World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Burns
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The new corruption system has exactly the same RNG power issues the lego system in Legion had and it is going to be funny for the class rankings everyone uses (by looking at logs at Warcraft Logs). The better players and guilds will probably push corruption levels as a whole, as far as the healers can manage, leading to some wild swings in the parses.
TJT
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It's going to make pugs and lower tier guilds hilariously awful though.Even more than they usually are. The average player doesn't sim gear or anything so every increase in corruption is just going to cause them to die more often.
Imagine having to handhold every single player in your guild when it comes to corruption and gear and how to manage it.
Imagine having to handhold every single player in your guild when it comes to corruption and gear and how to manage it.
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Have to amend this. Got a WQ reward - a 410 ring with +60 corruption and Echoing Void, which looks like a nice effect but not sure the ilvl drop is worth it.Same here. And I've gotten azerite gear that requires 25 corruption to activate. Nowhere close to that, especially with the cloak adding corruption resistance. I've gotten gloves twice from the weekly assault reward.
xzi
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That's what I really don't understand - the system is good if it wasn't random but they just HAD to fuck that up too.
I defend Blizzard about a lot of shit, even corrupted items when they were dropping as corrupted items on the PTR, but what the fuck? How the fuck am I going to get like 7 pairs of gloves and NONE of them corrupt
Merrith
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I have to say...in general I think the corruption system is fun in trying to figure out what sort of drawbacks you can deal with, more cleave/AoE v. single target options...but the whole RNG of it all is no different than Titanforging. Some corruption pieces are barely a blip effect wise, others are basically game breaking. I'm sure they'll nerf/buff stuff slowly but it's just another silly version of a loot crate system where you're just hoping to roll the good shit. Still find Visions fun, but the daily ones are already old and once you start needing 1k+ mementos per upgrade for the horrific talents, staying in any later than just doing whatever the quest is for the daily is kinda pointless.
Big Phoenix
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Rime
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- Damage dealt by Infinite Stars, Twisted Appendages, and Gushing Wound (Corrupted Effects) is now based on the item level of a Corrupted item, rather than scaling dynamically with Attack Power and Spell Power.
- Developers’ note: Previously the damage dealt by these powers was modified by Attack Power and Spell Power, which meant that certain specialization abilities or random bonuses could cause drastic swings in their effectiveness. Infinite Stars in particular was too strong against single targets as a result of this and other factors. This change also adjusts Infinite Stars base damage accordingly, as the scaling method was one of the primary factors behind some of the extreme outliers we saw in our logs and from player feedback. Our goal with this change and other adjustments to Corruption powers is to improve parity in the effectiveness per point of Corruption of the different bonuses available on Visions of N’Zoth items
Araxen
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Was that before Ion though?
I honestly don't get how he is still at the helm of WoW. He's literally put out the worst WoW expansion ever, and they kept him on to do the next one. It's like no one at Blizzard is held accountable for anything.
Dalien
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Yeah I remember that interview it was during Legion, one of those things they were going to fix with BFA, making it so you didn't have to run a spreadsheet simulator to see if something you looted was an upgrade or not. From what little I've played from BFA it's even worse now.
No worries though, lessons were learned, it'll be alright next time guys don't worry.
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The whole company culture seems to revolve around polishing someone elses ideas. So there is literally no one left to innovate (in a true market leader sense), as all the innovative people burn out from having to justify themselves to management. Most likely with having to come up with examples of "how this already worked out".
Creative types will inevitably quit such an environment, and lawyer types thrive. But hey, now that FFXIV made Shadowbringers they can finally copy someone else again.
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Bondurant
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Ukerric
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I was watching Bellular talking about the state of Blizzard:
Basically, Blizzard is currently engaged in a race to bottom. Cut costs, screw quality or care. "If nothing else, we'll relaunch a new set of Classic servers in 2 years."
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Subs are down, but player engagement is up and engagement usually means more micro transaction/services revenues. They've also been outsourcing more and more work, and cutting costs.