Holy Paladin bopped an Affi lock and he hard casted a second Deathbolt. Killed Warrior from 90%. Lock didn’t have any UAS out. Is this some kinda bug? Even a not crit would one shot in most situations.
Yea not sure my highest crit on my aff lock is 15k and he’s 193 ilvl
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Is there a way to show details here I took a screenshot to prove the Lock barely had any dots out and still hit for 40k off a 1 second cast. This was in 3s.
Yea, you can use the fake apostrophe thing to the left of your #1 key. Place it before and after the link and it will come out like this:
WhatkarntgotownedbyDeathbolt.com
And as someone with an afflock, i want to see it. Might try it in some pvp and see if its really good. As of right now, none of the high-rated locks are using it or recommending it.
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https://files.catbox.moe/in62ls.png Like this?
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Wow, gonna have to try it in a casual bg and see if Affliction can delete kids like all the other otk specs.
Sounds fun. Maybe then they’ll quit crying about bein slow, they can just be dead instead. 
I exclusively play deathbolt on my lock and I linked a screenshot to my 41k I hit a week back but no one batted and eye because guess what? It’s not viable. Let me explain…
Deathbolt deals 40% of your remaining dot damage to the target, it has a minute cooldown and it’s a pvp talent.
To maximize damage we have to tailor the build around it which means:
Dropping Demon Armor (in a melee meta)
Taking agony talent instead of corruption
Using agony duration conduit instead of rapture 20% damage
Using the mastery buff covenant tree instead of seed.
(Not counting rapid contagion as we already take that, but it’s mandatory)
Then in a match we have to stack 5 shards, and have full dots rolling on all enemies (to generate shards quickly).
Once that is setup we need to full refresh the UA, agony, and corruption on our nuke target. Then immediately soul rot into phantomy singularity, dark soul+pvp trink+racial, rapid contagion, summon dark glare to increase dot duration, then in the VERY next global we need to get a Souls shard to proc or we lose too much damage, every second counts as it’s the duration that matters. If we get perfect stars align setup I call for sky fury, throw the deathbolt and after close to 1000 matches I can tell you it generally hits for about 14-16k with high end non crits of 18-20k maybe once a play session and a crit once every few days (7% crit chance as Afflic) for 25-30k. I’ve only seen two full one shots. One was last night for 32k on I think a pally? And one was my 41k on an enhance.
So to do the one shot it basically requires the whole build to be built around it, and you never press rapture, and you have complete freedom for something like 10+ globals before pressing all your burst at once and pray they don’t use a shield wall or get a lucky kick or grounding during the like… 0.9 cast deathbolt.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Edit: This isn’t to say you can’t get one off while under pressure but it seems like every global I waste/lose during the combo drops the damage by 33-50%, if I have to fake cast once it’s not terrible, maybe 2-4K lost, but if I have to kill grounding it’s more, and getting sheared or kicked basically kills it altogether.
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Yea. Pressing convoke sounds simpler.
brb leveling druid
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Yeah it’s pretty triggering to have to tailor my build, play a VERY non optimal way, etc just to throw out what equates to a spammable execute, ferocious bite, starsurge, sun kick, Templar’s verdict, wake of ashes, etc. game is in a saaad state.
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This is mostly correct but not all the way.
You use rapid contagion BEFORE you start your burst. it lasts 15 seconds which is plenty of time to get that third soul shard up after you refresh your dots, pop phantom, soul rot, darkglare, dark souls/trinket.
Also use Phantom first and then Soul Rot the last thing you apply before darkglare/dark souls. Soul rot is the shortest and strongest dot so you want to cast that last for maximum dmg left when you deathbolt.
Also I use corruption talent with corruption legendary and Soul Rot conduit (or rapture is fine too) and still get 18k normals everytime with this setup.
You cry so much when shadowplay is high s tier.
Aff locks will always be a top dog, ur right it’s not easy mongo mode but my man it’s really annoying seeing you whine so much about warlocks. In a good players hands affliction lock teams stomp. You could be an unholy dk like me 
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You’re right, it’s more optimal to go in that order but I’ve found leading with soul rot ensures that if you ARE going to get locked out, it’s BEFORE you use any major CDs and thus can simply reset and try again in like 10 seconds rather than 1-2 mins later. And if you get locked on soul rot you can still fear.
So few things wrong here.
“Using Agony Conduit instead of Rapture”
Your supposed to be, you don’t get that many raptures off in Arena. All the top locks take this first already.
“Using Mastery Buff Bind instead of seed”
Again, every top and Affy with a brain already does this. Never seen an Affliction Seed, the Mastery is huge for our damage.
So “build completely around it” ya not really lol, you change two talents. Only 1 of those is also a tough choice. Its not all that odd to take Agony talent at times however.
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i wonder if he got some kleenex boxes at christmas
Not sure it’s technically wrong since he’s talking about getting a fat deathbolt and you’re talking about top arena players choices. Not sure any top arena players are playing deathbolt into anything. At least I haven’t seen chanimal doing it at all.
Yo lemme see them 41k TVs/Wake screenshots.
Just a pointer bro, any intellect bonuses snapshot with your dot damage. So you’d want to use your int enhancementsthen apply all dots before you darkglare, so you’re getting full damage bonuses.
Thought they removed snapshotting for everyone except ferals in like… WoD
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Snapshotting has been gone for YEEEARS… XD
Still exists for mainstat, i.e badge/insignia.
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