Corrupted item

Corrupted items are gear that has been corrupted by N'Zoth. During Battle for Azeroth Season 4, many items have a chance to be corrupted when they're received, which grants them a bonus effect and a certain amount of the stat. As a character's total corruption increases, they suffer increasingly detrimental effects. Corruption also affects a character's appearance, gradually covering their body in a shimmering purple miasma. At a corruption level above 80, the miasma will turn red.
==Corruption effects==
Every corrupted item will have one of the following properties. The corruption effect on an item, along with its power level and associated corruption, is determined at random. MOTHER in the Chamber of Heart sells Preserved Contaminants on a rotating basis that can be used to give items specific corruption effects.
Certain weapons from Ny'alotha, the Waking City always "roll" the same corruption effect every time they drop. Some of them have a unique effect that cannot be obtained on any other item; these are listed at the bottom of the table below.
Name 	Description 	Corruption 	Appears on
Avoidant 	Your Avoidance is increased by an amount equal to 8/12/16% of your Haste. 	+8/+12/+16 	
Deadly Momentum 	Your critical hits have a chance to increase your Critical Strike by 31/41/72 for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times. 	+15/+20/+35	
Echoing Void 	Your damaging abilities build the Echoing Void. Each time it builds, Echoing Void has a chance to collapse, dealing 0.40/0.60/1.00% of your Health as Shadow damage to all nearby enemies every 1 sec until no stacks remain.	+25/+35/+60	Qwor N'lyeth
Expedient 	Increases the amount of Haste you gain from all sources by 6/9/12%. 	+10/+15/+20	
Glimpse of Clarity 	Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant you a Glimpse of Clarity, reducing the cooldown of your next 1 spell cast by 3 sec. 	+15 	
Gushing Wound 	Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to cause your target to ooze blood, dealing 91% of Attack or Spell power damage over 7 sec. 	+15 	
Honed Mind 	Your spells and abilities have a chance to increase your Mastery by 392/523/915 for 10 sec. 	+15/+20/+35	
Ineffable Truth 	Your Spells and Abilities have a chance to show you the Ineffable Truth, increasing the rate your cooldowns recover by 30/50% for 10 sec. 	+12/+30 	Eyestalk of Il'gynoth
Infinite Stars 	Your spells and abilities have a chance to strike a nearby enemy with an Infinite Star, dealing Arcane damage and increasing their damage taken from your Infinite Stars by 25%, stacking up to 10 times. 	+20/+50/+75	Shgla'yos, Astral Malignity
Masterful 	Increases the amount of Mastery you gain from all sources by 6/9/12%. 	+10/+15/+20	
Racing Pulse 	Your spells and abilities have a chance to increase your Haste by 546/728/1275 for 4 sec. 	+15/+20/+35	
Severe 	Increases the amount of Critical Strike you gain from all sources by 6/9/12%. 	+10/+15/+20	
Siphoner 	Increases your Leech by 3/5/8%. 	+17/+28/+45	
Strikethrough 	Increases the damage and healing you deal with Critical Strikes by 2/3/4%. 	+10/+15/+20	
Surging Vitality 	Taking damage has a chance to increase your Versatility by 312/416/728 for 20 sec. 	+15/+20/+35	
Twilight Devastation	Your attacks have a chance to trigger a beam of Twilight Devastation, dealing damage equal to 6/12/18% of your health to all enemies in front of you. 	+25/+50/+75	Devastation's Hour
Twisted Appendage 	Your attacks have a chance to spawn a tentacle which Mind Flays your target for 53/185/349 Shadow damage every second for 10 sec. 	+10/+35/+66	Shard of the Black Empire
Versatile 	Increases the amount of Versatility you gain from all sources by 6/9/12%. 	+10/+15/+20	
Void Ritual 	Gain Void Ritual, giving your spells and abilities a chance to increase all secondary stats by 14/34/64 every sec for 20 sec. This chance is increased if at least 2 nearby allies also have Void Ritual. 	+15/+35/+66	Vorzz Yoq'al
Name 	Description 	Corruption 	Unique to
Devour Vitality 	Your autoattacks have a 25% chance to bite into the target's soul, dealing 2.00% of your health in damage and healing you for that amount. 	+35 	An'zig Vra
Flash of Insight 	Your mind's true potential is unlocked, causing your spells to grant you flashes of insight. Gain between 1% and 8% Intellect at all times. 	+20 	Mar'kowa, the Mindpiercer
Lash of the Void 	Your attacks have a chance to lash your target with a living tentacle, dealing 15863 Shadow damage and snaring them by 30% for 6 sec. 	+25 	Unguent Caress
Obsidian Skin 	Gain Obsidian Skin, increasing your Armor by 5%. While in combat, explode with Obsidian Destruction every 30 sec, dealing Shadow damage equal to 700% of your Armor to all enemies within 20 yds. 	+50 	Sk'shuul Vaz
Searing Flames 	Your damaging abilities build stacks of Searing Flames. When you exceed 30 stacks, exhale a Searing Breath, dealing damage equal to 5.00% of your health to all targets in front of you. 	+30 	Faralos, Empire's Dream
Whispered Truths 	Your auto-shots reduce the remaining cooldown of a random Hunter ability by 2.0 sec. 	+25 	Whispering Eldritch Bow
==Consequences==
Wearing corrupted items raises the level of base corruption, which can be offset by the resistance provided by equipping and upgrading Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve. The resulting net total corruption causes harmful effects described in the table below.
