In giving us way too much to do you have removed desire to play the game. I have no way to feasibly play an alt anymore while maintaining a competitive main, hell, based on corruption alone I DON’T HAVE A COMPETITIVE MAIN. This is not for a lack of trying either. I’m 2100+ in 2s and 3s, I’ve ran countless m+ (probably over 50 11-15 keys), run the raid on heroic, but yet my corruptions are still god-awful for my spec. They’re awful in PVP and PVE.
And all it is, is a time-sink of things I don’t care to do. I want to play arena and do so competitively, but it’s hard to think you’re going to be competitive when even double stacking your only proc-damage corruption (echoing void) barely even does a quarter of the damage of a half-sized tendril or void lash or gushing wound. My alt has a rank 5 cloak still because I just can’t be bothered with another 3-4 hours a week doing trivial content like invasions, AP farming, and the cloak upgrade. It’s just infuriating how much of a time sink you think players want.
And if you go on Twitter you’ll see almost every high end arena player HATES this system. Nobody wants to be locked down to a single character and have their gearing based on luck. PVPers are leaving this game in droves and y’all just cover your ears, eyes, and mouth like you’re hiding from us. The system is overly flawed. Fix it.
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I saw some Ny’alotha weapon has 52 different ways of dropping, and only 10 are useful. Not sure why they thought adding in way more RNG makes the game more desirable to play.
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“is now garbage”
mate idk how to tell you this
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Like I want to have Infinite Stars or a mindflay tentacle and I want to compete, but at the same time knowing how ungodly broken they are in PVP just makes it feel wrong at the same time. Like it’s to the point if I see a mind flay tentacle proc on the enemy team they get spat on if they lose.
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Yo it’s not that serious
Every week at 2100 you’re going to get 470 w corruption, 475 from the key chest w corruption
This is where the vast majority of your gear by end of patch is going to come from. Concerning yourself with other stuff is p much a waste of time
Do your raid
Cap your pvp chest
Do a 15
Make sure you get lethal strikes rank 3 and any other relevant pvp essences
That’s it. You prioritize your time with that and you’ll be fine
My main is like 470 with bad corruptions from doing this but I’m not pressed about it
Alt at 455 with better corruptions but once I do more keys/naturally over time cap things it’ll work out in the end
It’s just not worth stressing over if you’re 2100 right now there’s a ton of r1/glad types
You’re stressed over nothing
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Oh really because I did both of them and got myself a really GREAT Insignia last week and a strikethrough belt. The weak before that I got double echoing void. On my 36th run through a key I got my first corruption drop and it was avoidant.
My druid has one piece of corruption gear from a quest because he got azerite and a maledict. Please just shut up.
Another reason why this isn’t alt friendly…
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There’s like 8 months left of this patch. If you’re going to play it you’re going to have time. When you’re pushing the last few weeks for r1 or whatever it’s going to be about everything else you did leading up to that time. Corruptions scale with ilvl so your gear is likely to be all from what provides that highest ilvl drop.
your current experience in gearing is anecdotal. You don’t need to be rude to anyone. You posted this thread so you obviously wanted to talk about it. If you don’t want solutions or perspective you should have kept your pity party to yourself.
Good luck in your drops and matches 
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It is interesting though, at the beginning of BFA there was a huge backlash about azerite gear, in that players couldnt acquire specific azerite gear and had to rely on the weekly chest. Players absolutely hated it, and its why the residuum vendor was added. And yet Blizz has completely forgotten about that
Corrupted gear should absolutely be available from a vendor (beating a dead horse talking about vendors I know) so players can target effects they want, and have the ability to buy and try new effects when stuff gets nerfed/ buffed, or they are just super unlucky in RNG. Losing because someone has t3 stars and you don’t not only feels bad, but there is literally no way for you to even try and get t3 stars as well, so it just makes you frustrated and stop playing
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The sky is falling oh no
Literally shadowlands sky is falling
There’s a lot of reasons this game is garbage now.
Can’t have alts that are anywhere even close to the playing field of a main unless you have a regular solid group to crush raids and M+ with daily.
Not only is it alt unfriendly, but your main is never really finished. There’s always something else you need to farm to boost it by a significant increase, whether it be an ideal azerite setup, ideal corruption. It used to be if you were unlucky you were missing a ring or a wrist that you wanted, but it was a .9% increase so it wasn’t the end of the world. Now unless you’re a fulltime PvE player you can sometimes be missing out on 5-10% damage you need to be doing.
On top of all this someone decided all melee need enough mobility to cross 18 football fields per minute, have 100% uptime, insane dps with constant disruptive abilities allowing them to just play not to lose and be rewarded, and some range with enough shields/healing to ignore all of this. Meanwhile some specs have less mobility than they had in an era where these melee had half the mobility they have now…
It’s been bad before, but Devs are the most incompetent they have ever been.
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I thought it was scaled to the ilvl of the piece of gear that has the corruption effect on it.
Do you guys believe in karma.
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I mean it’s been getting progressively worse but the issues started 8.1, it just continued down the same trend; last season was just as miserable too, season 2 had same issues as well
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Sub rogue is op now. Idk i take it as a win. You still play a lock it cant be all that bad
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More like:
Do your raid
Cap your pvp chest
Do a 15
Do your daily uldum quests
Do your daily quest for 1500 visions
Cap your weekly invasion
Cap your other weekly invasion 2 times
Do your 3+ Vision scenarios
Do your 3 world pvp quests for trophy tokens that take multiple hours
Constantly check battle for Naz to do your weekly quest there for another token
Push rating
Do quests/dungeons/whatever for any essences you still need
Probably more I’m forgetting. Then do it all on your other characters.
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You really have no chill with that motorcycle 
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Half that list is a waste of time
Not trying to defend the patch, there’s a lot of trivial stuff we’re forced to do. But I’ve noticed a lot of people are forcing themselves to do stuff that isn’t even worth the effort
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Point out what’s a waste of time. Working for a trophy is waste? Getting cloak upgrades? Pushing rating? Capping conquest? What specifically is a waste?
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Being this bad at destro to think you actually need either of those to compete as destro is my fav gift blizzard gave me in 2020
Stars and flay aren’t even bis in PvP the stat ones are or surging vitality for a lot of specs.
Flays borderline unplayable vs R3 breath.
Stars is much less consistent than good stat or surging vitality ones as well.
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