
Catching up is fairly easy and isn’t overly timegated. As it turned out this long was by no means necessary. Our guild put a week-long pause on raiding over Christmas which is the gap I used to switch my Covenant.

You are going to need some time to recover some of your lost power - your Renown and therefore your available Soulbind/Conduit powers will be zilch until you work through some things with your new Covenant. The TLDR advice I would give? Don’t attempt to do this right before a raid or other form of progression content.

Life in the New Covenant: What Did You Just Lose?
