blizzard doesn’t care about warlock, let alone affliction. malefic rapture peaked only once during castle nathria and never again.
they simply do not care. it’s sad.
Feedback: The class is abandoned. Multiple builds without so much a single dev note.
sad to see this but its partly why im considering playing a shadow priest next tier
I’ve played affliction every tier since shadowlands. There have been 3 really fun and satisfying mythic affliction warlock fights since then:
Sarkerath - When those adds popped up with a damage amp, they lived long enough to get all your dots out and crank.
Tindral - Doom blossom + soul flame was an awesome combo. Very sad that it only had one good use case an entire expansion.
Silken Court - The ability to line up all your dot ramps with damage amps so that you can just rapture during the amps. This is niche, but it was great.
Other than these three fights, affliction has just been miserably unfun and unsatisfying to play. The sad part is, we’re so incredibly close to having a good, satisfying spec. We literally only need 5 changes, and then some damage nerfs to offset the damage gained from QoL.
- Improved haunt redesigned. Increases the damage of Haunt by 35%. Haunt now applies unstable affliction in addition to haunt.
- Soul swap: New baseline spell. Copy all your dots from one target and apply them to a second target. 30 second cooldown. Costs one soul shard.
- Vile Taint redesigned. When talented, replaces seed of corruption. Applies vile taint, agony, and corruption to up to 8 targets. 15 second cooldown. Costs one soul shard.
- Xavius Gambit redesigned. Unstable affliction does 25% more damage. Agony and corruption deal 25% more damage to targets suffering from unstable affliction.
- Oblivion damage increased by 300%. Does not apply to PVP.
Soul swap helps, but we still need a one or two button solution for getting all of our debuffs and effects on a target first, even if it has a CD or costs resources. By the time we have Haunt, UA, agony, corruption, VT and SR on a target, other classes have done 5 million damage and are already working to their next burst.