Shadow Priest Corruption Guide - Battle for Azeroth 8.3.0 - Shadowlands 9.0.1 Shadowlands 9.0.2

Por djriff Última atualização: 29/6/2020 Lista de Mudanças Patch: 10.2.6

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With the defeat of N'zoth, all corruption is gone from items with Patch 9.0.

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As with everything, it's best to sim your own character to find out what is best for you.Best Shadow Priest Corruption BonusesRaidbotsHow To GuideData from Bloodmallet. Click here to learn more about it.Best Effects

- The best damage proc

- The best damage proc with the best corruption value. Note: with the recent nerf, this has lost a lot of value and likely isn't worth buying.

- The best stat proc

Good Effects

- This is not as good as the haste proc, but is better than nothing.

- Somewhat useful , especially in higher stacks of Voidform

- Somewhat useful, especially if multiple people have the same corruption.

- Passive damage that procs fairly often. Not useful on short lived adds.

Bad Effects

- Not very useful, as Versatility is one of our worst stats.

- Not very useful, as Mastery is one of our worst stats.

/ - This requires you to be in melee, not something shadow priests should often find themselves doing.

- Not very useful, as the cooldown amount is quite low and we are still trapped by the GCD.

- Actually procs off of spell casts, not just attacks like the tool tip states.

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Dealing with Negative Effects of Corruption

- Unlocked with 1 Corruption

- Unlocked with 20 Corruption

- Unlocked with 40 Corruption

- Unlocked with 60 Corruption

- Unlocked with 80 Corruption

Learn more about Corruption in our in-depth guide!

You can use , but at the cost of your only defensive cooldown. Since good placement is key to playing Shadow well, you should only use as a last ditch effort for a big move.

For , Priests can stutter step out of the void zones with ease.

- Since the Thing from Beyond disappears when stunned, picking can actually be a very valuable tool in tight quarters where it's impossible to avoid the creature.

- Highly recommended to have or ready in order to get out of the effect, though you should be wary of letting your corruption get this high in the first place.

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Comentado por MaXiiczek

Twisted Appendage - Useless to us as we don't attack.

I'm pretty sure I've seen damage from this in the damage meter when I used it on one boss. Maybe it's just wrong/confusing description and it also procs of damage spells and not just melee attacks.

Comentado por Venara

I don't understand why Twisted Appendage is listed under "Bad Effects" when it essentially ties at rank 6 with Void Ritual in the graph just above it and Void Ritual is then listed as a "Good Effect" despite the value being virtually identical. It's a pretty top tier corruption to have and it does lots of damage and works well for Shadow Priests. I was running 3x T2 Twisted Appendage in Ny'alotha the longest time and often ended up being a major contribution to my overall damage, such as in the below log.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/CbrFJLvM4HZwtQRc#fight=27&type=damage-done&source=152

Similarly, Twilight Devastation is actually REALLY GOOD to run in Mythic+, especially in Fortified weeks. Again, I tend to run T5 Twilight Devastation (1x T3 and 1x T2) and the damage from this cannot be ignored. Take this recent Motherlode run, for example:

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/GyjYhwA23VdmtQf7#fight=1&type=damage-done&source=1

Granted, my group usually runs ~15-17 only, so we don't run super high keys, but listing these effects as "Bad" is misleading at best. In a raid situation Twilight Devastation is certainly not the best for a Shadow Priest as positioning becomes an issue (which is really a non-issue in Mythic+ most of the time) and long boss fights strongly favor corruptions like Infinite Stars.

This guide should perhaps clarify where these corruptions are useful to run and where not. And it should certainly take another look at calling Twisted Appendage "bad". I don't disagree with the other recommendations at all, they're very spot on and it's otherwise a very well written guide, but the guidance on these two irks be because it makes the effects seem really bad when they are actually pretty good and even Twilight Devastation can be used very successfully as a Shadow Priest.

Is it strictly better to stack Severe and Expedient? Yes, no doubt about that. But that doesn't make the above effects "Bad" as a rule. Until just this week it wasn't possible to choose corruptions and if you happened to get a lot of Twisted Appendage and Twilight Devastation, like myself, those are superior effects to run with if you don't have Severe or Expedient in your options.

Comentado por Nevaera

May also be worth noting that the Thing from Beyond no longer disappears when you stun it. It will stick around for the full duration and can definitely still hit you when it comes out of the stun if it's close enough/the duration hasn't expired yet.

Comentado por Yerbury

Forgive the potentially silly question. The guide suggests stacking severe and expedient, seemingly in lieu of infinite stars, yet infinite stars appears to be the single best effect. Infinite stars has a high purchase cost, and I don't want to purchase it if it is not deemed worthwhile. Thoughts?

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