I really don’t care if people think it’s easy to dispel or heal, it shouldn’t even exist in keys. People were baffled that it heals the boss in a frigging 5 key.
Talk about learning curve, these expansions dungeons are just awful.
There is enough going on that we don’t need affix anymore. There is enough to deal with.
A learning curve of one dungeon per affix week? Sounds tough I suppose.
Affixes are mostly fine, they used to add a bit of flair to dungeons but since they get rid of them all for the 5 we have now, its as stale as the bread I forgot about
It’s afflicted 2.0 which makes me hate it based solely on that.
I tried blasting through a +4 on my DH, but the pally healer couldn’t handle the affix, so the boss’s health just kept climbing back up while the group’s health kept scraping the bottom of the barrel. It was very frustrating in a very unfun way. And naturally as a DH there wasn’t diddly I could do to help except an occasional wimpy soul absorption.
There are some times where it overlaps with aoe spam from mobs/bosses (like mists packs with the drust guys, CoT 3rd/4th, etc). That’s when it really sucks. I think that’s my main issue with it – the mechanics overlaps. There’s so many times where you need that heal to go through or it’s a major cooldown and having it get eaten by the affix usually results in deaths.
Another favorite of mine is the miniboss in dawnbreaker where soon as you land they’re starting up an aoe, and depending on your timing you may get the affix on one of those aoes. That can then further overlap with the dot on that pull, and that’s a spot where you’re very likely to lose someone.
You can tell when it’s coming, and can sort of plan around that, but there are going to be times where it’s a double tap sort of scenario you can’t do much about. I don’t like stuff that can time itself such that there’s very little room for counter play. You’re also banking on people being at the keyboard, and understanding when to dispel themselves and doing it very quickly in most scenarios or dying.
It’s better than afflicted because it isn’t extra mobs you need to find in a pile of bodies to deal with AND everyone has at least something to help with the affix even for themselves. Plus it has an actual upside for dealing with it AND if you are clever, you can kinda cheese it by waiting until the last moment to clear the final one to refresh your stacks and gain extra time with the bonus crit and HP (think it gives crit and HP anyway).
Yep crit and health per stack. It feels a little bit underwhelming vs the kiss benefits from the other affixes. Ascendant is haste/move speed for 30 seconds from the orbs. Oblivion is the mastery/leech one for 30 seconds (very strong buff), voidbound was verse/cdr last week for 30 seconds, and devour (this week) is crit/health for 30 seconds.
edited: Missed the buffs to some of the affixes.
Probably my least favourite of the new affixes, especially since neither Healing Potions nor Healthstones work on it, which removes a large portion of the ways that classes without dispels can deal with it and the failure is super punishing compared to other affixes.
Like if we fail the other affixes, we can just kinda soldier on through by hitting defensives or whatever.
Can’t really punch through the boss healing its full health bar over and over and over because you’ve got three dispels in the group and none of the players with them actually know what they do.
I haven’t done this affix but this thread does sound funny XD
What? Surely that’s a GOOD thing. The damage the DoT applies is utterly meaningless and it means the healing cd you invest into healing the damage also removes the debuffs. Two birds with one stone.
It takes a fair bit of healing to remove it if you don’t hit it pretty early with something large. edit: correction, it just continues to apply 1% per second damage dot (negligible as you said). It’s more that it eats healing that you might otherwise need to survive the mechanic stack. I’m typically having to hit someone with several heals to remove it if my dispel isn’t available on a 10.
The debuff doesn’t “eat healing” though. It’s not a healing absorb, it’s just removed after X healing is done. If it was an absorb it’d be awful agreed.
And no, I’m just wrong and seeing the results of the of the thing just removing a bit of health over time from the dot. It’s just a matter of timing that made me perceive it otherwise (during big damage events).
It’s born from afflicted. I will always hate it no matter how many good points you make. 
If the healer can’t keep people up in a 4+ with a 630 dh (won’t need healing at all) it says more about the healer than the affix
Well I was havoc for it, so I was trying to blast the boss but his health kept yoyoing. To be fair, I don’t think the healer even understood the affix fully.
All this time I’ve assumed it was a healing absorb… I guess reading is a strong skill 
To be fair, I don’t usually heal and just hit dispell when I can. That’s funny though.
Same honestly.
Ya, it’s a real wall compared to things like collect the balls and dps the pretty goth lady.
It is the worst one tbh
Mediocre reward compared to the rest
It’s one of the easiest affixes that have ever existed. I’d take devour over the orb collection, the orb collection has some finnicky moments where you have to either use immunity to collect or die due to positioning while collecting.