I think whatever designer taught "randomly slowed during combat" was a fun mechanic needs a high-five... to the face... with a chair.
Performance should be something you earn, not something you just randomly get rewarded for being lucky. For corruptions, first you had to be lucky to get your rank 3 BiS corruption in the correct item and/or slot that you wanted it in. Then corruptions would randomly proc and do their thing without any direct interaction from you, which felt really weird, and bad. You didn't feel like you deserved to be dealing more damage or whatever, because it was simply out of your control. I didn't like to be doing my normal rotation and see stuff happening because... well, reasons I guess? The same applies for debuffs, of course. Someone could be very unlucky in say, arenas, and be punished for just having any amount of corruption on your gear. Of course, this was something you signed in for, but not really since opting out of the corruption system (cleansing your gear) meant choosing to just underperform, which is something you want to avoid at all costs in every competitive aspect of the game. Considering all the above, did corruption succeed in patch 8.3? I will be super clear: No, it did not. Could it have been improved? Yes. The implementation of a vendor was indeed an improvement, although it wasn't enough to fix the system since corruption itself was poorly designed from beginning. People wanted to get rid of warforging/titanforging because of its RNG nature. What we got instead was another system purely based on RNG. I will be honest in one thing though: the idea of being more powerful but taking a risk for that borrowed power from the enemy (debuffs) was kinda fun.
I didn't like it as an idea before they introduced 8.3, and I didn't like it during 8.3 launch. Still I think it is a bad idea with a vendors that sell those corruptions.
it failed big time xD
considering I ignored it pre and post vendor implementation... yea I'll go with nothe concept is great though it's just the the execution was horrible
It succeeded, alright. Succeeded at being absolutely awful, corruption's burial is due.
Pretty big article for the word "no".
It was terrible, and it took me 3 months of endless grinding to catch up after barely taking a break from the game. First break in 10 years, was only 2-3 months, and it was because I couldn't get the corruption I needed, so I got sat. I didn't like my guild anyway, so when I returned I aimlessly looked around for a new guild to no avail even though I'm a previously 95+ percentile player. I quit before the vendor was even thought about, and when it was added I didn't even want to come back because it felt like compromising, and I am SICK of compromising with blizzards poorly designed systems. Stop adding borrowed power, it's NOT fun, and it's my biggest gripe with shadowlands. Also rng sockets and gouged eyes! Grinds, grinds that DO NOT need to exist. Just put sockets back on gear again? wtf? All it means, is that people can funnel their stats better and people need to pay their like. 20g to put a gem into their gear? What's so bad about that? JC is a joke now too because of it.A previously high percentile player, because of corruption, was looked at as a project that isn't worth the time to prog end bosses. Eventually I landed in a really good environment filled with some previously famed players who just came back at the end of the xpac to get ready for shadowlands and figure out what they're playing. They were making a new guild to pull people together. Great group, honestly wouldn't have kept playing this xpac if not for them. They were insanely surprised I kept up with their main raiders even though I was an outlaw rogue who was like 10 ilvls behind and still needed like 6-7 cloak upgrades to be fully caught up.
Removed
Corruption worst thing that Blizzard ever made. All those millions of gold that top gladiators have spend to buy items with wounds corruption....(pay to win)...And suddenly one day that corruption got a nerfed...
Remove corruption from WQ rewards and give us an easy way (w/o doing a long, tedious quest) to remove corruption, then we are talking
Was there not a period of time where the stats on gear was random as well? I feel like this was a thing. I don't know when it started, but it was definitely there at the beginning of legion. Part of the reason I quit then was because the stats I needed on gear refused to drop and I fell so far behind that no one would take me into content.
Yeah, the corruption really turned me off from even bothering with endgame after N'zoth escaped. I did the final battle ONCE on my warlock, then I just couldn't be bothered to do it again. If I really wanna see the Black Empire fall again, I can just watch it on youtube.
It was fun to f around with once the vendors were in but it was too chaotic and caused way too many issues.
Putting far too much power in a system like this, along with horrendously annoying (at times unfair, for more immobile casters) downsides to said power, and making it all random? No. No, no, no, no, NO! Corruption were one of the absolute worst system the game's had, and the game is far better off when the prepatch arrives, and it goes into the big book marked "Why BFA Can Burn For Eternity. Volume VII". I have felt nothing but grief and hatred about it. Even when I managed to use it to get a ton of haste, which finally made Demo Lock feel better, it still felt like a miserable thing to do, just to fix the issue that Blizzard themselves implemented.Farewell Corruption, and may your grave be deep.
nah homie... corruption was a disaster
Did the opposite of what it tried to replace, there really was no upside. Additionally, how did Blizzard not see how some of the corruptions would be exploited?
"I personally find the percentage of damage that can be attributed to Corruption and the annoyance of the drawbacks to be very minor complaints" You should be banned from ever writing an opinion piece for this one
Pre-vendor it was just outright terrible. Post vendor it was a lot better and unlocked the true potential of the system. However the rotation felt bad in that if you missed your window you had to wait weeks. However they should have been turned off in PvP. For PvE though it was very fun. Though I'm more then ready for Shadowlands and will look back on corruptions with mixed feelings.
The entire 8.3 patch was met with the stain of the Horrific Visions being mandatory for every single person, no matter what end game you preferred. I never enjoyed a single one of those and there was no way to gear up or progress in the game without doing them and upgrading your cloak because corruptions were just too powerful to ignore.