Targeted Corruptions and Faster Cloak Empowerment - Now Live
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
All players in this region (Americas and Oceania) should now be seeing Echoes of Ny’alotha dropping at 5x the previous rate, for all characters who have the Legendary cloak, as well as faster steps to Rank up the cloak.

As previously stated, we’re working on bringing the Contaminants items to their vendor (MOTHER), and while we don’t yet have an exact time when that’s going to happen, it could be in the next day or two.

Targeted Corruptions and Faster Cloak Empowerment

We’re working on an update to the game that we expect to roll out in the coming week. We plan to make improvements to the process of obtaining Corrupted items on max-level characters and also streamline upgrading the legendary cloak Ashjra’kamas.

Our goal with this update is to speed up the power progression of new level 120 characters, while giving established endgame players more agency in pursuing the Corruption effects they most desire.

More Echoes
In our last update, we added Echoes of Ny’alotha, a new currency available from most Visions of N’Zoth content, which can be used to directly purchase Rank 3 Essences that have already been unlocked on a different character. We plan to expand the availability and purpose of this new currency. Now, once any character completes the legendary cloak questline, they will immediately begin earning Echoes of Ny’alotha from all of the usual sources.

Echoes of Ny’alotha will be much more abundant than before. As we expand the usefulness of Echoes of Ny’alotha, we want to ensure that players who haven’t felt the need to accumulate them don’t feel disadvantaged, so we will be increasing both the droprates of Echoes and their costs by a factor of 5. This means that when these changes take effect, a Major Assault will award 625 Echoes, up from 125. The cost to purchase an Essence will also increase by the same factor, from 500 to 2500 Echoes.

If you are planning to purchase a Rank 3 Essence with Echoes of Ny’alotha that you’ve already earned, you should do so now, before these costs change.

Improving Ashjra’kamas
We’re also reducing the requirements for any quest step in upgrading the cloak from Ranks 1 to 15 that previously required multiple Horrific Visions. Each Rank can now be achieved in a single Horrific Vision. For example, upgrading your Rank 13 cloak to Rank 14 will now require 2 Torn Pages of “The Final Truth” (was 6), so if you’re currently in possession of 2 or more pages, you’ll turn them all in and immediately complete that quest. The following quest to upgrade from Rank 14 to 15 will then require that you go get 2 more new Torn Pages (was 8).

The requirements for further minor upgrades to the cloak after Rank 15 with Malefic Cores have not been changed.

MOTHER will also offer Vessels of Horrific Visions in exchange for Echoes of Ny’alotha, providing an additional source of access to Horrific Visions that does not require completion of Assaults.

Choosing Your Corruption
In addition to any unlocked Essences, MOTHER will now also offer several new Preserved Contaminants, which allow for a specific Corruption effect (and the associated Corruption penalty) to be applied to a selected item. The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency.

You can use a Preserved Contaminant to apply the Corruption you purchased to any uncorrupted item that can be Corrupted, much like an enchant. Here are some sample costs for MOTHER’s updated offerings:

Item - Cost (Echoes of Ny’alotha)
  • Vessel of Horrific Visions - 1750
  • Rank 3 Essence - 2500
  • Masterful I - 3000
  • Siphoner I - 4250
  • Twilight Devastation I - 6250
  • Siphoner II - 6300
  • Ineffable Truth II - 6750
  • Racing Pulse III - 7875
  • Echoing Void III - 12000
  • Twilight Devastation III - 15000

Important Notes
We highly suggest that you purchase any Rank 3 Essences that you want and can afford as soon as possible.

Due to a technical limitation, items that have been cleansed cannot be re-corrupted. We are looking into whether it will be possible to fix this, but we don’t want to hold up the whole system in the meantime.

All of the previous ways that Corrupted items and Vessels can be acquired are still in place. The changes above are meant to supplement those sources and provide you with more options and control in pursuing your goals.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Targeted Corruptions and Faster Cloak Empowerment started by chaud View original post
Comments 261 Comments
  1. Raone's Avatar
    "The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency."

    This sentence most will overlook. What corruption she is selling will be random (or on a preset rotation), and which level will be random (or on a preset rotation). Everything sounded great till they needed layer of dumb, 1 step forward 2 steps back. If I have enough to buy TD3 why do I have to wait 4 weeks to get it, why? because reasons?
  1. TickTickTick's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Soisoisoi View Post
    E: I've just read it properly. Nope. They've put it on a random fucking cycle. WHY?! So when you can't get online and it's the one you want, or it's the one you want and can't afford it until it changes and you're waiting? Literally zero reason to do that. Just have them all available permanently. Fml blizzard do some random pointless shit sometimes.
    Not disagreeing with you in that specific case, but to be honest if you're not able to login just once during a whole 4 days cycle then I have no idea why do you care / need specific corruptions. Logging in once a week you already won't be able to afford it, and what do you even need that for, then?
  1. scvd's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chickat View Post
    So they people that already have a stockpile aren't vastly ahead of people with none. They said so in the blog. If a person saved up 1000 echos before it will be easy for a newer player to catch up to them now since the rewards are so high.
    So like the people who will have 20-30 Visions runs saved up who will get shit loads of echoes.
  1. Sevaara's Avatar
    Assuming the technical issues of not being able to apply these corruptions to cleansed pieces isn't fixed, raiders will be at a slight advantage. As someone that only does M+, this will limit me to applying these corruptions to 465 pieces since gear from weekly cache and visions are always corrupted.
  1. Kumorii's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by scvd View Post
    Ok so "we've rewarded more echoes" - yay "rank 3 costs more" - why? Why increase the gain, just to increase the cost, it makes no sense.
    They explained it in the post...
  1. Starscream101's Avatar
    So my main which has never got any Echoes of Ny’alotha is screwed because I cant get any to buy the Corruption because she had all the rank 3s. GG blizz GG Blizz.
  1. Accendor's Avatar
    Fuck you Blizzard, fuck you so much. If you introduce pay to win to the game fucking stand with it and don't drop it after people spend their money on it. Fucking predatory shenanigans going on here. Hopefully the crazy Americans will deck you with lawsuits about this.
  1. Sevaara's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Starscream101 View Post
    So my main which has never got any Echoes of Ny’alotha is screwed because I cant get any to buy the Corruption because she had all the rank 3s. GG blizz GG Blizz.
    It really doesn't matter. My main has none either but with the 5x factor applied, we won't be too far behind alts in terms of echoes count.
  1. TickTickTick's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Raone View Post
    "The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency."

