Topic.
Affliction haven’t been a viable spec for the whole expac and now it got nerfed along with destru.
I like the destru nerfs, but affliction needs a buff.
All you, blizzard, need to do is copy paste soul link from demo and give it to affliction.
Or the mastery part that reduces damage on destru and give it to affliction.
But something, it’s infuriating.
Also, shadowlands won’t fix any issues, we will still die in a stun.
Ps: you can’t buff a spec for 2 years, and you expect me to trust you with covenants, legendaries and conduits?
Cool story
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Player versus Player
Classes
Warlock
[ With regional restarts ] Soul Leech grants an absorb for 4% of damage dealt when engaged in combat with enemy players (down from 8%).
Developers’ note: Soul Leech will continue to have a cap of 10% of the Warlock’s maximum health.
Destruction
[ With regional restarts ] The effectiveness of Flashpoint (Azerite Trait) has been reduced by 75% when engaged in combat
the moaners won, nerfing a glass cannon thats useless if 1 melee is attacking him
meanwhile
dhs, dks, wars,rogues,mages =ok xD
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It’s one of the reasons why a large part of the community has lost trust towards the developers.
There is the mentality at the office of postponing things to next patch/expansion. They don’t realize or understand the impact on morale by being locked into a bad spec for a weeks, months or years. At all.
It’s why people are negative.
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Or make it so dispell doesnt remove every single dot we have on a target
or make the silence more than 2.4 secounds …
This would be like if you could dispell a chaos bolt off someone and get silenced for 2 sec, like wat
Did something happen recently because I can’t justify any form of nerf to affliction to myself?
To nerf the defensive capabilities of a damage over time spec, on a class that is easily trained, with another spec that is dominating the entire class is absurd.
They should revert warlock back to how they used to work in MoP anyways.
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The current designers performance is like a car engineer working on a spaceship
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More like a toddler driving a car
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Blizzard seems to just hate DoT and rot-damage classes with a passion
Just look at feral, turned from THE damage over time spec in MoP, to what we have now wich is just a ‘‘SPAM BITE HARDER’’ simulator
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Yes, the nerf to destru also affects demo and affliction.
Just like demon armor nerfs before.
Affliction is the worst spec, by far, in pvp and they can’t/won’t / don’t care about it.
Then we should trust this company and development team to keep all the external power balanced in shadowlands? I don’t think so…
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I had some joy with affliction, stacking
x3
x3
(with lots of corruptions too of course lol)
The more players you can dot agony on the faster drain life reaches full power, plus it refreshes dots (maintains up to 2 UA).
It’s quite fun build beaming players down and the healing is quite powerful.
Aside from this build and a couple others it just does not feel threatening, plus a dispel basically kills your output, which can be applied every 8 seconds at least.
I find it really fun to play, love gateway mastery + teleport but destruction seems better in nearly all circumstances, even 40 v 40 I can output more damage and control just by playing destro.
Bro, queue arena as affliction.
Then tell me the problem it’s destru being too good and not the fact affliction is just the worst pvp spec in the game.
And tell me how you find fun to play
I tried arena as affliction for my caps many times now. It’s a no go compared to destruction.
I consider affliction stronger the more players you can stay behind and dot up(and even then your dot damage is not super scary). I pretty much only play it for Epic BG/BG for PvP at this time and have fun with this build as it’s effective for sniping players.
I wouldn’t say it’s the worst however, fear alone carries it quite high in arena situation, plus other control(dark fury/mortal coil if spec’d/succubus depending on match up etc).
Can think of classes that got it harder lol but yes, affliction is pretty underwhelming.
There are so many things wrong with this statement that I’m gonna focus on one.
Fear breaks on a dot tick. OK?
It’s not wotlk where you can actually fear someone dotted.
This means if you fear one of the 2 dps, it will break making it useless.
If you don’t dot you do less dmg than your pet.
Yes it is the worst spec in pvp, and it’s not a close contest.
Go crazy, if you think something is wrong, I enjoy the hear different perspectives.
It’s about control, you take one person out the fight with CC so focus on another - depending on the situation. Also fear does not always break on damage - check the tool tip and spare me the snarky condescension if you actually wanna have some type of productive convo instead of trying to pick eachother apart.
In the last 3 months I have probably played 100-120 hours of affliction PvP, notably epic bgs. I’m not super experienced but I have a good grasp on the class and have been playing it since MoP. You learn to make things work as best you can, even when the class isn’t strong there is hopefully… some strength or fun to be had, it’s enjoyable for me but I can safely say it’s surpassed by other classes/specs outside of its utility.
Abomination limb says hello - good luck casting anything 
I just checked that out, I’m keeping myself purposely in the dark for shadowlands content mostly but it looks interesting
Fear is very strong, spammable and I’m sitting on 1.2sec base cast speed, it’s such a powerful tool! Plus I enjoy the fact you can instantly create huge space with gateway + port… but the dot damage rarely come in to play for me in arena, we are just bursting eachother down in my rating for the most part (1.4k only, just pug when I need to cap or get some echoes) only in bgs where there is some attrition, they use everything, it might tick off the last of their hp.
The drain life can do some strong burst if fully stacked and you have some dots rolling but outside this I don’t feel much KO potential, considerably so when u compare it to destro.
Those Destruction nerfs are laughable.
I miss having Shadow Bolt, Drain Soul and Drain life merged together as in Legion.
Yes it gave them ridiculous self heal, but it was also fun.
Also nice to have some classes that stand out in certain things than others.