category on some of the classes (Rogues, Windwalker monks, etc) I'm assuming that means it's mid-transition.

They had to know people will min-max the selection. As a resto shaman, the necrolords Primordial wave is just way too good where nothing else is even close. Bonus rip tide, raiding legendary spreads rip tides, instant burst heal, and your next healing wave hits all those rip tides for 60%?! It's so bonkers. Even that doesn't compare to the druid's convoke the spirits from Ardenwield on the obvious choice scale.

With how they often struggle to balance classes, I can't imagine how much of a pain they will have balancing classes in conjunction with covenants. Balance is by far the top DPS right now, is it the class or is it really Convoke the Spirits hitting good RNG enough times.

[Znifler 58]

21 minutes ago, Manbearpig said:

"People will not pick covenants based on performance."

Go home Blizzard. You're drunk.

Look at DH. Ventyr is marginally higher in DPS rankings, about 2.5% or so. Yet it goes to 51% vs 51% up to mythic with NF. Heck, I picked Nightfae ONLY because I liked their abilites for their flavor, not for the numbers - and I'm a DH. It was a struggle not to pick Ventyr because I love the zone and theme, but two abilites you will use constantly, trumps that. Thus it's way more important, for me at least, that an ability feels good to play with. The Ventyr ab for DH (including door of shadows), is incredibly dull, which made the choice easy. 

Ardenweald also grows on you, so I haven't regreted the choice ever since. 

Edited January 20, 2021 by Znifler

[Odi 10]

Could someone please explain, what makes Venthyr so popular among mythic holy priests?

I selected necrolords due to the spell although I feel that theme isn't resonating well with holy priest.

Same can be said for my night fae undead warlock - I don't think I'll ever use fae transmog on it.

[durdyenglish 298]

Really disappointed Necrolord has such little representation. The whole covenant needs a tune up.

[eliot22 2]

So four columns of data with no headings to tell us what those numbers represent? Thanks.

[Stan 5,240]

38 minutes ago, eliot22 said:

So four columns of data with no headings to tell us what those numbers represent? Thanks.

What's the cause of the confusion? Let me know, please, so that I can update the OP. There are four colors associated with each Covenant, and yellow color designates players that haven't picked a Covenant. Normal/Heroic/Mythic Nathria are taken into consideration, and you see various Covenant distributions per difficulty, telling you exactly which Covenant the 36 specs in WoW picked at various difficulties.

[Boothyp 48]

What percentage of the player base raids (normal+)

I have no doubt that for raiders performance is key, and not disputing the facts of the stats for what they are, but if only 5% of the player base raids, then is Blizz right?

I have no idea, I'm just asking..........

[eliot22 2]

On 1/20/2021 at 11:54 AM, Stan said:

What's the cause of the confusion? Let me know, please, so that I can update the OP. There are four colors associated with each Covenant, and yellow color designates players that haven't picked a Covenant. Normal/Heroic/Mythic Nathria are taken into consideration, and you see various Covenant distributions per difficulty, telling you exactly which Covenant the 36 specs in WoW picked at various difficulties.

I'm referring to the four columns of numbers next to each covenant in each spec. It would be nice to have headings so that we could know what those numbers represent. 

[Qazior 2]

Demonology Warlock shows Affliction data

[Manbearpig 28]

On 1/20/2021 at 3:57 PM, Znifler said:

Look at DH. Ventyr is marginally higher in DPS rankings, about 2.5% or so. Yet it goes to 51% vs 51% up to mythic with NF. Heck, I picked Nightfae ONLY because I liked their abilites for their flavor, not for the numbers - and I'm a DH. It was a struggle not to pick Ventyr because I love the zone and theme, but two abilites you will use constantly, trumps that. Thus it's way more important, for me at least, that an ability feels good to play with. The Ventyr ab for DH (including door of shadows), is incredibly dull, which made the choice easy. 

Ardenweald also grows on you, so I haven't regreted the choice ever since. 

I'm sorry I don't quite get why you quoted me here? Are you trying to tell me stats are wrong and your experience is right or are you rejoicing because you play the one class where it's apparently a coin toss? Night Fae can't be that bad btw if 50% of mythic raider dhs are NF.