Whos idea was it to make so that the DOT spec, the literal O.G DOT spec that should deal damage with DOTs doesnt actually do that? Instead it adds 5 icons above the enemy healthbar and then use a lock on target aoe explosion to do damage?
Its not that im totally averese to the idea of Malefic Wrath, make it deal damage over time(But still very quickly and it can stack) and tune down its damage a bit and give it back to normal DOTs.
It feels weird when immolate deals more DOT damage then Agony + Corruption + Unstable affliction + Siphon life + Covenant ability.
Affliction and Demonology have a lot in common these days, thanks to low budget designs. Affliction has 10 debuffs that can barely take down a mob and Demonology has 10 Imps that can also barely take down a mob.
In my opinion the shift towards malefic rapture is a very under-rated change… It basically means that our main damage source is literally not a DoT : malefic rapture spends our ressources and our DoTs are basically builder spells. In the past, we had strong DoTs and filler spells like malefic grasp, shadow bolt and that kind of stuff.
I don’t know what to think about it really… it sounds like ’ not affliction ’ sort of …
sure well, no offense…
our dots are builder for our burst mg?
ok… then make them ALL have a chance to produce shards…
as is, in m+ i see no “use” for affliction… if it’s a “aoe” style pull, are resources are drained too fast, and then it’s a “tab dot dot dot dot” rinse repeat… which would make my wrist cramp after an istance…
other spec have MUCH more effective aoe, with a simply unconcerned rotation (cough cough, hunter, boomking, unholy, fire mage, etc)…
and then you think, “our damage will be glorious at least”… nope…
and then you hope, at least in single target or cleave we’ll do GREAT? nooooope…
we have haunt, corru, agony, sl, ua and rupture in rotation, 6 spell rotation and we deal less dmg than a frigging rogue//unholy dk//boomking//mm hunter//etc…
and it’s not even a thing about “switching spec”, we have demonology where a SWARM OF IMPS is just tickling the enemy… or destruction that had it’s main source of damage buffed by 22%, that’s how bad it was…
sigh… no king rules forever? there were several “kings”, but it seems to me, we’re the only one that got the short end of the stick…
Dot damage is terribly low, agony “hit” for 32 initial damage. Meanwhile a random melee or caster can hurt with istant 10k and stun us until dead. “Something” was wrong.
I like malefic rapture, BUT not ALL damage in this spamming ability (if you cap the shard, right). I’d like to use shard also with siphon life, to do great damage for few seconds and heal you for the damage done. I’d like more damage at dot, right now is so depressing arenas. I feel like I’m playing a different game from the other classes