Would it really be so bad if Oblivion scaled with mastery?
It’s never going to be useful as long as it isn’t affected by mastery.
For starters, it competes directly with Malefic Rapture because it costs 2 soul shards. Malefic Rapture however does scale with mastery so it will always be used over Oblivion.
Second, if it isn’t going to scale with mastery, why does it have a shard cost? It’s already got a CD so it’s not spammable. Why the cost? It makes no sense
Sometimes it would be cool to have a quick big single target nuke as affliction, and Oblivion could fill that role if it was given proper consideration.
Or we could just delete it and add something else that’s cooler. Either one I’m fine with. I just really dislike having these absolutely dead talents that don’t see use at all.
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Agree. Oblivion is also a bit hard to use in PVP (the main content I’m invested this Season), unless you’re not being focused (unlikely lol). The Unending Resolve window is better used with Malefic Rapture.
Even if you can cast it, using Malefic rapture is better. It scales with mastery and will do more damage, and cleave to other targets
Oblivion is just bad all around. It either needs to hit so hard it does more damage than Malefic rapture can by cleaving to other targets, or maybe have no shard cost. Having no shard cost would at least make it a decent damage source without taking away Malefic Rapture casts
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Literally this. There’s too many cons compared to positives in picking this talent. Scaling with mastery and no shard cost would actually make it a viable talent. Why would anyone spend 2 shards on a 45 sec CD that will get insta kicked in pvp if you don’t pre cc the target with a coil or fear? Currently a dead talent in pvp at least.
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It’s dead in PvE too because there’s no scenario where you’d want to spend 2 shards on oblivion instead of Malefic Rapture
It’s literally dead in every aspect of the game. Truly a dead talent
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It’s a reminder of how much attention affliction doesn’t receive these days
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Man I’d freaking kill for a 1 min cd single target nuke like oblivion that’s actually good.
Increased damage per dot applied, 2 sec channel, just draining the life force out of a target.
Maybe CONSUME the current dots on the target, and multiply it by 1.25 of the remaining dot damage as well?
God that’d be epic and fit right into the theme of affliction.
Just want something cool as an activatable, cause atm it’s a bit stale capstone wise
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