There’s even more threads I’m sure. What I’m saying is, please get in touch with your players and fix Affliction’s design. It’s absolutely horrible right now. Some people have even unsubscribed from the game over it. And it’s not too late. Remember we still got 8.1.5 and then at least another 2 whole big patches(8.2&8.3) to deal with this.
So please, for the love of Azeroth, start fixing Affliction warlock.
Haunt really needs to be baseline like it used to be and that whole talent tree needs to be torn down and reworked. Our AOE damage is such a joke right now.
We need a lot of things reworked:
-UA needs to not stack multiple times at once on a single target.
-Agony stacks removed(it deals damage over time, so why in the heck does it need a ramp up time?)
-Darkglare removed
-Huge talent tree rework(deathbolt needs to go away permanently and other talents either buffed or changed/replaced with a different new talent)
-Haunt baseline
-Demon armor baseline
-Add Soulswap back
-Add Howl of Terror back
-Demonic circle and mortal coil baseline(which sorta goes back to one of my previous points, talent rework)
-Add curse of exhaustion back for kiting(or some other kind of slow ability)
-Then buff the heck out of UA, corruption and agony after these changes to them because they’re weak on their own atm.
That’s about all I can think off the top of my head. I might of missed something, not sure though, if I think of more things I’ll edit it in but we really need these things.
Absolutely hate and loathe what they did to affliction my favorite spec in the game. Summon darkglare and deathbolt need to go asap. Refuse to touch my warlock till they are gone!
I mained Afflock for many expansions now, and I’ve stuck with it through the good and the bad times.
But i really struggle to enjoy the spec in BFA, i tolerated it through legion because by the 2nd half it was pretty powerful.
I invested alot of time over the years into my warlock and i dont want to shelf it to find a spec i find engaging.
My issues with it are similar to what others have posted;
I dont like deathbolt/darkglare putting that much power into a 3min cooldown feels like it really hurts the spec outside of that.
UA stacking feels horrible.
And our talent choices are very lacking in choice, i dont kbow what its like for other classes, but the only real choice seems to be the second tier, dot choice, WiA, AC, SL.
Tier 1 talents have no choice, despite being a talent row the heavily defines your playstlye. Deathbolt over shadows both other choices so heavily and DS ends up being a DPS loss.
AoE feels non existance, and although i perfectly understand why we cany have super awesome AoE, we dont even have mediocre AoE. Boomkin and Spriests are also dot classes but they dont seem to be heavily inconvenienced in AoE as Afflocks are.
I want to enjoy playing my lock, i really do, but it doesnt feel fun or engaging this expansion and i feel that wont change till 9.0 if we’re lucky.