Targeted Corruptions and Faster Cloak Empowerment

[Arithawn-stormrage (Arithawn)]

@Xevenna-farstriders

So… No severe, gushing wounds or expedient? How do the shadow priests get screwed over yet AGAIN? Why don’t yall just tell us how bad you really hate us and get it over with. IS this up for discussion

It was just an example of what to expect price wise, those arent the only ones that will be available

@Kaivax

The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency

[Palipappy-dalaran]

I think this actually might be my first forum post.
Excuse me if I missed this somewhere. But when I full clear a vision, will I get multiple pages from that run, or will my bag/the quest limit me to obtaining two pages from that vision run.
TL;DR Can I get enough pages for two cloak-up’s from one vision.

[Kaercha-kelthuzad]

Nope, 1 vision, 1 level.

[Rightnipple-illidan]

@Kaercha-kelthuzad

not drawing a 1/52 chance are crazy low

How many corruption pieces do you think people have? By definition, you get one chance to get a single corruption that you want out of 52 corruption gear drops. Now now you need that 9 more times. How many people do you think has multiple of their best corruption?

[Palipappy-dalaran]

Heartbreaking but understandable. Thanks for the reply

[Kaercha-kelthuzad]

I dunno, my once a week alt has about 30 pieces in his inventory. I assume people who play one character has double that at least.

[Suhuy-fizzcrank (Suhuy)]

@Yellöwböze-trollbane

@Yasudra-malorne

Por que?

Because it only costs 500 for a rank 3 essence now. But after this update, it will cost 25k. If you have 800 echoes right now, once this update happens, you’ll still only have 800. So, you’ll go from being able to afford an essence you want to not being able to afford one.

2.5k, not 25k.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Marla-westfall

A currency reset is one of the worst solutions to this. It would be far easier if they just created a new currency to earn and buy those corrupted pieces.

I thought people “wanted” their alts to be able to more quickly jump in.

A new currency undermines that.

[Jàrèd-dalaran]

@Rhenawedd-sargeras

If you play one char, you don’t get echo. Which part do you not understand?

You have had no reason to have echoes, and really, you have posts showing blizz is giving you them if you aren’t getting them. It is asinine to claim this is a main unfriendly anything as this expansion has been ANTI alt since its inception

[Ulendur-moon-guard]

Meh, bring back rep bonus. It was actually useful for gold farming versus garbage corrupted gear that will be useless come Shadowlands in a few months.

[Marla-westfall]

Wiping the echoes currency is worse.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Palipappy-dalaran

I think this actually might be my first forum post.
Excuse me if I missed this somewhere. But when I full clear a vision, will I get multiple pages from that run, or will my bag/the quest limit me to obtaining two pages from that vision run.
TL;DR Can I get enough pages for two cloak-up’s from one vision.

It sounded to me like the highest any cloak quest will require is 2 pages.

And only 2 pages of you are cable of getting 2 pages in one run (usually by clearing the 2 lost or 2 corrupted areas).

You can’t upgrade 2 ranks in one run, but you will always be able to get 1 rank in 1 run.

[Swålsh-sargeras (Swålsh)]

Listening to a lvl 12 troll is worse

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Kaercha-kelthuzad

That means you already have all the essences. That means you already have all the corruptions.

bold emphasis mine…

lol…

what?

[Rhenawedd-sargeras]

that guy is an idiot. Just don’t argue with him. He even said “you should have all the corruptions by now”

[Sakurä-suramar (Sakurä)]

@Blackstannis-khazgoroth

Actually the “bank” of echos that players have earned thus far has been reduced by a factor of 5. It is now 5x easier for you to catch up when this system goes live to sumone that has a lead on you

That doesn’t really address my concern - the cost/acquisition ratio remains the same. If you have 800 echoes now, and the cost goes up to 2500 Echoes, I would only have to do 2 major assaults to catch up in terms of echoes. But that doesn’t really help the fact that we’d both be paying 2500 per, thus I’m really not catching up at all. In order to catch up, cost must come down while acquisition comes up. That’s not what’s being described here. In the above example, you’d still have more echoes than I, and would be able to buy an essence before I do. That’s no catch-up.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Marla-westfall

Wiping the echoes currency is worse.

Agreed that would be a stupid idea.

[Rightnipple-illidan]

So lets assume 60 corruption pieces. That’s only one corruption piece that you wanted. How is that remotely “That means you already have all the corruptions”?

[Clíodhna-moon-guard]

Very nice! A lot of great improvements, Thanks!

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Sakurä-suramar

@Blackstannis-khazgoroth

Actually the “bank” of echos that players have earned thus far has been reduced by a factor of 5. It is now 5x easier for you to catch up when this system goes live to sumone that has a lead on you

That doesn’t really address my concern - the cost/acquisition ratio remains the same. If you have 800 echoes now, and the cost goes up to 2500 Echoes, I would only have to do 2 major assaults to catch up in terms of echoes. But that doesn’t really help the fact that we’d both be paying 2500 per, thus I’m really not catching up at all. In order to catch up, cost must come down while acquisition comes up. That’s not what’s being described here. In the above example, you’d still have more echoes than I, and would be able to buy an essence before I do. That’s no catch-up.

The catchup is buying rank 3 essences at all.

The x5 shift is to lessen the gap between those with a lot of echos and those with few. It’s not a catchup for a catchup.