wow Faster Legendary Cloak Upgrades

[Stan 5,240]

Players who have upgraded their Legendary Cloak to Rank 15 will be able to purchase Malefic Cores for 2,000 Echoes of Ny’alotha, up to the maximum Resistance that the cloak allows.

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Later today, we will apply a hotfix to the game that will allow players who have upgraded the legendary cloak Ashjra’kamas to Rank 15 to purchase Malefic Core from MOTHER for 2,000 Echoes of Ny’alotha. This will be repeatable, up to the maximum that you could have otherwise earned via weekly Horrific Visions or from N’Zoth the Corruptor.

The intent of Malefic Cores was to provide ongoing incremental weekly power gains, to help overcome remaining challenges in this final tier of Battle for Azeroth. This has been similar to past systems in Warlords of Draenor (upgrading the legendary rings via Archimonde drops) and Legion (upgrading trinkets from Argus the Unmaker). While each extra bit of Corruption Resistance only represents a small increase in potential power, we understand the frustration of feeling weeks behind, especially without any controlled way of closing the gap faster. With this hotfix, players can further supplement their progress through the wide variety of endgame content that rewards Echoes of Ny’alotha.

It will still be possible to earn up to two Malefic Cores per week, by fully clearing a Horrific Vision and/or defeating N’Zoth the Corruptor on Normal difficulty or higher.

Thank you!

[durdyenglish 298]

My understanding of this is as follows:

• Weekly core for N'zoth kill
• Weekly core for full Vision clear
• Cores available at any time from MOTHER for 2K Echoes
• Cannot apply more cores to cloak than are currently allowed regardless of how many you can earn/purchase

Considering you can earn several cores a week from Echoes alone, this seems like a substantial upgrade over the current 2/week cap.

Edited June 24, 2020 by durdyenglish

[Ravenclaw89 27]

9 minutes ago, durdyenglish said:

My understanding of this is as follows:

• Weekly core for N'zoth kill
• Weekly core for full Vision clear
• Cores available at any time from MOTHER for 2K Echoes
• Cannot apply more cores to cloak than are currently allowed regardless of how many you can earn/purchase

Considering you can earn several cores a week from Echoes alone, this seems like a substantial upgrade over the current 2/week cap.

I think its just a third option; in my case, I barely go to Ny'lotha so I understand I can replace that core with a 2k Echoes's one.

[Imarai 17]

Basically it means that alts can finally catch up on the corruption resistance. Before this, even if you did N'zoth and visions weekly, you would not be able to catch up with the current cap if you started the cloak grind later. Although I wish it wasn't yet another thing to buy with echoes. Already feels bad to 'waste' them buying essences instead of corruption.  Overall still a positive change.

[Senou 40]

Still not worth it. Killing N'zoth and a non-mask vision is easy enough already. Imagine having a new maxed character and just grinding 10k plus echoes just for essences.... Still not that alt- friendly

[Harvey 60]

This mechanic allows players to catch up to the previous week's progress.
We still have to kill N'Zoth or clear a vision for this week's upgrade.
Catch up FIRST, then get this week's upgrade, or you might still end up one week behind. 
Found out the hard way...
I was two weeks behind progress, so this week I needed 3 upgrades. I cleared a vision, then bought my upgrade, and found myself stuck at last week's progress. Beware Beware~

[Bobbis 208]

Better than nothing, but why echos... alts are already farming echo's for the damn essences and corruptions, which is why we want the damn resistance in the first place. Just make it drop from Nzoth per difficulty and each full vision...

 

Honestly that's been the response to all of Blizz's fixes, better than nothing but still not good. I'm glad they're listening to feedback and doing these things, but why is it so... frustrating and late still?

[Skymarshal 5]

As if some alts (most of mine) doesnt have enough already to spend their echos on.

[ResoWho 68]

41 minutes ago, Senou said:

Still not worth it. Killing N'zoth and a non-mask vision is easy enough already. Imagine having a new maxed character and just grinding 10k plus echoes just for essences.... Still not that alt- friendly

yeah 500 echoes per essence was completly fine in my opinion (luckily i bought all i needed back then) but 2k for the resistance upgrade is worth it if you can ignore weekly cap for +corruption resistance. it might not be that alt friendly but me and my friends who started playing again some weeks ago are at a point where we got all essences and at least i was waiting to increase my corruption resistance so i could apply more +12% mastery corruption. so im happy with that ^^

Edited June 25, 2020 by ResoWho

[Ragingwolf 310]

I stopped raiding NtWC when Guildies lost interest and gotten their AOTC; not really interested in doing Mythic difficulty due to lack of viable Raiders, in the Guild, and would end up filling the Raid with pugs.  So I've been collecting my cores once a week via a 5 mask run in a Horrific Vision on my main.  My alts cloaks vary from 6-14 this would be nice to get them caught up to rank 15.

 

[Ariecho 15]

I'm actually happy with this.  I don't have as much time as I would like to catch up, and had a good use for all these essences.

[Senou 40]

On 6/25/2020 at 10:31 AM, ResoWho said:

yeah 500 echoes per essence was completly fine in my opinion (luckily i bought all i needed back then) but 2k for the resistance upgrade is worth it if you can ignore weekly cap for +corruption resistance. it might not be that alt friendly but me and my friends who started playing again some weeks ago are at a point where we got all essences and at least i was waiting to increase my corruption resistance so i could apply more +12% mastery corruption. so im happy with that ^^

I'd much rather use that for corruptions than cloak upgrades. A N'zoth kill and a vision weekly is easy done and by now you want to grab those corruptions asap. A better solution would have been that every full clear (with or without masks) rewards a core or you could even use war resources, since by now most people are drowning in them. Piling everything on echoes is yet another mechanic that works against alt- friendlyness. It is not necessarily the resource but the amount. My top geared main has no problem running high keys for the grind but my low level non- meta char might and that's the issue with this system.

[ResoWho 68]

On 6/26/2020 at 2:42 PM, Senou said:

I'd much rather use that for corruptions than cloak upgrades. A N'zoth kill and a vision weekly is easy done and by now you want to grab those corruptions asap. A better solution would have been that every full clear (with or without masks) rewards a core or you could even use war resources, since by now most people are drowning in them. Piling everything on echoes is yet another mechanic that works against alt- friendlyness. It is not necessarily the resource but the amount. My top geared main has no problem running high keys for the grind but my low level non- meta char might and that's the issue with this system.

well im at 48 corruption and i just got +77 resistance so currently im upgrading my cloack to apply another +12% mastery but i can understand that some classes need corruption which coasts more then stat increaseing corruption

Edited June 27, 2020 by ResoWho