i keep seeing: ‘affliction is crap’…etc. but, come on!!! … roll with it (changes and stuff). play what you like. who cares what others think…i have been afflic since 2007…through all the ups and downs. (a lot of downs) play what makes you enjoy in the game: …i do not raid hard core and stuff…i just play and read the story / etc. enjoy the ride.
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It plays like dog crap. That’s what I think. I don’t enjoy it. I won’t “roll” in dog crap.
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Suffer well.
When people say its crap they mean how it plays, not the performance of it.
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it is crap in M+ your damage will be above tank that for sure. The problem lies with agony and corruption being sigle target spells. If they remove cast time on seed, make agony apply like virulent plague and make corruption spread = to initial damage when target dies. I wouldnt be here complaining if they done all of this.
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I enjoy it in PVE content, but its complete bullcrap in Pvp especially arena. As soon as there is a melee or hunter on the other side i get deleted in a matter of 3 to 4 seconds.
It is 100x better than BfA iteration of having to time your Deathbolt burst window with Darkglare. But it’s not without its issues.
Seed of Corruption hasn’t seen any major change in functionality since maybe BC (It is PAINFULLY slow to cast with low haste levels and still requires a damage threshold to break). In other words we have little to no front-end burst, which is basically what you want in mythic + right now. Our single target doesn’t really make up for this as we’re still doing about the same as other specs that can burst AoE. We really are the masters of 2-3 target sustained damage, but those opportunities are few and far between. Even then with certain talent builds it feels like spinning plates, and I oftentimes forget to keep DoTs up with how much micromanagement you have to do.
Other classes can jump right into a pack (lack of mobility on our part is another issue as a class) and burst for 10k (looking at you WW monks). It takes us multiple GCDs before we can even start getting Malefic Rapture damage going, and by that time a pack will be almost dead.
I’m not PvP expert either, but if you get a competent melee on you, you’re done for. Everything sticks to us like white on rice, and has multiple ways of countering our damage, especially since it starts off so incredibly slow. I’m lucky if I can get a Malefic Rapture off on a melee target. Rogues? Might as well just /sit.
I think if they made the GCD less punishing for some of our DoTs allowing us ways to get them out quicker and reduced the cast time of Seed of Corruption by 1 second, the spec would feel much better as a whole. It wouldn’t affect our damage ceiling but it would give us a way to keep up with how fast-paced damage has become in this game.
They are performing better than shadow priest in M+ and currently the best performing lock spec on m+ where are you getting your information from?
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/25#class=DPS
Performance wise rather it be raids or dungeons Affliction is in a good place.
The damage output is not the issue. The way it gets that damage going is, and I can see why it would turn a lot of people off from the spec. Check the number of parses between Affliction and Spriest, it’s almost doubled for them. That may not explicitly state that Affliction plays worse, but I’m willing to bet there is a reason half as many players are playing Affliction instead of Shadow. Besides, the median performance is nearly identical, with actually slightly more potential to screw up your rotation as Affliction.
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And now compare the number of parses between affliction and mm hunters…
Well i mean its nearly double because well it plays better. May i refer you to my first post:
Imagine if it played badly and performed badly at the same time
Nobody gives dogs balls about Shadow Priest thank you. Shadow Priest is fantastically designed, it plays well. Affliction doesn’t.
Have you just given up on reading altogether? Stop linking logs like a gronk.
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Topic created by a lock who is still lvl 50 and not hit level cap.
affliction rotation is crap compared to other classes rotations.
Go Demo. Join me on the dark side!