Yeah. The choice node with Dark Soul as an option, spreading UA’s, and making out curses relevant with a unique way of spreading them.
See, now I am of the camp that maybe agony application can be baked into Seed. Maybe a Seed of Affliction.
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It would give players a choice on how they want to play their Aff lock. I mean, do it for the other classes too!
Dark Soul: Instability for Destro and just bring back meta for Demo where you become the tyrant!
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However, they need to review the dynamics of the grimoire of sacrifice a bit, the current damage of the dot is really comical, I always hope for a return to the grimoire of sacrifice of MOP with bonus spell power
I also hope the stamina bonus is higher, 5% is too low
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I’m not sure why it is even in Aff and Destro tree. Make it like old GoS and move the choice node to the class tree. Demo could benefit from summoners embrace.
As it stands, it’s not really a choice. You will always pick Summoners Embrace.
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Blizzard only care about DK, Mages and Druid. Rest can f. themselves
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Affliction and Destro are probably the most boring and dull specs in the game atm. Apply dot and spam one button.
Affli reminds me a lot of assassin rogue. They both need to spread their dots to generate resources in AOE.
It is quite clunky for assassin, as it requires stealth, and chain pulling is big dps loss, affli warlock is in even worse postition.
Vile Taint is super clunky. Lets compare it to Shadow Crash.
Vile Taint: it has cast time of 1.5s, 30sec CD, 10yds AOE, applies agony to 8 targets.
Shadow Crash: instant cast, 20sec CD → 15sec CD and 2 charges in 11.2 !!!, but affects 6 targets down from 8, 8yds AOE, generates 6 insanity.
It generates insanity allright, it drives affliction warlocks insane.
These two spells are not even from the same universe.
Affliction is supposed to be the DOT spec, but it cannot even reliably apply Agony, it’s resource generator DOT to multiple targets.
This needs to be addressed asap.
Another issue is MR spam. Some people like it, but most don’t. There should be a choice on the tree, where you can spec into it, but alternative gameplay should exist as well.
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