Affliction. I played good ole SL SL back in the day and have always love the spec. Persoanlly if i wanted to do fire spell dmg i would roll a mage but eh, thats just me. So knowing that ive been enjoying it while questing etc. It does feel that mana isnt great but its prolly just a classic thing and im forgetting how it used to be.
So my question. Dungeons. Clearly the meta is aoe down. Similar to feral druid and im sure some other specs, Afflcition literally has no aoe. Sure can mulit dot but things die fast. So is the shadow bolt multi hit rune the play? Cause the play is not respec to destro; not happeing.
Any folks in the SM grind doing it as affliction? If so what runes and how are you looking on the meters? And are you getting grief cause of it?
Any group you get into will expect you to run Shadowbolt Volley/Destro for the cleave. Affliction for DPS just can’t keep up. It’s fine for a normal clear with friends but people want those speed runs for more XP/Hour.
Affliction is playable right now and if you are playing it for fun its fine (im playing affli just for fun) but there is a huge damage diference compared with destro locks and/or shadow priests.
The first one have a very good set up with lake of fire (simplest AoE) and chaos bolt - incinerate for single target. The second one is just outperforming the affliction in AoE with Mind sear (high range/unlimited targets) and single target/DoT damage because void plague easily doubles our corruption damage.
The affliction AoE is very limited because we can only hit 4 targets via shadow volley or shadow cleave and have damage penalties. i created a post talking about the interactions of the new invocation rune and the posiblity of make it viable with everlasting aflicction in aoe situations.
Affliction has the strongest AOE in the game, and has pretty good st, downside is shadow wrath is the most expensive gear ATM. I do play aff, 20/0/11. Master channeler, haunt/or shadow bolt volley for AOE/everlasting affliction, shadow and flame, and demonic knowledge.
In AOE pulls I corruption like 6-7 enemies, also drain life because it’s like 3 corruptions at once, shoot tons of shadow bolts with nightfall. Like spam the shadow bolt button it’s going to proc every second ,It’s OP.
Single target is 300 dps ATM. Like 5% off from lake of fire.
It’s also the one truly viable pvp spec for lock.
But yeah, you if you go this route you may never see a 99 parse, and gear costs more.
I had one affi lock in my spellcleave groups. He was pretty high overall damage, but it also felt like if he was just hellfire spamming it would’ve easily doubled
Congrats! Your reading comprehension skills are that of a toddler who can’t figure out that I can also put the comparison of “x was better, but this was still doing good, therefore its fine.”
I like that build but I’d take points out of Grim Reach and 1 point out of Suppression.
Grim Reach is kind of a waste right now if you plan on using Shadowbolt Volley since you aren’t also taking Destructive Reach and you don’t need 4 points in Suppression right now.
I’d put those 3 extra points into Demonic Embrace for more Stam. 2 Points if you want to stay
