The best corruption of World of Warcraft is heavily nerfed. You should seriously consider whether you want to buy it.
The corruption system in World of Warcraft is quite controversial. However, with the introduction of a vendor for corruption effects, one of those effects is significantly weakened. Many fans are unhappy with this decision, although Blizzard provides good reasons for it.
What is changing? The effect of the corruption of “Gushing Wounds” is reduced by a whopping 35%, making it deal significantly less damage than before.
Why was Gushing Wounds so strong? The corruption Gushing Wounds was an outlier among the effects. For a relatively low corruption value, it provided a pretty strong DPS increase. In almost all classes, Gushing Wounds was the most powerful in many situations – whether against single targets or entire groups.
Why is Blizzard nerfing this? As there is now a vendor for corruption effects in World of Warcraft, the developers had to tone down Gushing Wounds a bit. Otherwise, all players would have just bought and used Gushing Wounds from the new vendor since, in most simulations, it is the best corruption overall. Now players have a greater variety and need to prepare for different encounters.
Blizzard has stated about this:
We try to make such changes only during the intervals of a balance patch, but currently Gushing Wounds is the most efficient corruption. In the past, when making changes to corruption effects, we decided to leave Gushing Wounds as it was because there is only one rank and the corruption was relatively hard to obtain.
However, with the introduction of a vendor for corruption effects, we expect that large amounts of Gushing Wounds will be even more effective than Infinite Stars, which has a disadvantage when fighting multiple targets.
The goal is clear – no corruption effect should be the perfect choice in every situation.
When is the nerf coming? The nerf of Gushing Wounds is expected to come next week, earliest on May 26. It will probably coincide with the maintenance work on May 27.
What do you think about this nerf? A necessary evil? Or a clear case of “fun detected”?
