Realistically speaking, I run 20s and dispelling one and WoG another really isn’t that difficult
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For ret paladins with WoG, sure. Not every spec with a heal has those potent of heals they can access, which is the entire crux of the problem. Even holy paladins don’t get WoG casts large enough to knock out a +20 afflicted health total without a crit.
Just dispelling or just healing them is not a viable option for all specs that can interact with them when considering what may also be happening with the pull itself. A resto druid has basically no hope of healing an afflicted to full unassisted without using some CDs before the 10 second cast goes off if they can’t put 3-4 globals into the mob.
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You just need 1 DPS who has a dispel of any kind and it’s an utterly trivial affix.
The only issue I have with Afflicted is that there’s classes who literally can do nothing to help/stop/interact with it. That makes it a bad affix from a design POV IMHO.
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I mean if you are being sarcastic that isn’t going to pass through text properly so it needs some clarity.
People do not know you, or how smart you are based on the icon of a character in a video game. So there is no reason to assume in good faith you specifically are not a idiot and making a joke.
I don’t play a lot of M+ but I am very unconvinced that Afflicted is a harder mechanic for healers than Bursting.
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I would argue that if the design is bad because people do not do it correctly at such a high amount it’s not handled by most groups that IS actually poor design.
Design should be difficult but easily understood. Affiliated falls on the healer primarily who can not handle it on their own. And depending on the group you have they many classes are not going to even be ABLE to help you and if they do they have to change talents and redo builds just to cater to a single mechanic.
So when you take all that in as a healer, and you know most people will not do it regardless of why. It’s better to just skip the single 1 week and wait until it’s gone to enjoy yourself.
All of these is just a mess and points to it being a bad design in my opinion, and we don’t really LOSE anything by removing it.
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I find Afflicted to be pretty chill on my HPriest. I plan on adopting all the Warriors and Rogues doing 25s who can’t get invites to join my +20s and blasting some keys.
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No, you’re right, sarcasm can’t be passed through text properly.
TOTALLY right. I mean, you could never even be more right about that. Sarcasm? Coming across in text form? What is this? 2025? Uhhhh, hello! We’re in current times bub! You gotta save that kind of galaxy brain linguistics for the future!
I’m really not being mean right now. I just hate that argument and I’ve seen it a few times. It’s not that I expect someone to know that I’m joking, because I know better, but someone who wouldn’t know better, wouldn’t ask such a blatantly silly question so directly and openly.
You can really convey almost any human emotion in text form. Ask some of the people on here who convey their bitter butthurt blathering in the threads they post in.
But still, it’s good to not just assume things. I suppose. 
I really like the idea of something positive for whoever clears it. Haste buff, crit buff, etc. I also like the immunity to the next scream buff idea, when you clear one.
My husband randomly told a group once at the start of the dungeon that he’d pay anyone who could clear more afflicted than him on his ret pally 5k. As soon as he made it a competitive game, everyone else that could clear the affix jumped at the chance. That’s not gonna cut it regularly, though, hehe. It was just an experiment. (And it worked!)
I think instead of a haste debuff if the afflicted goes off, it should be a dps debuff. Most dps who tell me to handle it myself (while my dispel is down because I had to remove something nasty off of them to keep them alive) have it in their head that their dps is too important to waste a gcd on a dispel to help out. Sure would change their tune if not helping out affected their parse, or low dps caused things to be a slog, which translates to potentially not timing a key.
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Do people not do it correctly or do they not do it correctly at the level you play at.
Cause it’s pretty easy to understand even if you’re not a healer that cleansing mobs is better than eating a haste debuff.
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and to top it off, make it last till they clear a debuff from the mob, that way they just prove they are a selfish carry when they pass off the job on another when they are able to do it themselves.
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I have Cleanse Toxins bound to my tilde key. I’m ready for next week.
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I said that it isn’t going to pass properly. You can exaggerate tone of voice but to do it in text you have to do it just how you did.
Which you DIDN’T do in your OG post. You wrote it plainly without anything to lead anyone into believing it’s sarcasm.
Also tons that just don’t know better and ask questions to honestly know more about something and learn.
Facts. When the group expects the healer to handle both dispels and dispel them in dungeons like everbloom? I peace out on my healer too. Either we all sharing the load or you on your own.
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They need to rid of afflicted, bolstering, bursting, enraging, and sanguine.
Any healer who can’t press dispel should probably reroll console games like super Mario or even a girl’s game like ff14.
Didn’t we just have Afflicted 2 or 3 weeks ago?
Anyway, I actually like Afflicted on this character. I can heal them both to full in 2 GCD’s and not even need dispel. My main issue with them is that they can be hard to find sometimes.
Admittedly, it’s a lot more frustrating on my Druid.