I’ve been able to use Weak Auras to help me prioritize most of my abilities as a Protection Paladin but I still find myself staring at my bars to see if Judgement, Avenger’s Shield, or Blessed Hammer is coming off cooldown. It doesn’t really feel good to not be able to react to the battlefield because I’m focused on something else.
In Shadowlands, I picked up Affliction Warlock as an alt and really enjoyed it as my core abilities really didn’t have a cooldown but success with the spec required me to use the right ability at the right time and maintain various debuffs on the enemy. I was able to build a really nice WeakAura setup that allowed me to focus on everything going on around me rather than on my bars.
Currently in Dragonflight, it appears Affliction is undertuned. I’m wondering if there are other classes and specs that has a playstyle closer to Affliction Locks and further from Protection Paladins, and preferably DPS classes. Classes that use abilities that don’t have cooldowns/costs would probably be best, so the energy systems behind Rogues and Hunters might not work.