By default most serious raid group will have at least one lock for cookies. And that lock will play Affliction cause the raid leader of a serious group wont let his lock play anything else. So yeah you’ll see a bunch of locks dominate the standing cause when played well specially on fights like hunstman it can do great dps. It’s still not fun to play for a lot of people out there. Personally i hate it with a passion.
Yeah, DOTs aren’t even your damage. Its Rapture through stacks and then its just too damn much management.
maybe we could have a conduit make all of their durations 25 seconds, haunt and ua only apply to 1 target at a time, or buff absolute corroption to make all dots perm besides night fae one which would be your point to dump the most
or writhe in agony applys agony corroption and haunt to everything near it, 20sec cd, shared cd with haunt
siphon life should just be baked into corruption. when you throw a corruption on a target, it also throws a mini siphon life. I never take siphon life because as it is it feels like way to many GCD’s to get mediocre damage out.
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It’s really ridiculous that an MMORPG that boasts about its customization options forces players down set paths. It has to be intentional. I find it insulting to our intelligence as players.
You literally cannot choose 2-3 covenants per class because the abilities are totally useless or a major loss to damage.
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A moonkin, which is a hybrid class that can heal, tank, and damage with the same gear as our warlocks in Nathria did about 2.2-3x the damage at any given time whether single target or aoe. They just don’t care about this game or something, idk.
Back in my hardcore days, I did a lot of things including playing certain specs I didn’t enjoy but it was all for the greater good of the team. In terms of parsing, “cheesing” is a thing as well. AOE’ing when you should be single targeting or throwing dots on adds that take no damage are some ways you can make yourself look a lot better on parses than you’re actually performing.
It really doesn’t make anything at all better when we have cooldowns and “charges” on conduits which inhibit explore-play and customization. I have to M+ as destro now when I was swapping things around last night for raid as demo / destro M+ and pre-raiding planning. Absolutely dumbfounded how this made it it into the game.
Only time I don’t take siphon life is on Hectic add cleave. The spell itself doesn’t do much damage but It is a huge DPS loss not to take the ability cause you are actually losing about 2500 damage every time you dump 5 SS. That adds up in a 5 min encounter.
With a long duration I feel you wouldn’t notice the extra GCD very often since you wouldn’t refresh as much. To bake it in with Corruption would cause to many problems in other areas of the game.
The goal that blizzard always sets out to do is create the illusion that you have a choice.
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The issue with aff is dot utility and dmg. In alpha and beta we fought hard for blizz to implement some ‘baking in’ for dots but after the first month or so they quit listening to the forums. We clearly identified that dots were doing almost no dmg. Remembering my parses, dmg was MR >> UA >>>>> Pet Firebolt >>>>>>>>>> DS >>>>>>>>>>>> then dots. That’s a pretty broken system considering the substantial and extensive management to dots.
Plus, this doesn’t even include cds, which are main cd does absolutely ZERO dmg. We pop it for the dot extension. Outside of that there is rly no reason to use it.
There was alot of discussion of baking in the talents from the second talent tier and replacing the line with dot utility. But it never happened.
While I enjoy aff playstyle, I would definitely say that it needs some cleaning up. I don’t mind managing dots as long as their dmg was worth the management. I dont mind having cds, as long as they are WORTH managing. In aff’s current state, neither feel worth it outside of getting massive MR dmg.
Oh wow, one spec is good at the top levels in one aspect of the game! That means we should all just shut up!
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Man this feels like back in Cata era, where the effort for dps was sooo much higher and what we got was more mediocre.
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It’s funny that you say playing piano, that is literally what it feels like when I do my opener.
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Cause I’m tired of the blizzard gods telling us to play afflic pve only.
That is totally what I was thinking. It reminded me of some George Carlin thing where he said “They want you to think you have a choice. You don’t. You have no choice.”
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It’s literally harder than piano, I play piano. It’s literally more difficult than playing 5 notes on my right hand and a bass line while putting my face over to the next octave to play a note or two.
You are exactly right. Some people love one class only and will never change, even in bleak times like these. Warlock was amazing in legion imo, but right now I really don’t like the “rotaion”. But I will stick with the class because I love it lol doesn’t mean I won’t complain about it
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To be fair locks were praising Malefic Rupture to high heaven(for reasons to this day i do not understand). Its less they they ignored feedback but it got drowned out by the people saying how good it felt to play. Now that it is live people are acting brand new.
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What a load of rubbish.