Nerf korruption!

[Kingofninjas]

Just going to chime in that we are reading and following this thread, though we don't have any large comments at the moment while we discuss things about the pet.

Some things I can discuss:

- This week (6/9/16) we will be removing the initial manaburn impact of the pool, so there will be about 0.5 seconds for players to at least react and run before getting mana drained.

- We like the mana drain mechanic, we feel it makes for some strategic plays in PvP and it does have a counter in Stampy. We are debating whether the 10% mana drain is too much for a legendary pet. One of the things we want to preserve is that with multiple korruptions, a coordinated team can capaitalize on all of the korruption mana nukes at once rather than them ignoring the others for example.

- We have discussed the size of the effect being potentially too much in PvP. A reduction of about 20-25% of the area of effect has been discussed.

- We are discussing the functionality of the Heal Over Time prevention. At the moment this removes the heal over time completely as long as you are affected, but the affect drops off after about 0.5 seconds. There may be an adjustment here so that it prevents healing rather than removing the heal completely

So we are reading this and we are aware of the concerns, however we are trying to be careful in how we might adjust the pets ability given players worked hard to earn him during the event and we've put ourselves in troubling spots before overreacting to pet abilities and stats. There might be an adjustment coming, and it might be in one of the areas or some of the areas mentioned above but we're still discussing internally.

Feel free to comment whether you think any of these ideas have merit related to the concerns you are all conveying, but I make no promise that any of this will happen or will happen in the % amounts described above based on other factors. Everything is always subject to change.

- Carapace

More than anything, it's effect on heal over time is what makes it OP. This is why tanks jugg gets canceled. They still have their damage reduction, but cannot heal themselves when their hp drops below 50%. Same with mage heal. We get the initial health burst, but heal over time is canceled.

I agree that the mana reduction adds strategy to the game, but I think cancelling heal over time makes it a little too OP for a pet that could be obtained by anyone for 3-4 hrs of gameplay during the course of the 1 week event.

My suggestion would be to remove the heal over time completely, and reduce the CD the same as mages heal CD, making well timed korruption AA keep a teams mana permanently down.