More random for the GOD OF RANDOM! (no, please,worst upgrade system ever)
Corruption is horrid, Lets say your guild has 3 of X class... 25 raiders total only 20 raid spots.. 2 of those raiders get BiS corruption giving them an extra bunch of free DPS (inf stars anyway?). The one person without will get benched, while they are benched the others are gearing and they are falling behind even more. When the do finally get that OP corruption the others not only also have that but now better gear also! I know i know..... The only guilds that should worry about that are method, limit etc etc...... But here is the thing, WoW is a competitive game. Even though its a dumb as hell requirements like that exist in almost every serious guild and crap like this is and will always happen. It happened with legendarys in Legion, it happened with neck levels in BFA and essences (at least those were not RNG, just required you to play like the game was a second job) and now its happening with something thats totally RNG, so RNG infact the guy/girl who puts 2hs into the game outside of raiding can get lucky, the guy/girl who plays like a second job may never see it.... Cheers blizz...
I would take Titanforging over this corruption bull%^&* ANYDAY.And the damn resistance is time-gated which means you have to #$%^ing deal with the stupid corruption debuffs. Besides, Titanforging at least gave you an incentive to do the lower tiers of a raid, etc. Now? You might as well skip to them and never bother because you get 445 items everywhere.Corruption is TF RNG but worse in every sense. Most corruptions are useless and just there to $%^& you over with RNG. Others are soo OP that if you don't get them then you are punished. Congratz to those who whined about Titanforging, you got us an EVEN WORSE system. ''Oh I don't want those casuals to get higher ilvl by luck. That would get my e-pen soft...''
I've heard a ton of disdain for the Corruption system. Ignoring the acquisition portion of it. I quite like it personally. I think of it similar to the Legiondary system where the actual effects and gameplay with the item are fun, however the acquisition of the pieces is just a random overload. This is coming from someone who doesn't have enough corruption to get to the minimum 25 threshold to use Heart of Darkness. (Thank you for giving me 5 corrupted gloves. I really needed more than 1)
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I actually think the corruption system is fine. Rng used to be even more impactful, like a legendary drop in BC. Then Blizzard changed it so you had to slowly progress towards legendaries but people didn't like it either. Here's your rng back but imho it's an improved version. It reminds me of Legion's legendaries except there's no drop-rate diminishing. You get some corruption, wear it, then you get something better but you can't wear every corrupted piece if you have many of them, so you purge the weakest. You basicly slowly improving your gear. Of course someone will get a better corruption first but it's not as crucial as old legindaries were. The negative effects is a good way to limit the amount of corruption, it makes this system much better for most people because with WF/TF you could be grinding forever trying to get every piece of gear WF/TF'ed.
Everyone looking at that 1.96% chance to get a specific corruption and saying WF/TF was way better is overlooking one massive part of the system. With corruption you have 7 chances to get that perfect item since you can only really equip 1 tier 3 corrupted piece. Compare that to before where you wanted every piece of gear to be max titanforged and the amount of RNG difference between the two systems is way way smaller. You can also equip several lesser corrupted pieces to get close to the effect of 1 tier 3 piece.So stop freaking out about nothing. The only thing wrong with the corruption system is how badly it was tuned before going live.