The one good corruption I actually got on my Shaman before this joke of a vendor system came out and it’s getting nerfed by 35%!?!?
This just makes me sad reading about this.
LOL I knew this was gonna happen.
This is an absolute terrible decision to nerf GW now. If it needed a nerf it should have been done at the beginning not now when we can all potentially get it. If it’s an issue in PvP then nerf it’s potential in PvP. At this late stage in the game why not just leave it as is and buff others to be more competitive. Let us have some fun at the end of a very very bad expansion.
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Gushing wounds was the only thing I was looking forward to with this update… this sucks for melee classes and buffs fire mages and warlocks even more.
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Hmm, nice, right after I get my very first gushing wounds on one toon just yesterday.
It is 20$. I know to some people 20$ isn’t alot but personally for me it goes a way a ways. I am very hesitant to spend 20$ on digital currency for a game myself, I think others are too. I won’t be buying another one.
Here’s how you fix corruption: covert all EV into TD, make proc rates not scale with haste, reduce proc dmg and increase proc rate, convert Ineffable Truth rank 2 into rank 1 (or adjust corruption value), convert TA into IS, remove glimpse of clarity (or convert it to IT rank 1, not sure if any spec wants this), make it so verse on dmg taken only drops if your loot spec is tank, reduce corruption cost for siphon, increase corruption cost of GW to 20 (or whatever is a balance between IS and TD). I don’t know why they decided to make so many different corruptions, its a balance nightmare.
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Why nerf gushing wounds?
Why not just buff other corruptions?
Some people spent a ton of time farming this, or spent alot of gold getting BoE gear that had it.
Honestly, if other damage based corruptions are not remotely stacking up against this one, then why nerf it and leave the others still in a lackluster setting?
Why use infinite stars as an example? It’s not a good corruption in most scenarios anyways.
Come on blizz, corruptions are suppose to be the big thing this expansion, just buff the other corruptions, let people have fun (At least those who can)
Are you guys gonna pull this with Covenants in Shadowlands? One covenant ability acting out, suddenly you nerf it, and screw everyone who chose that covenant? 
Mind you, I’m not mad at the Blue on the forums, I just think this is a bad decision, and is really going to shake the good faith the vendor was going to garner to begin with.
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well… it was fun while it lasted and my DK was the only toon to actually use this as I found it useless as a ranged dps lol. RiP gushing
If you have to keep nerfing a system that was introduced then it’s a bad system. Why are these nerfs coming months and months later after the ptr and live. If you’re worried about it in pvp then only nerf it there.
I have no faith in this teams ability to balance covenant abilities. Just drop them now and thank me later.
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So now that it’s finally equal opportunity you nerf it?
This is hands down the worst nerf I have seen in the last 2 years of this game. Yes, it needed a massive nerf in PvP. In PvE however it’s doing just fine. It’s the only single-target corruption that isn’t utterly miserable to use.
Infinite Stars and Twisted Appendage both have completely unreliable proc rates. They minimize skill. Gushing Wounds is stable.
IF you’re going to nerf it, make the nerf PvP only… or make it a SLIGHT nerf so that the dps per corruption is still on par with IS.
I don’t know who you have making these decisions, but I can do a better job and you can pay me less than you pay them. I, at least, actually passed the math classes I took.
Edit: Oh, and as far as this game goes; I’m not the best, but I’d like to think my armory and rio shows that I have at least a modicum of experience with high-end content.
Seriously, don’t go through with this nerf. This is a terrible decision.
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except you can only buy ring + off piece unless you use either a shield of offhand so at max 3 for 20% of the specs in the game
Thank you for saving us!
Good point. They will never balance thing that cant be balanced. Tbh, covenant abilities should never exist.
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I don’t understand why, you guys really hate rogue. Fire mage and hunter are strong why you guys don’t reduce those mastery resources damage. I think if rogue has 7 gushing wound that still can’t do more damage then fire mage.
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I don’t understand why, you guys really hate rogue. Fire mage and hunter are strong why you guys don’t reduce those mastery resources damage. I think if rogue has 7 gushing wound that still can’t do more damage then fire mage.
why now and not before you ask . Well it was so rare that it was not a huge problem . now that you can buy it everyone will buy it the first week its on the vendor . meaning it will become a big problem
Bad move blizz. If that is your concern, just make it rare in the corruption vendor cycles.
I have this on a 475 wep and it really doesn’t do that much damage. Now it will have to get cleansed I guess. Garbage.
i don’t think we need to wait to know that. 
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They’ve totally got this. Covenants will be completely balanced, even though nothing ever has. 
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