If you have an alt who just hit Rank 15 Cloak starting today or are a returning player, it will now take 13 weeks (over 3 months) to catch up to players (and that is only if you can do a full vision clear and kill the raid boss N’Zoth for this week and every week that follows for your two Malefic Cores per week) who are actively keeping up with their Cloak’s Resistance. The cloak resistance cap is now +89 starting today. If your cloak resistance is rank 15 it is +50 corruption resistance. You would then need +39 corruption resistance to reach the cap of +89. 39 / 3 = 13 Malefic Cores (13 weeks for the one extra Malefic Core per week).
The power gap between your player base is widening each growing week. Soon, you will no longer be able to compete with the same numbers of others with more corruption traits than you. If you are now just returning to the game (e.g. you are a BFA veteran that took a break to enjoy Classic) or thinking about leveling that new char for end game, don’t bother unless Blizzard fixes this big issue ASAP. With pre-patch hitting not long after that.
For example, RIGHT NOW, someone now has the corruption to have another TD over someone else, and almost 2 TD ranks already and still be UNDER 40 corruption resistance. If you think that the DPS output of rank 2 TD does not matter over someone else for numbers, then you are truly mistaken. Imagine the number of TD’s someone will have for their DPS numbers over you, another 13 weeks from now. Game over man.
The legendary cloak came out in Patch 8.3 (which was on January 14, 2020). So players that played this expansion that are just returning from a 5 month break are screwed with an over 13+ week cloak catch up mechanic time gate as well since they will first have to grind out the Assaults every week or farm echoes for the Vessels for the Horrific Visions to grind their cloak to 15 before they can even start the Malefic Core catch up mechanic.
The most common solutions I have received on these forums is to put Malefic Cores up on the vendor that you can buy with your echoes of ny’alotha or allow multiple full vision clears. People would still need to take the time and work to farm them, but it wouldn’t be locked behind an atrocious time gate any longer.
Additionally, I don’t understand the mindset of the people who are against this time gate issue who are saying this is a free handout. How about Blizzard puts the price for each Malefic Core (only +3 corruption resistance) on the vendor for a reasonably high price of echoes to buy only one. Unfortunately, I bet these same people will still consider it a hand out though. Grinding out echoes does take work. For example, if the price of one Malefic Core was 10k echoes. That would be 13 echoes to buy at 10k each (for a total of 130,000 echoes needed) to reach the current cloak resistance cap of 89.
Furthermore, to WOWs elite, the 1%'ers. If 130k echoes for casuals, to reach your current cloak cap, still seems like a hand out to you. How about we up the time gate for you and Activation Blizzard’s revenue quota. “Would having to buy the Vessel off the vendor and then having to full clear your Horrific Visions runs to get a Malefic Core for each full clear that you complete instead of only being able to do one per week (until you are caught up to the cap of 13 Malefic Cores needed currently) satisfy you?”
P.S. Due to Blizzards cloak catch up post today that blatantly ignored the issues with this Malefic Core time gate, we should consider getting the 99% (of their monthly subscribers) together to create a petition on the Change organization so the higher ups will actually have a chance to listen to the issues. Maybe it is wishful thinking, but it is worth a shot.
It’s sad to realize, at this rate most people won’t even be able to experience what max corruption is like before the next expansion is released. Forcing Mythic Plus players and PvP’ers into now learning how to raid and doing it every week for 13 weeks in a row doesn’t sound feasible to me. Spread the news throughout Azeroth, and and start tweeting to WarcraftDevs and Ion Hazzikostas on Twitter, before it is too late.
Furthermore, Starting next, with the new cap raise, any players that are now just starting to increase the resistance on their rank 15 cloak will now no longer catch up to the pre-cap. This is because the cap will be reached on 9/11 and the players that starting to obtain their Malefic Cores will not hit their cap until 9/18. Every week is still only get worse.
