wow Corrupted Items Update on 8.3 PTR

[Stan 5,240]

The side effects you get from Corrupted Items have changed on 8.3 PTR again.

As you probably know, Corrupted Items are making their way into the game in Visions of N'Zoth. These items come with a Benthic-like buff and +Corruption, which activates various side effects based on your current level of Total Corruption. Cleansing the item not only removes the +Corruption stat, but also its beneficial effect.

Blizzard has been working with multiple iterations of Corrupted Items on 8.3 PTR and side-effect ranges. Here's what we currently have on the PTR:

Corrupted Items

Items touched by N'Zoth's influence grant great power, but expose bearers to dangers of increasing severity.

• Grasping Tendrils (1 Corruption) - Taking damage has a chance to reduce your movement speed for 5 sec. The magintude of the snare increases with further Corruption.
• Eye of Corruption (20 Corruption) - Your spells and abilities have a chance to summon an Eye of Corruption for 8 sec. The Eye inflicts increasing Shadow damage to you every 2 sec while you remain in range. Range and damage increase with further Corruption.
• Grand Delusions (40 Corruption) - Taking damage has a chance to summon a Thing From Beyond, which pursues you for 8 seconds. Its speed increases with further Corruption.

• Cascading Disaster (60 Corruption) - If you are struck by the Thing From Beyond, you will be immediately aflicted by Grasping Tendrils and Eye of Corruption.

Recent 8.3 Changes

• Previously, we had the effects activate at 10/20/40/60 Corruption as opposed to 1/20/40/60.
•  Eye of Corruption previously summoned a corrupted zone, but the eye is much more visible.
• Inevitable Doom which was available at 60 Corruption was removed and replaced with Cascading Disaster.

You can find more details about Corrupted Items here.

[Kuarinofu 78]

Corrupted items still don't feel like a good idea but we'll see.

[Migol 433]

Problem I have is you'll need to carry a bunch of them around like a toolkit, "This boss I can't afford to get immobilized or I die, this one though I can wear this ring cause we never move"

 

[Yridaa 490]

Great for those raid encounters where mobility is key to prevent a raid wipe. "Uh guys I just got hit by an impossible-to-dodge AOE attack and am slowed, but I am carrying this huge *filtered* bomb that's about to explode and wipe the entire raid." 3... 2... 1...

Zek'voz Mythic from Uldir is a great example here (Last raid I played since I quit WoW). Titan Spark being the AOE ability that targets random enemies while Roiling Deceit being the bomb that is guaranteed to wipe the raid. But I'm sure you can come up with plethora other encounters where being slowed by damage is just a raid killer unless you are a class that has movement that doesn't rely on movement speed (Example given: Disengage, blink.)

 

 

Edit: Really, the part of your body you use to sit in the chair is censored/filtered? The terms of use on Icy-Veins is upholding COPPA law which means you need to be at least 13 years old to be here. /fliptable

Edited December 6, 2019 by Yridaa

[Ragingwolf 310]

Smart and sensible people will pocket a lot of the gear till they have adequate resistance before equipping.  This may take time and scrutinizing certain pieces for select scenarios.....

Dumb people will equip it all no matter what and complain constantly for unwanted deaths in raids, keystones, and other forms of content and expect to be carried/healed through their own gear selection blunder.

[fxlm387 20]

2 hours ago, Ragingwolf said:

Dumb people will equip it all no matter what and complain constantly for unwanted deaths in raids, keystones, and other forms of content and expect to be carried/healed through their own gear selection blunder.

So.. 80% of player? can't wait to see the DH class play at over 9000 corruption and still be able to do everything just fine.

[Ragingwolf 310]

24 minutes ago, fxlm387 said:

So.. 80% of player? can't wait to see the DH class play at over 9000 corruption and still be able to do everything just fine.

When you have players that refuse to understand when it comes to stacking corrupted pieces with 0 resistance then yes.  Even the DH class can not withstand a staggering amount of corruption w/o gaining a decent amount of resistance.

[fxlm387 20]

3 hours ago, Ragingwolf said:

The DH class can not withstand a staggering amount of corruption

Class with heavy movement like DH , Monk , BM hunter for example will have a big advantage early in the patch , they can almost nullified the first and second effect. It won't matters latter when ppl will get some resistance but how much time it will take?

[Ragingwolf 310]

18 minutes ago, fxlm387 said:

Class with heavy movement like DH , Monk , BM hunter for example will have a big advantage early in the patch , they can almost nullified the first and second effect. It won't matters latter when ppl will get some resistance but how much time it will take?

It also depends on the corruption stat rng that is attached to that piece of gear.  There is I believe, not sure, 3-4 grades of corruption that can be added on a piece of gear ranging from 10-75 (still in PTR testing I think).  However pending on x amount of times when the snaring/slow debuff goes off may not mix well during Sanguine, Volcanic, and Quaking weeks for keystones.   Even if you can Fel Rush or Vengeful Retreat for most of it you are still at the mercy of the debuff waiting for skills to come off cooldown.  What may even be a possibility if the debuff can negate movement cd's all together making your character stay put for duration.

[Aegrotat 80]

1 hour ago, fxlm387 said:

Class with heavy movement like DH , Monk , BM hunter for example will have a big advantage early in the patch , they can almost nullified the first and second effect. It won't matters latter when ppl will get some resistance but how much time it will take?

I actually disagree with nullifying the second effect. The problem is it relies on the boss moving, not so much you. I mean it depends how big the circle is at what levels of corruption, but if it's big enough you may make a lot of zones that you can't really escape if you also have to stand on the boss to deal damage.