Name 	Begins at	Effect
Grasping Tendrils 	1 	Taking damage has a chance to reduce your movement speed for 5 sec. The magnitude of the snare increases with further Corruption.
Eye of Corruption 	20 	Your spells and abilities have a chance to summon an Eye of Corruption for 8 sec. The Eye inflicts increasing Shadow damage to you every 2 sec while you remain in range.
Range and damage increase with further Corruption.
Grand Delusions 	40 	Taking damage has a chance to summon a Thing From Beyond, which pursues you for 8 sec. Its speed increases with further Corruption.
Cascading Disaster 	60 	If you are struck by the Thing From Beyond, you will be immediately afflicted by Grasping Tendrils and Eye of Corruption.
Inevitable Doom 	80 	All damage taken is magnified and healing received is reduced, increasing with further Corruption.
Inescapable Consequences	200 	N'Zoth lays claim to your very essence, dealing 25% of your maximum health every 1 sec while you are in combat. The end is nigh.
Corrupted Character 1.png|A character with a corruption level of 1 to 39.
Corrupted Character 40.png|A character with a corruption level of 40 to 59.
Corrupted Character 60.png|A character with a corruption level of 60 to 79.
Corrupted Character 80.png|A character with a corruption level above 80.
Corrupted Character 200.png|A corruption level above 200 adds a screen filter.
==Purification==
Corrupted items can be purified by MOTHER, removing both benefit and corruption. Purification costs and requires completion of Curious Corruption, which starts automatically upon obtaining a corrupted item for the first time. A corrupted item that has been purified can be re-corrupted by using a Preserved Contaminant purchased from MOTHER.
==On the PTR==
On the patch 8.3.0 PTR, "corruptions" were found on rings sold by the Heartzertauren, perhaps as an alternate concept for the system or simply a way to test the effects. While Thing From Beyond made it to live as a consequence with minor changes and Last Grasp may have inspired Grasping Tendrils, all of the others were scrapped. These include:
Name 	Effect
Face the Truth 	An eldritch scroll spawns near you that you and others with this corruption can see. Each second you don't face it, it deals damage to you. If it deals damage to you 5 times, you are feared for 6 sec.
Masochistic 	When you fall below 25% health, taunt all nearby enemies for 5 sec.
Mesmerizing 	Your damaging spells and abilities against a repeated target reduce your movement speed by 5% for 6 sec, stacking up to 10 times.
Overconfident 	When you receive overhealing, you refuse the next (Total health*1/4) Healing within 10 sec.
Revel in Violence	Your killing blows cause you to revel in violence, rooting you for 6 sec.
Spontaneous Fury 	Periodically marks a random enemy, making them the target of your fury. While your fury persists, your damage against all other foes is reduced by 10%.
==Notes and trivia==
*Inescapable Consequences was added after a player named Rextroy won several 2v2 arena battles despite wearing 675 corruption. He completed this feat as a protection paladin, using immunities while waiting for 27 ranks of Infinite Stars to one shot most opponents.
*The Eye of Corruption can be obtained as a companion pet.
*The Heart of Darkness (Azerite trait) Azerite trait will only function if you have 25 or more corruption (prior to patch 9.0.1).
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