I think the top rated affi lock is like 2300cr. Yes I know a lot of the players who “could be playing aff” are playing destro instead because destro is busted. No I dont think that entirely explains affi being so low performing on the ladder. Buff it please.
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No thank you.
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It’s the classic problem of:
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The other team dog piles on the Aff Lock so they are literally able to do nothing but run and die. Makes locks almost impossible to play
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Other team doesn’t dog pile the Aff Lock and they are able to dot and destroy other team, making them “appear” overtuned and getting nerfed to the ground at the same time as those teams learning to dog pile the Aff Lock
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go back to number 1 and repeat.
3rd highest player in shuffle is affli. Super tanky and huge consistent single target dam
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I actually think affy is pretty solid in 3s, i just suck at it. I don’t think it’s quite as strong as destro but if they nerfed destro tomorrow a lot of affys would flood the ladder. I mostly play 2s and affy in 2s definity struggles a bit but that’s mostly because every single lobby is arms warrior or bm hunter both of which you have to significantly outplay as aff to score a win.
This isnt a problem with aff lock.
The problem is all their damage can be dispelled
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Saw one at 2500 last night.
Assa+aff+vw is insane.
This is another reason, obviously.
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Can’t dispel chaos bolt or demo pets even though they’re functionally the same thing.
This is all I want to que and I dont know any rogues or priest 
Only thing I would change with affy atm is just to make UA instant so its in line with all the other casters who just run around with instant dmg the entire time.
If you were to do that, then it’d need a CD for sure. Also, what would lock cast then??
I really don’t want slands s1 back where lock barely casted and just tab-dotted 3 targets (also sacrolash was pure evil)
If its going to have a cd than it better pack a punch when dispelled! They still have to cast MR/SF/Fear/SR not to mention the 3 day long cast to get your pet back if it dies.
UA isn’t really one of it’s bigger damage components other than it getting spam dispelled.
MR is the real cast that matters. That said I also don’t want it instant cast because then they would tune down the dot/dispel damage even more.
If i was to change anything it would be to take aura mastery away from unending resolve and either make it it’s own thing or place it in soul rot. 8 seconds every 3 minutes is hardly very helpful not to mention it’ just provides conflictive interest in unending resolve, do i use it when I’m taking lots of damage but stunned and can’t benefit from the aura mastery or do i use it when I want to do damage for the aura mastery and not have a wall later?
As it is, aff pretty much requires external support to get it’s damage out which is the biggest issue with it. Make it such that it can get it’s go window out by itself and it’s comp diversity would expand. Then tune damage accordingly if needed.
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This isnt bad and now that I think about it leave the cast to UA just let us cast while running. Problem solved lol
I’m an assa rogue main. Got glad the last 2 seasons as assa/affi. We can play if you’re on NA and if you want to.
100% down, happyhour#1469
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Agree they should buff it, its just a FUN spec to play!
Personally I find it a little refreshing for it to be the last season on an xpac and I don’t have to worry about queueing into aff every other game