Affliction RIP hotfixes nerfed into the ground

Classes Warlock
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  • Dark Pact is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Corruption no longer increased by 45% in PvP combat.
  • Affliction
    • Agony no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
    • Corruption no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
    • Siphon Life no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
    • Shadow Bolt no longer deals 10% increased damage in PvP combat.
    • Unstable Affliction no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
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they nerfed to a unplayble state. jesus the devs are so heavy handed on buffs and nerfs. I was on the fence about df but 100% not playing now.

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Typical blizzard instead of minor adjustments they just destroy the class. No one will play this class.

Damage and survivability nerfed. So sad I really am disappointed that affliction actually became good and impactful and just got dumped on.

It’s not surprising because they have no idea how to balance but it’s just sad. For the people who are happy look out you class just got pushed up and if your a dh you should be thinking about what other class you might want to main because when they come for you damn it’s going to suck, and you only have one dps spec.

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i guess we will have another expansion for affliccion being in garbage state.

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I tried it and its a total trash joke now

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Corruption change isnt implemented yet… other changes have been on beta for some time and affs have been able to 2v1 on beta as of yesterday… so how did u try it if its not out yet?

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Odd because my DMG is lower now but not going to argue with ya

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Yeah those are the changes that are rolling out in phase 2

None of those are live at the moment

I think you’re just having a placebo moment.

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ToTalLy UnPlAyAbLe

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Aff shreds people still on beta btw.

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I think afflocks have got to be the whiniest players ever. So used to the spec being absolutely busted that it feels bad when you’re remotely normal.

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eh, pretty sure it needs another 10% nerf also demo needs a 15-10% nerf, but time will tell, stop crtying the spec is just bananas atm

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Hey now, Moonkins exist.

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Lock is the best Tank, Dps and Healer rolled into one. Thank goodness Locks were addressed as they are ruining PvP. Very good changes.

It’s crazy they allowed lock to be so broken OP for so long. Now they still S tier. Could use some more nerfs.

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I don’t mind the changes honestly, i mean, affy has been busted since pre-patch to be fair. that’s no secret. At this time tho, as of about 20 mins ago, me and my arena partner (we both geared up our locks to 300 since they were busted kek) are convinced there is a bug with drain life now. We noticed throughout today that it felt like we weren’t getting a lot back from drain life. Then the last arena match we played confirmed something was going on. Even with desperate pact talent (DL heals for 30% more when under 50% health) drain life is basically healing for nothing even under 50%. (condensed) Assassination rogue did his garrote kidney opener on me, i popped unending resolve to get the full fear on him. while he’s feared, i soul rot and drain life and my health does not move up AT ALL. Soul rot did apply to the spriest on his team.

Oh, he must have popped cloak you say, had a shield on from the spriest, was using wound/shiv???

No cloak, no shields, nothing on him. 100%. Right after I released and was watching my buddy fight he popped cloak. Not 5 seconds after I died. There was not enough time to be used 2x in that match. We aren’t great, but we know what should work and what shouldn’t work. W got shut down pretty hard since his drain life wasn’t working either.
At most it was maybe 5-600 per tick. 5 ticks per channel or so would be between 2500-3000 healing per channel. Went into a skirmish right after to test again, it was healing for right at 2k a tick. Maybe this was an unintended consequence of a change made in the last day or so. idk.

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You spelled Warriors and Paladins wrong…

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I find it interesting that a warrior even has the audacity to mention busted classes…

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Honestly as a lock is pretty tanky atm at least in PvE. I have taken some pretty big damage in raiding and still came out with like 80% hp left. If it was on my hunter or my mage without using Def CD they would most likely lost more than 50% of their hp. and currently on live ajlff lock are destroying the meters same with boomkin.

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No way you think this makes Affliction Warlocks bad. Class was busted and the nerfs are so nice to see.

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Does everyone here only care about PvP? These are just PvP nerfs…

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