New Talent: Shadows Metastasize - Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric touch now spread like a disease to all enemies within ten yards of the afflicted target spreads up to 8 targets.
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Oooo I do like this Idea a LOT! If Class dev ignores it, can we Affliction Warlocks get something like this?
Soul Swap was not doing it for me and I think that was the closest we got from a talent to spread the Dots… (I could be wrong as I am very casual, but that’s the feel I got when I played Lock at that time)
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So old epidemic?
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Make psychic scream apply dots.
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How about an effect where your single target builds stacks or a meter of sorts that after a certain amount of damage you cause the dots on your target to spread. Maybe after x damage done with single target spells, a void creature spawns briefly to harm and dot an off target. This keeps with the single target theme but gives shadow more ways to refresh/add dots without having to tab around all day.
My alternative but less “exciting” idea to solve the aoe dot problem is to simply give shadow crash a much longer cd, but make it reduce in cd based on vampiric touch ticks. So if you pull a big pack and a bunch are dotted, shadow crash comes back really fast and you can use the button much more often. Equally important, when you are doing single target, the longer base cd will prevent you from using shadow crash in place of single target dotting. This is important because the move is meant for aoe, not single target.
This sadly does get really annoying when you have a massive group of mobs and after you apply targets with Shadow Crash dots, you are playing the tab roulette wheel in hopes you don’t accidentally tab to quickly and skip a Dotless target lol.
I think it would be a nice passive to at least when you reapply Vampiric Touch to a target that already has it, it will refresh it AND also apply to a nearby target that isn’t already afflicted with it. Even if it was a talent that would be fine.
That way you can just spam Vampiric Touch on the same target and you can be rest assured that with every cast, it will apply to a target that is not currently afflicted with it in the massive death ball of enemies.
That would retain the manually dotting aspect that both Affliction Warlocks and Balance Druids still do but removing the time wasting of manual targeting or tab targeting where as you got classes like Unholy Death Knight that can just stay on a single target and everything spreads to everything else without much effort.
That at least would remove the frustration of the targeting problem which would be a huge quality of life addition.