Later today, we will apply a hotfix to the game that will allow players who have upgraded the legendary cloak Ashjra’kamas to Rank 15 to purchase Malefic Cores from MOTHER for 2,000 Echoes of Ny’alotha. This will be repeatable, up to the current maximum Resistance that the cloak allows (currently 92 Corruption Resistance, and next week this will increase to 95).
The intent of Malefic Cores was to provide ongoing incremental weekly power gains, to help overcome remaining challenges in this final tier of Battle for Azeroth. This has been similar to past systems in Warlords of Draenor (upgrading the legendary rings via Archimonde drops) and Legion (upgrading trinkets from Argus the Unmaker). While each extra bit of Corruption Resistance only represents a small increase in potential power, we understand the frustration of feeling weeks behind, especially without any controlled way of closing the gap faster. With this hotfix, players can further supplement their progress through the wide variety of endgame content that rewards Echoes of Ny’alotha.
It will still be possible to earn up to two Malefic Cores per week by fully clearing a Horrific Vision and/or defeating N’Zoth the Corruptor on Normal difficulty or higher.
Blizzard as a side note, I think nearly EVERYBODY would appreciate it if player progression was earnable from the start. Every expansion needs some kind of RNG net.
Wow, I can’t believe it. My post actually worked! Ty so much for allowing the new/returning/and current players with alts enjoy the corruption system to its entirety for the remaining expansion.
Any chance we can send echoes to our alts as well? It’s going to take a long time to get enough echoes to buy all of your cores to catchup AND buy enough to actually buy the corruptions you need, while my main has like 30,000 just sitting on him