afflicted is such a bad affix for healers…
you have to chose who to heal or dispell , a teammate or the spirit
and in fights like ozumat where you cant spare a dispell , how do you even deal with it
you cant heal both of them quickly , aoe heal spells dont work on them .
you cant dispell both cuz most healers have only 1 dispell.
sure you can dispell 1 and heal 1 , meanwhile your team members are slowly dying due to lack of healing.
this is just another skin on explosive affix,
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Most affixes are very uninspired. Be nice if they’d make affixes a risk/reward instead of just risk.
The affix is for everyone, not healer specific.
This weak aura is really good for people who can’t spot when they are up.
More than enough classes can easily help out:-
This affix spawns 1-2 Afflicted Soul who cast
Afflicted Cry every about 30-40 sec.
You have to heal them up to full hp or just dispell.Macro for hovercasting:
Priest: /cast [@mouseover,exists]
Purify;
Divine Star
Paladin: /cast [@mouseover,exists]
Cleanse;
Light of Dawn
Shaman: /cast [@mouseover,exists]
Purify Spirit;
Poison Cleansing Totem
Monk: /cast [@mouseover,exists]
Detox;
Expel Harm
Evoker: /cast [@mouseover,exists]
Naturalize;
Cauterizing Flame
Mage: /cast [@mouseover,exists]
Remove Curse;
Arcane Explosion
If your cursor is on some friendly target then you cast the 1st spell else you cast the 2nd spell.
Change this macro for your abilities as you wish.Druids might also want to use the upgraded version of this macro for their specs:
- /cast [spec: 4, @mouseover,exists]
Remove Corruption; [spec: 1]
Starfall; [spec: 2]
Thrash; [spec: 3]
Efflorescence;
PS: The souls are disappeared out of combat.
PPS (thanks for Rosep): Death Knights can heal the souls withDeath Coil
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somehow the community doesnt think so, i have been told to just heal both of them and to stop sucking
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Well then the community is wrong, and when you say community i guess you mean the pug group you were in?
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as a DK I just Unga.
Sometimes I also bunga.
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It is not healer only. All other spec with a dispell can help and they should help. If they dont help it will be wipe on wipe and they key will be destroy.
I feel for every exasperated healer joining the keys I’ve been in who implores the rest of the group to help with the affix. I always try to get one. It’s certainly less effort than last week’s affix which requires me to stop and cast for 1.2 seconds as a melee. Feels like 10mins.
There is the odd time I can’t see where it’s spawned and it would be nice for Blizzard to make them more visible or spawn in less stupid places.
If they tell you that leave the group.
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I’m a good girl!
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While I agree its an easy affix (especially with poison cleansing totem), it does not change the fact that its a badly designed affix.
What they should do is sell an item for 1G that allows you to negate that affix. Its the exact same skill to execute (select mob + press key, or the mouse-over macro), but you solve the 3 issues people complain about:
A) Not every class can dispel.
B) For some classes its very costly to talent for the dispel.
C) Healers need dispel/GCDs for other mechanics.
DONE. And im baffled as to why this is not the case yet.
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Healers aren’t the only one who can deal with afflicted, tho previous week with Incorporeal already showed in pugs that a lot of DPS players cannot comprehend the meaning of CC/utility spells. BRUH MAH DPS…REEEE
I can’t see them doing anything to negate an affix, what is the point in having an affix then.
There are enough classes that it’s not beyond the wit of man to invite more than one class capable of dealing with it.
It’s not a badly designed affix. All you need is more than 2 functioning brain cells to deal with it, and they don’t even spawn that often. What makes it bad is the fact that a lot of non healer players just don’t want to deal with it because they just want to pump damage or whatever.
There are even macros and addons to point it out, you literally just have to press a button at the right time.
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Yes that’s the solution to everything
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What is the point in an affix that basically is a comp affix?
There are enough groups that start without having them. Way too many actually. It should not be like this. You go to your guild discord asking for some dungeons. You group up. You find out only the healer can do it. Ok, no dungeons. GG Blizzard. It is such a fail.
Affixes are there to inconvenience you. To slow your group down or make you have to play differently, or both.
It is not hard to have a healer and one other class who can deal with the affix. In most groups multiple players can deal with it. The leader has full control over who they invite. It is not an automated system.
That is easy to say from a ret pala. But good luck playing a healer yourself or a frost DK. You get so many groups who can not deal with it. And no it is not an automated system. It just means you are not going to play with your friends.
The affix is literally doing nothing when you have 3 dispells in your group. It does literally nothing. And it turns in a wipe show on specific bosses when you have 2 or less. The whole idea of the affix is to get a group with enough affixes and it is GG.
No it’s easy coming from any leader of any M+ group.
If it’s too hard to pick one class from the list in addition to the healer then maybe M+ is too challenging.
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Not everyone is pugging you know. Some people want to play with their friends and community. But sure. It is easy to just invite 4 dispell specs from the LFG list. Completely remove the affix that way. It does nothing at all. Also the reason why you do not get invites as a DK this week. But no it is a good affix… From everything +8 and up it is bring the spec not the player.