Afflilock and M+

Classes Warlock
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The main issue of M+ for Affliction is the way seed of corruption works.
First you cast the spell, then you have to trigger the detonation, then you have to wait for the DoT to ticks. It’s so delayed that it’s almost useless.
Reworking the way Seed of Corruption works is how Affliction could be fixed for M+. Then, improving the talent Sow the Seeds to make it competitive with Phantom Singularity and Vile Taint.

Suggested reworks
Seed of Corruption:
• It become instant cast, with the delayed trigger remaining.
• The detonation increase the intensity of Curse of Agony.
• If an enemy dies with the trigger debuff, there is a chance to get the soul shard refunded.

Sow the Seeds:
• Increase the number of targets or increase detonation damage

That’s the base I thought of. Do you think it would help ?

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Simply reducing its cast time would be enough imo. Most of the time I quickly apply Agony to all adds, generate sh1t ton of shards but spending them with SoC, despite having a 25% haste, is cancer.

Reduce cast time to 1 second, there you go, decent aoe. I am not asking to have an AoE on par with DHs or Frost Mages (for we are very good in ST) but it should at least be decent.

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Developers should have kept the same class design for affliction as in legion.

In legion we didnt have all these problems,
It was fun to play aswell.

But now its so bad seriously, i have been playing since cataclysm and the spec has never felt so terrible before.

Also the developers won’t change anything,+ ion or (ian) said they are not planning any class changes in bfa and shadowlands.

I love this spec, i have 1 month of sub left and i’am Not ressubbing to world of warcraft untill they fix affliction warlcoks.

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Another thing that could help balance Afflock for MM+ is to remove the ramp up of Curse of Agony. It’s okay now because of Sudden Onset, but when it’s lost with Shadowlands, it’ll be bad again having to wait 18s before the DoT tick at 10 stacks.

@Momspaghettî
The loss of azerite traits will already impact all the ingame balance

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What affliction warlock needs is basically something like old haunt.

Haunt used to be a spell that you target someone then when you haunt another target you were spreading all the previous dots on the target to the new one.

It doens’t matter how much haste you have, when you sit there and basically try several dots on each of the trashes, you end up just dotting all fight because the the most oldest target you dotted is gonna expire when you finish dotting.

There should be a spell like the old-haunt to spread all your dots on the target. Maybe Phantom Singularity would work like ‘When you target enemy with PS, all the dots on the targets will spread to the nearby enemies within 12 yards’.

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Seed of Corruption could be turned into that and replicate all your DoTs on the target to every ennemies within radius after a fixed 6 seconds or upon death. With remaining duration and current Curse of Agony stack preserved.

MM+ you would Seed of Corruption => Curse of Agony => Corruption => Life Siphon => Unstable Affliction and then it would detonate.

I wouldn’t change how Haunt currently is. It’s a “priority target” focused skill.

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