New Preserved Contaminants - May 22, 2020
New Preserved Contaminants are now available for purchase from MOTHER in the Chamber of Heart.

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Choosing Your Corruption
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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.
This article was originally published in forum thread: New Preserved Contaminants - March 22, 2020 started by Lumy View original post
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  1. Great Destiny Man's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eapoe View Post
    But the ranks remain the same regardless of amount of corruption. For classes like my Hunter main, I’m clearly at an advantage of cost efficiency in corruption cost than other classes. For doing less work I get my max rank 3 corruption for almost 60-70% less cost than someone looking to get TD or IS.
    I’m just stating my personal opinion that ranks should determine the cost, not the corruption amount. Whether that means higher cost on stat ones or lower cost on proc ones, it just seems more fair.
    Can't agree here. I do not view rank 3 stats with the same weight as rank 3 TA/IS. Just because some specs will overstack specific stats does not make them universally useful.

    Cost per corruption point is far more effective in keeping things neutral. At least that way the main argument is that Rank 3 stats are too much dps for their corruption cost.
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    Still nothing that I want. Why can't they make the list bigger so there's more chances you'll get what you want? To keep us subbed and wait for weeks?
  1. Great Destiny Man's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Redlikemyrage View Post
    ITT - people who don’t realize point per corruption values. Look at your particular class corruption sims. Some of these R3 stat ones give more dps per corruption point than infinite stars and the like.
    Yea and DPS per corruption point for specific classes is a terrible way to evaluate cost for purchasable corruptions. If people want to argue that corruption values are too low for R3 stats that's a fair argument, if anyone tries to argue the corruption values are fine but the cost of purchasing them from MOTHER isn't then that's some backwards ass logic.
  1. vashe9's Avatar
    Why the HELL is the vendor random seriously ? I dont understand the people at blizzard, RNG in EVERY FU THING. Casters can destroy bosses with expedient/masterfull and here I am waiting for severe.......
  1. Eapoe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Great Destiny Man View Post
    Can't agree here. I do not view rank 3 stats with the same weight as rank 3 TA/IS. Just because some specs will overstack specific stats does not make them universally useful.

    Cost per corruption point is far more effective in keeping things neutral. At least that way the main argument is that Rank 3 stats are too much dps for their corruption cost.
    I guess I can understand what you are saying, but then it’s not equal regardless. Let’s look at the first rotation. Expedient R3 costs 5k a piece for 20 corruption per. Twisted Appendage cost 13.2k for 66 corruption. Therefore, buying 3 Expedient R3 costs me 1.8k more for less corruption.
    Like I said, I can understand the point some people are making, but the values still aren’t equal and, just personal opinion, should be charged the same based on ranks, not corruption level. Just make all R3 cost 5k, R2 cost 3k, and R1 cost 1k. I understand some people that value the less corruption ones would be upset, but 5k is a lot easier to save up for than 13.2 k, especially if you’re hunting for high ranks for things like m+, PvP, or raiding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vashe9 View Post
    Why the HELL is the vendor random seriously ? I dont understand the people at blizzard, RNG in EVERY FU THING. Casters can destroy bosses with expedient/masterfull and here I am waiting for severe.......
    True, but at least it rotates twice a week. Definitely understand where you’re coming from. I’m waiting for Severe to pop up as well.
  1. Feral Druid ist Op's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by det View Post
    I literally don't see any other point. Ofc they could put all corruption up at once. Why else would they do it other to keep you in the game longer?. Well...on the other hand..are you stuck in progression at a certain boss and think you can only beat it if all your team gets the best corruption or why do you target a specific corruption (I hope that getting a rank 3 TD might finally push me to a 5 mask clear personally, but I wouldn't quit the game anyhow...still doing stuff outside of that)
    what Progression? Progression is over for 4 months and if you didnt clear mythic by now no corruption in world will help you its a 100% l2p issue
  1. Great Destiny Man's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eapoe View Post
    I guess I can understand what you are saying, but then it’s not equal regardless. Let’s look at the first rotation. Expedient R3 costs 5k a piece for 20 corruption per. Twisted Appendage cost 13.2k for 66 corruption. Therefore, buying 3 Expedient R3 costs me 1.8k more for less corruption.
    Like I said, I can understand the point some people are making, but the values still aren’t equal and, just personal opinion, should be charged the same based on ranks, not corruption level. Just make all R3 cost 5k, R2 cost 3k, and R1 cost 1k. I understand some people that value the less corruption ones would be upset, but 5k is a lot easier to save up for than 13.2 k, especially if you’re hunting for high ranks for things like m+, PvP, or raiding.
    Yea I'm not exactly happy the base echoes per corruption point fluctuates between corruption affixes. I'd rather they have 200 as the same base throughout (which would make R3 stats 4k) rather than this stupid 200-300 depending on which corruption it is.

