I have been enjoying corruption, but the extra layers of RNG have issues too.
My fave game with corruption is showing up to raid glowing red and having the healers giving me the “stink eye”. lol. Putting on 208 corruption shortly before the first pull of the night is funny.
But in the same token, I didn’t mind WF/TF either. So meh.
Well said - lots of friends are already dropping because they just don’t want to deal with the corruption system and the continued layers of RNG behind WoW’s gearing system.
Their game vision is mudwimping. They’re changing the game to align it more perfectly with their vision of what it ought to have been if devs in BC hadn’t shifted to trying to make the game more profitable by making it fun so as to attract more customers.
http://www.memorableplaces.com/mudwimping.htmlStatic ilevel gear with no Corruption are not exciting anymore with 8.3. Wearing various corruption combos is exciting and new. Your bracers, gloves, belt, leggings, boots, 2 rings, weapon and shield slot could hold a Corrupted gear. You could fashion different combination of Corruptions depending on the fight. I have 7x Corruption Combination with differing Corruption levels including the 200 Corruption Suicide Gear. The Twilight Devastation gear combo is powerful but it is being challenged by my multiple stats multiplier Corruption combo gear which is more accurate on hitting targets from far safe distance.
There are tons of scenarios where I am unkillable. It’s getting old. Putting max corruptions on those scenarios made the game alive again for me. Wearing max Corruption on PvE World, Heroic Warfront, Island Expedition and even on Raid Trash would become more fun. Stat titanforging may only give me 70k AoE DPS but with Corruption, you’ve never seen me do 200k… then thing from beyond proc after proc… as I get rid of it continuously amid all the chaos on front of my screen. It was so FUN. Titanforging wont ever be able to replace the Corruption engaging mechanics.
Only part of the game population agrees with you. Corruption is definitely new. “Exciting”? Many would say no. This is a subjective opinion you are expressing.
In all likelihood the only people who like corruptforging are a fraction of high end raiders.
Titanforging was only ever an issue here. A minority of players make a majority of noise.
Negative effects of Corruption can be negated in various ways. People could choose not to wear them. Those people wont need much Corruption anyway becoz they wont do hard stuff.
Yup not all favors Corruption. Not all favor Titanforging. Not all favor with no titanforging/corruption. There is no such system where everyone would be happy. WoW population is so big. It’s impossible to implement any new stuff that would please everyone. There would always be groups that would be displeased.
Even Mythic+, many says only fraction do those. Heroic Raid? Many says only fraction do those well. It’s okay for Corruption to be accepted by a fraction of players too as most of its users are Mythic+ and Heroic/Mythic Raiders.
But Corruptions are accessible to all. The noobs can choose not to use them. The noobs just wont accept the fact that the game have entertaining and challenging difficulties after all these years. They are welcome to step up and join the challenges.
In another game’s forum, where more communication takes place, forum players demanded that the devs should give them what they wanted because this was an issue that people cared about, and there was a player consensus.
The response was that elite players were overrepresented on the forums, and disproportionately responded to certain issues in which they had a stack in getting certain changes implemented, changes that were actually overall bad for the game, as they would put the majority of players at a disadvantage.
Did a single TF piece ever break the game or become a requirement for high end content? Corruption forging is just bad the way it is. It should have been like Sha weapons in MoP where you got a corruption slot and then bought the corruption effect. They also need more then a little balancing.
I feel Corruptforging is worse than Titanforging because it adds more layers of RNG. With Titanforging, it was how many more ilvls can you score. With Corruption, it’s which corruption do you get, which level of the corruption and when does that corruption proc during a fight. So much RNG.
Here’s a video that I just watched that covers how much RNG is in the current game and how there’s so much RNG it actually lags the experience.
Hopefully Blizzard has used BFA as a learning experience. Maybe the developers will be looking to simplify the game rather than add so many layers of RNG and game systems that it actually hurts the players.
People who choose not to wear corrupted gear have less gear available to them. This is an effective nerf of the drop rate of usable gear for them.
“Can’t please everybody, so screw them” is actually not a sound business strategy.
