Can we please fix affliction AoE?

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I understand the fact that every class and spec should have weaknesses, but completly lack of dealing AoE dmg is just way too much. Especially now, with 5+months long season based purely on AoE.

With BFA affliction switched to pure single target class. Which I dont understand in the first place. Affliction should, by design, shine on spread 2-4 cleave with multidotting and such. And it is not that great right now. But changing that would require huge spec overhaul (major CD would need to be redesigned and overall dmg distribution across abilities would need to be changed). And lets be real here, that will not happen anytime soon.

So lets at least have a look at AoE. Why was Sof of Seeds talent and Seed of Corruption so heavily nerfed when BFA started? Affliction AoE during legion wasnt broken because of those. It was broken because of artifact traits combined with those. Now those traits are gone and there is no replacement for those (nothing even close to than in current azerite traits), StS is nerfed to the point its essentially used and there is literaly 0 reason to pick it ever and Seed of Corruption itself was hit hard.

Could we at least have those 2 nerf undone? Even with those Afflition will be still at the very bottom of all dps (and even tank) specs when it comes to AoE. Or change the talent somehow? To make Seed also spread agony maybe? Or create azerite trait for that. So Affli can at least have some slow constant AoE dmg in the world of insane AoE bursts of other classes.

This season really hurts warlocks because only viable spec for M+ 10+ dungeons right now is Demonology (and even that is just average spec) but that spec is terrible in raids, pvp and because of lack of instants even in open world. On the other hand raid is forcing us to go affli or destro and both of those are terrible in 10+ because of lack of solid AoE. And because of Azerite gear desing we cant easily swap specs. Especially at the beginning of the tier.

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You can’t fix something that doesn’t exist.
In current warlock design we won’t see any good changes/fixes. We need a whole rework to have a slight hope that things would be diffirent and better.

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I disagree, that we need an entire rework. The issue is that we have no aoe, due to the new talent that is suppose to be our aoe ss dump, Vile Taint is so badly undertunned.
In its current state Vile taint has a 1 SS cost, a 1.5 Seconds (scaling with haste) cast time, that deals around 15k dmg over 10 secs (1.5k dps/target) a 20 second cd and a 10 yard range and slows the target for 30%. In comparision to PS, which has no cast time, no ss cost, deals around 23k dmg, 15 yard range with a 40 second cd and healing for 25% of dmg dealt.
Vile Taint is worse than PS in everysingle situation, deals less dmg, cost a ss, has a cast time, has a smaller radius. The slow on VT atm is next to useless.
Remove the cd on it, (so make it spammable when needed) and make the dmg instand and not a dot, would be a step in the right direction to solve the problem of afflocks not having any burst aoe. Buffing the dmg of it slightly by maybe 2-3% spellpower would be nice but

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