Patch 8.3.1 Corruption System Rework, Horrific Vision changes, Heart of Azeroth changes and more - Mock patch notes

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February 5, 2020

General

  • You can now skip the legendary cloak questline if you have completed it on 1 character, all items received during the questline completion will be mailed to you.
  • Switching Azerite traits no longer has a cost.
  • Kelsey Steelspark no longer has infinite ideas to save Mekkatorque.

Corruption

  • Corruption has been reworked from the ground up.
  • You can now link the effects of 2 corruptions by shift+right clicking which will bring up a new window allowing you to link multiple corruptions together, we’re looking forward to what crazy new concoctions you guys come up with.
  • A new vendor in the Heart chamber has been introduced that will allow you to move corruptions to different items, for example if you have T3 Infinite Stars on a 415 belt, but received a 470 belt from your weekly chest, you can move the corruption from your 415 belt to your new 470 belt.
  • Individual sub-stat increasing corruptions have been combined into 1 corruption, this means Haste, Mastery, Versatility, Critical Strike and Avoidance are now 1 corruption.
  • Damage from corruptions are now a fixed percent. Previously they were a % of your HP, this made it hard to tune correctly without making it overpowered for tanks and useless for DPS.
  • Damage and proc chance from multiple corruptions now stack, but having 2 or more of a single corruption might have consequences

  • A new on-use corruption has been added to rings only: N’Zoths Fury - Your HP is reduced to 1 and you are unable to be healed for 6 seconds, if you survive the full duration, then your damage and health are increased by 250% for 10 seconds, if you don’t survive the full duration
well
 you die. 3 minute cooldown. Cannot be used outside of combat. -25 corruption, no ranks.

Horrific Visions

  • A new training mode has been added, this lets you practice routes, explore, and play around to your hearts content without using a vessel, you can find the new training mode option by talking to Wrathion.
  • NPC’s that drain sanity now have slightly louder sound effects and are more pronounced than other npc’s.
  • In addition to the previous changes of reduced npc health for tanks/healers, tank damage has been increased by 50% and healer damage has been increased by 100% while in a solo Horrific Vision.

Heart of Azeroth

  • Essences are now account wide, we sincerely apologize for making everyone wait so long. We always wanted BFA to be alt-friendly, and somewhere along the line it became the most unfriendly alt expansion in the history of World of Warcraft.

Class Changes

  • Druid
    Players now have a choice if they want the old sound effects or new sound effects for Feral, you can find this option under a new category in the sound tab labeled “Class Sounds”.
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yes to all?

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Thanks for sharing!

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What is this madness that might give players some sort of convenience? :crazy_face: :firecracker:

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Ok, i have to admit that i like this idea. (until it get nerf xD)

I think that this mgiht be a bit too much? If it’s from the SAME category item(like belt to belt, or ring to ring) then i’m FINE with it, But if you could switch like a wrist corrupted item to a trinket(if that is even possible) OH HELL NO, that will be broken

THAT will make a LOT of happy people.

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If Blizz were to do it, I’m sure there would be restrictions, trinkets can’t have corruptions, so it’s only logical to assume you wouldn’t be able to apply the corruptions to them either. As for same category, I can see it happening, but I don’t see much of a point in it, a corruption is the same strength regardless of where it’s placed, since the rework using flat damage % instead of ilvl.

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So is it official or not?

Edit: OH F*S 
 i jsut saw the end of the title 
 god damn it
 I knew it was too good to be true.

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These are fantastic so clearly it’s not happening

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Didn’t take me longer than this last part to know it wasn’t true. That is ridiculous even for a ‘mock’ patch note.

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Knew this was fake when I saw this. Great ideas that will never see fruition.

They’re done with bfa beyond nerfing and buffing numbers, they’re just doing shadowlands and prepatch work for the next ten months.

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We just need a Kunai’s Cube, but for corruption, that costs currency to mess with.

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If this Diablo-style dev team is making more stuff like this, a Kanai’s Cube would be great to have, I’d gladly make use of that.

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How about a SW/Org orphan that can hold players hands as they play through the visions, since so many people seem frightened of the place

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Short range aoe corruptions should be based on hp so they benefit tanks more. We have to kite during necrotic so things like echoing void are not as OP in all situations for tanks as made out to be.

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this post hurt me mentally. I was believing it was true for almost 5 minutes. I thought it was too good to be true and then I reread the title.

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you didnt hear no more updates until shadowlands.

this is all you get until the launch of the next expansion.

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I don’t like diablo so that must be my problem with wow lately. Mind blown!!! LOL

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I like your ideas. Pity they hail from a parallel universe.