Is this because of a legendary or a certain stat weight? Why is it doing the most of the three specs?
It’s tuned higher and suffers dps loss to movement noticably less than its sister specs.
Mostly it’s just tuned higher.
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Yep. Affliction may be somewhat harder mechanically but has a lot more flexibility for movement than destruction / demonology, both of which are heavily reliant on long duration hard casts. And just numerically neither spec is quite there yet, and even at the top end of gear at best destro and demo get a few feet away from affliction, legendaries aside.
Of note, the best affliction legendary strangely enough is the demonology legendary, similar to how it was in legion, lol.
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its tuned out the a**
Better at dealing with movement, and it’s burst is tuned in a way that it demolished the other two specs damage.
I get they want to avoid afflic being primarily strong at multi dot, but that would be better then it being stronger in everything
I don’t understand the affliction hate.
I love affliction.
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It’s because it’s not affliction anymore. Dots hit for less than a melee autoattack. The spec has turned into a single target nuke spec with most of our damage done by MR.
Our dots only exist to buff MR.
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I have played affliction since wrath off and on.
You can’t have dot damage and be viable in mythic plus. The mr playstyle is what makes it viable. I also like having the burst window.
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Boring dot babysitting spec that isn’t even that anymore.
It’s just tuned very high. If demo or destro scaled as well with stats, they would be top. I have 30% mastery as demo and over 60% as aff.
It’s also mobile and can burst every 45-60 sec. It doesn’t rly lose much dps if it holds burst for a short time. In other words, it fits almost every fight well.
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If you don’t like it reroll.
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No, i mained destro for 7 years.
The only time i enjoyed affliction to an extent was at the end of Legion.
and on PVP of all things.
So play Destro then.
Why complain about a spec and how it plays when you don’t play said spec?
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Mostly tuning. Specifically conduit tuning. With Malefic Rapture doing 30-40% of Affliction’s damage, the ~25% boost to it with UA is massive. And the one for Shadow Embrace is about another 5% on top. Compare to something like Ashen Remains (destruction) or Fel Commando (Demonology).
I seriously wonder if they did/are doing their balance passes without considering conduits since the numbers get much closer without them.
Also it’s just comical sometimes when people try to say things about DOT damage in M+ or mechanical problems of just about any spec. It’s always numbers. Affliction was busted OP in Legion and had nearly 100% DOT damage.
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Lel some of us don’t like a 10 button single target rotation.
It’s one of the reasons I switched to priest. Got so tired of having to hit 10 buttons while others could just sit and hit 4 and start to take me on dps in any 2 boss encounter
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Weird because I love the rotation and the mini burst windows.
Legion affliction was good performing and more in keeping with my take on the spec fantasy, which is dots and aggressive drains and no Darkglare or MR.
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Affliction is the top on some things in raid not everything.
Power Infusion helps a ton with many of those logs if you are looking at them look at the buffs. The top log for Affliction Council of Blood has 9 Power Infusion buffs throughout the fight, which is just absolutely insane.
Also the raid being more single target than anything is also factoring into Affliction being strong in the raid.
But AoE talents and quite a few other things are a mess right now with the class. It’s also very tedious play.
If they took Rapid Contagion and edited it a bit, you actually could have DoTs and do very well in a mythic+ setting.
I think you are right there is a lot of ways to try and solve the problem. Dots should be able to do damage. They still have ramp up but that could be shorten or speed up at a cost possibly and fix the issues along with adding some more interaction with the spec beside just spamming gobals.
Not having utility like Soul Swap or any kind of dot spread makes it much worse. And AoE is just vestigial talents from previous expansions that just don’t work great with current Affliction. Vile requires a shard and more cast time. Seeds just don’t do enough damage anymore.
If Rapid Contagion was tweaked or Creeping Death was made competitive for M+, etc. there are plenty of way to fix the issues.
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