Does affliction work?

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So I recently started playing again at max level and destro is currently the #1 spec all locks are playing for arena/rbgs it seems. I qued affliction last night in rbgs and was 2nd in damage right behind a Uh dk.

I just qued shadowplay as affliction and I was doing great damage but we were not able to land a kill. I dont know if the shadowpriest was the issue or if it was simply becasue I was affliction…

Does affliction work in any 3s comp atm? Or should I just go back to being destro until aff gets some love?

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Pretty sure affs kill opportunity is still with inevitable demise traits which at 50% effectiveness and 50 stacks should be around 50-60k damage. I’m not sure though, since the 50% Nerf I just mess around as destro in lfg for fun.

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Yea with 50 stacks it still does good damage. I think maybe Shadowcleave would work with a DK since they have great dmg and healing reduction. Ill have to que some adn see how they go!

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Affliction is actually bottom tier right now.

Very weak defensives/self heals. No real way to deal with melee and the pressure output is pretty easily negated with kicks/dispels. It just feels like a really watered down Shadow Priest, which is funny because Spriest has always felt like a watered down Afflock.

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Ya scleave actually looks hella fun. I want to q that but my friend refuses to level his dk. :frowning:

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I was playing vs chanimals aff lock the other day and he plays port and kites super well and lives while doing a decent amount of damage.

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Did you have a hard time sticking to him or doing damage once you were on him? What comps were you guys playing?

I can see port being more useful as Affy than as Destro. Destro it’s too good for setups.

I think Curse of Exhaustion would be really nice.

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Affs not bad just destro is better. If they buff affs damage though it’ll be better overall for the game since it can die faster than destro even with the kiting.

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If you run into a melee cleave comp you’re pretty much useless as Affy. Even if you get your DoTs off, a single dispell removes all of your pressure while you’re still eating damage to the face.

Destro can at least return pressure after the second go or a lot of setup forcing CDs and possibly a reset depending.

I am not a fan of being this huge tanky caster that is reliant on getting 1 spell off a few times on someone. While it is funny to watch people get halved if I have every CD up, it’s something that happens essentially once per game. Outside of that I’m being kicked/stunned/cc’d until my CDs are gone then it’s back to square 1. It’s just not that fun, specially when things like TSG are very popular (and feel impossible to fight against.)

I personally would like to see Locks get port as base back and give us more abilities to kite while making us slightly less tanky. Things like CoEx/Shadowflame/Portal/HoT/Nightfall (ACTUAL NIGHTFALL) could make Affy a solid spec.

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Uh you guys are stuck with current Affliction. Blizz said they are done with class / spec changes and overhauls. Thank Ganesha I got a resto druid that kinda feels like a reverse affliction lock anyway and can stealth when encountering 500 chimptillion enemy players camping half of Zuldazar.

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Affliction doesnt need an overhaul. It just needs some damage buffs to its current spells.

-Make unstable affliction something that should be a penalty to dispel again, the silence is nice but a 20-30k hit for dispelling it would be nice. Make it stack too so that that 20-30k could be 90k depending on how many UAs are on a target.
-Make agonys damage betetr that what it currently is.

  • Increase the damage our felhunters shadowbite does.

Little things like that could easily fix affliction without overhauling the class.

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90k

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oh wow a professional player plays the game well surprise surprise bet hes also got much lower rating/win rate then plenty of non professional players because his spec is extremely weak atm

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Bring back cata afflock… no?

buff current poop afflock