I came back to WoW for Shadowlands. Hadn’t played since WotLK. I’m genuinely curious…when did Warlock / Shadow Priest DoTs become so terrible in PvP?
Back in the day I remember getting rotted by Warlocks on the regular. Now it seems outside of offensive cooldowns (Dark Glare / Rapid Contagion), DoTs are just a joke. It’s incredibly easy to just heal through the damage.
If it weren’t for the slow lego, Warlock DoTs would be basically inconsequential. This isn’t the Warlock I knew and loved. It’s time to increase DoT damage.
Make DoTs great again!
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Dots purpose is to buff MR damage.
Which is exactly why the class is brokenly useless.
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Being one of the top dps doesn’t make the spec useless.
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it useless.
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DoT’s aren’t the same as they were in Classic/BC. Granted they do play a small part in a boss fight, in PvP it’s just a damage modifier for your main spell, MR…
Dots can’t be great because blizzard wants everyone to be similar in dps regardless of fight style
If dots are strong single target, we will dominate multi target. If we’re only good multi target, we’ll be terrible single target
It’s why we got Malefic Rapture. It allows us to be good in both, but not dominate either by a huge margin
I’m looking forward to TBC classic. Dots hurt back then, and warlocks were the kings of rot damage. SL/SL is going to be so fun
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Devouring Plague’s tick hits harder than all our dots ticking at the same time…
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To be fair it’s more of SPriests version of MR than an actual dot. Yes it’s technically a “dot” but it’s an even shorter duration than Ignite.
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That’s true. DP also requires setup and can’t really be fully leveraged in aoe unlike MR… But at the same time, it feels less clunky and requires less setup.
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Yikes ,imagine having this freezing cold take.
You are wasting your time guys it’s not happening in SL. Aff will stay the way it is for SL either get used to it or reroll. They’ll probably nerf the single target a bit let’s hope it will be via a SE nerf.
They wont change the mechanics. Gameplay changes will happen via tier set bonus and maybe an extra leggo. They’ll tune the dps and fix some bugs and that’s it. If you don’t like the way lock feels right now then reroll 
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- Get rid of MR.
- Buff DoT damage ~75%.
- Give us an ability that costs 1-2 shards that spreads our dots onto nearby targets. This way we fully DoT one mob and then spread them using shards.
Affliction’s problems solved.
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DoTs have 100% uptime… they are fine.
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this would kill aany reason to play affliction in keys - you need some sort of direct damage/burst.
Since we would be spreading our DoTs via shards, make Seed of Corruption explode for X damage once the target takes X damage from your DoTs and take away the shard cost.
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so a costless AOE filler type spell? can’t be a nuke without a cost so it cant really hit hard…but i see where you’re at i think
If they allowed UA on multiple targets in PvE and it did real damage, we wouldn’t need MR.
it would need to do enough damage to outvalue the burst damage brought by other classes or brought by MR. M+ is predicated around burst…and DOTs are the opposite of burst.
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