wow All Gear from Horrific Visions Will Be Corrupted Starting March 17/18

[Starym 3,800]

 

Starting with next week's resets (March 17th/18th) all the gear rewards from Horrific Visions will be Corrupted! Blizzard have listened to the community outcries for more Corrupted gear sources and made the Visions the primary place to go for them. If you're one of the many players that didn't get quite lucky enough with good corrupted items, it's about to get easier!

Horrific Vision Rewards (source)

Beginning with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region the week of March 17, all gear rewards from Horrific Visions will be Corrupted.

We’ve heard from many players that Corrupted items were not obtainable enough, limiting their ability to play with the system and its inherent tradeoffs. This change will substantially increase the number of Corrupted items reliably earned each week, allowing players to choose from among a greater selection of Corrupted pieces and enjoy using those that work best in a given situation.

[Seksi 208]

Great news! Corruption is actually a really fun system but, just like Essences (too difficult to get on alts) and Azerite (too difficult to get at first), it is simply too rare in order for people to really be able to experiment and go wild with its trade-offs, you are mostly forced into using whatever stuff drops and be at the mercy of RNG to determine if you got a good one or not.

Hopefully this is learned for Shadowlands: gear systems only matter if you get enough gear to be able to CHOOSE between options. Otherwise it is nothing but a "did you get lucky with your Legendary / Azerite / Corruption drop?" slot machine.

[SidonisAntares 290]

1 hour ago, Seksi said:

Great news! Corruption is actually a really fun system but, just like Essences (too difficult to get on alts) and Azerite (too difficult to get at first), it is simply too rare in order for people to really be able to experiment and go wild with its trade-offs, you are mostly forced into using whatever stuff drops and be at the mercy of RNG to determine if you got a good one or not.

Hopefully this is learned for Shadowlands: gear systems only matter if you get enough gear to be able to CHOOSE between options. Otherwise it is nothing but a "did you get lucky with your Legendary / Azerite / Corruption drop?" slot machine.

Not to mention how ridiculously overpowered some choices are compared to others, like stacking Infinite Stars pieces in order to decrease the time required to ramp up to 10 stacks. The complete lack of testing shows when they don't give something like that a shared PPM.

[xendrius 9]

Cool,.

[Ragingwolf 310]

2 hours ago, Seksi said:

Great news! Corruption is actually a really fun system but, just like Essences (too difficult to get on alts) and Azerite (too difficult to get at first), it is simply too rare in order for people to really be able to experiment and go wild with its trade-offs, you are mostly forced into using whatever stuff drops and be at the mercy of RNG to determine if you got a good one or not.

Hopefully this is learned for Shadowlands: gear systems only matter if you get enough gear to be able to CHOOSE between options. Otherwise it is nothing but a "did you get lucky with your Legendary / Azerite / Corruption drop?" slot machine.

I still think they should make a majority of the Essences account bound specially the corruption factor of gear is relatively based on RNG per drop.  But this is good news when I run with 4 masks again in Stormwind on Tuesday that piece of gear will be auto corrupted. ?

[Seksi 208]

2 hours ago, SidonisAntares said:

Not to mention how ridiculously overpowered some choices are compared to others, like stacking Infinite Stars pieces in order to decrease the time required to ramp up to 10 stacks. The complete lack of testing shows when they don't give something like that a shared PPM.

Yeah balance has been pretty bad recently ?

1 hour ago, Ragingwolf said:

I still think they should make a majority of the Essences account bound specially the corruption factor of gear is relatively based on RNG per drop.  But this is good news when I run with 4 masks again in Stormwind on Tuesday that piece of gear will be auto corrupted. ?

For sure! I'm gearing a new alt right now and although I got 76 neck in just three days, I still only have 6 essences and all of them are rank 1s (doing crucible qs today)...not good!

[SidonisAntares 290]

9 minutes ago, Seksi said:

Yeah balance has been pretty bad recently ?

For sure! I'm gearing a new alt right now and although I got 76 neck in just three days, I still only have 6 essences and all of them are rank 1s (doing crucible qs today)...not good!

Right, running H EP on an alt for weeks to rank up CLF to be fully effective in Nyalotha isn't a rewarding gameplay experience.

[chaoticwonder 0]

Even trying to get IN to H EP can be painful.  "Link AOTC" or "440+" or any other limit that basically makes it a trivial run for those toons but not your alts.

[Migol 433]

I wish they'd take a tuning pass at all the obviously sub-par essences.      They're continuously nerfing stars/devastation/etc but the bad ones will remain bad.     "Yay, proccing a versatility buff once a minute" said no one ever.

[PatrickHenry 293]

I am good with the change.  More opportunities for corrupted swaps are needed.  For a final patch the gear doesnt flow fast at all for alt gearing, and the corruption should be more consistent, and at least this source is permanent now.

[Badadada 184]

6 hours ago, Seksi said:

Great news! Corruption is actually a really fun system but, just like Essences (too difficult to get on alts) and Azerite (too difficult to get at first), it is simply too rare in order for people to really be able to experiment and go wild with its trade-offs, you are mostly forced into using whatever stuff drops and be at the mercy of RNG to determine if you got a good one or not.

Well, pretty much all of this could've been said about the Legion Legendary system as well, but there at the end they added a Legendary vendor, so I could boost my alts with items farmed by my main. I personally don't mind the level of RNG involved as long as I can transfer a tiny bit of my main characters power to my toons, but in the current system I feel like I'm stuck with my druid even if I'd love to try how a reasonably geared hunter or paladin fares in the current meta.

So an Essence vendor (1 random BoA Essence = 750 War Resources, 1 specific BoA Essence = 1500 War Resources) would've been useful. I think Ashjra'kamas has some catch-up mechanism so Corruption can be easier to mitigate on alts, but Essences are just as hard to get on alt as on main, and that is the problem.

[durdyenglish 298]

4 hours ago, Badadada said:

Well, pretty much all of this could've been said about the Legion Legendary system as well, but there at the end they added a Legendary vendor, so I could boost my alts with items farmed by my main. I personally don't mind the level of RNG involved as long as I can transfer a tiny bit of my main characters power to my toons, but in the current system I feel like I'm stuck with my druid even if I'd love to try how a reasonably geared hunter or paladin fares in the current meta.

So an Essence vendor (1 random BoA Essence = 750 War Resources, 1 specific BoA Essence = 1500 War Resources) would've been useful. I think Ashjra'kamas has some catch-up mechanism so Corruption can be easier to mitigate on alts, but Essences are just as hard to get on alt as on main, and that is the problem.

I don't think essences should be account wide but I do think a vendor would have worked. Right now the grind feels cut in half for alts, it should be 1/10th or lower.