The only problem I see is it creates a situation where any tank that hasn’t been blessed by the RNG gods with rank 3 echoing void, is deemed not good enough. It quickly becomes an absolute must to get into any good groups and even the tanks that put their work and an know their specs get screwed over. It becomes early Legion all over again where some people would get their best in slot legendaries right off the bat, while others kept getting crap.
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Forgive me if i’m wrong, but tanks need to press buttons to hold threat on mobs. The group will notice if the tank is not pressing those darn buttons because the groups gonna be dead once the mob, or boss goes to you and ends up one shotting you.
Is this not true for Infinite Stars? How about Twilight devastation or the other “big hitters?”
“Big corruption”. Don’t be a 
. Nothing else came even remotely close except for IS which is already useless on any fight that has more than one target. I know people that personally were running a T3 and T2 at the same time facerolling M+ keys. Thing from beyond is a joke and most classes can just deal with it without issue.
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rofl
Power to the tanks willing to do hard content with pugs. My group quit after Legion and I went from clearing 20+ mythics to just not doing any…
The EV void is warranted and needed but Blizzard should be looking at both corruption and the positive effects when they “balance the effects”.
EV is still good at 1% but is it better or equal to 4 gushing wounds? They would end up running into the problem of every tank needing EV if they lowered the corruption so you could stack T3 EV with other effects…
Corruption as a mechanic(kiss vs curse) is fun but just like Azerite, Blizzard is showing they don’t know how to balance/handle generic abilities across all classes. We should all be very scared for Shadowlands and covenant abilities.
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sorry you have to actually learn an AoE rotation to do strong damage
you can’t have an item do all the work for you. good change
So you are done tanking now because of the nerf? If not, you are just whining…
Surprised you could type out a response with the carpal tunnel you have from smashing your blade flurry key over and over. EV doesn’t even compare. I’ve seen gushing wound and TD both outdamage a tank with R3 EV.
Gushing wound was sneaky going to be the best but Blizzard was smart and nerfed it too this week. Pretty sure it wasn’t listed as part of the hotfix last week…
Not even close
If you are losing to a tank in DPS with EV of comparable ilvl you are doing something incredibly wrong to such a degree that 1 or 2 or corruption effects won’t cover for your failure.
This corruption was just the new whipping boy for DPS players who can’t measure up to tank damage. Yes. Mr. BM hunter doing 35k damage at ilvl 455 that ruined my key timer, I’m looking at you.
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It wasn’t just tanks. It was the biggest dps increase over most any of my other items. A pair of 445 gloves and 445 pants were 20% of my ST dps. 20%! And that was dps spec. In tank spec contributed to 45% of my dps.
That was downright dumb and needed to be nerfed.
Will my dps go down? Yes. But rightly so and that broken corruption trait needed to be fixed.
This doesn’t change how stupid Corruption is in this game thanks to Blizzard not really trying anymore and instead just sort of “checked-out” with this expansion, but that’s a separate discussion.
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Oh I understand now. Not only are you bad but you also think that rogues are required to do keys. You’re too funny. Can I introduce you to DH which is better in every single possible way now that the new affix basically deleted all uses of shroud? Let’s be real, you’re failing +9 keys all on your own. You could literally time +15 keys week 1 with zero corruption.
Actually I did spec back my DH to tank due to how fun that EV corruption was.
It did damage and had a fun visual effect. Depending on how bad the nerf feels… back to dps. Balancing that large amount of corruption might not be worth it anymore to me when I have other corrupted pieces to play with.
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Every time somebody complains about a lack of tanks from now on, I’m just going to link this thread from last week:
And quote my post in the same thread:
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Nope. I simply pointed out the irony of a rogue complaining about “one ability” making up such a large percentage of their damage. You’re a one trick pony now that shroud is gone.
Your comprehension problems may be from smacking your forehead on your blade flurry key so I forgive you 
If being a tank means you’re only having fun doing high levels of dps, then you’re doing it wrong as a tank… especially when it’s from broken corruption affixes.
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I’ve been tanking for almost 15 years so don’t lecture me.
God forbid that tanks should be able to do world quests and dailies in anything close to a reasonable amount of time.
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Then maybe you can illuminate us on what a tank numerically brings to make them “fun”, because it certainly is not survival or damage.
Also I got a void ritual item in the cache today with 66 corruption cost, is this a joke ? Who designs this garbage lol.
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I haven’t yanked for 15 years but I’ve tanked here and there since Vanilla so don’t try to end it with the measuring contest.
It’s supposed to be fun to maximize your dps while not throwing out all survivability as a tank, but it’s outright dumb, for any class and role to have a corruption trait make up 30-45% of your overall dps. If you can’t see that then you’re then it sounds like you’re trying to be obtuse for stubbornness.