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 Grigory432Are 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 TorntuskaI dont understand why the essence price needs to change too and I wouldnt call that "alt" friendly, but Blizzard are good at removing "fun" from their game so no real supriseComment by HaelthyrAlthough I'm incredibly grateful for the catch up mechanic, it certainly makes players regret getting all their rank 3s on their main toon. I get that the increase cost/drop is intending to "balance" the system a little in terms of Main toons not feeling weeks behind, but I know people who have more than enough echos just sitting there already saved up that'll launch them ahead simply because they didn't see the value in getting that one last essence. TLDR I suppose is I'm sad my friends were smarter than I was to not buy all the essences they'll never use and just let them echos pile up over the weeks.

This should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.I hope this doesn't come across as rude at all eitherComment by BorotvaFor those who started whining about buying the corruptions: Those, who fought their way to the challenge artifact skins in legion, felt much worse guys... We farmed the perfect legendaries for ages, we farmed the AP until our eyes just popped out of our head and then we could get that artifact skin by completing a hell annoying fight when the mage tower finally opened! What happened at the end of expansion? Blizz decided to make those skins no value at all... legendary vendor, and nonstop mage tower availability...

Now you guys keep crying because you got some RNG luck and got the best corruptions and it'll be availabe to buy at the end of an expansion... I love the logic of these kiddos nowadays -,-Comment by SarthoriusWhy increase the essence purchase cost so much?uncorruptedUm.. 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 borntoburnthe question is what about me that i only play one charecter and it has no Echoes of Ny’alotha? i have to start farming it when the patch releases,but
other people have alot of Echoes of Ny’alotha that can buy corruption items with stored Echoes of Ny’alotha.
this is unfair.blizzard should give the players that only play with one charecter the amount of Echoes of Ny’alotha they could earn at their play time if their char was an alt.Comment by ZeepsneeftProbably good, you can already gather them if you didnt before.Comment by hrlqnwell, thanks for the long notice Blizzard.
Echoes on alts who haven't had the chance to acquire essences since the main hasn't farmed level three yet are now worthless. More months of pointless farrming ahead and happy subscribing.Comment by wardenmIt's a small thing, but every time there's a Horrific Visions change, I -really- wish they'd make the Vessels required to enter stack, rather than each take up a seperate bag space.Comment by EighjanSo; will this mean that - effective Realm restart - EVERY character will now earn Echoes, even if they have ZERO Essences they are eligible to buy?
I have not unlocked (read unlikely to even bother unlocking) any of the PvP or Raid Essences, so am not getting any Echoes on several of my characters... I'm happy for this status quo to continue this side of any Corruption vendor being available in the game; even that is of questionable use, to me, at least.

Further to my post elsewhere, feel free to file this comment under "rhetorical", as Wowhead has no way to let me know that anyone HAS replied/otherwise referenced it.Comment by EighjanIt's a small thing, but every time there's a Horrific Visions change, I -really- wish they'd make the Vessels required to enter stack, rather than each take up a seperate bag space.Comment by Darknessvamp Echoes of Ny'alotha now drop after completing the quest “ Beginning the Descent” and obtaining Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve.Comment by Sarthoriusthe question is what about me that i only play one charecter and it has no Echoes of Ny’alotha? i have to start farming it when the patch releases,but
other people have alot of Echoes of Ny’alotha that can buy corruption items with stored Echoes of Ny’alotha.
this is unfair.blizzard should give the players that only play with one charecter the amount of Echoes of Ny’alotha they could earn at their play time if their char was an alt.UnfairnessIt's a small thing, but every time there's a Horrific Visions change, I -really- wish they'd make the Vessels required to enter stack, rather than each take up a seperate bag space.Comment by badmilkUm.. 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 ken68mThanks for the 12 hour notice...Comment by kaherdin91Rank 9-10...4 pages in a single run, for a 450 ilvl char...let's see.Comment by atrasiai abandoned my quest from 14 to 15 quest and got the quest again and it still requires 8 pages , hot fix not applied yet or ...?Comment by Yesendrai abandoned my quest from 14 to 15 quest and got the quest again and it still requires 8 pages , hot fix not applied yet or ...?Comment by TrabucoQuest for rank 13 still asks for 4 pages after abandoning itComment by EasoRealms should have been restarted in EU, however, it looks like the quest for rank 15 still asks for 8 pages instead of 2. Hmm...

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