May 18th Hotfixes - Echoes Changes with Weekly Reset, But Corruption Vendor Not Available

Live Posted 2020/05/18 at 9:20 PM by perculia

Echoes of Ny'alothaincreased costs for Rank 3 Essenceslegendary cloakMOTHERClasses

Demon Hunter

Fixed a bug that prevented Haste from reducing the global cooldown of Darkness.

Items and Rewards

Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” and “The Final Truth”

The number of Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” and “The Final Truth” quest items required for the rank 10–15 cloak quests has been reduced.

Ranks 10 and 11 now require 4 Torn Pages (was 6 and 8).

Ranks 13–15 now require 2 Torn Pages (was 4, 6, and 8).

Developer's note: This change will make each of the quests completable in a single Horrific Vision if a player completes all objectives within the instance. This should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.

Echoes of Ny'alotha

Echoes of Ny'alotha now drop after completing the quest “Beginning the Descent” and obtaining Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve.

Echoes of Ny'alotha are much more abundant than before. The droprate of Echoes of Ny'alotha and the cost to purchase items with Echoes of Ny'alotha has been increased by a factor of 5.

Developer's note: When these changes take effect, a Major Assault will award 625 Echoes of Ny'alotha, whereas before this change they awarded 125. The cost to purchase an Essence from MOTHER will also increase by the same factor, from 500 to 2500. If you are planning to purchase a Rank 3 Essence with Echoes of Ny'alotha that you've already earned, you should do so now, before these costs change.

MOTHEREchoes of Ny'alotha

Developer's note: This is to provide an additional source of access to Horrific Visions that does not require completion of Assaults.

Developer's note: After the weekly restart, characters can start building up Echoes of Ny'alotha. The Preserved Contaminants Corruption vendor items that will use this currency is in the final testing phases and we hope to have them available from MOTHER as soon as possible.

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Comment by DaedarkisThis is gonna be dope!Comment by LichokingBuying Corruption will take playing to a new levelComment by TehLucarioBit late for the vendor IMO but I'll take a late fix than no fix.Comment by darklighter775Why increase the essence purchase cost so much?Comment by Dj17companyNow apply the gcd fix to Exhilaration too, thanks!Comment by wardenmWell dang, was really hoping they'd make the talent tree quicker to progress through as well! That thing can take forever!Comment by GagxNice, can't wait to see 7 gushings in every single arena gameComment by StandinginFireWhy increase the essence purchase cost so much?uncorruptedComment by WiickedTime for a comprehensive Echoes of Ny'alotha calculatorComment by sephineUm.. excuse me. but.. i'm confused. from what i understand, because my main character is the only character on my account that has earned a R3 essense, it is not eligible to earn Echoes of Ny'alotha, since it has nothing to by from an alternate characters.

So.. how does this help me... if i cannot earn them, and probalbly should have collected about 14k, but only have 1.3k....Comment by dvisChakSo.. how does this help me... if i cannot earn them, and probalbly should have collected about 14k, but only have 1.3k....Comment by nucrusUm.. excuse me. but.. i'm confused. from what i understand, because my main character is the only character on my account that has earned a R3 essense, it is not eligible to earn Echoes of Ny'alotha, since it has nothing to by from an alternate characters.

So.. how does this help me... if i cannot earn them, and probalbly should have collected about 14k, but only have 1.3k....Comment by hulduThis should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.Comment by grayshirtIt's the end of the expansion so whatever happens at this point doesn't matter a lot but this is a horrible move for the game. Sure people want to be able to just log in and pick up their best corruptions without any fuss; but this isn't going to turn out well for the game for the remainder of this patch.

Just like 8.2 and essences; a month of two down the road the gap between the players/characters that have collected their BiS and those who have not is going to feel insurmountable by players and gonna effect the game's community massively.
Currently, if you don't have your best corruptions on a given character it's not ideal, but a ton of other players are also in that position along with you. It's the norm for players to use what they can get their hands on, as can be expected. You aren't at a significant disadvantage compared to most players for not running your BiS collection of corruptions, because they aren't either atm. But as displayed by the small number of players who are currently able to run their best corruption collection on live right now, it would be a massive boost in performance if you could.

With a vendor the situation reverses, you have a prevalent number of players running BiS and everyone else trying to play catch up and reach the start point of having the required set of corruptions to even come close to competing with how most other players will be performing after this Vendor is introduced. In a month or two the majority of players will have collected their BiS collection of corruptions and be running around with them. While other players who haven't( alts, returners, players progressing slowly, ect). are going to be at a massive disadvantage and experience the same difficulties engaging the game as we saw with Essences in 8.2. As reported by many, it wasn't a pleasant experience to feel like you were always behind the curve and the prospect of catching up to other players being insurmountably difficult.Comment by BooJohWell dang, was really hoping they'd make the talent tree quicker to progress through as well! That thing can take forever!Comment by sephine

What? How did you get 1.3k if you couldn't earn them?Comment by mergalysAnd again no fix of mage t21 myth set fix from the start of 8.3...Comment by ShouldranThis should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.Comment by FizzeltoxAre you serious Blizzard! This will help new characters? You can't clear a full vision until a specific cloak level....Dont you know your own system?Comment by zhake132This should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.

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