Agree but I can’t believe you didn’t mention that Nightfall needs to have SOME KIND of interaction with Meta
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I love Affliction as well and it’s always been my go to spec but I only use It for solo questing now.
Since Blizz isn’t touching baseline spells and talents the only way to Buff Affliction seems to be buffing the Haunt effect on our DoTs.
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More important to give shamans two different ways to do melee damage
I have been really enjoying fire destro too so I hope thats not true. But if all the bosses in MC and BWL remain fire resistant it might be superior for sure.
Wait for level 60 , sm ruin will be one of the top specs with dots critting + Felguard .
oh yeah fel guard. Can’t wait
Dots with crits are just a meme, locks crit change is between 5%-7% and there arent talents increasing this amount as in other expansions.
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No matter how you spin it, Affliction needs help … badly and I sure wish Blizzard and Aggrend would acknowledge this and do something about it,…
Talking about that… There is a lot of room for improvement in this Phase 2 for Warlock runes.
To be honest, most of them are pretty lackluster compared to the other classes.
Grimoire of Synergy is hot garbage 5% of chance to make your demon hit 5% harder. This running proccing the other way around would be much less likely since the demon doesn’t ha e multiple Dots as the lock.
Shadow and flame. Well, only if DOTs could crit. But now its near to worthless for Aff.
Invocation. May be the lesser of evils here. Still it would be much better to eliminate the 6 sec restriction or make it at least 12 secs.
Dance of the wicked… This rune would be 1000% better tha it is if its only use would make you and your demon dance when it procs.
Demonic knowledge. This rune would be my hope for some tweaking and extra damage.
Shadowflame. They took a pretty cool spell and again made it almost useless by taking away the snare portion of it.
Apologies for the long rant.
Are you kidding? we NEED more posts like this where we voice our opinions about the warlock class. Aggrend and Blizzard are completely IGNORING warlocks due to --==>> 1 <==- spec being effective. It’s like they figure… well as long as they have 1 decent spec of the 3 we can focus on everything else,… who cares if players want to play the other specs,… they’ll figure out eventually they have to play destro. We NEED to make our voices heard and scream in their ears about this ridiculous blunder they’ve made. They are trying to ignore us and we need to be HEARD!!!
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Saying aff will be fixed when dots crit is lol, oh boy my dots have a 5% chance to crit for 50% more dmg 
going destro for 5% more crit only effects immo and taking the crit dmg in destro only effects immo
And even when they crit they’d still just tickle.
also if the datamined conflag rune in p3 is real destro is just gonna have perma 30% casting speed so yeah affi has zero chance to ever be a thing.
Dots critting are not the answer. This is bait and anyone who knows how to do math at a 3rd grade level knows it.
Dots crit for 50% increase. so each point of crit is a 0.5% dps increase. so 30% crit is a whopping 15% damage increase… Woopie!
Also dots are only around 50% of our dps as affliction, the other half is! Shadowbolt and pet. So make that a 7.5% dps increase.
The rune would need to allow dots to crit, give a significant boost to crit multiplier AND a significant boost to dot crit chance.
That rune is bait and I will die on that hill…
Affliction locks need a rune that is an active that INTERACTS with their dots in some way.
Ex.
Drain soul causes your dots to flare, granting a portion of the dot damage to drain soul per tick.
Shadow bolt deals increased damage based on the number of dots on your target.
Demonbolt- Deals X% of the current damage over time effects you currently have on your target and refreshes their duration.
Shadowstorm- Your shadowbolt has an X% chance to allow all your dots to immediately deal X% of their total damage to the target.
Or even another passive as much as I hate the almost mono passive runes warlocks are forced into currently.
Every time your dots deal damage it increases the frequency in which they deal damage by 1% stacking up to (whatever is balanced) number of times. Their duration remains unchanged.
Other things that would help…AND THESE SHOULD NOT BE RUNES.
Grimoir of curses- Removes the curse tag from CoA, allowing you to apply curse of agony in addition to another curse.
Grimoir of sustained Agony-Refreshing curse of agony allows it to continue to do the damage it was currently doing. (basically refreshing CoA with one tick left lets it continue to do its fully ramped damage) Edit: this one might be powerful enough to be a rune.
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#MakeWarlocksGreatAgain
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