The highest cloak I have is 8 on a dh that was and is nothing but an alt. I’ve done more assaults for gear than visions by a factor of 10. Assaults give Azerite and are 445 no matter what level the cloak is.
I might have ran my last vision a month ago, I think I upped it a couple times on this character just to play with corruption more effectively. I have quite a few characters at cloak 5 because until then it’s really no less tedious than getting the thing in the first place, ie couple hours and there it is.
Once you start with the bonus objectives though, those were irritating. Like the time hot feet threw me off a bridge in org, into a pack of 3+, greatly delaying my travel time and the only reason I didn’t die was “extra life” and I’m still not sure how I didn’t die anyway. That probably happened getting 8 on that one character, hence why I didn’t get 9.
Corruption is just something I never fully bought into. I was more worried about triggering Heart of Darkness than actually having bomb corruptions, I didn’t get lucky with any corrupted drops on more than one or two random alts and wasn’t about to go play the WQ treadmill to get the currency for the ones I needed, on a timegate no less.
I’d say I’ve played the last half of 8.3 as though prepatch has already happened. I just couldn’t be made to care about the cloak or the stupid random procs. I have echoing void on this character, and I’m a caster. Even running just into range is kind of underwhelming. Just about every piece of corruption I’ve seen on this character has been either “it’s meh but at least it triggers HoD” to “cleanse THAT.”
Borrowed power is a problem, I kind of hate it when a huge portion of my damage is essence and corruption procs. It doesn’t actually make me feel powerful, more like lucky and/or cheesy. Then you realize even the best players are just doing that but with better essences and better/more corruption, well, there’s a reason I never bothered chasing any of it. It’s a form of disengagement.