Am i the only one not liking the concept of " Malefic Rapture " in Shadowlands? It sounds like affliction warlocks in Shadowlands will have to get their dots on the target and then spam this ability in order to do a large portion of their damage.
This sounds like a very boring and spammy playstyle which doesnt feel right with affliction. Back in MOP/WOD, all affliction warlocks had to do was maintain their dots on the target to do all of their damage with perhaps tiny bits of filler with drain soul and this was a lot of fun and felt very satisfying.
I really hope affliction warlocks playstyle doesnt stay the way they currently are on the Alpha because i was really looking forward to returning to playing it when Shadowlands comes because BFA really ruined it for me by making it completely unviable in pvp. It should be a spec that has to spam casts, it should only need to maintain dots
True BFA has been terrible as an affliction warlock main, i would like to add that despite Pvp viability being terrible, Mythic + is also a total disaster, we are currently the contender for worst aoe spec in the whole game whit arcane mages.
The problem really lies in darkglare+deathbolt+shadowbolt combo
This is makes us a bursty spec instead of a class that focuses on strong damage over time spells.
Anyway aslong as we have a level 15 75 100 and 45 talent row were there is no choice its hopeless.
Trust me shadowlands might make us viable in mythic +, but our viability in pvp isnt looking great when we are dependant on a 2minute cd (that is useless cuz our dots can be dispelled)
Am i the only one not liking the concept of " Malefic Rapture " in Shadowlands? It sounds like affliction warlocks in Shadowlands will have to get their dots on the target and then spam this ability in order to do a large portion of their damage.
You are not, I feel like this doesn’t really solve anything or make the class more fun. You’re basically gonna apply your DOTs and then spam this ability over and over again, or at least so it seems, doesnt sound too fun.
This sounds like a very boring and spammy playstyle which doesnt feel right with affliction. Back in MOP/WOD, all affliction warlocks had to do was maintain their dots on the target to do all of their damage with perhaps tiny bits of filler with drain soul and this was a lot of fun and felt very satisfying.
I mean I would go as far as to say that through all specs of warlock and in this community there is concensus of a kind, that Warlock was just overall better before Legion, especially between MoP and WoD.
Sadly for whatever reason Blizzard thinks otherwise.
Yeah thats another thing that really bothers me! Why is darkglare doing the most damage when we burst? We are affliction who do most of our damage through dots not through a demon we have to summon, we are not demonology. Please blizzard do something about affliction for shadowlands, i miss the spec
There’s nothing worse than current Affli, if “spammy” is a problem for you, how do you cope with having to put 5 UAs on a target?)))
I like SL Affli changes, they seem to be getting back their real dot play style: curse + agony + corruption + UA + Haunt + Siphon life. The more dots the target has, the harder malefic rapture hits, ignoring LoS and Distance. Dot them up, run / hide and explode them with rapture. And UA seems to be getting TBC treatment as a Real dispel protection again.
I’d love to see death bolt or whatever the name is gone, darkglare I don’t like as well.
Seeing how rekt rogues are in SL, I’m looking forward to affli, arms and enhancement))
Curse + Agony + Corruption + UA (gets dispelled)
You reapply UA + Haunt + Siphon Life + Corruption(gets dispelled again)
You will NOT have a window where you can have all your dots on the target and spam rapture. That’s simply not going to happen.
I am not sure how you got the idea that UA is now a dispel protection? Have you seen it get dispelled? UA was a dispel protection because 1. If dispelled it did some good damage, 2. Silence was very concerning for the healer because our OTHER dots, with drain soul do decent damage.
something i forgot to mention is how squishy affliction warlock is? especially in pvp compared to its destruction warlock counterpart. it doesn’t seem like in shadowlands their will be any changes to its squishiness
also we only have one school of magic so if we get kicked on ANY casts, we can’t do ANYTHING for several seconds.
