Targeted Corruptions and Faster Cloak Empowerment - Now Live

[Erous]

This is so dumb on an infinite number of levels. Where the hell was this shit months ago? This is a HAIL MARY to 1) Keep subs running till Shadowlands and 2) Give those struggling with raids a fighting chance which will ultimately translate to #1 and also improves the alt game. This is an amazingly positive change... BUT SO FUCKING LATE into the expac. Geez this is so frustratingly annoying to see this now. This entire expansion there has been an seriously obvious lack of communication within the dev team.

[Raone]

"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?

[TickTickTick]

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?

[scvd]

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.

[Sevaara]

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.

[Kumorii]

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...

[Starscream101]

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.

[Accendor]

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.

[Sevaara]

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.

[TickTickTick]

"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...

[Hypasonic]

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.

[Starscream101]

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.

[Video Games]

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.

[Casperite]

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.

[Volatilis]

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

[Queen of Hamsters]

"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.

[Nzx]

I wasn’t subbed for that goddamn patch.

Then why do you expect to have all of its rewards?

The raid was made obsolete for people joining later

Plenty of people still running it for Coral and Font, if you still want CLF.

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.

[Puri]

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.

[huth]

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.

[Volatilis]

"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.