Please tell me what big brain melee do outside of running with style at their preffered target, when was the last time you pressed hex in a 3s match or didnt just ground/shear to allow yourselfs to reduce distance on a caster.
Are you trying to tell me that they shouldn’t design casters to be able to create space? Seems like you just have no idea what you want other then you hate casters.
These are the same people who are in here trying to act like aff should be a spriest and would probably be happier just playing shadow priest.
This a tuning error and not specific to warlock maybe instead of complaining about aff you should be complaining about how much mobility melee have or how tanky casters are. Also the more sustained is buffed for classes the less tanky certain cds.
This is every single class right now. Just ROTATE THE CDS and have good positioning with damage and you win, the difference between melee doing it and casters doing it, is casters allowed to express skill way more due to the distance they can use things, however the tradeoff should be if they get hit they get hit way harder which is entirely true atm.
If you arnt trading your mobility cds the same rate as a warlock then maybe you arn’t trading them properly?
I can lead every epic bg in damage but will have between 0-4 KBs. To me that spells trash damage. I don’t enjoy the other specs, but I feel like I’m a wasted slot unless I pull off some pro Rifts. Of course I’m always a cookie bot.
Ua stacking just promoted dumping shards and etting insta dispelled cos thete was no drawback. And actually yes cos snapshotting was a thing back in the day.
Wod was much better than legion. Dots, soul drain thst ticked dots more was single target.
And it wasn’t passively winning i remember playing my butt off.
Also, ive played shuffles, checked damage as aff and destro same kinda damage, destro more wins as it had kill potential earlier
why do you keep talking about how it was tuned
i have zero clue why you keep tieing that to my point
the concept is that aff has damage that is meaningful but requires you to
1- understand when committing that damage is good for you
2- create windows in which getting that damage to stick matters
that’s the point of arena
however they handled the tuning 10 years ago is completely irrelevant to the concept
Yea I can’t really remember much from mop, I remember not using shadow bolt in pve for aff and pvp just soul swapping buffed dots and extending with fel flame. They brang this back for legion and it was a really fun way to do damage in pve.
So you’re saying can only do damage when there is no dispel up? Idk man, maybe you should try playing aff or play when ua stacking was a thing, you realise i wasnt just talking about tuning, when you load 3 shards for example and it gets insta dispelled, yeh meaningful damage.
Combine siphon life and corruption together and give it like a 30% chance to proc instant UAs that will help reduce the amount of casting affliction has to do so that its not shut down so easily. Put malefic rapture on a diff magic school like chaos so that if its kicked we’re not completely cucked.
and give us talents that allow us to give up AoE rot for more of a single target build as well.
yeah, some games I wanna rot everyone, but others, I would love to be able to chuck everything onto a single person and do big deeps at the cost of doing less deeps to the other players.
This would have been really nice for aff this xpac.
I’d rather they give DoT extension mechanics by default. Haunt, sbolt, drain life, and drain soul should automatically renew corruption and agony. UA should have a cast time, but should hit harder per tick and should be scary when dispelled.
Afflication isn’t weak by far and got several buffs this patch, and the singularity buff of 60% with the tier set helps a ton. The problem with affliction is the current best build is easily matched by most healers. Only real major burst is coming from Soul Rot+Drain Life with 50 stacks.
Compared to destro that hits 100k instant incinerates, or Demo who only has to cast three things to make their class do giga damage. Afflication is just too slow and too easy to counter for the current meta.
yeah, the PS buff that is now nerfed by 50% with no compensation anywhere else.
guess we will see how it turns out.
We have no instants that hit hard, casts dont hit that hard. All our damage is negated instantly by like 3 different classes with no downsides since everyone and their mother has some sort of dispel with protections.
people train us and we cant cast without precog, you cant get your dots ramped up because everything is getting dispelled. Your only “go” is insta negated by MWs, hunters and rets. It sucks to know you do nothing and people can negate everything with no drawbacks.
but on the other hand, if you can freecast your damage is god like and ridiculous.