soulswap has a 30 second cooldown and 1 soul shard cost for some reason
blizzard literally has no clue how to balance this class
states they want to bring back an old iteration to help ramp issues + gcd starve problem, puts a 30 second cooldown and 1 shard cost on soul swap
lmfao like why would you even make this change it’s literally a nerf from the live iteration if you are going to do this just let us keep the live version LOL
what did you spec from blizzard? they hate affliction badly since BFA.
i mean they did say they wanted to buff aff lock’s gcd + ramp issue but then they do this
it’s kinda just shocking how dumb the devs can be sometimes
maybe the cd removal is coming
right guys?
g-guys?
This should be a bug
No way they are this dumb lol
If it has a cooldown at all it’s just a nerf to the live version
Seriously Soulswap should work differently not just slap 3 diffrent DoTs on target instantly. That is not Soulswap: Shadow Priest already has Damnation with almost identical effect. Soulswap used to be about transferring DoTs to another target…
Theyve hated AFF Since TBC, SL/SL made Ghost Crawler cry once in his life, ever since then, and even after he left, the spec has had broken legs.
i agree
it should have no cooldown and be able to transfer your corruption agony and ua so you don’t have to sit there trying to cast on 3 people for the rest of the game
I also noticed that Seed Of Corruption on low level dungeons is pointless. Targets are almost dead when it explodes. Talents encourage to spam Agony first on all targets, before casting SoC. It feels really bad.
Otherwise Im liking Affliction so far but Soulswap and SoC blows. I take it that SoC builds are not needed for PvP so atleast these are not going to be too problematic for me. Perhaps there should be an option for Soulswap/“Something Else” in the future.
Amplify Curse should interact with Agony and set it to max stacks on application, Aff needs a DoT Spreader button and needs to either make a fun ST spender or buff Bolt/Soul with a stacking debuff that let’s their damage ramp up quickly so they can snowball their damage very quickly in ST especially in Execute windows.
Maybe they should take lessons from Inevitable Demise and apply it to Bolt/Soul but unlike Drain Life the Stacks don’t fall off and not only do you get stacks from Agony but also from casting Bolt and Drain Soul damage ticks. You just keep building stacks. And killing an enemy gives you 5-10 stacks. Would be pretty engaging to me.
But I think Affliction will be kept in it’s current state with no real improvement.
They could give us Immolate, Hellfire and Rain of Fire back.
i’ve always said that seed of corruption should have the cast time OR the damage to explode, not both. literally no one has to deal with such antiquated garbage like locks do
Yeah. SoC is straight from 2004 design with zero reflection to 2022. Talent that multiplies SoC to hit 2-3 times makes zero difference. Explosion damage tickles and comes in too late.
Man I loved Hellfire in Classic.
With all the damage shields and selfhealing it would be a fun thing to have again.
I agree with this… or at the very if they want to keep the “Affliction theme” going they can get inspirations from past Raid Bosses abilities and give us tune down abilities like:
Corrupted Blood, Contagions Cowardice and Wave of Corruption, etc?
I’m new to affliction and have just started my PvP with friends, but for some reason I imagine that Afflation work like Unholy and had more abilities that would slow or stop opponents healing… Then again this comparison is not fair, DK Unholy I think, its like a melee version of spec of Demo and Affliction put together as it has army and curses of diseases to to attack at the same time…
I guess I need more time to play the class spec I am enjoying it but its hard to branch out and try other play styles… seems like we have many talents but only one path to follow to at least do ok. (But I could be wrong still learning the Spec)
MR talent will probably put it on par with all the other lower bound specs in ST. Unfortunately, it still can’t take effective st with aoe, so it will not be competitive in high keys
Honestly the spect needs a big rework instead of a few spell “shuffles”
1st: @ OP, we told you so. You had high hopes about this change but I’m sure you can now see the reality.
2nd: bumping this because we need to make much more noise than we are making now. For those on the PTR, please continue to provide feedback in places beyond the Warlock forum.
we should post in the ptr forums imo
there are threads already opened there too about soul swap
i definitely agree we need to make more noise about this
Yeah even after the ptr change there is still too many completely worthless talents like Harvester of Souls and Agonizing Corruption. There is no situation where you will ever take these two talents.
Grimoire of Sacrifice is dead because it doesn’t work with Grimoire of Synergy
Wrath of Consumption being nerfed to 15% from 30% makes the talent a bait even in m+.
Sacrolash’s Dark Strike is also on the weaker side and should be 10/20% per rank or made a 1 point like PI was.
Bring back dark soul I am not sure why this was removed but Power Infusion is still allowed to exist in the game?
It almost feels like an intern who has never played the game designed this spec tree.