Farming empowered Fall of the Empire, 392 Corruption. I used a bunch of Woven Echoes to traverse the web and got an Orobyss node and skipped it. I proceeded through the other side of my cluster of Woven Echoes, did some auto generated Echoes and got another Orobyss node. I noticed that this one was only going to grant me +1 more Corruption than the one that is 10 nodes closer to the starting point.
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I totally misspelled what you posted.
So the corruption bonus isn’t affected as much as the normal echoes in Orobyss and I’m not even sure if it was intended to work this way. That’s why you increase corruption through Gazes and not distance. That’s also why Harbinger’s Needle exists. You can get up to 58 corruption per Orobyss fight with 4 gazes collected if the mono you’re doing is the highest in corruption.
Even if the distance does increase the corruption each Orobyss echo can provide,i wouldn’t expect something like going up to 21 instead of 6 from an echo next to your timeline center.
So with that being said,if you plan to increase corruption i would recommend instead of going for distance, Fight shades after 1 boss fight with 1 Harbinger’s Needle equipped.