    I understand where people are coming from wanting it just a fixed price for r1/2/3 but like I say I side more with Blizzard on their general structure. There is however an overabundance of "what about mages and the mastery stacking?!?!?!" almost every time we have any corruption talks here. I'm not saying it's not a ridiculous situation but people really need to realise that is way more about how absolutely fucked mage class design is right now than it is a corruption affix problem.
  1. Cosmic Janitor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eapoe View Post
    My only issue with this system so far is that some rank 3s, like the stat buff ones, cost 5k, but then you have rank 3 proc effects that cost like 13-15k.
    The stat buff ones are actually more expensive here, since filling the 75 of something like TD would require you to have 3,75, making them essentially cost 18.75. For specs like fire mages this is actually quite huge compared to rando-devestation.
  1. Feral Druid ist Op's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by det View Post
    I think the guy I quoted would have to ask this. Honestly you do not get to decide for everyone when "progression" is over and what it means for every individual guild.

    wowprogress is updated daily and even a guild going from 12 / 12 HM to 1/12 mythic is progressing. Obviously not everyone learns at the same rate and yeah..it is a l2p issues...hence the 100 guilds on Alliance side needed 1 month longer to fill the hall of fame than Horde.

    I really have zero idea what you are trying to convey here. People will not just throw the hands in the air and go "Oh....Method cleared this shit 4 months ago, so no point for me to do it". In fact expect wowprogress to be updated daily with more and more guilds advancing towards 12 / 12 mythic.
    I try to make it clear to you that the raid has been out there for 5 months and everyone has more than enough gear and corruption to clear and the vender will make 0 difference on roadblocks like illgynoth and nzoth you cant bruteforce this fights , we for example faceroll with 19 man and sell 1 spot every week and we are still faster than 2 months ago with 20 you are better of kicking the bads than waiting 4 weeks for a corruption this will double the ods to clear.
  1. Eapoe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Haidaes View Post
    The stat buff ones are actually more expensive here, since filling the 75 of something like TD would require you to have 3,75, making them essentially cost 18.75. For specs like fire mages this is actually quite huge compared to rando-devestation.
    Yeah, I have a later post with better numbers. My example was R3 TA costs less for 66 corruption than 3 R3 Exped at 60 corruption.
  1. Eapoe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rioriel View Post
    Still waiting for Frothing Gash or whatever it's called
    Make sure to sim it before going all in. Not sure if you saw but Blizzard nerfed it by 35%.
  1. huth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eapoe View Post
    Make sure to sim it before going all in. Not sure if you saw but Blizzard nerfed it by 35%.
    It's still fairly powerful. It was just way overpowered before, and Blizz only left it that way because there was no reliable way of getting it, what with there being a <2% chance of it popping up on a corrupted item. The nerf only puts it where it should have been all along, instead of being more powerfull than Infinite Stars under perfect conditions.
  1. muto's Avatar
    Actually kinda glad sever isn’t up yet, so I can stockpile echoes, and get sockets.
  1. trapmaster's Avatar
    I'm not totally understanding the leech and avoidance corruption ANY USEFUL... Lol..
  1. SkagenRora's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by vashe9 View Post
    Why the HELL is the vendor random seriously ? I dont understand the people at blizzard, RNG in EVERY FU THING. Casters can destroy bosses with expedient/masterfull and here I am waiting for severe.......
    Who do you think stays for the longer? The one who is "Excited" and waiting for each reset to see if something said person wants finally comes, or the person who is "Done" and no longer has any thing to look forward to?
  1. Lorgran's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SkagenRora View Post
    Who do you think stays for the longer? The one who is "Excited" and waiting for each reset to see if something said person wants finally comes, or the person who is "Done" and no longer has any thing to look forward to?
    The person who's done...
  1. Sentynel's Avatar
    I wonder when they gonna nerf Echoes from arenas.

    Every single tryhard piece of shit in que right now lowering their mmr to smash low rating people lol.
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    Is it possible to see what characters are players playing in Arena Cup? I mean their gear/essences/traits/corruptions etc?
  1. Polarthief's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sámsa View Post
    Imagine TD3 or Severe 3 would have been up within the 1st two rotations.
    Everybody and their mothers would whine because they do not have enough echos and people that could earn Echos before have an advantage.

    There might be a reason they are holding back on those for a while...

    So stop whining

    BTW the cost is 200 Echos per corruption point on all of them.
    I'm not complaining about the rotation, I'm complaining about the fact that they're on a rotation to begin with. Just give us the entire list, who gives a fuck. It's the end of the expansion anyway, just let us have fun without another bullshit RNG system to alleviate RNG issues in the first place.
  1. Mardux's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Redlikemyrage View Post
    ITT - people who don’t realize point per corruption values. Look at your particular class corruption sims. Some of these R3 stat ones give more dps per corruption point than infinite stars and the like.
    Yeah, but someone somewhere saw a parse with pre-nerf IS being pre-nerf IS. So now they cant be bothered with understanding how it works or its potential (or lackthereof), so they just mindlessly drone on about how OP it is.

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