since the introduction of tokens.
the problem with corruption is the INSANE rng,not only do you have 53 combinations( titanforge was a joke by comparison,blizz rly listened LOL),but you also have huge swings in dps,same person same setup can have wild dps swings every pull,30-40% one pull vs another just from coruption luck or bad luck,and not having any good coruption = you are useless,raids are tuned around coruption
He has corruption...
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ch...zak/pepegamage
Say you decide you want a sweet perfectly corrupted mythic BoE. You don't have enough gold though, so you decide to go buy tokens so you do. Your tokens sell instantly and you finally have enough gold. You whisper the guy in trade, but he sold it. You go to the AH to buy one, but there's not one there anymore either. There's no item to fill your needs currently available. Now you have to wait. You don't see one for 2-4 weeks. You're now sitting on your hands waiting for that power you were supposed to have paid for. One finally shows up, but it gets bought before you can make a run for it.
Can you see the other side of the argument? If WoW was TRUE P2W, then you would be buying stuff from blizz that either A.) Gave you power from the point your CC was processed, or B.) Gave you a special currency that was used exclusively in a store, ran by Blizz, that sold those direct power gains. Instead, any attempt to P2W is realistically at the whims of other players, and the player driven/controlled market.
That's a balancing issue, now a P2W issue. You are literally saying "but it wasn't an issue before because the items weren't so strong". If these effects were 10-20% as strong as they are now, you would be complaining. Like I said before, you also wouldn't be complaining if you could buy the item for 10k. What is happening, is blizz released horribly balanced corruptions, and people who can't afford these BoE variants are upset that other people can.
Furthermore, Blizzard isn't selling you the item. Blizzard isn't facilitating the sale. Blizz isn't controlling prices. The price could quadruple tomorrow, or it drop to a quarter of the current price. Blizzard is, at best indirectly related to the sale.