This is just a thought, so don’t flame me, but it seems like it should be pretty much impossible for a character to finish normal monos with no corruption and then jump straight into empowered and actually survive it.
It seems to relate to this whole “balance” topic people are talking about. Only a few classes seem to be able to do this. My sorcerer enabled empowered around 86 and while I can carefully do a few of them, it’s more trouble than it’s worth. And that’s OK. I’m happy to work on building corruption up to 50 in normal mono’s while I continue to level up and look for gear upgrades.
I don’t want to call for anybody to be nerfed, but honestly does sound like some nerfing would do the game good lol.