Kill a thing without killed other things to spawn an actual mob you then need to kill to get a small buff for a brief period of time. It kind of just feels like an annoying version of Prideful.
The two components I don’t really like or the fact that we need to kill one of three low HP mobs to select which one we want. I think it would have been far better to just have automata placed in a group of mobs or at a boss. No relics you just get a buff based on the present automata. Then we kill said Automata and everyone in the group gets an extra action button to activate the power up when they want, You could even use a prior empowerment and chain it in on a boss by using your existing charge to kill the new automata while cleaving the boss.
Instead what we have an “and then” affix that doesn’t really feels good to take advantage of due to it’s underwhelming benefits. I would honestly take any of the BFA Affixes over this clunky one.
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Lots of people gave feedback on the PTR that the whole affix feels underwhelming, unrewarding and basically a sad replica of the prideful days. As usual, they ignored about 95% of it.
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It seems like a revamp of the affix is unlikely given how Blizzard dose things which is disappointing because This is what we are likely stuck with for like what 10 month? 
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Its so confusing in the way it works. Which is bizarre because prideful despite how painfully precise pulls had to be made sense, and so did the torghast one. This just confused me the whole time lmao.
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I would agree. Personally I am of the camp that liked Prideful but I was also in a premade for pretty much the whole season. I think part of the reason Prideful works better is that we have some control as to when it is triggered and where we used it.
Encrypted is well everywhere and with how little HP the relics have and the fact that they are IN mob pulls we can’t just ignore them or hold off on them for later. Many specs have natural cleave which will kill them so your only choice is to pick a relic and kill it fast then kill the other 3 THEN kill the mob THEN start dealing with the mobs or boss… AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN,
We get in this awkward middle ground where we want to use lust on pull for a boss BUT we haft to deal with Encrypted first while also making sure we are doing mechanics. I watch a TOP were they spawned Vy on the Lich boss and the blaster deleted there elly Shamy because he had to go in to roots for the boss mechanics. What are you supposed to do in that situation pick a different add even if it will benefit your group far less?
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idk how many key pushers would like it but. what if, you dont plan any of the encrypted kills and just deal with what ever you happen to trigger. 
maybe by 9.2.5 it will become DEcrypted with Cypher knowledge ;D
The 5% they don’t ignore is people telling them they did a good job 
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You can play that way but as I mentioned above in some situations that can be very dangerous as you haft to deal with both the boss and the mob. Some times the boss mechanics kind of put you in no win scenarios. It is probably not a super frequent thing bit still possible.
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it’s definitely not a fun affix, but it’s also not too intrusive.
all in all, it’s just kinda boring.
also I’m pretty sure the haste one will be the go to like 90% of the time.
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Man that Haste buff feels so non existent especially considering you need to chew though a mob to get to it. Maybe that is not going to be a problem once we see DPS have there set bonuses.
Still this affix bring one of the biggest problems Prideful had and that was getting though it while holding cooldowns or burst damage.
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yeah I agree, but the alternatives really aren’t all that impressive.
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The damage buffs feel underwhelming and they don’t last so long. Very noticable on Tyrannical affix.
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Not a fan it’s kind of a turn off for mythics tbh.
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I agree
I dislike explosive with it. So much target switching and tab targeting isnt great
I never know which to kill either
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The worst part the buff appears as a debuff so my unit frames I can’t see other important debuffs sucks as healer.
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Are you using any addons for your frames? Most addons will let you disable certain buffs/debuffs from showing on frames. Don’t know if thats possible with the base ui.
It really screws up specs that have a more complicated burst window combo with the first 10 seconds of a fight being the usual mechanics free safe space to perform it.
This is my take away. Just makes it less fun.
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ya we got the CDR one and I was tanking on BDK and we took the CDR once and the only thing I really noticed was DRWs CD going down by about a minute and Swarming Mists finishing up its remaining CD.
I actually just told a friend who was thinking of coming back to pug KSM to not bother for the time being. He has a really erratic work schedule and whenever he dose anything he normally just pugs and deals with whatever happens. After explaining the affix to him, he basically said:
“Dude people will literally just start arguments based on which buff is best for there spec and people will just leave keys, Why would blizzard even think that was a good idea”
It is really unfortunate because I knew a few old friends who were excited at the idea of being able to just do keys as there end game and still get stuff like tier sets. It is even more upsetting when we realize that this is sort of the norm. The team gets a number of things right but then has one or two core features that are just not polished or up to reasonable expectations. I generally try to be optimistic and look on the bright side but I can’t see myself doing 250+ keys (across 3 characters) this season like I did last season. With the way Encrypted is I feel like a good number of people will avoid doing keys beyond the minimum.
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Like I said in the other thread.
I think this affix has potential. I think killing a mob to choose one of three buffs is a cool concept and adds a lot of flexibility in how you plan and execute your run.
A cool strategy that I tried in a dungeon earlier today was to hold onto the Haste mini-boss, kill him immediately before we pull and then choose the CDR mini-boss to use as a pseudo-cooldown for our healer to recover when we took a bunch of damage.
My main problem with this affix is that most of the time it feels like so much effort for so little reward and generally feels super unintuitive. Unless you turbo-burn down the mini-boss, and it REALLY doesn’t feel like that’s intended because the mini-bosses aren’t threatening at all, then by the time you actually kill the mini-boss, the pack will either be dead or near enough to.
So what’s the point of the affix? To just choose the buff for the next pull? I think that’d be fine if the buff wasn’t present in some of the hardest pulls of the dungeon, it feels kinda weird to struggle through a hard pull and be rewarded for that with making an easy pull a bit easier.
Also like someone else said, super obnoxious with explosive. But I don’t really blame Encrypted for that.
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