You have a total of 371 games won, with a little over 650 games played total. In that amount of time, you’d have farmed 29,500 echoes total. That would amount to 6 stat amps, assuming those are your best corruptions.
Do you think that is a good amount to have received after 650 games?
Mythic+ gives higher gear rewards, so doing those for Echoes (the “catch up” currency) is kind of backwards.
PvP is PvP, may RNG have mercy on those who get into it late.
Echoes are like a different version of Titan Residium. Kind of like bad-luck protection where you can pick something you want, but haven’t been able to get.
Got 470+ gear with BiS corruptions but your cloak is behind? Use it on cores.
Got the gear but not the corruptions you want? Use it on corruptions.
Got the gear but your cloak is behind and you don’t have any good corruptions? Save it for corruptions while leveling the cloak normally.
Playing an alt with nothing? Get the hard-to-get essences with currency, re-earn the easy essences normally, then get corruptions while leveling the cloak normally.
The face-to-wall grinding method isn’t really using the catch-up mechanic for catch-up, if you’re doing 2700 MMR arenas or 15~20+ Mythic keys, you probably don’t need to catch up.
Imagine being able to swap around diff sets , playing alts and going hmmm i wanna test mastery amps on my MM hunter , ah not fun how about haste amps etc
Fact is corruptions a neat system in terms of character customization that fell flat on its face with both awful tuning and time gating in many aspects.
When a game encourages high skill players to play outside their bracket, that is when things need to be inspected. Even before how annoying destro is right now. My first time getting into the arena and there is just exists an obvious disparity when playing against destros and certain teams with 1600-1800 rating. They don’t operate like others I have seen. Sore thumbs in the whole affair.
Also essences should still cost 500 with the 5x increase when the corruption vendor came out. Cores should be around 1-1.5k.
You’re going to have to buy it all. You’re not rng’ing up a good set of gear with good corruptions. You’re not magically overcoming the resistance gate at 6 per week at 15 cloak. And you’re not farming Nazjatar rep for the thirtieth time when the essence is on a vendor. This stuff isn’t “supplemental” for an unlucky area of content. It’s the core building blocks of a character in bfa.
Ok how about judging it based on how quickly you can get your main to bis.
Just came back to the game , missed the 12% vers amps on vendor. Gotta wait 4+ weeks just to see them again no matter the time a player puts into his main character. The ability to get it just isnt there.
Thats disgusting and almost never been a thing in wows history.
Come back in 30 days to get the thing you need ^_-
The best part is its easily avoidable. They can still leave the grind but just have all corruptions on the vendor to be attainable.