id say SoC applying both would be the highest QOL but partially unbalanced. saving upwards of 6+ globals is ALOT of power, and is probably something you would have to tie in StS and not just the baseline ability
Shard sniping is a part of the spec now, and it’s still nowhere near as impactful as the days of reap souls back in Legion. Things dying constantly amounted to absurd levels of dps from being able to keep that buff up and popping off a few extra raptures is a much more reasonable reward for good play.
I did a key on PTR and you still get resources at a decent pace if you have agony rolling, and it’s also simple to go into new packs with 4-5 shards if you snipe properly with UA and Drain. I would say it’s problematic that you have to talent drain soul to get an extra snipe, and I don’t see how the other talents on that row can compete in an M+ setting.
The other talents also scale with Mobs as well so it depends on both their damage output and proc rate. Since they changed them to more mobs = more porcs they can still compete.
That also comes down to the absurdity of decimating bolt and the entire drain soul cast being buffed by it.
we need a better way to spread dots on multitarget fights, the gcd make us pay a big price just to dot everything, then start spawning malefic rapture, doesnt feel good, at least they should make seed of corruption also spawn agony too.
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Wth is this decimating bolt everyone keeps talking about? I have a max level lock and don’t have that ability on live or the PTR…
It’s from Necro lord covenant. It’s looking to be crazy strong for affliction
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So I kind of did some testing on the PTR in bgs as shadow and affliction. Seems like at least right now (and I know things are nuts and not tuned) shadow is able to deal more upfront scary dmg with dots also hitting hard. With affliction it still feels great, but I noticed by the time I dotted something up and can then spam Malefic Rapture the enemy is almost dead due to others attacking it and it’s wasted. So ya they really need to buff dots, take some of the crazy dmg from MR and transfer it to dots. So at least we are doing some meaningful dmg before we can get to rapture spam.
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only problem I having this spec is figuring out how often I need to use malefic rapture in the rotation.
You are using it:
- To avoid capping shards with at least your main 3 dots rolling
- When decimating bolt buff is gone and dots are rolling.
Everyone here keeps mentioning Drain Soul Sniping again, I love the play style, but that means now that’s the must pick Talent?, I’m hoping not, if that’s the case just make it baseline and give another choice in the talent tree, Malefic Grasp perhaps makes a return?
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I think they need to get rid of the “Darkglare” though. Nothing about it feels like affliction.
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when they bring back soul swap+ buff dots dmg.
thats when you will really love the spec
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Soul swap was good because of snapshotting. That’s not a thing any more. It’s not going to be a thing any more.
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What would be the point of soul swap for SL affliction? Use 2 gcds of soulswap to apply 2 gcds worth of instant cast dots? You’d need to take siphon life and/or the UA pvp talent for it to even do anything.
Has the mana issue been solved? I couldn’t ever use affliction because it would eat through my mana.
I have 90% haste and rarely have mana issues. What are you doing to spend all this mana.
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Most of it comes from UA I believe. It’s been a couple months since I spec’d affliction.
UA doesn’t even use any mana. If you were having mana problems before expedient stacking was a thing, then you must have been drain life spamming. In that case, yes, you still run out of mana on beta doing that.
But you’re not supposed to do that.
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He is though, that’s my point.