Shade kills raise a Timeline’s Corruption, increasing difficulty and improving its endgame reward context.
PC / Global, Season 5: Rage of the Frostborn (Patch 1.5)
WHERE & HOW TO FARM
Where to farm
Empowered Timeline Echo Webs, with Shade of Orobyss encounters at Web nodes.
Corruption rises when you defeat a Shade of Orobyss. Timeline boss kills grant Gaze of Orobyss, which improves the next Shade’s gain, while reaching farther out on the Echo Web can increase the gain. Each Shade kill resets that Web, so this is a cycle of rebuilding Stability, defeating the boss, then reaching another Shade.
Unlock Empowered Timelines for high Corruption progression.
Have a build that can handle the selected Timeline’s current difficulty.
Be able to complete Echo objectives and the Timeline boss quest.
Enter the Timeline whose Corruption you want to raise.
Complete fresh Echoes to build Stability and reveal the Timeline boss quest.
Defeat the Timeline boss to gain Gaze of Orobyss.
Follow the newly available Echo Web toward an outer Shade node.
Defeat the Shade; this is the action that raises Corruption.
Inspect the new Corruption value and regenerated Echo Web.
Repeat the Stability, boss, and Shade cycle if you still need more Corruption.
Farming tips
Outer Shades generally grant more Corruption; do not mistake distance alone for a Corruption increase.
If a Shade kill does not raise Corruption, inspect your Weaver tree for a node that prevents the gain.
Repeat, collect and use
Repeatable: each Shade kill raises Corruption and resets the Web. The boss-to-Shade cycle must be rebuilt after each reset.
Common mistakes
Expecting Echoes or boss kills alone to raise Corruption: only killing a Shade does so.
Skipping the Timeline boss: without its Gaze, the next Shade gain may be smaller.
Pushing the Web beyond your survivability: take a reachable Shade and build power before attempting harder nodes.
When to stop or switch
For Pinnacle Morditas access, stop at 400 Corruption on the Timeline where you will place Demigod’s Ascendance; higher Corruption is unnecessary for that gate.
