“Affliction survivability is on the team’s radar”, Developer Q&A - Ion Hazzikostas
“Some recent changes in BfA made Affliction more single target oriented, the team wants to pull them back towards multi-DoT.”
And so on … blahblahblah…
So what do we get:
Curse of Weakness Reduces the target’s Physical damage dealt by 25%attack power by 30% for 10 sec.
Demon Armor Protects the caster, increasing maximum health by 10% and increases armor by 125%.
Demonic Embrace Stamina increased by 10%. ( L M A O )
Casting Circle Summons a Casting Circle for 8 sec. While within the casting circle, you are immune to silence and interrupt effects. Learning Casting Circle causes Unending Resolve to no longer grant immunity to silence and interrupt effects.
Cast Time changed from 1.5 sec cast to 0.5 sec cast (wtf)
And i guess spread dmg aka multidotting FIXED as a azerite trait:
Pandemic Invocation Refreshing Corruption, Agony, or Siphon Life with less than (5000 / 1000) seconds remaining will deal 692 Shadow damage and has a (666 / 100)% chance to grant you a Soul Shard.
Isnt that a beatiful things we get after BFA release (which was 4 monthz ago)?
/sarcasm off
PS Dear blizzard, something is wrong with your team radar
No amount of stamina buff will keep an Affliction/Destruction Warlock alive against a DH/Furry Warrior in 2s (a.k.a melee pain train) or against turbo in 3s. We were not getting ripped like a paper because we had “tools” to work with. Instant shadowfury, coil, baseline circle, portal, dark regeneration/ember tap etc.
If a Rogue popped Vendetta on me I would just waste all my shards on ember taps and negate all of his burst.
Increasing our health pool is just… It’s very useless. The only benefit i can see is from Demon Skin’s passive recharge but… that’s just a “minor” buff in its own.
I could go on but its obivious no developer is playing as a Warlock in arenas.
Best solution is to not take this game seriously. Just take it as a second or third option to whatever else you’re playing. The expansion itself is a joke anyway.
Wrath destru was boring as hell. The rotation was static… you just pressed exactly the same buttons over and over in exactly the same order. There was no rotational priority.
Armor does nothing at all since like legion and with this retraded PvP scaling what we have the hp which DA grants it will be useless. Best changes ever blizzard clap yourself for the good work.
Blizzard should start working for our money or we have to quit the worst pvp experience for warlock ever. My mates dont want to play anymore with my class.
Well not just locks. Atleast destro is playable in multiple comps while dks can only play DH/dk/X , Wws are garbage tear, shadowpriests are op, but they need to ignore their core mechanism to be viable. Play like 1.5k matches across my toons and seen like 2 elemental shamans.
Not just locks have issues sadly.