The new alpha build dropped for midnight for talent trees. malefic rapture gone. What are your thoughts if this stays
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Thank the lord.
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It looks like they’re going back into the Legion aff playstyle hard.
It is a good day.
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Came here immediately to say the same! Where is the really obnoxious lock that spams every rapture thread saying it’s never going away because it’s peak design? Feel bad for that guy! I’m stoked though. Will main aff for the first time since Legion!
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Almost sounded too good to be true. Very happy about this change. Let’s see how the spec plays overall with the new talents.
I saw a version of Malefic Grasp was added back as an option too…
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So far a lot of the talent changes look like nothing more than forcing players to waste the added talent points on stuff they didn’t take before, because of what’s now gated behind those talents… a way to give people more talent points without giving them anything new or different.
Its just an option for Nightfall. Turns shadow bolt into a juiced drain soul for one cast.
THANK THE LORD.
God I was so on the fence about dropping Affliciton going into Midnight I am sooooo tired of MR. Bye bye!
Oh I see Soul Rot is gone too.
Mixed feelings there but still hyped.
Edit: Eh its basically just replaced by a better spell. Good stuff.
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I’ve been spamming my buddy with the news all day hes gotta be sick of how hyped i am.
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Nah, we are getting instant damage based on total amount of dot applied back, we are going back to seed for aoe damage, UA stacking for ST damage into nightfall procs doing all the damage instantly, affy is going to have burst again. 2 gate uses before CD application plus tele.
These changes look REALLY good.
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Vile Taint’s removal
So their vision is for tab-targeting Agony still, just with twice the rate? Whack-a-mole with nameplates since the talent will auto-add agony to an additional target.
Seems even worse than having Vile Taint at first glance.
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The idea seems to be that SoC spam and the new Dark Harvest Talent will be used for larger pulls while Agony and UA applications will be used on lower enemy counts. I don’t mind this if it works out how I’m thinking. There are far less modifiers in the tree now and with rapture gone the dots themselves should do competent damage.
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It looks like it’ll play similarly to legion which were good days IMO. ST you spam UA on one target then use grasp, now it looks like you’ll save nightfall procs and shards, dump 5 UAs and then use nightfall procs right after for big burst.
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Praise Sargeras!
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fyi just so people here know…
agony has been redesigned as well: It stacks up to 8 now instead of 18
Pretty large ramping damage implications.
Also:
Affliction aoe burst is now not tied to dots, so not having agony up on pull is not a problem anymore, and you can fill empty globals with agony at reduced ramp time.
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Yeah, Sow the seeds + instant and free seeds in AOE is going to be so much better than DoTs + MR spam.
Blizzard directly addressed this too:
Agony would lose a lot of texture, and throughput, if its application played out in a similar way to Corruption. In addition, there is less emphasis on having every target afflicted with Agony with the removal of Malefic Rapture as your spender’s throughput is no longer dependent on having Agony active.
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This is one of the few good reworks I’ve seen so far.
Legion style UA dump felt amazing and powerful, cleaving agony also looks good and far better than vile taint.
Very excited about this. Aff is one of my favourite alt specs and MR always ruined the fantasy of it.
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Time to bring back the Warlock.
Basically people who loved Legion Affliction (me) and Unholy DK’s are rejoicing.