The corrupted items from WoW have a massive impact. But that very thing causes frustration and could even affect the “World First” race.
For almost 2 weeks now, there has been a new type of items in World of Warcraft with Patch 8.3 Visions of N’Zoth. Items can become “corrupted” upon acquisition, which gives them a negative corruption value while also bringing extremely powerful abilities. The corruption system was supposed to replace Titanforging and thus remove some of the annoying RNG factor from the game. However, the current situation is: It’s worse than ever.
What is the problem? Corrupted items can have a variety of different corruption effects. Some are only slightly useful or useful in specific situations (+3% life steal), while others can be really powerful and grant a massive boost to a secondary attribute or a passive effect that deals high damage every few seconds. This means a significant increase in player strength for affected characters. Other characters of the same class often cannot keep up.
How powerful are corruption effects? In recent days, more and more reports from players have emerged, expressing amazement at the impact these effects have on their characters. For example, a druid on Reddit demonstrated how powerful the effect “Resonating Void” can be. This effect deals damage to all nearby enemies based on the player’s maximum hit points – which is significant for tank druids. He showed the log from the fights as a tank druid – the Resonating Void accounted for nearly 50% of his damage. This means that this effect practically doubled the druid’s damage.
Effects are more powerful than Legendary items: Analyzing the various effects and simulating them quickly leads to the conclusion that certain effects are so powerful that they overshadow even the legendary items from Legion. Back then, there was frustration that certain classes without the appropriate legendary were almost 10% to 20% weaker than their counterparts with legendary items. A similar effect is now re-emerging, except that unlike the Legion legendaries, the corrupted items cannot be farmed as targeted.
This very mix of extremely powerful effects, combined with the randomness component, leads to frustration among players.
Does this mean problems for the “World First” race? These powerful items could also affect the upcoming “World First” race. Here, the best guilds in the world try to defeat N’Zoth on Mythic difficulty first. These races are among the most exciting days for many WoW fans – even though the final fight looks lame – and it would be a shame if this competition was not determined by the best guild but by the one that got the most corrupted items with the perfect bonuses.
Blizzard needs to improve: It seems obvious that Blizzard needs to make some significant improvements. If individual traits are so strong that they can double the damage of characters, then the power level of these effects is simply beyond good and evil. As cool as the corrupted effects are, they are also overwhelmingly powerful and cause frustration among players who cannot get their hands on these items. Feedback has quickly been responded to in other areas as well.
This exact scenario had already occurred with the legendaries from Legion. These were also subject to a certain amount of randomness, and only later could they be purchased deliberately. That is simply not the case with the corrupted items, which will lead all players with progression ambitions to farm content repeatedly and pray that the perfect item with the perfect corruption value drops. Let’s hope such problems do not arise with Shadowlands.
What do you think of the corrupted items and their impact? A cool innovation or extremely inappropriate?
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