Just curious how many item sets people are maintaining for different levels of corruption and if you re-sim each item set after getting a new corrupted item and if so how long does it take. In my case I have 4 sets:
Raid ST Less than 40 corruption
Raid ST Less than 60 corruption
Raid AOE/M+ Less than 40 corruption
Raid AOE/M+ Less than 60 corruption
Each time I get a new corrupted item I feel like I have to sim all my corrupted items to determine what the best mix is of corrupted items. It’s not as clear as just looking at ilevel.
Am I overdoing it? Is there a simpler rule of thumb that can be used for corrupted items as to which would be an upgrade for me?
I simmed once I got Infinite Stars and actually had to choose what to equip.
For “meh” stuff I just looked at Bloodmallet for an approximation. It’s iffy for M+ though, closest thing is Hectic Add Cleave, which isn’t the same.
I do have multiple sets saved.
< 40 corruption AoE (Haste Proc, Cycling Int %, More Crit)
< 40 corruption ST (Infinite Stars, ST Trinkets)
< 60 corruption AoE (Infinite Stars, Haste Proc)
< 60 corruption ST (#3 but with ST Trinkets)
My default right now is #3. Infinite Stars isn’t good for AoE, but it’s strong enough to begin with that it matches #1 so I might as well take the benefit of being slightly stronger on bosses in M+. But there are affixes I wouldn’t want to run over 40 corruption on. Bursting is one. Probably Grievous too. I can deal with an occasional Thing From Beyond, but consistent damage on me would make it a bit much.
Really hoping for TwiDev at some point. It’s so absurdly strong.
I’ve never simmed anything but I also don’t raid mythic anything. Idk if I’d want to even if I did raid, I hear so many complaints about high ilevel not being as good as what the player already has and that seems to cause a whole lot of frustration.
I know my general priorities and eyeball it most of the time.
Not pointing fingers, but kinda surprised at the amount of people who don’t understand WHY [talent/essence/etc] is important to them or works in a particular way or whatever.
They just follow what a robot tells them is good…
To me it’s more that when you get high rank corruption effects like R3 infinite stars but it’s on a low ilevel item it’s hard to figure out if it would be better to use that or a higher ilevel item that has a lower rank of mind tentacle or a flat stat bonus, while still keeping under a corruption threshold.
Nope, i raid very casually and do some weekly keys but that’s about it. I just use whatever gear/talents/azerite traits and corrupted gear i like the look of. Having all of those things predetermined by a website and feeling compelled to play my character a specific way would just make me stop playing at this stage in my WoW life.
I got twisted appendage, on 445 legs. 66 corruption, with eye and my doppelganger always on me in visions, while it hardly ever procced. So I cleansed that puppy.
I don’t sim corruption. I look at the Bloodmallet corruption guide for my class and spec. I look at the graph for Single target and the the one for hectic/add/cleave. I keep my corruption low enough not to be constantly chased by the thing from beyond.
I got a piece that gave 20 corruption, but was Infinite Stars, I’m guessing it was rank one? Like all corrupted pieces, it went straight to the scrapper.
Yes, I do re-sim every single time I get a new piece of gear to determine if it’s an upgrade. I also use bloodmallet and some warrior guides as well.
Things like stat weights can change, and that can impact which gear is best for that character at that point in time. When my warrior was low item level up through around maybe ilvl 420-ish iirc, haste was better. As I got better gear for my warrior, crit wound up being noticeably better and all of the other stats were similar to each other but worse than crit. My haste gems and enchants got changed out for crit ones over time.
When it comes to corruption, once I get more corruption resist on my warrior it might be simpler because the boots I got in my chest this week had Twilight Devastation with 75 corruption. I never want to have more than 19 corruption to avoid eyes of corruption or anything worse. It might be cleansing almost everything else for the rest of the xpac while maybe keeping a couple alternate corrupted pieces just in case Twilight Devastation gets nerfed.
Yes. Every time I get something significant, I re-sim.
For some reason, it wants me to purify the 475 belt with Surging Vitality III and keep Honed Mind I while keeping within manageable levels of corruption.
Doing world content and wpvp you get lots of corrupted gear even if you don’t have the cloak. None of my characters have the cloak yet. All of them have corrupted gear, some tier 1, 2, or 3. Most have multiple pieces. With how much corrupted gear I am getting, I’ve vended out more than I’ve set aside for later. At this point there’s no reason not to be very selective.
I do cause my guild taught me how to do it, but I didn’t know how to sim about a month ago. I’m not sure that the sims fully work with corruption, as it pretty much tells me to never use corrupted gear, ever, with the exception of infinite stars. I’ve really WANTED to put on other corrupted pieces, some of them have effects that I think would be fun and cool and itching to try, but alas, the sims tell you what you can and cannot do. Sims were not designed for “fun.”
At the end of the day with the complexity of corruption it’s always helpful to sim your gear, as long as you take into account the interactions between some corruptions which I’m sure if you are already making multiple gear sets you are no doubt already doing.
There isn’t really a way to simplify the process without just getting premium to skip the queue lol.
Outside of that you do get a feel for what works and what doesn’t work for your class which starts to cut downwhat could be a potential upgrade and what isn’t.
That’s another thing that’s been happening to me…my bags are full of gear that I “might” need in case they nerf or buff something, or in the event I get an upgrade that then causes an item in my bags to be part of my highest simming set. I haven’t scrapped anything in a while
