Now that BFA is coming to a close, I have to ask;
Did you enjoy BFA affliction?
I’m genuinely curious to see how people “review” this version of affliction. I just want to hear people’s honest opinions on the spec, good or bad.
So what did you all think of BFA Affliction?
What were the good or bad points of the spec for you?
It wrecked for 5 mask clears.
Too much ramp up time for most anything else though. Ok in raids. Seed still sucks.
Kinda.
Some problems were the burst. When I’m playing a rot spec I don’t want burst but steady damage, but getting the Soul talent was kinda mandatory for certain situations :l
Also in pvp, as usual, interrupt/kicked/silenced/etc having 1 school of magic sucks 
Execute your opener every 3 minutes. Outside of that, go make a sandwich or something. I feel Destro suffered from similar issues, but VoP was able to spice it up a bit at the cost of extra RNG.
This was nice, though.
This was the first expansion I didn’t main an Affliction Lock. Looking forward to a triumphant return. SL Affliction is on the right track.
At first it was fine. I have no idea what they did in the middle of expansion but I had to switch to Destro because I was running out of mana so fast! Like I was running out about a minute after fight started.
Yes and no.
Unpopular opinion: I really enjoyed having shadow bolt and the nightfall talent however I wish the talent was stronger or you had more of a reason to take it.
I liked taking nightfall, shadow embrace, and grimoire of sacrifice but that was never the build to go so I stopped playing aff and switched to demo for the rest of the expansion lol. If that tells you how I feel about the spec during BFA.
I hated UA stacking. I hated deathbolt soooo much and it was the biggest reason I stopped playing aff tbh. I hated having to squeeze a ton of dots into a short window for “burst”. Idk it just didn’t feel right to me on a dot spec. Especially one like aff that requires you to manage a lot of dots not just 2. Not to mention the duration of aff dots isn’t very long to begin with. So juggling that got annoying to me personally.
I enjoyed how I wanted to play it but how I wanted to play it was sub optimal so I just didn’t play it instead lol. I’m not sure Shadowlands will change how I feel about the direction the spec is going in, we’ll see.
TLDR:
Pve was okay
Pvp/Spell effects- cries
PvE
-Affliction for pve was fine as long as you were geared (& with haste corruption).
-Had to rely on essence of focusing iris to compensate for the lack of better AoE spells.
PvP
-It sucks that I couldn’t do any arenas this expac with aff.
-We have this ongoing issue of silence affecting ALL of our spells.
-Our build up of dots would get dispelled so easily. 4 sec silence for the opponent was not a good enough punishment.
-Wpvp is hard cuz you have to rely on utilities from professions (engineering, alchemy, etc.) to survive.
For aesthetics…
We NEED better spell effects man… I mean I like how its unnoticeable that we can sneakily rot people from afar but I would love to get updates that keeps the same concept but with…just better menacing spell effects.
BFA Affliction to me was the worse of all expansions so far.