Scaling Corruption Effects

[Holycow-uldaman]

FYI 10 Chars

@Bornakk

With a hotfix that is now live on all realms, we’ve adjusted the damage done by several Corruption Effects:

• Damage dealt by Infinite Stars, Twisted Appendages, and Gushing Wound is now based on the item level of the Corrupted item. This previously scaled dynamically with Attack Power and Spell Power.
• Lash of the Void damage is now based on the item level of the Corrupted Item, and now procs less often than before.

Previously the damage dealt by these powers was modified by Attack Power and Spell Power, which meant that certain specialization abilities or random bonuses could cause drastic swings in their effectiveness. Infinite Stars in particular was too strong against single targets as a result of this and other factors.

This change also adjusts Infinite Stars base damage accordingly, as the scaling method was one of the primary factors behind some of the extreme outliers we saw in our logs and from player feedback. Our goal with this change and other adjustments to Corruption powers is to improve parity in the effectiveness per point of Corruption of the different bonuses available on Visions of N’Zoth items.

[Talbyy-tichondrius (Talbyy)]

I saw that edit.

I think it’s a late change to something that should have been based on item level to begin with. Not a fan of indirect scaling.

[Tassili-sargeras (Tassili)]

Sadly they are not hitting the main one ruinning pvp. which is echoing void.

[Efx-moknathal (Efx)]

I got a 415 Echoing on my alt and it was my #1 damage every 2s match tonight. Idk how this flew under the radar.

[Rez-dark-iron]

I was playing some Cupid earlier and my Hunter’s Eye beams were still 40%+ of his damage. We’d lose to double DH/Monk with Echoing Void doing 600k+ damage.

Nothing’s really changed.

[Zeroburrito-malganis (Zeroburrito)]

don’t think this even does much, just makes a 400 ilvl corruption not the same as a 470 corruption. the good ones are still worth multiple gear slots of stats.

[Holycow-uldaman]

Idk how this flew under the radar.

BFA

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