Affliction Necro mid-season wishlist

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  1. Give decrepify a lucky hit chance. It’s not going to do much for non-Affliction necros, but would mean the world to the affliction necros.
  2. redirected force is simply a non-starter because the only way to boost block chance is through spiked armor for 10% and a shield for 20%. Shield is no good because Affliction needs the double damage temper. I was really hoping this was something that could scale into the endgame as Affliction is really the only spec that focuses solely on crit damage. Changing spiked armor to give 5% block chance per level would really scale into masterworking endgame stuff with redirected force.
  3. wither applies to Affliction procs. Another way to scale into the endgame. This path could just apply wither to affliction or change Affliction into a dot. Changing Affliction into a dot does cascade into a world of other necessary changes (removing the reliance on crit scaling, not having affliction be able to qualify itself).

In theory, affliction caps out around pit 85 or so, maybe pushing 90. That’s not bad, but it’s a fun build and would be fun to see it hit 110+.

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No it would actually reset cooldowns faster potentially. It also does nor deal damage. So if you want a curse to have LHC that should be IM.

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For sure. Giving decrepify a miniscule amount of damage on hit, plus its ability to lucky hit would be the way to code it. No other spec is going to want to spend time spamming decrepify, even to reset cooldowns.

And IM should have lucky hit too. It should deal its damage on application, which can lucky hit, then once every 2 seconds which cannot. Would give it some potential as a skill to build around as well.

Decrepify is the better curse to spam for affliction, though, because it synergizes well with Unmaker.

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Shure yeah, maybe Affliction key passive should give curses LHC, so this way curses only get LHC when you pick Affliction.

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Affliction doesn’t have an aspect or unique specifically for it. Could use that path to add the feature, if they’re worried about it. I don’t think decrepify has an aspect either, could be a utility aspect to give it a LHC.