Who in the dev team thought that there wasnt enough complaints about RNG upon RNG to think for a second that adding a cycling RNG vendor to fix the appalling design that is corruption, was a good idea? Who?
Why on earth and what does it serve to have this vendor cycle? Other that breed frustration that in one week a player didnt have the currency for purchase and need to wait god knows how long for it to reappear on the vendor?
I am baffled.
PS: cant you for the love of all that is holy fix the bug that makes the gear that we got in the weekly chest the previous week impossible to re-corrupt? can you please? can you?
PS2: for the blue guy reading this. I apologize profusely for the tone. This is not directed at you and is an indication, if any, of the many frustrations that have been mounting among the player base for many month.
Yeeeep. Exactly my feeling. I wasn’t aware of it, showed up to MOTHER to find out that you in fact couldn’t just get the corruption you wanted (not even the rank you want, what a joke).
I’d like to make a toast to my past self from yesterday, who heard about a corruption vendor and thought the game would be fun again before Shadowlands. Haaaaa I was so naive back then :’)
Just pure old timegating. They want this xpack to remain relevant a bit longer and just giving you everything on the vendor would be counter productive. Gives you a reason to stay subbed longer i guess.
Also prevents players from stacking gushing wounds or similar corruptions to an obscene degree on day one and then proceed to crush anyone who didn’t gather 20+k echoes in the past few months.
Just check the us forums (wasn’t posted yet on eu i think), it’s already fixed for recently cleansed items.
I assume the corruptions available cycle just like how Orgrimmar/Stormwind Visions cycle, so Set A of corruptions in week 1, Set B of corruptions in week 2, then back to Set A corruptions in week 3
Not really RNG, but also feels like it’s unnecessary unless corruption was already designed to only give a specific set of corruptions based on the week, but that seems just as unlikely as seeing a cycle as a good idea
Only recently cleansed items. My best items were cleansed more than 3 weeks ago. They cannot be corrupted anymore. Thus my entire frustration with corruption not dropping for my toon, I am now slapped by another harsh penalty: hey, you see those nice items you got from weekly chest and had to clean because of the horrendeous corruption on them? Well you wont be able to corrupt them!
It seems as though that’s not going to be the case.
There are 52 corruptions and only 6 show up on the vendor at a time. The vendor changes twice a week (with the assault resets i think). This means it will take 5 weeks to cycle through all corruptions if they are on a strict rotation. If they show up randomly then who knows how long you may have to wait for the corruption you want
Because the cyclical availability is BFA in a nutshell, rares, world bosses, world quests, zone quests, dailies, events, island boxes, and now corruptions.
I don’t think theres more to it than that since every other area of BFA works in cycles that they made this work the same.
I’d rather they hadn’t given us corruption at all
The problem isn’t the lack of vendors, those vendors simply mitigate the amount of bad that is corruption
I’ve stopped playing the game beyond RP myself because my care about power progression is at an all time low, I don’t think that was Blizzards intention with Corruption for some reason
Their logic on corruption rotation is silly. I’d use other words but then I’d get silenced again. Having all corruptions available at all times would be a much better solution. I could try stacking haste on my DH, stacking Inf Truth on my dh to use meta every 60 seconds, go for full haste build on FROST mage and what not. I’d have so much fun grinding echoes and trying different builds but blindsided blizzard has to timegate everything.
They trying to motivate us do things now and not in our own pace. For example if I want multiple pieces of +12% haste corruption I have to run a lot of visions now, or I might have to wait month or two before it appears on vendor again.
