Affliction is a freaking blast right now. Hits like a truck, loving the enhanced rot play style, and good survivability. My only complaint is that it will probably be nerfed sooner, rather than later.
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I agree, it is way more fun and interesting.
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It’s a lot of fun, though I wish our dots lasted longer. Feel like I’m constantly refreshing them. As a shadow priest refugee if they lasted longer and gave me more time to channel I’d be a happy man. Then again, that might just be the dirty shadow priest within talking
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Agreed, the dots do seem a bit shorts, but I guess it gives us something to do other than spamming the horrible MR that we are still stuck with.
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yeah, that’s my 1 gripe as well. Hated the fact that dots tickle with shadow also, and most of our damage was around burst spells like mind blast. Devouring plague was once the hardest hitting spell in the game… /sigh
Back to lock, if they just made MR buff the dots it would feel a lot better. leave the burst for destruction.
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Do they seem shorter or do we just have alerts and procs now that are taking our focus off the dots? I’m not sure. I haven’t really had time to really fully test.
Honestly this entire system is really dumb and arbitrary. Some specs just have better tree design for no good reason. Affliction’s tree is stupid simple and there’s currently very little choice involved…you can pretty much have it all, especially since soul rot is still accessible as a covenant baseline ability. It also synergizes incredibly well with the class tree.
…And then there’s Demo…probably will not be playable until tuning and/or max level (if the latter is true, then that is just bad design in my opinion).
Dots feel strong again finally. Malefic Rapture still feels clunky af, but now that dots are actually worth something I try my best to not cast it as much and save my shards for Pandemic Inovacation in PVP.
We’re going to get nerfed hard though, that’s how it usually goes. Then the playstyle will feel weird once more. Hopefully I’m naysaying and they took the 10 level scaling into account and its just the perks of the prepatch.
So, what are you saying here? There’s quite a bit of choice, bruh. Go whatever flavor you want for your lock, nothing is actually mandatory except for MR.
Wrong, again?
Cool, two wrong takes in one post, I enjoy this.
We will be fine. Prepatch is prepatch shenanigans. Everyone’s ridiculous, so it shouldn’t be tuned considering we will all be out of Shadowlands in a month anyways.
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It’s probably a minor, though annoying, thing but the game ignores my Demonic Circle macro and keeps putting Demonic Circle on my cast bar every time I enter/leave any group, including raids and dungeons, after I’ve removed it.
I haven’t tried Affliction yet, but I’m absolutely loving Destruction. I’ve had to make some tough decisions but I can now get some incredible momentum going with a shower of fire and infernals.
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I miss decimating bolt on my Destruction Lock.
Enjoying it now while we have it in SL’s.
I guess I will make do as always. Affliction is solid, love it.
I don’t/wont play Demo anymore (not hating on people who do) I just never really liked the “Summoner” theme of Demonology but that is my personal preference.
Overall I think Locks are in a good spot and the damage overall is balanced to all the baseline abilities, well it seems that way at first glance.
Yeah, good.
Question for y’all: Recently and excitedly returning to Affliction (which I haven’t played since Season 1). Loving it in keys, trying it tonight in raids.
Just wondering from those of you who maybe stuck with it: What are you doing about Withering Bolt: using the conduit or taking the talent?
I tried Affliction, but it’s not hitting remotely like a truck. Might be because MA isn’t proccing, so Doom Bloom isn’t even working.
The gutting of Demo is depressing and haven’t tried Destro yet.
What content did you try it in?
If its pvp then yeah their is a known bug with
The pvp talent rampent afflicitions (gives u 3 Ua cap)
It causes the new malefic afflictions talent to not proc or stack. And thay causes dread touch or death blossom not to work.
This came over from beta. Reported multiple times
If its in m+ or raid havent seen it not work from my testing this past week.
Im loving it. Dots fall off real quickly though. Soul swap seems great, but don’t know why they named it swap, because you’re not swapping your just applying. soul tap is amazing, but it looks like we won’t be using shards as much, with burning rush you can basically tap into a healthstone and with talent have sooooo much leech that you have infinite tap/shards, but again with way dots fall off it seems ehhh.
Affliction scales like dirt. Just like SL, Affliction was top dog at start and as gear ilvl’s went up, affliction bombed. Same thing will happen.