Thread: Which Covenant was your favorite?

I thought Covenants were an underappreciated feature.

Unlike class order halls where you could be stuck with a bad order hall/organization you didn't like (Sunwalker Tauren stuck inside a Church, or meh class order halls like the Warrior or Rogue), you could instead pick whichever one you felt was the most appropriate/you liked the most.








I quite liked the view from the Elysian Hold. Nice colors and architecture and view of the floating tethers of anima you restored, and you could mount up while there. Also had nice music.

Night Fae had the cool signature ability, Soulshape. Not only a cool shapeshift any class can use, but practically it was very nice for classes with low mobility like Death Knight and Warlock. Too bad the toy is on a 5 minute cooldown. I'd love to be able to macro it into my movement abilities and turn into a tiger whenever I use Death's Advance to run across a raid arena.

Night Fae had really nice class ability animations. I liked the idea that your character could learn brand new schools of magic like with Blessing of Seasons for Night Fae paladins, not just getting yet more light spells. It would be nice if all of the animations came back, like Death's Due (Night Fae Death Knight ability) for Death and Decay. It would be cool if we got more Covenant themed animations/glyphs too.






The Gorm mounts were pretty cool too.

Venthyr had the only good leader.

Venthyr for the Aesthetics/Lore. Night Fae because they had a good zone.

Originally Posted by Al Gorefiend

Necrolord because the story of Shadowlands makes the strongest sense when you go through it as a Death Knight in the Necrolord covenant. You feel more like an agent of death on a mission.

I felt that none of the Covenants felt more appropriate than the other for the main story. You help get Maldraxxus in order, and then after that the Necrolords' only contribution was warping in a necropolis battleship to assault Torghast in 9.1, which admittedly was a cool cutscene. There was the Runecarver/missing Primus thing but that was a background subplot and was never a main driver. As for Death Knights, I felt that Venthyr for Blood with its appropriately bloody, stringy looking abilities and the pain/redemption theme worked well, and Night Fae also worked for Frost with the soul reincarnation theme that was adjacent to undead Death Knights (it's all death magic in the end anyway) and the blue abilities. My headcanon is that Night Fae magic has helped rehabilitate DKs from being less of a totally dead corpse that has been reanimated, and has become more of a living death Knight like Arthas was. Being a death knight who is now overgrown with death realm roots is pretty cool. The only Covenant that doesn't really mesh well for a DK is Kyrian.

Night Fae seemed like that least shitty Afterlife, so I'll go with them.
Plus Bwonsamdi was there

On my pally, Kyrian felt good and appropriate.
On my demon hunter, none of them seemed to fit.

Not sure I have an all round favourite. I think I liked Kyrian area the most cosmetically, and I also thought Venthyr was decent and Night Fae was very appropriate. I like a lot of the Class Animations/Effects, the use of Red/Blue/Green along with lots of very cool abilities (Divine Toll, Abom Limb, Mindgames, Flayed Shot etc). Thematically, I think Night Fae is the strongest, and I kind of understood the Venthyr, whilst I felt the losing of memories for Kyrian made it seem pretty meh and Necrolords were pretty bland overall.

Out of the afterlives shown I felt Night Fae was the only decent one, the rest seemed problematic. Krexus in Maldraxxus seemed a waste and was disappointed by the Primus after the statue in the original levelling made me thing he was cool looking. Daddy Denathrius stands out as one of the best characters created and the voice/design/actions were great. Ultimately though I'm not sure I'd think of any of those afterlives as really that real, would a shaman go to one of those? I always imagine an astral plain with grasses and hills, not really like Ardenweald or Bastion.

Honestly I much preferred the Legion Class Halls, I felt a lot more interested by their stories and their orders than anything Shadowlands offered. I actually liked the Uncrowned in Legion, I think Legions focus on each Class made that expansion really really good and gave a ton of replayability with Order Halls and Campaigns that sometimes overlapped with others.

Let's be realistic though, when I chose covenants it was always for whatever was best for Class/Spec to perform, not for thematics. I was primarily Necrolord as a Blood DK due to Abom Limb and some of the conduits simming well, I went Venthyr on Mythic Painsmith so I could use Door of Shadows for some tricky tank positioning, Night Fae of Sepulcher Xy'mox for Soulshape to avoid a bad combo, and Kyrian DK for damage during Sepulcher/S4.

Originally Posted by Val the Moofia Boss

I thought Covenants were an underappreciated feature.

Unlike class order halls where you could be stuck with a bad order hall/organization you didn't like (Sunwalker Tauren stuck inside a Church, or meh class order halls like the Warrior or Rogue), you could instead pick whichever one you felt was the most appropriate/you liked the most.

How is that any different than the Covenants? They had the exact same issue, and most of them were only fitting for elves, humans, death knights and or paladins.

Originally Posted by Venziir

How is that any different than the Covenants? They had the exact same issue, and most of them were only fitting for elves, humans, death knights and or paladins.

The Shadowlands is a completely different setting, with different schools of magic and the factions do not have the baggage that Azeroth's races and organizations have. There is a lot of flexibility here. In the Shadowlands, I can see evilish classes like Demon Hunter who lost everything and followed Illidan in his quest for revenge and became a wanderer after the Legion was defeated and then consumed with rage during the Fourth War choosing to join the Kyrian Covenant in search of peace and redemption. Or joining the Night Fae Covenant to join on their Wild Hunts, becoming rehabilitated into a better person. Or choosing to join the Venthyr should they believe in harsher discipline. I can see non-druid and hunter classes like Paladin and Death Knight choosing to explore the Night Fae and learn an alien type of magic and explore their Soulshapes, or an Orc warrior who marched with Sylvanas through Ashenvale, Darkshore, and burned Teldrassil being remorseful and becoming curious and choosing to go Night Fae. And so on. A Druid who became embittered during the Fourth War could become more grim and choose to join the Necrolord's army to learn their tactics and spells and become a better warrior. And so on. It is way easier to headcanon why any race/class combo would join most Covenants, rather than race/class combos being shoved into certain Class Order Halls with which they have a lot of historical animosity and cultural boundaries.

I liked Kyrian the most of all covenants, but they ended disappointing
their question was REALLY interesting, the most, but we didn't get answer, and it just continued like nothing
So i vote for Venthyr, 2nd best and like them, 3rd is night fae, 4th is a piece of shit, yes a piece of shit is more valid imo than necrolords

I think I had more Kyrian toons than those of other covenants, but overall I liked the Night Fae vibe the most. It also depended on which toon I was on too.