Affliction Warlock is super fun. Really love the gameplay loop. The cooldowns are unique, and it feels satisfying to stack all my DoTs are detonate them with Malefic Rapture.
The biggest downside to affliction is how boring Malefic Rapture looks to cast. The animation is barely noticeable. Wish something flashy happened to give the spell a little more visual punch.
Biggest downside of affliction is when youre better than everyone else and u still cant get invited to groups you are over qualified for in keys
Affected enemy targets should crackle and smoke with glowing purple smoke flames for a few seconds after it hits.
malefic grasp> rapture
Yeah, as a DoT spec the few spells we actually cast really should have cool animations.
The existing animation isn’t bad, in the right lighting with a couple of mobs its nice. They need to figure out how to enhance it so its always that prominent.
I think the animation would be a lot cooler if there was some sort of fel/shadow lightning that arced from the top of the casting Warlock to the mobs affected. Would be even cooler if the thickness/intensity of the lightning arc increased depending on the amount of DoTs rapture is triggering. Would probably have to be disabled for allies to prevent visual clutter, but I think it would look really cool for the warlock.
Huge Agree! Very unremarkable animation and effect. Can’t even notice it in packs.
Agreed! I said similar in this feedback post as well. I’m ok with it not having a great spell effect if the sound design is cooler. Conflagrate (another no-projectile spell) doesn’t look cool either but you can always hear it go off.
I think affliction is fine, but nothing special.
Too many 2 talent nodes, the majority of the capstones are boring.
I would recommend putting vile taint on 20 seconds, I don’t particularly like haunt, bit it’s kinda whatever, would be nice if it did something, a little extra to make it a bit more interesting, like proc nightfall, or give you a soul shard.
I would like to see the shadow bolt volley have a chance to proc crescendo. And maybe make it uncapped, it would be so awesome to see a massive 10 target volley or something like that.
The soul rot capstones are cool, but they last too little, I think it’s called dark harvest, make it last for as long as soul rot is on target. This would also give some excellent interactions between darkglare and soul rot.
Maybe though… Take a page out of splintering elements from shaman and make it so you get big value out of the main target and each subsequent target gives you less stats than the main one. Right now you have 4% up to 5 targets.
Make it 10% for main target, and each new target gives you 2% extra, but up to 6 target cap, not 5.
The dot extension instead is nice, nothing to say about that really aside maybe it’s a little weak, and I think I would prefer if it worked like the shadowlands tier set, obviously they would have to put a cap on how much soul rot could be extended, especially if they change dark harvest to what I suggested
The hero talents for warlock are high quality though, i especially like diabolist and harvester, I think hellcaller falls a little flat, especially for affliction, not the biggest fan, and it was cooler when you could make wither tick like crazy, especially for destro.
Talking about destro, i did not enjoy how ritual was handled for it, they should have assigned different CDR based on the spell you casted, shadowburn 1 second, chaos 2 seconds, rain of fire a fraction of a second for each target hit each time it hits with a target cap of 5 or 6.
Also did not enjoy how decimation was nerfed, or how they nerfed ritual of ruin and infernal. I also liked grand warlock design a lot, but that probably not gonna come back at this point, still an awesome talent though, especially for destro where the CDR for infernal in AOE scenarios could get pretty insane, for demo and affliction I don’t miss it as much
But overall destro is solid gameplay
It’s really hit or miss. You either get a group that thinks meta is the only way and they insta decline, or you get a group that understands affliction is actually better at higher levels and they invite you.
For soul harvesters, it does. Haunt procs nightfall which procs your demonic entity in you.
Did it? I have to re check
Oh yeah, it does, volition procs it, even more reason to like soul harvester for affliction, it really makes the spec a lot better.
Hellcaller aff plays a lot worse.
Hellcaller is fun but the soul harvester tree just synergies with the spec better.
I think hellcaller is the weakest of the 3 hero talent specs to be honest, like, in general.
Diabolist is more fun for destro, and harvest is more fun for aff.
It’s still an above average hero tree probably, but it significantly less fun than the other 2.
Aff is the least popular spec in the game, been scraping the bottom of dps logs since the beginning to tww, and has the WORST visuals in the game.
Still, you wont see blizz change anything.
Meow you know.
Love my aff lock, fun to play. Never played the others yet.