Its not though…its a pass up mechanic. I know it’s hard for you to understand because (based on your profile) you aren’t doing end game content, but dps/hps is all about the correct corruptions. Just like when corruptions came out, when you were kicked from pugs for not having good corruptions.
I agree they should be using a different currency since the people with excess echoes could still use them for the horrific vision vessels if they didn’t want to use them for the essences.
Just make a new currency for the corrupted gear purchases.
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100% agree
It’s a catch-up mechanic.
It’s what it’s been since the start, they are just expanding on the catch up mechanic, and re-using currency. I even said earlier a different currency would be better, but this is what they are going with, and they are just building off a catch-up mechanic.
Yeah, I know DPS need corruptions, that’s why you should be fine, because you’ve been doing stuff and getting them.
Not as important to healers though, 8.3 as a whole is a complete miss for me on my healer. So 
Why does it seem we take one step forward and 1000 step back with each request.
depends on what content you are doing. Holy paladins use tons of dps corruptions and do stupid damage in pve and pvp.
Holy paladins are a hot broken mess completely, so I don’t really consider them a good example all healers should follow.
Healers mostly just benefit from boring secondary state corruptions, and I just don’t consider them worth grinding out, and the horrific visions are terrible for healers, so all in all, I’m not doing anything on my healer.
No incentives to do so.
Because Blizzard saw what a cash cow the corruption system was. Implement a system where an items corruption effect can account for 30% or more of a players overall damage and then make it so items that are BOE can drop with those affixes on them. Caching caching caching can just buy a bunch of wow tokens, convert to gold and insta win with BIS items. Corruptions seriously turned this game into a pay to win.
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If you can’t put corruption on gear that has already been cleansed how is that fun? Weekly mythic chest and visions already have corruption on them. All of my gear is cleansed prettt much because the high chance of everything you get having corruption. So basically my best chance of getting the highest level gear corrupted is the 470 crafted pieces, raid drops, and mythic drops? I hardly ever get gear from mythics and for the sake of min/maxing that seems about the same amount of RNG hoping for a great piece that isn’t corrupted. I hope you guys figure it out:) I already have the pieces I want I just want to add corruption to them.
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Can we keep the rep buff instead? I have 0 interest in this cloak. And still wont.
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Well I’m out. Thanks for the fun chat sesh. I hope they fix this hot mess but I am sure they will not.
Heres my problem with those, since i had all the rank 3 essences on my main, i have not gotten ANY Echoes since day one. Man i hope to be compensated for that, if not, here comes another grind to add to the other ones we have a plethora of!
This system is extremely broken and needs to be fixed before it goes live, echoes were not even available on many peoples mains who had all rank 3 essences, and alts who were able to purchase rank 3 essences stopped receiving them once they acquired all rank 3 essences. The echoes was clearly stated as only providing essences for alts. Many people have been able to stock up on thousands of these echoes if they did not purchase all rank 3 essences on one of their characters. This disadvantages those who weren’t even given the option to get any echoes at all since the game design decided that. If this new corruption vendor goes live, something has to change to avoid a mass uproar and negative reception of its inclusion. Some options would be to give people echoes based on how many rank 3 essences they already have, reset everyone’s number of echoes to 0, use a new currency for the purchase of corruptions. There are so many options available that can be easily implemented and this is what 99% of the community wants. While you’re at it, there is no point time gating the different corruptions through a rotating vendor other than to piss off people and force them to wait and play your game more, intentional? no doubt, its just unnecessary and causes more frustration with this already broken system that you have now tried to fix poorly.
Considering the last comment Blizzard made about this system was 12h ago, and they’ve already published the hotfixes for tomorrow, I’m gonna say “No compensation” is planned. Unless it arrives when the corruption vendor goes live later this week.
This “tiny little” technicality LITERALLY makes this new feature useless for players like me who’s ONLY source for high ilvl gear is from Mythic+ weekly chest. Since the gear from that chest is guaranteed to have corruption and if you are super unlucky like me and keep having worst corruption every week, what option do we have? If we cleanse that gear then we can NOT use this new feature, if we don’t then it’s just gonna be one more slot in the bags/bank with useless corruption gear.
You guys really need to fix this “little” hiccup ASAP. Thanks!
The ‘compensation’ for that was the ability to get rank 3 essences on all your alts easy mode.
This fails as a update to the essence catch up. x5 the drop and x5 the cost means you changed nothing there. You could have at least made the essences x4 the cost or just reduce the costs of the rest of the options. This is just inflation.
Do the raid its easily do able in group finder.
So cannot put a corruption on conquest cap gear then? since its uncorruptable.
Will alts still get Echoes pre-cloak if they can learn an eligible rank 3 essence like they do before this change?
Would suck to lose out on the Echoes from doing the initial invasions during the cloak quests.