Going into a new pack with no Vile Taint and having to use 4-5 GCDs to apply Agony to 4-5 mobs not only feels bad, but our damage is below the tanks. This feels awful. Please consider giving us 2 charges of Vile Taint.
As well Vile Taint overwriting Curses (Curse of Tongues, Satyr, Weakness) is bad programming.
It feels like Blizzard just decided to write off affliction as a loss this expansion. Same spec design, no QoL improvements, probably weakest tier set in the game on single target, awful ST dps etc…
It’s a spec you look at and you wonder “Where’s the good part? Why should I play this? What does it bring to the table??”
I’m so glad I dropped it for Demonology. I pugged KSM last season as affliction and my god was it a battle to get invited to groups. Can’t imagine how it is now that both demo and destro have been buffed AND have strong tier sets
Idk why Blizzard is so insistent dot refreshing remain a part of afflictions gameplay. It would be one thing if it fed into a fun gameplay loop or something, but it really doesn’t. Even shadow priests no longer bother with manual dot refreshing. In fact I don’t think any spec manually applies dots anymore EXCEPT affliction. It just feels old and outdated. The game is so fast paced now and affliction is that old geezer trying to keep up with the young cool kids. It just can’t, no matter how well it’s played.
Even if they don’t want to overhaul it, they could at least bandaid it with more damage or changing vile taint. Either one would help immensely, but instead we just get silence. Literal crickets
No, and just for asking we’re removing one of your UA’s from PVP.
We have changed the deal, just pray that we don’t change it again.
That’s probably what they actually said unfortunately lol
Not sure if its Vile Taint… like its a 30 sec CD…
I think if Jackpot gave us 2x shards on proc it would be more useful, because then we get the benefit. Having Jackpot proc and no shards is just so sad. Yes we get shards back off the UA’s AFTER the mobs die - but theres the problem, after… so going into the next packs we have shards but the previous packs already dead and we did healer DPS.