Affliction warlock suffers badly for getting interrupted in PvP due to having only one school of spells. If you gave a choice node for Drain Soul that would give Searing pain instead it would at least give affliction warlocks something to do during interrupt periods.
This shouldn’t cause balance issues as Shadowbolt is rarely used anyway in Pvp, and drain soul never. Above all else this would be a minor buff but a bigger quality of life matter in battlegrounds especially.
Besides it fits affiliction warlock thematically and is an OG spell.
Searing Pain is a skill from Vanilla wow times, so it’s an ancient skill. There are multiple reasons why Affliction doesn’t use Shadow bolt or drain soul in pvp. But if you had an ability to use during interrupts then the main filler would see some use.
I know how old Searing Pain is, and the only Talent we had es in the destruction tree. It is a destruction Talent. Affliction has Soul Rot. I still think blizzard should enable a talent for Affliction and Shadow Priest that prevents magic school lock. Instead the spell that got used has 3 seconds more cd in the Interrupt. So if you would be silenced 6 seconds the Talent let you use all other spells except that one you got Interrupted but not for 6 seconds it will be 9 seconds.
All I want in my simple life is Fel Flame to come back … but that’s a dream.
A more practical approach would involve :
More fire spells in the general warlock talent tree, Searing Pain being one of them.
Shadowflame spells implemented cautiously someday
There is a world were warlocks have Fel Flame extending dot durations on affected targets, and you know what ? It’s not overpowered at all and totally fine in the grand scheme of things. But I digress…
yeah, it would’ve been just better if they kept dimensional rifts and decimating bolt in general warlock tree… Also these spells were fun, too fun I guess
Overall it would be good if Affliction had two schools it could utilize, but I doubt they are going to make such changes anymore. They may make small alterations and I hope Searing Pain to replace shadow bolt/Drain soul would be small enough.
Agreed, im not a fan of the single school especially in pvp, some spells need to move across to either fire or a dual school to avoid such harsh lockouts
Well in theory we do already have the ability cast a couple of things during shadow lockouts… but that’s only a band-aid that bliz² has been forced to implement in the game so…
I am not a fan of shadow only school for affliction. Since Dragon flight we have gained Soul Rot as a nature school spell. But that’s hardly enough.
