Preserved Contaminants Now Available For Purchase
Preserved Contaminants are now available for purchase from MOTHER in the Chamber of Heart. These items will be available for purchase until May 22 at 8:00 PM Pacific Time in NA (May 23 at 9:00 PM CET in EU).
Available in this Rotation
- Ineffable Truth Rank 1 - 3300 Echoes
- Honed Mind Rank 1 - 4125 Echoes
- Strikethrough Rank 2 - 4125 Echoes
- Masterful Rank 2 - 4125 Echoes
- Expedient Rank 3 - 5000 Echoes
- Twisted Appendage Rank 3 - 13200 Echoes
Choosing Your Corruption
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Choosing Your Corruption
In addition to any unlocked Essences, MOTHER will now also offer several new Preserved Contaminants, which allow for a specific Corruption effect (and the associated Corruption penalty) to be applied to a selected item. The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency.
You can use a Preserved Contaminant to apply the Corruption you purchased to any uncorrupted item that can be Corrupted, much like an enchant.
Corrupting a Cleansed Item with a Preserved Contaminant
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
We’ve made some progress on this subject today.
As of this morning, if you get a new Corrupted item and cleanse it, you can re-corrupt it using a Preserved Contaminant from the new system.
Unfortunately, items cleansed prior to maintenance this week remain unwilling to be re-Corrupted.
We’re also working on a hotfix that will add clarity to this, by highlighting Corruptable items in your bags when you activate a Preserved Contaminant. This should be very similar to how scrappable items light up when you use the scrapper.
We’ll let you know when that comes through in our Hotfixes Update post.
Gushing Wound Corruption Effect Reduction
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
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)
We’re working on a hotfix that will reduce the damage done by the Gushing Wound Corruption Effect by 35%. We expect to make this change with maintenance in each region next week, starting on May 26.
While we tend to only make changes like this in regular balance patch intervals, Gushing Wound is currently the most efficient of all Corruption Effects. When making changes to Corruption Effects, we previously decided to leave it as-is, because there is only one rank available and Gushing Wound is a rare and relatively difficult Corruption to acquire. However, with this week’s updates that make Corruption Effects available from MOTHER, we expect that stacking large amounts of Gushing Wound will be even more efficient than Infinite Stars, which has explicit downsides when multiple targets are present.
We’ll have the change outlined in our Hotfixes Update soon after it goes live next week.
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