Affliction was again Forgotten! Why?

Classes Warlock
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You cannot truly believe we are in a SOLID place in the World of Warcraft or? Thoughts?

Warlock

  • Destruction

    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Flame Rift damage increased 50%.
    • Unstable Tear damage increased 5%.
    • Shadowy Tear damage increased 5%.
    • Chaos Tear damage increased 30%.

  • Demonology

    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Doom Brand single-target damage increased 50%.
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Doomfiend single-target damage increased 40%.
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 2-piece Set Bonus now reduces the cooldown of Grimoire: Felguard by 0.5 second (was 1 second).

  • Developers’ notes: We’re reducing the power of Demonology’s previous set bonus to bring it in line with other set bonuses from Aberrus. Additiona

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even with the destro changes its still bad and demo is now way ahead of afflic and destro my guess is blizz just has no idea what to do for afflic and destro so they forcuse on demo

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What are your thoughts on being forced to play a spec? I think its not worth paying for.

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forced to play a spec… did that at the start of Dragon flight by going demo. Dropped right out and coping with classic/other games for the time being rather than deal with it. Props to those that stuck it out though but it’s grueling to be forced into a gameplay you don’t enjoy.

Till the day they make destro neat and cool and rid us of the monstrosity that is malefic rapture… classic it is…

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Blizzard has let Aff and Destro languish for too long and now they dont have a well-developed vision for what those specs could be and so they get ignored. Demo at least has a strong core fantasy (in theory) of master summoner. In comparison what is current Aff and Destro? Moar DoTs guy and Fire Mage but more chaotic? IMO Blizzard really missed the mark when they dumpstered the fantasy from the Legion weapons.

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My guess is that for most of the game blizzard has talked about how hard it is to balance aff, so now they are making conservative changes to us and just balancing everyone else based on how aff performs. They made our changes before the current patch and are adjusting everyone from there.

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the issue i have with all these changes to affliction, is that Blizz has constantly rolled back changes weve gotten in the past while consistently increasing buffs and positive changes for most melee classes.

What i mean is every time we get 10% here or 15% there, they will nerf those. Then you have a class like warrior or DH just dominating everything because they just get buff after buff STACKED with the previous buffs.

Everyone is just dispelling UA freely without a care in the world, and the penalty is not even threatening

I dont understand why every single season i feel weaker and weaker on the aff lock. Its getting to the point where you play a perfect game counter every attack and still lose vs melee in arena.

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i’m gonna hope… HOPE… that the silence (on at least affliction), and they’re trying on destro’s end i guess… means that next expansion we might rid ourselves of malefic rapture

We can dream every now and again right?!

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I can tell you right now from 18 years of experience they will not remove MR, because they dont dedicate that kind of time to affliction let alone warlocks…

Honestly i think they just dont know what to do with us at this point. They keep ignoring our issues and giving us buffs that they will revert in a future patch while constantly buffing melee.

Like seriously look how broken arms and demon hunter is and its not gonna be fixed, you really think they will address our issues?

After all these years i realized something… They always make melee super OP and let them get their rating/ titles then MAYBE nerf them a little later in the season to shut people up, but they ALWAYS give melee classes an extreme leg up every season.

Not to mention warriors who are always at the top of the food chain, with 1000 CC and 2x every single HUGE dmg spell they have, plus healing and mobility and and did i mention CC

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