I understand that over half the classes can deal with afflicted, however pugs are bad and afflicted in these groups turns into something that the healer has to now do 2 things instead of the usual 1.
For once in Mythic+ history make an affix that is for the DPS or Tank.
For once in Mythic+ history make an affix that is for the DPS or Tank.
You mean bolstering? lol.
Make a macro to mouseover the mob and insta-cast whatever you need to (I use dispells or holy shock, generally).
Also, if you get into a group, ask who else can help with the affix this week. If no one answers, leave. You can also do what I have done in the past - make every single person in that group understand that they will be responsible for not standing in bad, because you will be focusing on affixes. That if they die, it is their own fault. If they still do not like it? Leave. Not worth the headache.
Indeed. I feel that Blizz is trying to push this content towards guilds and communities more than pugs these days.
They cannot be macro’ed due to private auras -_-
For targeting. I am not talking targeting.
A mouseover works on them, though.
Look - stuff and things, for the macro challenged (at least this kinda looks like what I use, which I think Fuzz had posted about a while back):
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/13yajbs/a_neat_macro_many_classes_can_use_to_deal_with/
And for those who don’t want to click a link (insert your own class spells as needed):
#showtooltip spellname
/use [@mouseover,help,exists] dispelname
/use spellname
The base layout enables mouseover macros.
Just click on the spirit and press the button. Easy affix. The only thing that sucks is that you have to lose a talent point to just handle the affix. I took a point of my healing tide healing.
I’m pretty sure bad players in general are anti-healer. Tank not using cooldowns? DPS standing in bad? Definitely anti-healer. When you end up with DPS that can clear one or both of the adds, the affix doesn’t even appear for the healer.
This has been my experience too.
Hate to tell you, but there are affixes for DPS and tanks.
Still don’t mind afflicted myself.
Sometimes a pain, especially if no one helps, and ESPECIALLY if people are standing in bad crap and taking unnecessary dmg.
But overall, still 1000x better than Explosive IMO. 
Yeah, but (usually pug) DPS ignore their affixes and just expect to be healed through them. Tanks rocked the sanguine the other week, at least in the runs I was in, and the ones tanks are responsible for are usually handled decently, otherwise the run is usually over.
The Affix is awful and should of never been added in the first place like don’t think I’ve seen anyone say anything positive about it only that it’s anti-healer, makes certain classes undesirable, is an accessibility issue for disabled Healers or is just a buggy mess with how it spawns.
Yuh which is why I refuse to heal any Mythic+ with it active and I encourage other healers to do the same 
The Roleism is getting out of hand! Blizz stop creating Healerist affixes!
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I’m sorry what? Healers always had to do 2 things, Heal and DPS. Now that they have to Heal and Heal/Dispel it’s too much?
It’s no wonder that Healers have a god complex, they do nothing but turn water in whine.
it’s better than explosive, plus the same concept as incorporeal. My problem with it is that incorporeal and this are too similar.
I feel like it is a *if you have a dispell ability use it * more than an anti healer . As a tank , i usually detox them , its literally 2 buttons. I ran a pug HOI that the healer left not because of afflicted but because dps werent bringing frogs into mid to get eaten . Id argue that bolstering is an anti healer affix . Sorry your groups have been tough this early in the week mate.
I believe that if you have a Dispel/interrupt available in your talent tree, you should ALWAYS take it. I don’t know why Blizzard made them optional, they should always be baseline for those classes.
No you shouldn’t because Remove Corruption costs 3 talent points to take and some dungeons don’t have any targets for it. During Afflicted week yes you always take it but not every week is Afflicted week.
That said… I have no idea why people make such an uproar about Afflicted. It’s one of the easiest affixes I’ve ever seen.
EDIT: Accidentally wrote Remove Curse instead of Remove Corruption.
I agree that taking it might not be optimal, which is why I would rather Blizzard made dispel and interrupts baseline for all spec that have them.
I don’t. Like it or not talents like dispels and interrupts are situational depending on the content you’re doing. Tailoring you talents to meet the situational demands of the content you’re running is sort the entire point of talents in the first place. Blizzard doesn’t need to make changes simply because bad players will make bad decisions.