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corruption penalties

GankezGankez Member, Alpha Two
in General Discussion
so.. can someone clear this up for me? if im just randomly killing everything that moves.. does my character get weaker? or does that only go into effect after dying the same as with non combatants?
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  • MaezrielMaezriel Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Corruption is only if you're killing a significant amount of other players.

    You then have to die or gain a large amount of XP in order to start cleansing it.

    https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Player_corruption



    Death on the other hand incurs an XP debt that you then have to work off. This can not only make it harder to level but at cap will cause your stats to start to drop until worked off.
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  • GankezGankez Member, Alpha Two
    guess we'll have to wait and see how intense the penalties are and how easily corruption is to get rid of.. seems like the best bet is to mule ur gear and suicide repeatedly once it gets too high.. im not a big fan of the system but the rest of the game looks solid so i guess ill deal w/ it lol
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  • MaezrielMaezriel Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Gankez wrote: »
    guess we'll have to wait and see how intense the penalties are and how easily corruption is to get rid of.. seems like the best bet is to mule ur gear and suicide repeatedly once it gets too high.. im not a big fan of the system but the rest of the game looks solid so i guess ill deal w/ it lol

    I can see a guild or two setting up services to bring you into an instanced area and letting you kill yourself then helping you grind up the XP debt to cleanse extremely high Corruption w/o fear of losing all your gear.
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  • TyrantorTyrantor Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Gankez wrote: »
    guess we'll have to wait and see how intense the penalties are and how easily corruption is to get rid of.. seems like the best bet is to mule ur gear and suicide repeatedly once it gets too high.. im not a big fan of the system but the rest of the game looks solid so i guess ill deal w/ it lol

    Well that will burn off the corruption but likely not the best strategy unless you do not care about the grind it would create for leveling (xp debt on death x4 while corrupt). The absolute best way will be to grind XP without dying.

    Anyway I think the general conception posed here is a bit off you won't go corrupt if other people fight back, attack purple (flagged for combat) or corrupt players. Right now I'm under the impression we will be able to flag ourselves for combat and if that stays in for launch then there will likely be plenty of targets who remain flagged for combat so you won't have to risk corruption unless you are focused on attacking non-combatants.
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  • CROW3CROW3 Member, Alpha Two
    Jahlon's Ashes 101 on Corruption is a solid summary of what's known:

    https://youtu.be/hBH_NsWmlrI
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