Buff affliction

Buff affliction :sunglasses:

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Letā€™s 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 Pallyā€™s 30 sec cooldown 4-button rotation is as strong as ever. Hunters have gotten multiple changes and SV Hunter is getting what itā€™s 2nd or 3rd re-work when it was already killing it in DPS. Then there are Mages - well Blizzardā€™s favourite poster child class - yeah whatever.

Itā€™s 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 donā€™t think there are any Blizz developers who actually play Warlock, never mind Affliction.

Blizz just wonā€™t admit they donā€™t know what to do.

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Hi friend,

Unfortunately, Blizzard doesnā€™t read the warlock forums so your suggestion is akin to shouting into the wind.

Iā€™d suggest posting in the shaman or hunter forums if youā€™d 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.

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Buff affliction day 2 :sunglasses:

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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 itā€™s 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 hasnā€™t 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 shouldnā€™t 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?

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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.

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Buff affliction day 3

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No thanks. Thatā€™s a terrible suggestion.

You donā€™t 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

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Buff affliction day 4

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Do you have something constructive to post?

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Informing you that your idea wasnt good was me being contructive, I can explain why if you want.

Buff Affliction day 5

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Remove Malefic Rapture Year 5

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Thatā€™s a very mature response.

How about you (literally) read the room? Query search ā€˜Malefic Raptureā€™ on the forums and youā€™ll quickly see that most warlocks do not like Malefic Rapture.

But of course itā€™s easier to troll behind an alt rather than research it yourself and reply with something constructive.

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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 donā€™t 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.

Iā€™m not trolling nor is this an alt.

Maybe make some actual points instead of defaulting to ā€œtrolingā€ when you canā€™t.

Buff affliction day 6

I really am speechless about no changes todayā€¦

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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€¦

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Buff affliction day 7

(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 Iā€™ll make has a link to a feedback thread, itā€™s not just an plea for better damage)

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Iā€™m sure theyā€™re 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.

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