Do i’m the only one who actually liked corruptions during BFA ?
Acquiring corruptions was so annoying and bad but playing with it was so interesting and fun.
For exemple on my war Tank , i could play 3 differents playstyles :
- Full Versatility in High M+ to be unkillable
- Mix for medium M+
- Full Twilight Devastation in Low M+ for full DPS but way less tanky , fun to blast low key.
The difference between those playstyle was significant in the gameplay , it felt so good . I could play my spec in totaly different manner.
I could play war tank the whole season , not getting bored fast , like in Shadowlands.
I don’t think i will ever enjoy news talents , borrowed powers , character customization, corruptions was really the peak of char optimization.
Everybody will use the same 2 stats + same talents for x , y situation .
You mean OP…
Being OP is only fun when you are winning.
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everybody had access to corruptions, i don’t understand .
corruptions was bad in pvp but it was really fun in PVE .
Corrupts like everything were not precisely balanced. I guess it goes down to what people are calling ‘meta’ now.
Gushing wound Demon Hunters still give me nightmares lol
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It was absolutely garbage if you didn’t get the right corruption. And no borrowed power should do passive 50-70% of you dmg “ Infinite Stars” was totally token. And same goes to “ Twilight Devastation”!
I do think that corruption was the worst part of Bfa by miles! Poorly implemented system!
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They were sort of fun but awful for the game.
They completely detached your performance from your “ability”. You’d have some eejit doing nothing till he gets a lucky twilight dev proc and then screaming “LOL LOOK AT MY DAMAGES I PWN!!!”
Corruptions were “borrowed” power yet you claim to hate them. I admire the consistency.
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Not to start with. It was a lottery ticket until they slowly fixed it, and even then it was BS because having a spell that’s not even part of your class abilities doing upwards of 50% of your damage was boring
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Until they added the vendor and even then with the BS rotation, corruption was horrible.
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Corruption was unbalanced, but it could be very interesting and fun in PvE.
BTW this topic reminded be of a gem from Carbot:
Here is the example I always give.
I had returned to the game at the end of Legion for BFA.
I had gotten to grips with Azerite armor. Seemed pretty fun, some options were rubbish, some were good, Icy Viens said use this or that trait.
I go AFK for a while since I work abroad, I come back and there is this new thing called Essences. I got a few, I just slotted them as I got them and didn’t think any thing of it. I got AFK again for a while.
Pandemic hits, I need to return home. That’s okay, new WoW patch is out, and they are talking about this thing called Corruption. First thing I do is run a Heroic Warfront because man I really want that Transmog! I get the gloves I wanted and sweet its got 75 Corruption on it! I deleted my old gloves and went out World Questing…
I didn’t log into that Character again for months. If I didn’t have other alts to play, I probably would have just quit.
Eventually I worked out that if I did a Legendary questline which could take an hour or two (too long just to play the game anyway) I could start earning currency to remove the Corruption from my Equipment.
No, Corruption was a terrible terrible thing. It was an unnecessary complication to the game, just like any borrowed power system has been.
Azerite armor was a cool flavour as someone returning. But now as a more experienced Modern WoW player, I can understand why people didn’t like, since I don’t like any of the borrowed power systems since then.
They were fun when you had them but annoying af to get on an alt
I didn’t enjoy corruption as a system.
I only liked corruptions because it made my resto shaman playable again with enough versatility.
I think for pvp corruptions were a disaster.
Full versa corruption in pvp+essence when you got stunned you got 50% more versa calculated from what you already had and multiplied by items you know they had like 12% 9% etc. I was unkillable in pvp in that season basicaly. You could reach 80%+ versa with procs for example. Also Infinite stars, i played ret single target build/gear set that stacked crit/haste, if you got good rng With Infinite stars proc it was Easy 99% parse and 1st place in meter no matter what. Fun times haha. Corruption was fun actualy when i think back on it, If it had vendor since start of season it would be best system ever basicaly. Farm currency, buy any corrupted item you want and have fun.
I loved it purely because, as a BM Hunter, I was basically a God because they were so overpowered at that time.
How the mighty have fallen…
Great idea, implemented poorly. Like most stuff that comes from WOW these days.
I view Corruptions as one of the worst things Blizzard ever put into the game. I hate them. The fact that you’re getting punished for getting an upgrade is so, so stupid to me that I can’t even put into words how dumb I think that decision was.
If they only had positive effects, I still wouldn’t have liked them, simply because of the theme; I don’t want shadowy/tentacle/dark powers on my hunter. It just doesn’t make sense to me. But at least I wouldn’t have hated them the way I did.
The problem with corruptions is that besides being a burrowed power, they weren’t class specific and accounted for too much of your character power, especially in the form of passive procs. It created the problem where your class kinda stopped mattering, whether you had the BiS corruption was more important.
