How do you guys survive the onslaught of zugzuggers in this meta? I’m kinda hardstuck on 1500-1700 as affliction bcuz every game I spend all my time trying to kite dh/dk/war/ww/ret and selfheal all I can. I am pretty sure every meele has a macro on their bars saying “go lock” in lobby. I’ve tried to opt into siphonlife just for a lil more healing and even sacrificing voidwalker in start for the extra battlemaster.
I generally wonder how you other afflictionlocks do it?
inb4 “git gud”
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Basically healer / other dps has to provide some CC to give you small casting windows to reapply UA / Haunt so you have some pressure going. Issue is getting ppl at 1500-1800 rating to do that. Siphon life wont cut it, issue isn’t sustain, issue is they basically turn off your dps by throwing literally every CC at you and waiting for dampening to kick in. Simple as that, healer, instead of playing PvE gotta help with some CC on dps every now and then.
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People tend to kick soul rot for whatever reason u gotta abuse that
you should sustain with drain life and kite(yes i know u cant kite dk/dh/ww/assa/feral/warriors but still u need to use ur mobility to get away from them at least for 1-2 seconds when they cc ur healer) when u know u can’t do that
precognition is the life saver so u gotta learn how to fake if u wanna play aff
an advice i can generally give to u - cast ua for 0.1 before casting any other instant dot, helps get people nervous and bait kicks
other than that dude ure in for a rough time lol
oh and soul swap healers always, dont use it anywhere else except a healer or a kill target which just got dispelled because ua deals no damage again
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I know that you are high rated on affli and gratz to that but I don’t get how “cast ua for 0.1 to bait a kick” works at that rating. Because at lower, no one ever gonna kick anything but in LAST 0.1 sec and that’s after all of other means of CC were used on you.
Like generally, first UA cast: at the end stun, second UA cast, soft CC, third UA cast other stun, fourth UA cast… MAYBE kick towards the end, next one… well shadow melt, knockback, short range grip… you get through one UA? Well that’s either healer dispell, self dispell, AoE reverse magic. Long CC follow up, LOS, repeat stun cycle when DR is off.
Like that’s my main problem when playing Affli, I feel like I don’t really get to play against dual zug zug, they barely have to kick (and oh boi if they actually hit shadow school that’s tragedy in making). They don’t bother to CC anyone else (why would they).
I have more a problem with the impact. Sometimes it feels like I’m doing nothing at all.
But i like the dot and rot playstyle, they should add a talent for our dots to increase dot damage as more health the targets lose. That reduces the Ramp up. Know i know how that spell was called Death’s Embrace.
it does work because I ASSUME GSA spams AFFLICTION into their ears because i have no other explanation
fake it then? i mean affliction is all about fake casting and always was
if u do fake them u get the masteraura for 4seconds(5 seconds next reset) if u dont then well reset agonys and corruptions as they’re falling off pretty damn quick
i have no problems casting under 2 zugzuggers if one of them is not assa (mind numbing) or dk(spellwarden which is even worse because -13%)
and dont tell me people at ur rating dont interrupt soul rot because even r1 players do
I said the issue is micro CC / stuns, can’t fake those, which leaves you with one cast to fake every 16 seconds, minus dispells. At this rating they simply rarely kick, every single CC is on you, like they literally bridge stun DR with soft CC/short range grips/knocbacks.
All I am saying here is when two zug zugs decide to throw literally everything at you, letting your healer and other dps do whatever they want, they need to throw in some CC on either of enemy dps.
you want me to step on one of my lowcr afflis and show u the climb?
i mean people at 1800 died to staring at them lol, if they throw every cc on you then your healer is free and when ure DRed u fake and get ur casts off
if they dont interrupt then u just wait the DR and then cast
i mean i dont even remember this rating i only remember 1 time playing there after i got my 0-6 at 2k because of the dk dh sp lobby and then i literally facerolled the 1800 is all i have to say
What I really really want is not to spend 1h on average in queue because I don’t exactly has that kind of time, but no one can change that.
it gets better at higher rating tbh, i’m sitting at 1-30minute queues rn
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How do you fight solo shuffle as Affliction? I mean how do you control the fight?
u run around dot everything(keeping 100% uptime on dots on all target or at least 2 is the #1 priority) and u pray ur team dont randomly die (affli cant peel properly because fear doesnt last more than 2 seconds) and instead randomly kill someone or win on mana
if the enemy team is focusing u then u kite when ur healer is CCed or soulrot-soulburn-drainlife if u cant kite anymore
keep improved weakness on DH/WW on cd(100% uptime with improved amplify), tongues on the healer(to create more pressure) and exhaustion/tongues on the other dps
thats it i think, ur whole goal in arena is to pve outdps the others and to spam fear on the enemy goes whenever they arent on u, if they go u then just try to create distance while their cds are burning
oh and playing high haste helps a lot alongside the precognition talent
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Ok i will try doing this next time. Thanks
why are u bothering with this failed spec elemental shamans literally do more dmg then u with 3 globals flame shock lava burst earth shock thats it affliction is over its done dont ever both with it
I’m only playing lock, then my favourite would be demo. But i won’t play another addon with Tyrantlock style. If they revert the change to demonic Strength i will play demo again. So long i play Affliction.
destro is way better
I don’t like destruction, CB is a joke. You don’t even need to use it to kill people. Warlock need a great redesign.
Blizzard totally failed it again…
true i wish affli was good its just way to frustrating to play way to much effort when every other class out dps u
I don’t mind out dps, if the design would be good. They should give us the option to play like in bfa but instead of UA the dot mechanic comes from MR.
what do u mean by “play like in bfa” xD
i remember in s2 they nerfed demo armor for destro which ALSO did nerf affli’s demo armor although there were no affli in arena at all and the nerf was mentioned specifically for destro
i also remember them removing the fast regrowth talent for ferals 8.1-8.3 and after the removal u could talent into it as balance but it simply didn’t work XD
please no bfa treatment
if i would want them to change our dps to the UA-spender-like mechanic i would mention legion over bfa any time because in legion we actually were able to deal dam
in bfa there was none
anyway rapture after the buffs feels good imo, i dont have the 4set yet but even without it i hit 25k where before the patch the number was 17k
with the 40% buff from set i think affli will have some nice burst if left freecasting
upd i just did a 95k rapture on the training dummy without the 4set