Going to straight up say that I would absolutely not get randoms from the masses to have any noticeable input, because it has nothing to do with being an, as you put it “tryhard Andy”. You want random people when you don’t even have a product to test for viability. Well, Blizzard have already had a viable product and they choose to continuously re-invent the wheel, and the product (in this case, Affliction), is worse off for it.
You absolutely want people who are experts on the subject matter. And that is the people with most familiarity and time spent.
In any case however, it’s of the overwhelming consensus that on both sides of the tracks of ‘Tryhard andy’ (buzzword lol), and casual, that Malefic Rapture and the whole ‘Burst window’ on a DoT spec, sucks steaming piles of dog turds. People who are okay with Rapture/DoT/Burst/Whatever the hell window, are in the vocal minority for a very good reason.
yeah the stuff mentioned is interesting.
Just waiting for tomorrow to see how it all comes together. I don’t want to judge yet until then, but looks interesting so far.
they took dimensional rift from all specs besides destro tho =/.
really sad about this.
I find that, other than soul link , soul burn and dimensional rift. The rest of the stuff isn’t fun or intriguing… Kind of bumed out really. this was a super super cool spell.
Deathbolt gone - -guess they don’t want it to compete with Malefic ruptre.
As for those Malefic rupture haters. looks like they are pushing your gameplay more into it with the new changes. /shrug. Its here to stay i guess.
Combo.
Malefic Affliction – Malefic Rapture causes your active Unstable Affliction to deal 5/10% additional damage, up to 15/30%, for the rest of its duration.
Dread Touch (a choice against Doom Blossom) – If Malefic Affliction exceeds 3 stacks, the target instead takes 20% additional damage from your damage over time effects for 6 seconds.
(the other option for pve i guess)
Soul-Eater’s Gluttony – Whenever Unstable Affliction deals damage, the cooldown of Soul Rot is reduced by 0.5/1.0 second.
i guess this pushes into this build – * Creeping Death no longer decreases the duration of your damage over time effects.
Looks like they made A ROT spec with Malefic rupture into Creeping death. If haunt stays untouch, you can prob substitute with it as well. But i think creeping death path is way to go now.
Some scrambled thoughts after playing Lock 10+ years. I don’t like the idea of Shadowbolt being an Affy spell, especially a filler. Thematically it doesn’t make sense and feels bad. Nightfall procs are an antiquated talent that fit expacs long gone.
Post-Cata Affy has suffered from DoT throttling a lot. It used to just be Haunt, Shadow Embrace stacks, and Death’s Embrace, with Drain Soul going ham in execute phase. I never liked Malefic Grasp in MoP, even if the rework was cool. It requires you to stand still to maximize your damage, and when you’re not channeling, you’re losing deeps. WoD saw the same thing; I didn’t play Legion, but it looks to be similar? BFA was so cheesy with spamming SB and ID healing.
Blizz has constantly missed the mark on Affy for years. Malefic Rapture is part of the problem. Affy having a resource bugs me, too. It was Haunt, then Soulburn: Haunt, then UA, and now MR. I feel similar to a lot of other people who don’t wanna bother with Affy right now. In an ideal world (for me), I’d like to see MR removed, more DoT modifiers in the tree, and a faster GCD talent. Something like Pandemic from Cata, but works with all DoTs.
Also, bring back Death’s Embrace and Everlasting Affliction in lieu of Deliberate Malice; or have DB affect Drain Soul below 25% or something.
Have you’ve seen the new changes so far? Lots of modifiers going on for our dots. Some being pushed though malefic rupture spell. Looks interesting, might be fun
It’s a microscropic step in the right direction, but the entire spec is still forced to be centered around MR, which is really the main problem to begin with. The damage is now coming more from dots, but functionally it plays the same - so the underlying problem remains
So long as Malefic Rapture exists as the only option, Affliction is going nowhere towards the direction it needs to. For the whole three people in the game that enjoy Malefic Rapture, it wouldn’t be fair to remove it completely (I’m going to call them Rapture andy’s and use the term andy as incorrectly as it has been used here before).
Honestly, None of the warlocks’ past iterations would fix the issue in wows current modern state.
i rather see how they evolve MR before throwing it away. Seeing how they are improving it to work better with AFF’s rot design makes me see hope in it.
Malefic Grasp won’t fix warlocks and it sucks. glad its gone.
Aff doesn’t need more options competing with the core mechanic (Currently MR) . More mindless mini-games competing which each other should be avoided.
What they need to do
Make something new entire
or
Evolve MR, which they are trying to do currently.
Having MR work with our dots and empowering them is a Positive design change. If it works out well, they can interrogate more as needed.
Shadow Priest is a great example. This spec design is everywhere with no current focal point, as well as disassociated from the class entirely. The gameplay is filled with mechanics that don’t fit well with each other and it’s constantly trying to shine over the other instead of empowering the kit as a whole. It’s to the point where i feel like “void” itself needs to be its own spec.
AFF has already too much going on, let them narrow it down and improve on it.
I’m fully convinced anyone that is this lack of reading comprehension is a troll and so you’ll be treated as such as such. My tolerance for this level of deliberate obtusity is zero.