It’s the -worst- one to deal with. Even when people can talent a dispel to help they either “forget” or simply refuse. And when you don’t get the full 5 buff/enemies get buffed it’s always blamed on the healer
This is the one affix I still refuse to do. This week is a skip week.
Since I play one of the few classes that can’t do anything about it, it’s not my problem!
Keys are LIT this season
What class is that? Cause Druids can take remove curse
DK /10char
I dont mind the affix, one of the easier ones. Save a cd or some big heals for it and go nuts. Its not that big and comes off easy.
Fun trick: when you get rid of the absorb, it adds a stack to the buff and resets the timer. If you feel confident, get rid of 4 absorbs and hold off on the 5th as long as possible. You can stagger it for a linger period with the mastery buff.
Hahaha
Dont know if this still works.
Lichbourne to make the player count as undead
Spam deathcoils into yourself to heal
Boom, DK self healing the absorb off =P
Seriously? I always thought this week was a free win. Mass Dispell instantly takes care of every other one. Healers love me this week.
Only key I did this week was a +10 on my Disc Priest to get my last portal…and it proved how useless others can be at helping lol.
I think the add spawn is the worst tbh. You have to stop everything you’re doing to kill 1 mob over and over it just makes things take longer than it normally would.
If they made it so that all the damage you pumped into that 1 mob got dealt to every target you’re in combat with once it died though, that would be cool.
get to 12s and you don’t have to deal with any of the affixes anymore!
Yes, yes you are.
I find this to be one of the easiest affixes as a Resto Druid.
Remember, you don’t have to dispel it, you can heal it off also…
Stack Mastery and keep the group pre-HoTed like crazy (which is what I do anyway). This debuff melts away stupid quick, like it’s not even there. Very occasionally there will be one straggler debuff, and I’ll dispel it.
Certainly no need for mass-dispel or poison-cleansing totem.
I think this is one of the easiest affixes, because I can just dispel myself and forget it even exists via detox, remove corruption and so on.
Maybe if I were playing a class that has worse tools to handle it I would think about it differently.
Imo Voidbound is way worse. That can actually make a Priory 11 feel significantly harder than a 12.
Last week week in priory, right when the last boss went up, the emissary npc spawned down there, but we should have been running up to the boss to kill the shield.
The boss got a 75% DR on herself, in addition to her shield, which made her channel that spell for ages and summon literal armies.
That affix is generally a horrid on bosses to the point that many has its negative effective disabled.
I am yet to find such terrible combos with the Devour affix.
If you often forget about dispelling yourself, maybe this weakaura can help.
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This is one of the worst weeks to heal. The affix will happen at the worst times where people go from full health to almost dead with a heal absorb. Had one group that wouldn’t dispel so I had to pump heals considerably
You can heal it off yourself 
One of the easiest over all weeks.
I will take it over the “ae interupt orbs” week no context.
Yeah, I don’t care to pug this week. Sure I can usually out heal it with my 2 dispells, it’s just a little too spicy for me. I typically just run with guildies and friends on this week, well really most weeks but especially this week.
Oh that’s why the Theatre I ran was so hectic. I was just healing through it, I still never used Apotheosis in the key though.
I don’t like these Xal affixes because they all literally look identical to me, I have no idea which one is which visually lol. I should get a weak aura for that too.
AMS talent will remove it. Or pre-ams. And there’s always deathstrike.
My holy pally just heals it off everyone.
I think that one is pretty easy, too. But that’s because my main is a prot pally.
I agree with anyone who says the one that spawns the add is the worst, it adds a fair amount of extra time and since it spawns on the tank it is very inconvenient for some boss fights.