Hey guys, I realized something.
As you all know, we can buy corruption, choosing the corruption that is best for your character.
However, you cannot buy corruption on gear that has been cleansed.
What does this mean?
It means that getting corruption that’s not TD, IS, or Gushing Wounds is ALWAYS a bad thing.
If you get gear with no corruption, that’s GREAT, since now you can put great corruption on it.
But if you get gear that procs corruption like Void Ritual, or a stat buff, this means that that gear is stuck with a non-optimal corruption, since you can’t cleanse it and get better.
“But wait, can’t you just wait until gear with no corruption is earned?”
The problem lies in item level. If you get 475 gear with mid-tier corruption, this could be worse than getting 460 gear with NO corruption. No corruption gives choice, while corruption makes you stuck with something.
Since things like Horrific Visions and PVP and mythic Chests give guaranteed corrupted gear, these things have now become horrible for player power gain.
To fix this, corruption should be able to “override” existing corruption.
TL;DR: It is better to get NO corruption than mid-tear corruption.
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For now. The only reason it’s that way is because the spaghetti code doesn’t allow you to recorrupt a cleansed item, but they’re working on fixing it.
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I kind of chuckle when I remember that corruption was a result of people complaining about titan forging.
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Gear that is cleansed from today onward can be re-corrupted. Gear that was cleansed before today can’t.
Basically they changed how cleansing works under the hood, so there’s “old cleansing” and “new cleansing”.
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Not a fan of corruption gear at all,I saw the circle earlier today ran out and the clone appeared right in front on me–boom dead.
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But getting non corrupted gear from mythics is perfectly fine. I mean that means I could do an easy 5 mask and get 1 bis every time I did a vision. Blizzard wouldn’t want that.
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After next Tuesday’s “effect reduction” getting GW won’t really be a good thing either.
“You thought that was bad?! HMB!” -blizzard probably.
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Oh really?
Guess I’ll just stick with TD.
Well, its being nerfed 35%. That seems significant to me.
Yep. At least with titanforging, your skill as a player actually mattered.
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Now that EVERYONE has BIS corruption, your skill will matter again!
Except for the fact that corruptions still have rng to them aka if you don’t get stars to proc ur dps will be garbage. And, for the fact that some of us will have to wait 2-3 weeks for our corruptions.
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The old saying comes to mind
“Be careful what you wish for you just might get it”
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You are misinformed.
You can put corruption on gear that has been cleansed as long as it wasn’t cleansed prior to today.
I doesntmesn it was rushed. It means they got the code 99% right and found an issue a devolper couldnt figure out.
They were left with two options release whst is working to give players a benefit now while working the fix or hold everything. They chose to release the benefit now AND I think that was the right choice for them, for us, and for the dev team
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I cleansed the rank 3 echoing void on these boots and put in the mastery one.
I did it like 3 hours ago, so…
Fella it was stated in a thread when this was first announced that they knew we would not be able to corrupt items that were cleansed before. They also know that the source of most people’s best gear is from M+ chests (where most of my uncorruptable items are) and that we in turn had to cleanse those items. This was also announced and released within if I’m remembering right I heard about it like 24 hours beforehand. This did not need to be announced or released until they had just a little time to hammer out this mountain of an issue for most people. That they, again, knew was happening. Yes no one was happy the way corruption was going and we were calling for a vendor. But they finally said ok here and IDK I’m not there but I’ve been alive for a long time and I know when someone is rushing out bad work becuase they have a fire under their butt. This was not the right move.
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I was looking at the corruptions mother has . Pretty much all the ones everyone gets rid of.