This affix is terrible. I don’t understand why it exists. It is the most unfun thing I have ever seen. Did a warrior or something without a dispell test this when it was being developed?
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For the millionth time, I don’t understand why almost any of these affixes exist.
It’s like Blizzard want to double down on insisting we need these, while at the same time, refusing to bother to putting any effort into designing affixes that are actually any good.
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Blizzard created the Afflicted affix as a replacement for Grievous, which was primarily a healer responsibility/affix. Their thinking was that it healers would have various tools to deal with it, in addition to help from hybrid classes.
However, the developers failed to account for various things:
- Most players don’t like that affixes make the dungeons more challenging.
- The punishment for failing the affix is pretty rough and can cause wipes/failing the key.
- Healer dispels are heavily taxed in certain dungeon situations and can’t afford to use dispels on the afflicted mobs.
- Healing throughput has been nerfed in Dragonflight and there can be situations where the healer cannot heal the afflicted mobs.
- Players that can interact with the affix will not help because they think that someone else will deal with it, they think that it’s the healer’s job, they think that they are doing something more important, or they are ignorant/don’t care.
- Players that can’t interact with the affix are punished for the mistakes of those that can interact; leading to feel bad moments due to lack of agency.
- The community identified that the optimal choice is to have more players that can interact with affix, since it increases the chance of the affix being handled. As a result, players that cannot interact are less desired during those weeks.
- The afflicted mob can spawn in bad locations or situations where players can’t interact with it.
- It can be difficult to identify the afflicted mob due it’s visuals and because it’s a friendly mob. Players that are not used to interact with friendly units might have difficulty in identifying and handling the situation in time.
Yep. 100% percent agree. I cannot understand why blizzard is not making any changes to the affix, even toe Ion has promised that afflicted will be changed in the interview with maximum in regards to season 3.
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Can we at least get rid of affixes that force you to target something else in the middle of combat with other things?
Storming, volcanic, entangling, these are fine and the way affixes should work.
I think a neat replacement for afflicted would be that you have lines appear on the ground like on Advisor Melandrus, and if you don’t move you get hit with a 2 or 3 second stun. Blizz would actually need to make them REALLY visible however which tends to be a problem for them.
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