The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
Imagine thinking that i thought they were.
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I would love the believe that the minority are the people who love Blizzard regardless of what they do and hate Blizzard regardless of what they do. The first person i responded to was obviously in the former otherwise he would of have never made a randomly comment like that.
It's expensive but it's a catchup system that otherwise has rather low priority on your spending.
My main currently has all corruptions purchased (even including future ones, i planned ahead and purchased everything i'll need in this expansion) and now I have about 10k echoes sitting on currency tab, unused. If I was still behind cloak progression I could simply buy it with whatever i stockpiled because otherwise there was no farmable catch-up system (putting you as far as 4 months behind others if you capped the cloak just recently)
On a fresh alt your echo spending priority should be like this:
P1: choice essences
P2: corruptions
P3: situational essences
P4: corruption resist catchup
You can have 95 corruption even with basic 50 resistance + 6 from regular sources the week you cap. That is putting you at 39 (no ghostie)
95 corruption is a lot, that's like 4x Rank 3 Expedient + one 15 corruption to cap out.
You should not be getting out of your way purchasing expensive resistance catchup if you haven't saturated your corruption at base resist yet.