So I read about this new corruption thing they are adding and before I could get too far into it I began to lose interest. Not because the feature itself wasn’t cool but because I kept thinking, ANOTHER layer of complexity to the already complex system of features?? Now I’ve got stats, talents, Azerite armor, Azerite traits, Azerite essences, corruption googads, this just ridiculous. Is it just me that feels annoyed and overwhelmed by all this? I can’t recall an expac with this many layers for a character.
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The people once cried here . They said . You pruned and dumbed down everything blizz…over and over.
Now we see …your tears saying it’s too complex .
No one will ever be happy.
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I like complexity, personally. 
There’s a difference though between pointless features and complex features lol.
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I don’t remember saying that. Good comment though!
The corrupted gear system sounds awful. I hope that there’s a huge upside that we don’t know about yet.
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My biggest problem is … by adding a debuff to the gearing process, they have just taken something that used to be one of the best parts of the game, and made it annoying.
In the current system, it’s so simple … before you start a boss fight, you know what gear it drops and if it does, great! It feels good and you’re excited.
Now? it’s not simple or exciting. Now when that gear you want drops, you’re going to have to ask, does it have corruption? How much corruption? Do the other players in my raid have corruption? Will equipping this now be too much corruption and potentially wipe the raid? Is the reward even worth the corruption? If not, well that sucks …
And you see what I’m getting it. They have just taken something that was simple and fun and turned it into something tedious and complex for no added benefit.
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WTB Reforging back.
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The Azerite system should have been what we’re getting as Corruption from the beginning. Personally, I haven’t changed my Azerite Items in months. There is no reason to do so. I barely notice them in game play. Same for the Essences and Necklace. There is no reason to even try to improve my characters or to try more difficult content because character development is the worst it has ever been in the history of the game.
Finally, Corruption is something that I can mix and match to maybe enjoy my characters for a few months. Our characters are 15 years old, there needs to be some complexity to them in order to keep them interesting.
This constant pruning of abilities, stats, attributes, elemental resistance, and other features from our characters has created shadowy husks of what they could be.
If you arent interested in it, take any gear that taks you over the corruption limit and purge it.
Thats the safe method.
And with WF/TF/sockets gone gear item level will be static.
Almost as if not everyone wants the same thing, and you generalizing everyone into that is pretty stupid of you.
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They didn’t want their classes dumbed down.
They didn’t want complexity in gearing.
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You mean other than the insane amounts of +crit damage % we’ll get?
I gotta wonder how they plan to stop people from trolling groups with this new system.
LFR will be even worse with people either intentionally or unintentionally stacking corruption.
If it’s active in dungeons, same there.
One of the corrupt effects being tested is an ground aoe, just think how easy it would be to kill people with that.
Or what if a tank swaps to +80% damage just before a pull.
Good times inc… 
The guy is just a generalizing buffoon. Pay no mind.
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