Did you even read the rest of the post to which you quoted? I agree the affix is poorly designed because of its restrictive nature.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t unnecessary embellishment in these threads. Saying a warrior is likely get into fewer groups on during afflicted week is a valid complaint. Saying that every group will never invite a warrior during afflicted week is not. There are quite a few people who opt for the latter in these threads.
Afflicted is more of a tank or dps job.
If I join a key where I’m the only dispel I just leave as clearly the leader is clueless.
There are a few mandatory dispels in places where if you don’t catch them quick enough the dps will die.
if you agreed that it was free and easy then you wouldn’t have been angry enough to make this thread.
afflicted is one of the better affixes this season.
you press cleanse and it’s gone…
incorporeal is much worse.
sanguine is much worse
bursting is much more annoying
Afflicted needs to be removed if they don’t give dps like DK, Warrior, Rogue, and Hunter a way to help with Afflicted. Having almost half the classes unable to do anything is stupid.
Giving Hunter’s Mending Bandage (A PvP talent) baseline would fix Hunters lack of skill for it (and give them utility in a raid for being able to dispel bleeds, which only evokers can do atm)
For rogues, warriors, and DKs, they could make it so something like Crimson Vial, Victory Rush, and like, Anti-Magic Shell or something also dispel a nearby afflicted.
Tanks don’t tend to spec into dispels, and apart from like Paladin, their heals won’t do enough cause Afflicted have a lot of health, even healers take multiple spells.
And dps is fine, but you have to keep in mind only 7 of the 13 dps class specs can dispel. I don’t count warlock because they need an interrupt in M+ so felhunter is required, and it would be like a 20% dps loss to use an imp for Demonology.
Meanwhile 6 of the dps can’t do crap about it.
So you’re saying every afflicted week, half of all dps should be ignored for keys. That sounds smart.
Of course most of this could be solved by removing the CD from dispel like it used to be. I can’t think of a good reason it needs to be 8 seconds or whatever.
Warlock can’t do it, their dispel is magic and magic dispel doesn’t work.
Not having a cd on dispel would negate a lot of mechanics in the game. There is generally some sort of decision making on a lot of dispel mechanics that are welcomed complexity.
Maybe… they could have dispel not go on CD when dispelling afflicted. That would be cool.
It’s amazing to me that you don’t grasp the concept that an affix that requires 2x hybrids is more of a problem than difficulty.
My main is a Holy Paladin, and all my most-played alts are healers of other classes. In M+ and raid, I heal exclusively, and only use dps or tank specs for overworld content. For me, healing IS the game.
And I don’t mind Afflicted even a little bit. It is WAY better than this week, which is Bursting. Bursting is the worst healer affix by a lot. It used to be the second worst after Explosive, but thank the Light that’s gone.
I fully acknowledge I’m biased, but as a brewmaster I’ll take this affix over almost any other. Sanguine isnt necessarily hard or dangerous but it definitely adds extra time and work for me as the tank
Oh and if it goes off, lmao whats haste, idk who uses that
pre-crying. I guess this isn’t exactly new. But I’m surprised…
Shows you how much I pay attention to afflicted as a hunter.
I grasp the concept, I fully understand how this works. I’m more amazed that this affix is such an issue for you, well, amazed and amused.
You’re SOOO clever!
I’m ready to cleanse the ghosts.
I have varying experiences with afflicted. On my Shaman its a cake walk. Drop poison cleansing totem, ez life. Whether I am Resto or Ele. Also have a short CD dispel as well. I can say the affix is easy to deal with it, if the group deals with it and doesnt just pretend the healer can get them all, every time.
Druid. EZ. Just dispell them.
Paladin. EZ.
Warlock EZ… Nothing I can do about it.
Rogue EZ… Nothing I can do about it.
Hunter EZ… Nothing I can do about it.
Why would you even sign up for that group? You can see what classes are already in the party in LFG.
I don’t mind afflicted. I usually grab one other dps that can dispel. That gives us three dispels in the group and the other two dps can be filled with whoever.
You can get rid of them by healing them, you don’t need to only dispel them
And you really just need 1 ret paladin with a pulse to dispel and WoG, not 2x hybrids lol
Don’t worry non-affix handlers, I’ll run you in any key at 20 or below. You don’t even have to do the affix, I’ll solo it completely. Just note you will enjoy the occasional haste debuff. There are bigger priority dispels and heal moments than our DPS. Death is a 100% net DPS loss.
Realistically speaking when you start reaching the high teens and +20s, healing them isn’t really an option unless you’re in a pull that isn’t really testing your group’s limits. This is the biggest issue with the back and forth on afflicted - people want to boil it down to being in a vacuum with the entire toolkit available. On lower keys where a single healing global can knock out an afflicted, healing is an option. But when you reach a key where you need 2, 3 healing globals, someone is going to be sacrificing significant performance to pull that off. If someone has that many globals to spare, your group could realistically even eat the debuff and be fine. If not, the debuff is going to be a major threat but so will losing those 2-3 globals.
The problem is that the times your healer can solo afflicted are also the times when you’re less likely to be affected by the debuff. The times when your healer may need help on afflicted are the times when eating an afflicted debuff might threaten to wipe your group because your healer may not be able to heal the group enough with a massive haste reduction.