Every legion spec weapon was a single hard locked ability you could never change. Covenants may or may not be great but you do have choices and changing is possible. Some legion abilities were amazing but some were pretty Dull. Some really made your rotation and some were pretty forgettable.
I think that's the "master" within a covenant thing only, covenants are locked currently, you pick the one you want at the end of the leveling and that's it, your character is now always that covenant, locked to its abilities and other systems. If you want to change covenant, you have to reroll the same character and pick a different one. You do get to test them while leveling I think though.
Your relics were locked to 1 spec your weapon power was locked to a single spec. Your AP was all locked to a specific spec. Legion was the worst alt leveling expansion we have seen yet until the very end of it. I think people forget how damn restrictive legion was when it launched. The shadowlands stuff while still pretty restrictive is WAY less so than what we saw in legion.
It is but hard is not the same as impossible. In legion if you did not like your specs artifact weapon or its power then your option was never play that spec during the expansion. You could not change it ever no matter how hard you wanted. Some artifacts like the boomkin one were great and the power felt very rotational. But there were others so bland that they were basically just a random button you press. The monk one is kinda like that it was useful but it was such a subtle look effect it wound up feeling like just hitting a button to gain some resources. Generally it seems like the lower performing covenant powers for specs tend to be like that a button you hit that does some damage and has some utility but not rotational while others like the monk fae one can become very rotational as you busily paint the room with trees.
Really? WoD zones looked the best of all the expacs if you ask me. Northrend was probably second best though, and Northrend zones had the best story flow. Icecrown was especially great. So many quest chains that lead seemlessly into the next as you take over various parts of the zone.
I would recommend it. There are a TON of achivement stuff you can unlock when leveling especially if you get the stable and Inn in your garrison. Nice to work on those for people who have not done it and the leveling zones/story stuff was about as good as wow gets. Being able to legit do the zones without leveling past it in an hour is very temping.
