Affixes suck. No one likes playing against affixes. Spiteful mixed with incorporeal or afflicted is absolutely asinine due to the mobs continuing to debuff the group even if spiteful are the only mobs remaining from the previous pull.
The game needs kiss-curse affixes aka the GOOD seasonals, or no affixes at all outside fort/tyran.
Honestly fort/tyran are at a point where they aren’t malicious offenders anymore, and they are literally the only thing adding ‘flavor’ to dungeons. Every other affix is just an annoyance.
Difficulty from M+ should come from the infinitely scaling system of the keystone, not from an RNG overlap between an affix and a dungeon mechanic-- which, honestly, create most of the difficulty in the system at the moment.
Ex: 1st boss brackenhide, 2 afflicted spawn during the trick totem blind. You didn’t time the afflicted spawn?-- oops bricked key because RNG overlap.
for me, it’s not these affixes individually…it’s the ability overload you get when you’re dealing with two active affixes at once…this was way worse in season 1 when we also had thundering and explosives.
I’d like to see them have a passive affix (like volcanic, or storming, etc.) coupled with something like Afflicted, or incorp…Not enraging, hello?
There’s nothing new or challenging about the affixes pal. Dispels have been in the game since the beginning, as have enrages. I merely want the challenge to come from the dungeon, not RNG. Super fun to have freehold harpooners tick over the raging threshold right before a crusher stomp
Groups have the counter play available, but RNG with regards to how/when aff/incorp spawn, or when mobs tick over the raging threshold, ect ect.
Don’t even get me started on the fact that a single class can entirely negate an affix(priest/bursting) for an entire week-- nevermind the fact that priest/MD is already essential in 5/8 dungeons at any challenging difficulty.
They really should add additional affixes as the keys go up. The current system is like if Sarkareth just had the same mechanics as Rashok, but had more health & damage.
I’m not super in the crowd of ‘remove all affixes’, but I really miss the good seasonals and agree that fort and tyran are the only thing that keeps the dungeons fresh week over week. I never look forward to a specific affix combo at all outside of the ones that can be ignored.
This would be awesome. Id be down for it. Like, a Hardcore Mechagon dungeon back when it required real coordination, but instead, all the affixes, random, so its never the same and always a challenge. Shoot, im in.
This is one of the dumbest suggestions I’ve ever seen on these forums.
The OP is clearly stating a problem that needs to get changed as you constantly hear people complaining about how bad the affixes are in m+. If you truly believe the solution to these affixes is to “run heroic dungeons”, please just stop giving advice.
He’s not asking to get rid of affixes, he’s stating the frustration he has with the current ones which makes sense because they are all made to just be purely annoying rather than being an interesting way to change the feel of dungeons each week to keep them refreshing and fun while adding a bit of a challenge on top of the dungeon itself.
These affixes are as lazy as it gets and no thought put into it. Entangled, volcanic, storming, are all basically the same thing, a circle on the ground that spawns that you move out of or end up losing control of your character for a second or 2. Bursting, spiteful, sanguine, are all just cheap and lame on death affixes… the challenges shouldn’t come after you already killed something. Incorporeal and afflicted are also annoyances that are just made to be a distraction that stops you from dpsing or healing to instead target and dispel/cc which over the course of a week becomes a complete chore as opposed to being fun and engaging.
Absolutely horrible take… mythic plus is the main reason this game is even alive today. Pvp is a fraction of what it once was amongst the playerbase… guilds can barely even fill a raid team anymore, the playerbase is older and can’t commit to 3-4 nights a week to progress mythic raiding in which only a small percentage even have a shot of completing the raid on due to how difficult they are developed for the top end players.
This isn’t vanilla WoW where you can just pug a raid and clear it with randoms because the mechanics are simply not to stand in fire while pushing your 2-3 button rotation. You need to be a high parsing player, with addons, weak auras, while filling out an application and going through an interview process to even have a chance of clearing the raid on the hardest difficulty.
Mythic plus is an infinite scaling mode, that has infinite replay value, progression, that can also be pugged to a high enough level to get max ilvl rewards that you would never be able to pug raiding to the equivalent level of those rewards. You can also play this any time of day without having to log on at a set time to raid. If you were to compare any other activity in WoW as far as time spent being played by the majority of the community, you would be a fool to not realize that it’s m+, and how popular it is.
Clearly you don’t even have a clue as to what that’s referring to. Kiss/curse affixes have been widely requested among m+ players for a while now.
Prideful in shadowlands was great… a mini boss that at high key levels was super hard to kill, but at the same time you needed the haste buff it gave you once killing it in order to defeat certain bosses.
Also the anima power affix killing the 4 mini bosses throughout the dungeon.
Stuff like this is something that the whole group has to work together to defeat, and once defeated gives a buff to the group to help them further in the dungeon. This is much better than affixes that are made to just be annoyances that typically have 1-2 players having to deal with in the group while the others pretend it doesn’t exist.
this is how I feel honestly. I need to make a macro to target the afflicted mobs because its hard to click on them, or even see them at all given the amount of stuff going on in an M+. I dont want to have to make macros for affixes. A lot of things that make the game suck boil down to the UI needing improvement. I am aware that I can download addons to keep this crap straight, but you know what else I could do? play something else and when enough people choose to do that, you know what happens.
