Corruption
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WoW
How to unlock Corruption head enchants from Return to Horrific Visions
WoW players have finally gotten access to one of the major features of patch 11.1.5 — the Bronze Dragonflight has come to Dornogal to usher in…
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Discussion
What would it take for you to join up with the Old Gods?
The Old Gods appear all throughout World of Warcraft. They’ve been some of the most memorable bosses and have twisted the very landscape around them to be…
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Discussion
What games have used borrowed-power systems — like Legion’s Artifacts — well?
World of Warcraft has embraced Borrowed Power systems repeatedly since 2016’s Legion expansion, to the point where both Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have had multiple such systems within…
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WoW
WoW is an eternal leveling treadmill, and it always has been
Borrowed power systems have been a staple of World of Warcraft since the Legion expansion. These temporary power boosts arrived in the form of Artifacts and persisted in Azerite…
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Hearthstone
Old God Corruption never stays gone! Hearthstone’s Darkmoon Faire expansion adds the Corruption keyword
The newest expansion for Hearthstone, Madness at the Darkmoon Faire is now live, and it introduces many new features: the game is adding a Rewards Track, more…
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WoW
I’m going to miss Corruption
With the release of the Shadowlands pre-patch coming on October 13th all of our carefully collected Corrupted gear will be going away. This isn’t the first…
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WoW
Shadowlands changes how secondary stats scale on gear
Gear scaling is always an issue at the end of every expansion, and has been for a long time — the very concept of ratings for…
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WoW
Garrisons, Artifacts, Heart of Azeroth, Covenants — Does World of Warcraft focus too much on expansion-locked systems?
Remember when Legion was first announced, and we World of Warcraft players were first tantalized with the features that would end up dominating the expansion? The Class Order…
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WoW
Blizzard nerfs how much corruption you can use at once, and this time we know exactly who’s to blame
We have seen a lot of hotfixes that specifically target aspects of the Corrupted gear system. Right out of the gate they had to lower the…
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WoW
Corruption is going away in 9.0, but Azerite Armor and Essences will stick around
Corruption was the major gameplay system added to bring more depth and choices to itemization in Battle for Azeroth‘s patch 8.3, and it’s seen a lot…
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