8.3 is targeting a tiny fraction of players and excluding the majority from content. Does that make it feel more “epic” to you that most players are not participating in end game?
You keep framing the issues as “corruptions are ‘available’ to all”. It’s not. A good fraction of what would be upgrades is now unusable to any player that does not have the cloak. This results in increasingly slower gear progression, and it makes it less likely that they will get the cloak.
You are the one who refuses to accept that others should have content. It’s all about you and the 2% of players this Ionforging is targeting.
People who pay to play the game should have content. Putting all resources for this patch into content that is intended for a minority of players, most of whom hate it but are doing it because they have no choice, is a bad business decision on Blizzard’s part.
They’re scratching their heads and wondering why everybody doesn’t have the cloak. Why did so many people get it and then not upgrade it? Why are casuals not doing it despite having desirable corruptions in their bags?
It can’t be that people have considered and decided it’s not worth it. It must be that people don’t know how to get it. Let’s start a thread telling them how to get it! Let’s start a poll to make it look like everybody’s getting it!
I’m sure you’ll enjoy Shadowlands. 8.3 is the alpha for Shadowlands. Expect more of the same, including players leaving because they can’t understand why the devs took a successful game and turned it into one hardly anybody wants to play.
I like both systems for different reasons. Titanforging way a great way to make older content somewhat relevant. If your down on your luck, a person can step outside their normal content to have a shot at something better. If you have to gear someone in older content, what the heck you might get something too. Corruption brings a flare to the mundane. It makes a person think about what they have and is the pro better than the con tot he item\items.
We will always have people that complain about everything. We will always have people that don’t care in the least and everything in between. I’d like to see both with some kind of balance that makes most of the people ok with the idea. I have no idea what is in store or the big plan, if there is one. But I’m glad Blizzard is not afraid to try different things to keep the game from getting stale.
There are tons of content… All the turtle games, all the world quest mini games scattered around the world. There are Normal dungeons. There are heroic dungeons. There is LFR. Those are EASY content to play. They want hard content? Step up and play the hard content. What do you want? You want Mythic Raiding difficulty accessible to noobs? Mythic +15 accessible to noobs? High Corruption Twilight Dev Rank 3 accessible to noobs?
I’m just too confused by this whole new system. Not only can I not tell which piece of gear is better, now there are also azurite traits that increase stats with increase corruption level, so there’s really no way to tell whether or not I should equip something unless I want to spend 30 minutes simming and then re-simming every time I get any other piece of gear. I’m just sick of it. I get something in the middle of a raid and now I have 5 seconds to determine if I should roll on something.
Just bring back something similar to valor we can use to beef our gear up long-term. A deterministic reward and long-term playability.
This isn’t hard Blizzard.
Because they don’t want to make it that easy for us anymore
Each expansion has new feature and new game mechanics. Legion has Artifact Weapon and Legendaries. If you denied your artifact weapon and denied those legendaries during Legion, you would realize how boring the game was.
Same thing on BFA. BFA has its own features and mechanics. If you deny your neck, your cloak and deny the essences and the Corruption feature, good luck on finding the game fun.
You must be on a wrong game if you are not with the game features and its mechanics.
Ilevel 445 welfare epics are raining from multiple sources. If you cant beat rank 1 cloak quest with welfare epics, no need for you to continue the game. Why would you cry for more gear or shinier loots? What would you use it for?
The horrific vision has advancing research tree to make it easier. If you find running vision so hard, focus on putting points on the research tree. Those people bragging on beating horrific visions with multiple masks didnt beat it just by with their gear or skill. They filled the whole research tree; that’s why they beat the horrific visions so easily. Noobs should be aware of this. Horrific Vision is easy becoz of research tree. Dont bang your head on it. Play smart.
Lucky you? A lot of ppl cant even break 150 corruption with ALL their gear on due to bad rng.
Your a lucky one. I keep getting hot garbage.
What are you even arguing here? Why would gear not be useable if all of it corrupted? You realize you can remove the corruption right for basically free.
As opposed to points in the game where “melee” was the top source of dmg…
So like essences… for gear. You are asking for more grind? I like it, GD won’t.