Im quite lucky since i can use totem and have a monk in the group that also dispells. It is a bit annoying affix when they overlap with other mechanics where you have to dispel aswell.
In big pulls I always call them “50 shades of pain”
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As tank, it’s next week that I’ll be complaining about…
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I someone makes a thread complaining about volcanic ima gonna go full postal.
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vulcanic had/has some fun interactions with certain mechanics. lets see if a knockup in fall last boss kills the whole group or not
besides mechanics where you are supposed to stack on a small spot, vulcanic is free of course
bring back teeming, bring back overflowing! 
To me afflicted is a non affix - there are always at least 2 classes able to dispel. No biggie.
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I’ve never been fan of affixes in general, but particularly afflicted and incorporeal. I think they have potential, but I think most classes should have something to help with every affix. A lot cannot right now with either. I also think they occur way too frequently.
This is my main gripe with affixes. I don’t think game design should make you “Oh no this is not fun, I will complain”. Right now the most success an affix can see is from an individual going “Yay it’s not one of the annoying weeks for me!”
I’d much rather prefer to be able to go “Woohoo it’s -notanaffixthatexist- week, that makes dungeons more fun!”
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Actually, I was mostly supporting the point that everyone will find something to complain about.
I don’t mind sanguine. As tank, it gives me an additional challenge - to keep the sanguine healing as low as possible. But I’m also kind of sad about necrotic not being a thing any more.
so which "it makes game literaly " unplayable affix is coming tomorrow ? 
because all of forum whiners whine about every single one of them
Ill have to remember that one 
We are getting Tyrannical Afflicted Bolstering soon, threads are gonna go through the roof for that one.
Ok… tell you the truth: I quoted this sentence and tried hard to find a funny remark or a sarcastic joke… no that ain’t not funny nor a joke… I got nothing sorry. Just… pain… and sorrow and acceptance.
Man i was trying to interact with these ghosts and i couldn’t figure it out.
I just accept as healer mechanic… so embarrassing when you dont know…
Afflicted is a clumsy and poorly thought through affix, but it’s far away from being the worst. Sorry, that title is already taken by Bolstering. But still, there’re so many ways for Blizzard to make this affix better without abandoning its identity, I wouldn’t even know how to begin.
They could just combine Afflicted and Incorporeal into one single affix. Why not? Both of them require you to spec into something that you might not always take, pay attention to your surroundings, and use an extra button on an extra mob. Make Afflicted ghosts CCable and you no longer have passanger classes for this week.
Or they could make more buffs work on them. Like Intervene, Tricks of the Trade, spirit beast’s heal, and so on. And add offensive magic dispell to the bunch as well, given that shammies can already solo them with a totem so that change won’t affect them but will provide more opportunities for other classes that don’t have friendly dispell.
Or they could make Afflicted kickable. Even if in your group there’s just one healer that can deal with it properly, they can still dispell one ghost while your group rotates kicks on the second one.
Instead, we have this affix, and six ride-along classes, and people with ever-more being cemented beliefs that there’re “healer affixes”.
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Bolstering on non fort week, whats the problem with that?
Blizzard shouldn’t give all classes every tool, but instead made affixes that all classes can deal with (a.k.a balanced affixes).
There is no week off for Paladin since you can literally deal with every single affix 
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Try playing a poor Warrior or a Hunter and tell me how it feels to be completely useless and undesired in groups, and watching your group fall apart (healer dying, affixes out of control, etc) and just being unable to press any button to help because you simply don’t have any.
Life seems so easy when you have all the tools at your disposal…
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There is nothing I have to do this week = bliss!!!
That’s if I could actually log in atm.
I’ll do one specifically for you if i happen to get knocked during a SKB Pyroblast with no icy floes to let me move away.