    This sentence most will overlook. What corruption she is selling will be random (or on a preset rotation), and which level will be random (or on a preset rotation). Everything sounded great till they needed layer of dumb, 1 step forward 2 steps back. If I have enough to buy TD3 why do I have to wait 4 weeks to get it, why? because reasons?
    Well I'm 99% sure the rotation will start from rank 1, go through all rank 1 curruptions, then go rank 2 etc...
  1. Hypasonic's Avatar
    Cool, most of my alts are/were coming up do doing 5 chests with rank 12/13 cloaks but now this will expedite that process. Neat.
  1. Starscream101's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sevaara View Post
    It really doesn't matter. My main has none either but with the 5x factor applied, we won't be too far behind alts in terms of echoes count.
    Not to far Behind but still Behind got 1000s on other and can buy 3 or 4 on them but the one i love nope.
  1. Video Games's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by agentsi View Post
    They didn't want this in for the initial release, and it makes perfect sense. Would've prevented people from upgrading their cloak and pushed them towards having more dps. But leave it to you nerds to complain about them doing anything.

    Blizzard cannot do anything right by most folk's standards anymore. They listen to the community, then they're dumb and aren't smart enough to run their game anymore. They don't listen, you cry and complain that they don't care about their own game anymore.

    Some of you people are literally never, ever, ever happy.

    Get some help.
    Man, it's like people who weren't able to get echoes are now behind people who didnt care to buy off spec essences and alts.
    It's like now, you have to hope an item DOESNT corrupt because you can't buy one for a cleansed piece.

    Think next time.
  1. Casperite's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Starscream101 View Post
    Not to far Behind but still Behind got 1000s on other and can buy 3 or 4 on them but the one i love nope.
    Why Blizzard bothers doing what this community cries for is beyond me when this is the response they get. Sorry they didn't announce that they are sending an employee to do everything for you so you don't have to put in an ounce of effort.
  1. Volatilis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Video Games View Post
    Man, it's like people who weren't able to get echoes are now behind people who didnt care to buy off spec essences and alts.
    It's like now, you have to hope an item DOESNT corrupt because you can't buy one for a cleansed piece.

    Think next time.
    Havent seen this point brought up and its a good one.

    Pretty stupid system when you hope an item doesnt corrupt so you can corrupt it with the right corrupt. Good as design blizzard. Much smart system designz
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    "Why couldn't these clear catch-up mechanics be in from the start, nyah!"

    Oh well, this makes me a bit happier, and I can restore some corrupted items that I removed.
  1. Nzx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrod View Post
    I wasn’t subbed for that goddamn patch.
    Then why do you expect to have all of its rewards?
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrod View Post
    The raid was made obsolete for people joining later
    Plenty of people still running it for Coral and Font, if you still want CLF.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrod View Post
    I’m gonna be stuck doing the retarded ally quests for like 15 more days.
    15 days is both an exaggeration and not a long period of time. They take like 30 minutes a day, and this patch has been out for literal months. If you haven't got them by now it's because you don't really want them, not because they're difficult to obtain.
  1. Puri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Domixux View Post
    This is definitely wrong. I started late in 8.3 so i only have one char with essences unlocked. This char recently started to get echos. I think they are either tied to a specific cloak level or a specific upgrade in the chamber tree thing (i recently got the one on the very bottom so its probably the trigger)
    No, this is wrong. If a char has all available level 3 essences unlocked on the account he won't get any. Source: My main.
    Considering that my alts have 10-15k of them without ever farming them, and a 75 corruption enchant costs 15k, I'd say that's actually quite some setback in particular for main chars even with the rate increased.
  1. huth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by scvd View Post
    Ok so "we've rewarded more echoes" - yay "rank 3 costs more" - lame. Why increase the gain, just to increase the cost, it makes no sense (it does but there are issues).
    Because the purpose here isn't making getting essences easier. It's devaluing already existing echoes so people who saved up don't have much of an advantage. The effort to get an Essence remains unchanged.
  1. Volatilis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Queen of Hamsters View Post
    "Why couldn't these clear catch-up mechanics be in from the start, nyah!"

    Oh well, this makes me a bit happier, and I can restore some corrupted items that I removed.
    corruption has nothing to do with catch up. Try harder next time.
  1. Haloswin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Domixux View Post
    This is definitely wrong. I started late in 8.3 so i only have one char with essences unlocked. This char recently started to get echos. I think they are either tied to a specific cloak level or a specific upgrade in the chamber tree thing (i recently got the one on the very bottom so its probably the trigger)
    Definitely isnt. My main had every essence....and a maxed out cloak....it's got zero echoes. All my other toons have tons.

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