First a question, how many of you have been able to get a drain life off without it being kicked lately. It may be the most easily recognized spell and one experienced players know to instantly kick.
What’s worse is that you lose all those stacks of inevitable demise as well. It’s one of our best abilities and it’s so easy to counter. It does need to be counterable but it’s just so obvious with that green line across the screen. It’s also channeled so it’s not like you can try to juke them. If only they could make it so that we keep a portion of our stacks if it’s kicked. It’s one of the most quintessential Warlock spells and I never get to enjoy it.
You’re not actually supposed to, because players know that the only time Aff does good damage is when people group up and Affliction is able to get a multi targeted Soul Rot up and a 50 stack multiple drain life spam going on. Outside of that your DoT damage tickles 3/4 of the time. If you didn’t take GoSac then your pet can still die pretty easily when people decide to focus it, if they wanted to quickly burst it down anyways, and as Affliction everyone knows you have just Shadow school spells, outside of Soul Rot, so kicking on DL means you get to get literally nothing else off then for 4 seconds or however long the lockout last.
It’s not one of, it’s literally the best ability Aff has.
Or, they could remove the Drain Life talents, the Soul Rot talent and instead just give talents for faster and harder ticking DoT damage, instead.
They could also redesign GoSac so that it’s not a proc based damage but, instead, a flat out 10 or 15% damage boost to your damage abilities.
They also could, instead, make a Drain Soul talent where Drain Soul heals for 30% or 50% of the damage dealt, too. Another thing they could do is remove SL as a DoT and just make it make Corruption heal for 100% or 150% of the damage it deals, instead. Boom, your healing is decent and everything is tied into your base kit of DoTs plus drains while also giving you more healing but not making it so absurdly dumb healing that everyone else complains.