Allot of people make the argument that rapture has to exists for mythic plus or burst situations.
But in reality blizzard has already shown that they have the tech to resolve this in the game without the (visually boring and thematically out of place) malefic rapture. All while not making dots go crazy on multi target.
And to this I turn to empowered single target and AoE versions of existing fillers.
Imagine an AoE Drain Soul that hits all targets with applied dots.
(Cough couch soul rot aoe drain life tech in game)
Example
Drain soul + Withering bolt style effect/ID style/Malefic grasp style + aoe dot code can = Rapture’s role on aoe and burst profile. while visually and thematically matching aff
Shadowbolt + Withering bolt/nightfall/ + aoe dot code can = Rapture’s role
While visually and thematically matching legacy/first gen aff with a shadow bolt volley
To further cement and confirm my idea
This code and design is currently implemented and being tested on the NEW DF talent Grim reach. Turning Darkglare’s single target eye beam into an AoE that does more damage per each dot on the target and only hits targets with the locks dots on it.
Game play wise aff stays about the same as it currently does build shards use shards to cast a filler that does empowered single target or empowered aoe damage.
Rotation wise almost the same as well instead of MR you cast an empowered Drain soul or empowered Shadowbolt.
The biggest thing this does is remove a button from our existing massive button bloat and confusion.
All while creating a compromise between the playstyle that clearly blizzard wants and the visually thematic play style allot of people like.