Overall the team is happy with how corruption turned out, but there are still tuning issues. They like the choices and trade-offs that it brings to fights.*
There are multiple tiers of each corruption so that you can wear more pieces of gear with good corruption without having excessive corruption negatives attached.*
Corruption is an 8.3 system and is NOT the future of WoW."*
They seem to be doubling down on their choices for the game. Do you think thatâs a good thing? Discuss!
Edit: I cringe every time I read âthe teamâ. Seems like blizzard has fallen in love with this expression in recent years.
The system is good in principle and as a proof-of-concept. Itâs fun to have something else to think about when figuring out what to slap on your character. Itâs fun juggling your corruption budget. Once you have a wide array of pieces, itâs fun to figure out the best combinations for different situations.
However, the problems with the system are many, should have been blatantly obvious to the development team and include:
the acquisition method being completely random,
the different effects being vastly different in terms of power
corruption on BoEs that, for the first time in the game, makes it so you can buy BiS gear with your credit card
all of the effects being random, passive procs that donât change your gameplay in any way and just make big numbers appear on your screen
the system being very impenetrable and unintuitive to the casual player and requiring excessive simming to figure out what the pieces do, which leads to a not insignificant portion of the playerbase just slapping on random crap or, even worse, cleansing everything because they cba and thus massively gimping their characters
As I said, the Corruption system is a nice proof of concept. Thing is, we already had that proof of concept figured out and perfected with Legion Legendaries, which, by the end of that expansionâs lifecycle, were superior design-wise to Corruption in every conceivable sense. Corruption design not taking into account any of the lessons learned with Legion Legendaries feels like we are taking one step forward, but two steps back.
This is a pretty stupid logic sorry to say. If you think Ion CAN decide anything alone (or he decides anything on his own) you donât really have a clue how product development works.
I will remain brief, but wanted to say that I agree with your post - both the concept being nice, interesting and promising, and the weaknesses why it does not work from my POV.
You should always provide a link to interviews so that interested readers can check the context out for themselves, even when it isnât at the top of the page any more.
I have said in many other threads that Corruption is a great idea, but it needs more iteration. I love the feeling of risk and reward I get from corrupted gear, and it made gear much more interesting than flat item level and flat stats. The previous system was just boring.
If a corruption-like system comes back in Shadowlands (though it seems not likely right now), it needs to be less RNG and grant players more options and agency for the type of gear they want. For example, if a player is not lucky enough to get an item they want, there should be an alternative way to get it like spending a certain currency. That could be a compromise between the âluckâ aspect of the game and also making sure players have options.
Vast majority of the complaints around corruption are RNG, and rather than tossing the baby out with the bath water, that is something which can be fixed.
I like Corruption. Think itâs great. The only nit-picking I have is that I wish there was more variety in the negative effects of having too much Corruption. I kind of like the idea of not just choosing your medicine, but also your poison.
But yeah, great item design system. Love it. I hope they continue exploring such engaging item design in Shadowlands as well.
The corruption part starts at 23min and the summary doesnât really do it justice. Iâd suggest you watch it tho, it feels much more genuine than the BFA Q&A.
People should actually listen to the interview instead of the written version. I really liked what Ion said when it comes their thought process regarding this. What Sholah said is right, the summary doesnât do it justice.
The healerâs poison, not your own. Iâd have a more positive view if the negative corruption effects reduced the dps of the wearer. But as it is now, damage dealers stack up on corruption and the healers compensate for it.
I think thatâs a great part of the design. How much Corruption you run around with actually means something to your group as a whole. You can play around with it. We saw both Limit and Method have players who stacked crazy high Corruption levels just to do more dps. High risk and high reward. Thatâs an interesting element to gearing, as opposed to just equipping whatever has the highest item level.
Thatâs not to say that it isnât without flaws. The fact that you canât see what other players are taking damage from as a healer is pretty confusing.
It feels reminiscent of the old days where you had resist gear. Back then it was also common to sometimes have a few players who didnât stack full resistance, just so you could get more dps. And of course that whole gamble relied on the ability of the healers to keep people alive.
Itâs a bit like that, just in reverse.
Ikr, i tried stacking corruption on my alt to see how far it would get, got quite dissapointed
1st slow, because blizzard has a slow fettish
2nd is an eyeball ring, bcuz theres not enough melee favoritsm ⌠yeah i know, you can blink n stuff, but its much less annoying on my melees than casters
personally, I really like corruption and ive made quite a bit selling boes with stars or other desirable corrutopn effects.
Shame to see it go but the reward versus ooer is a good idea and, whilst I donât want it permanently, Id like to see It stay for a good while.
To make something amazing you have to make sacrifices.
Blizz has made so many of those in favor of the Activision, that Shadowlands just has to be amazing. But forums be forums and people around forums are never clear about what they really want.
I know tho that I want flails. Flails and crusader aesthetics for Paladins
