Letās be real. Affliction needs more than buffs. It needs an overhaul. It needs quality of life changes. The spec feels awful to play and even worse when that damage from both the spec itself and the S2 tier set is so bad. It has way too many 2 point talent nodes. Having to manually re-apply Agony to multiple targets in between Vile Taint being off cooldown feels like crap.
Meanwhile Shamans get overhauls and then more changes. Paladins see multiple buffs for Prot and Holy and Ret Pallyās 30 sec cooldown 4-button rotation is as strong as ever. Hunters have gotten multiple changes and SV Hunter is getting what itās 2nd or 3rd re-work when it was already killing it in DPS. Then there are Mages - well Blizzardās favourite poster child class - yeah whatever.
Itās great other classes are getting attention and while Destro and Demo seem solid, Blizzard seems to have forgotten Affliction exists.
Blizzard again shows how incompetent they are. I donāt think there are any Blizz developers who actually play Warlock, never mind Affliction.
Blizz just wonāt admit they donāt know what to do.
Hi friend,
Unfortunately, Blizzard doesnāt read the warlock forums so your suggestion is akin to shouting into the wind.
Iād suggest posting in the shaman or hunter forums if youād like your suggestion read. Make sure to point out how whatever change you want would also benefit shaman or hunters if you want any chance of it being implemented.
Long time player and Warlock advocate hereā¦ Give me yalls opinion on this idea. Why do you think Blizz has not revamped specifically Affliction yet. Do you think itās because of the lack in personal resources or do they have no idea how to revamp it or both.
I keep thinking to myself why hasnāt Blizz created some type of entity/website where the players can create or draw lets say, the affliction tree and what it should look like and what spells we should or shouldnāt have. I only say this because I genuinely believe that some of the veteran warlock players/streamers Kalamazi & Arysn etc, can entirely create a spec or at least the blueprint for Blizz to build upon so that then we can finally get what we all needā¦A fun and amazing DoT based spec. Shoot even myself I could probably spend less than a week revamping the entire tree and fix 98% of the problems I feel like.
I hope a Blizzard employee sees this because I do believe that having us players be the think tank for some of the class designs would be a great idea (most of the time). At the very least it would give us players a sense of advocation for the class which I believe deep down in our hearts, we all want.
Anyway gamers, how does this resonant with you or not resonant with you?
make DoTs hurt again
Crowds and enemies should literally be melting with a full row of DoTs applied. Dying to DoTs needs to make a return.
Also please make channeling spells our main single target dps spell. Everyone hates Malefic Rapture.
No thanks. Thatās a terrible suggestion.
You donāt speak for everyone.
Few reasons:
Lack of care factor
Pride still hurting after Xelnath
Nobody who actually plays or understands warlocks on the team
No desire to fix the issues
Xelnath
Do you have something constructive to post?
Informing you that your idea wasnt good was me being contructive, I can explain why if you want.
Remove Malefic Rapture Year 5
Thatās a very mature response.
How about you (literally) read the room? Query search āMalefic Raptureā on the forums and youāll quickly see that most warlocks do not like Malefic Rapture.
But of course itās easier to troll behind an alt rather than research it yourself and reply with something constructive.
Ok and? That means literally nothing for multiple reasons.
1 the forums are an extreme minority of the playerbase.
2 the majority of people that are happy donāt log on forums to complain about the game.
3 most of the people on the forums do not play at a level where it balance or class design matters or have a high enough game knowledge to understand the needs.
4 the majority on the forums are not the same as the actual majority.
Iām not trolling nor is this an alt.
Maybe make some actual points instead of defaulting to ātrolingā when you canāt.
Buff affliction day 6
I really am speechless about no changes todayā¦
We need to find the actual team who works on Warlocks (If any) and set up a meeting with them. I think that will be our only chance at a revival of the specā¦
(fun fact, if you were to hit no defensives and pretend to be a dps, prot warrior does more damage in single target now)
(also reminder that every buff affliction post Iāll make has a link to a feedback thread, itās not just an plea for better damage)
Iām sure theyāre working on an affliction rework as we speak.
It will probably be ready by midnight and we will get to enjoy how strong it is during beta just in time before it is gutted. The cycle of despair.