This is what affliction is looking like going forward. I literally called this change in several other posts other the past few weeks,and also predicted warriors would not receive a single much needed nerf in pvp… well well well
Warlock
Affliction
Corruption damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
Shadow Bolt damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
Unstable Affliction damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 25%.
Hellcaller: Wither damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
Soul Harvester: Necrolyte Teachings now increases the damage of Shadow Bolt and Drain Soul by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).
What do you want? A healthstone cookie for calling out obvious nerfs to a class that does way too much unavoidable damage?
Anyone thinking these nerfs weren’t justified is arguing completely in bad faith.
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if i can have 2 nightfall procs in a row with each hitting for 1.6-2mil each. the nerf is justified. Also corruption being a very close 2nd or 1st in dmg. Now, instead of shadowbolt hitting for 1.5 mil, it will hit for 1.1 mil. still good damage.
It’s nerfed and still really good, and also had its UA buffed.
Also fury caught a minor nerf, which is something:
Fury
I play Destro, glad Dimensional rifts is finally getting a buff as the time spent pressing 3 globals compared to the damage it deals was just no bueno.
Chaos bolt needed a buff badly which it’s getting, at the expense of nerfing its dot damage by 30%, I’ll take it.
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and that’s on top of their last week’s nerf in pvp
Can we get a buff to drain life so it actually does something since we are getting our damage gutted?
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Hey guys, my 1.5m bolts are hitting for 1m now.
Spec is basically unplayable.
(this is just a joke). The spec is fine however, wish they just punished fury/unholy wayyyyyyy more than what was done.
It does however show that when you need to drop 15%+ nerfs to powerful things its poorly designed.
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It needed nerfed I have getting hit by 3mil DOTS its ridiculous and 2mil shadowbolts
Sorry you can’t 2 shot people with nightfall procs now. Maybe it’s better gameplay all around if people actually went into PvP and actually outplayed one another instead of wiping the floor with just a few buttons. That is bad game design to me. It’s why WoW PvP is a joke.
In all serious I don’t mind them moving power from shadow bolt and placing it in UA, a shift to more DoT and less nuke is better for Aff imo. Though i feel Hellcaller is paying for the crimes of Soul Harvester a bit
Also Drain life 100% needs a buff, it is mind boggling how useless they have made that spell now.
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i’m currently leveling a lock awaiting for my ENH buff next week XD ,
( I only PvP) should i play AFF or DESTRO with what coming up ?
You gotta be trolling…are you seriously talking about unavoidable damage as a DK? AMS on a 2 second cd and the ridiculous damage you guys do. 2x grip and hands as well.
If you arent avoiding damage as a dk you have other issues to deal with besides hanging out in the warlock forums
To anyone else downplaying this, you realize that you are all saying the shadowbolt nerf is justified and maybe it is but why the rest of the nerfs? could have just been shadowbolt and why not resolve the drain life issue?
Its about the total package not just the damage of shadowbolt.
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It’s funny that nerfed shadowbolt probably still hits harder than buffed chaos bolt.
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To be fair CBs dmg ranges anywhere between 700k and 1.8 million for me so… sometimes yeah.
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Free ride’s over I guess, we all knew it was coming. Happy to see a bump up to UA though. Thought it was kind of odd that the DOT that has a cast time was being easily outdone by the instants.
NGL, shadowbolts hit too hard. I’m playing aff in pvp right now and it feels overtuned. I like the UA buffs though. This isn’t that bad. I will add that drain life needs a serious buff, it is completely dead.
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Yea, the moment i stepped in a bg at lvl 80 and saw how overtuned it was, i knew a nerf was coming. Like you said, at least UA got buffed to compensate for the nerfs. Now aff locks needs to learn how to play to be good. Felt like I was cheating in 1v1 scenarios as I very rarely lost.
I don’t find affliction to be that overtuned. Fury on the other hand… I think frost mage deserves nerfs before affliction.
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I wouldnt mind the nerfs if fury warriors had received similar ones…they are still unstoppable juggernauts now more than ever before with the charge and leap cd reduction in the hero tree, making their uptime almost 100%.
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