Aff nerfed again

Classes Warlock
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  • The effectiveness of Demon Skin’s armor bonus is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

  • Demonic Resilience now reduces the damage taken by your primary pet by an additional 67% in PvP combat.

  • Affliction

    • Malevolent Visionary damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.

    • Shadowbolt Volley damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.

    • Soul Harvester: Wicked Reaping damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

    • Soul Harvester: Soul Anathema damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

    • Soul Harvester: Demonic Soul damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat

I wonder what game blizzard is playing. Certainly isnt this one

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Blizzard doing the based thing for once and bringing Warlocks in line with other classes.

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In line? I cant even apply ua to more then one target because its damage is reduced by 60% and with that healers just spam dispel the one ua thats out now. Corruption and agony damage are a joke and shadow bolts hitting people for 350k was apparently to much that it warranted another 20% nerf

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You are just going to go Hellcaller now and it will all be ok.

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I can’t speak for Arenas, but Affliction is amazing in BG Blitz and those nerfs don’t seem overkill.

And most of them are targeting SH, Hellcaller is still really good too.

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To be honest I think a lot of people are overlooking the survivability buffs.

  • The effectiveness of Demon Skin’s armor bonus is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

This comes out to be a roughly 5% buff against physical damage which is quite helpful.

  • Demonic Resilience now reduces the damage taken by your primary pet by an additional 67% in PvP combat.

This seems quite massive and I think our pet is unkillable since an additional 67% in PVP combat means that our pet takes ~80% reduced damage in PVP. Which TBH means it’s unkillable, so now Soul Link will reduce all the damage we take by 10% and we can have access to Devour Magic and other sorts of tools with pets being viable again.

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In PVP you’re probably running Grim of Sac though as Affliction.
Good change for Demo though.

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Don’t worry. They want to ensure our multi-dot damage is the same as classes that do single-target damage.

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If warlocks go hit a dummy they will see how minimal Grim of Sac contributes to the damage. So having a 10% damage reduction is going to be worth it.

Additionally having a pet means you get devour magic spam every 10 seconds and can stop the healer from drinking or kick them while sitting in CC.

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Uhhhh did you even watch AWC?

Aff’s pressure is beyond stupid.

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Back to Marksman for pvp

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Uh i saw a warlock die in the opener. Did any warlocks win the tourney ?

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They got second, 3-4 and almost won, and they buffed lock survivability.

But that aside, Blizz doesn’t tune based on….what takes first in a tournament lol.

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Yea i mean i guess long hell caller games with a pet will be the move now. RIP affy single target build

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To be fair, and this is PURELY speculation as I didn’t poll the community or anything, but it seems most people prefer that type of aff.

Tanky, rot attrition.

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Yea i mean i dont mind it but single target affy was nice. Playing hellaller atm in ss and its deff doing a lot of dmg with the right gear. It benefits more from crit with wither

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Oh yeah crit stack wither does ridiculous damage.

Lock just has so much to support crit.

10% from all sources in class tree.

10% from all sources in caller tree.

30% crit damage in aff tree.

10% to dots in aff tree.

It’s definitely the stat.

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Yea im at 17% crit atm in pvp just recrafted a ring to be crit/vers and going with crit off pieces

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cry more that all u c in pvp affliction meta spec take no skill to play annoying as f3ck in shuffle

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post on your main maggot

Also wtf you talking about shuffle is a melee train every single game. Cant remember the last time i qued with another caster

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