Cleansed Items Cannot Be Re-Corrupted?

So for those of us who primarily get our gear from weekly caches are screwed then? Since literally EVERY item I’ve gotten from the chest has been corrupted and some of those were bad so I cleansed them off so I wouldn’t have too much corruption. Now I can’t re-corrupt those items? How about the items that come out of the chest don’t come with corruption already tied to them and instead come with Echoes of Ny’alotha?

I mean really, I can’t be the only person in the game that is going to have some major problems with not being able to re-corrupt cleansed items.

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Edit: I realize now the issue that will keep this “vendor” from being very useful. There doesn’t really even seem to be a “grinding solution”. They should have found a different way to do this rather than rushing it out to say they did something.

“Do something, even if it’s wrong” is not part of the solution to anything.

But…if you cleansed them because you couldn’t handle the corruption, why would you want to reapply corruption? Wouldn’t that be the same issue?

I’m referring to the new Preserved Contaminant item they’re going to be adding this week. I assume we can’t apply it to gear with corruption already on it? This means that the only items we can apply it to will be un-corrupted items which the weekly cache does not drop.

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Blizzard said they are looking into seeing if they can get over this issue, due to it being a coding issue, but they didn’t want to delay the system that would be beneficial to everyone just over this.

They might find a fix for it, and let everyone know then.

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JMO I think the fact that they mentioned they’re looking into it means it’s likely there will be a fix later on.

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What that particular part of the post says:

In addition to any unlocked Essences, MOTHER will now also offer several new Preserved Contaminants, which allow for a specific Corruption effect (and the associated Corruption penalty) to be applied to a selected item. 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.

You can use a Preserved Contaminant to apply the Corruption you purchased to any uncorrupted item that can be Corrupted, much like an enchant.

The last para seems to indicate that it must be applied to an “uncorrupted” item - ie, an item currently without a Corruption effect.

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If your gear was corrupted and you cleansed it, you won’t be able to corrupt it again.

If your gear was not corrupted in the first place, you’ll be able to corrupt it with a preserved contaminant.

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They need to fix this. It should never have been implemented until they did it right.

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But you can’t do that unfortunately. Once you cleanse a corrupted item you can not re-corrupt it.

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Later on it says:

It depends on how they coded it. If they re-used an old system and just gave it updated tool-tips they may not be able to change it without patching all those items over. Like the reason you can’t add a gouged eye socket to an already socketed item – the code that sockets the item shares the same ID space as the gouged eye would add.

If Blizzard made the code for corruptions completely new for 8.3, then they should be able to find a way to re-corrupt items that have been flagged as cleansed.

They really should hire back the Department of Unforseen Consequences.

coding may not support this currently.

So it sounds like this whole vendor thing will be less useful than it might be if people have no uncorrupted gear to use.

Also at issue is whether or not you can overwrite a corruption with a different one. The wording of the post would seem to say no to this, which sucks. Yeah Blizzard is looking into it, but not being able to even overwrite a current corruption is going to cause headaches for people. Who knows if/when a fix will be available…

Also the rush to go and restore vendored/deleted items is going to be epic as a result of this “bug”. Typical Blizzard…don’t listen to players, design a fail system, and then require multiple iterations to get it right. Maybe by the SL pre-patch this will all finally be sorted out /shrug

You could be right, grasshopper. I’m not very techny but it seems logical. If they could let cleansed items be corrupted they probably would, as it isn’t any real big deal, gamewise.

Titanforging was working just fine, but they listened to players and removed it. Congratulations.

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I’m assuming he’s referring to getting those items soon after attaining level 120…when every piece of gear is a serious upgrade…but the character either doesn’t have Wrathion’s cloak yet, or has only just acquired it. A nice item with a great ability could have 35 corruption on it, and be way too much to handle until the cloak gets ranked up. They can’t just jump right into full vision clears with a 400 gear level.

Personally, I think the OP is worrying too much about lost corruption abilities. It doesn’t take that much effort to get a good replacement later, after the cloak is ranked up.

I mean… complaining about this?

it’s obvious they did this in order to prevent people from buying non corrupted boe’s and then sell with a R3 meta. it falls victim whenever you have it soulbound or not…

common sense folks… use it.

well no, because you get to start farming the currency while you wait for a vanilla high-level item to corrupt. since you only wear a few corruption pieces, any ring or offhand or other small piece would technically do.