Shouldn’t affliction be all about buffing their dots?
Not their dots buffing an ability?
They play more like a ramp up burst class, like their raptures can hit more then chaos bolts sometimes.
I rather the Wrath through MoP aff.
The rots of DoTs and drains is what used to make it so unique.
(I miss Drain Mana).
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This is the route they took to make affliction viable in keys.
I agree, personally hate what they have turned affliction into.
I’m more into PvP than I am into running keys though. It used to be so fun to actually see your DoTs going to work in a 3v3.
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I know, I just think it’s a poor design.
I can see that though I personally am enjoying the new playstyle too.
Having strong dots being the bulk of the spec was also back in the days when affliction didn’t have any cooldowns at all. The most you could really get was an on use trinket and maybe some rapid fire nightfall procs. Back then it was just about doing consistent damage from start to finish.
Nowadays, the game is all about stacking cooldowns and squeezing as much out of them as possible. Affliction seems to be one of the better specs at this, as you can pop off an entire set of raptures in a very short period, so you don’t even need very long windows to capitalize on buffs. While it may not seem very true to the spirit of Affliction, it works really well for how the game has evolved.
Having dots be as scary as they were in Wrath was a good time, for sure, but these days they also have to be weighted around having so many stacking cooldowns available.
Think old Aff and new Aff are both just different versions of good design. Not that either is perfect, mind you.
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Give me old aff back any day though. Honestly the closest we get to old aff is if we run creeping death which takes dark soul away and makes your dots tick 15% faster than they normally do. Its actually not a bad talent to grab considering most teams have a class that can steal or purge darksoul
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