I have never felt so weak on Affliction. This specs buttons actually do nothing in PvP. I hope this joke of a dev team actually do something about it March 17th
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Best they can do is destroy demonology.
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They will make Affliction the most powerful warlock spec on the 17th…. by gutting Demonology and throwing in a few destruction nerfs to make sure.
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I did a nevel 90 BG yesterday for the first time and roughly this is what happened during the team fight:
Immune (to my DoTs)
Immune
Immune
Now i am CCed
Immune
DoTs Applied
DoTs Dispeled
Immune
Double death gripped by a DK and killed
I dont think ive ever been so miserable in PVP. Im just going to roll MM and aimed shot people to death from 50 yards away.
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Affy’s been my first spec since starting in 2006. I’ve never felt a connection to it in over a decade and somehow that’s only worsened with Midnight. I’m convinced they really, truly despise this spec.
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Agreed i leveled a warlock alt to play AFF and its in a really bad spot. UA used to be so good and now it feels so crappy.
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They did everything you Single Player LFR heroes asked for & you’re still upset. 
Next thing you’ll start saying we should have something that does damage based on our dots, like something you can cast to proc the dots on all the targets around you. What a good idea that is! 
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I tested this in PvP yesterday and put 6 stacks of Unstable Affliction on a Holy Paladin….it took him to 81% hp.
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Every “spender” on Warlock feels so bad right now
- Chaos Bolt hits like an incinerate crit, i’ve seen Shadowburn crit harder than it and it costs 1/2 as many soul shards
- Unstable Aff doesn’t hit much harder than a stacked Agony, pitiful
- Hand of Gul’Dan costs 3 shards and hits as hard as Shadowbolt
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UA is completely broken and a shell of its former self. It’s not worth pressing in its current state.
Take it off your bars and replaced it with Seed of Corruption (select the talent rows as well). I was leveling dungeons and actually got positive remarks about affliction from other dungeoneers once I switched to the Seed-only build. Can anybody at max-level confirm that this build/rotation works better?
The two specs that give healers a hard time are weak, affliction and arms 
Why were you using the single target build in a dungeon instead of the AoE build? UA is only used for single bosses; the go-to dungeon build is seed spam.
Remarkable generalization and assumption, accompanied by an unremarkable perception on what people actually want out of this spec. There are few instances of design choices for Affy over the span of this game that actually illustrate growth and innovation alongside the incredibly rushed style of gameplay retail has embraced for the classes. The fact that Affy went through countless reiterations only to, in Midnight, end up with something simplistic, weak, and unsatisfying is no fault of the players who love the spec.
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Na bro, we wanted them to stop bloating our abilities. The more bloating there is the less our dots do. Obviously for the dots to be stronger right? No they just baked rapture into withered and made dots extremely weak if you’re not spam spending soul shards, not even for UA damage but for the blacked soul hero talent.
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You have no logs & no io. You were most active during legion it seems & this current Aff is literally the same as legion. UA Spender, channel filler (under DGL), seed spam for AOE. This is the same but better.
So really what your complaint is that you’re a low skill solo casual. Sorry, but your “feedback” is truly just motivated by the fact you’re not higher on dmg meters & not seeing big numbers.
Wither is a dot. UA is a dot. Corruption & Agony are also dots. Technically Drain Soul & Malefic Grasp are dots because they’re channels. Dark Harvest too.
The only thing that isn’t a dot is Shadow Bolt (which can be swapped for Drain Soul), Seed, & Haunt. Have you even seen our damage profile?
And what are you asking for? To not cast dots? This is what you LFR heroes wanted. UA Spender. You even got Malefic Grasp back, lol.
Like the vast majority on the wow forums it seems your real issue right now is that Affliction is not over tuned & you’re not doing big shiny numbers & that makes you sad. Oh no, the streamer said Aff is B tier, time to reroll!
Take your lithium.
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There is a tick, x damage per amount of time. It is weak, because of other abilities. When spending soul shards there a hero talent called blackened soul, it is a masked rapture. You spam UAs to proc it. It’s not damage from the tick per time, it’s an active spam of soul shards spenders. For example, Withered ticks for like 400, agony ticks for 750 why is withered my top damage? Because they baked in rapture per soul shards spent. The pet with reasonable dots would be too much, remove the pet and blackened soul and buff dots. That’s what I want.
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The thing is, though, what I like about Blackened Soul is that it procs off of the free casts of Unstable Affliction and Seed of Corruption. And so rather than focuing on “I must spend shards”, I’ve personally found it more productive (even if I’m gaslighting myself) to focus on maximising my chance to fish for these procs by loading up said dots and crit chance.
And honestly? It feels good.
It doesn’t feel good in PvP when I have someone dotted up and they run off passively healing/mitigation the damage because we’re required to spam shards aka the same thing as rapture.
How is agony and Withered and a haunt so weak that I see the life bar go from 100% to 96%ish then bounce back to 97% and eventually dots fall of then back to 100%
The haunt dot form the apex is pretty cool though, hits as hard as or harder than agony