Unfortunately since they introduced this spell, the warlock affliction playstyle has changed radically and for the worse as far as I’m concerned. I don’t find it thematic or funny. Among other things, given the difficulty in obtaining shards from affliction due to the agony NRG, it often happens that once you have chain-spammed Malefic Rapture in the end nothing is done until some shards come back.
Some warlocks defend this design choice because it is very effective in coucil fights. Which in my opinion is an absolute stupidity as an answer, in fact it would have been enough if instead of malefic rapture there was “shadow implosion” or an implosion of the targets affected by DOTs and with increased damage based on the number of them and whether it is present or not the unstable affliction. Obviously not a casted spell but an instant proc (like tormented crescendo) and that uses a shard. Outside this proc, the spell is gray and unable to use