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).