Hi
TWW affliction seems promising, I hope that Blizz is not done on iterating on the spec yet. I would really love to go back and play affliction I just have a few thing I would like to ask for ar give feedback about.
Current TWW affliction talent tree has too many 2 point nodes.
Please make affliction more DoT focused instead of Malefic Rapture.
Would love to have the “damage through decay” playstyle back.
The end points in the class talent tree feel flacid and boring compared to
other classes. They doent feel exciting at all, they feel like something that
should be in the middle of the tree.
As long as the Agony stays on 18sc duration that spec is doomed. Feels really uncomfortable to play that spec, same applies to shadow priest not allowing a dot class to not apply all its dots on all targets and no way to maintain them those specs are painful to perform.
I honestly don’t understand why they had previously communicated that they intended to make the Malefic Rapture less important for the purposes of gameplay economy (if I’m not mistaken), yet it has become, if possible, even more important than it already is now.
There is certainly work to be done in the talents who should go from two points to one for simplicity’s sake. From a PvP point of view I’m very confused about the fact that there is practically no talent left that enhances Drain Life, making it exactly like it is for destruction and demonology: totally useless.
I really hope they make some changes in this regard, we simultaneously lost Grim Feast and Inevitable Demise. I don’t think that the passive healing of Fel Synergy, the healing of Siphon Life and the three charges of Healthsone can compensate for these shortcomings.
p.s. the animation of the “demon” behind the back in Soulharvester is the ugliest I’ve ever seen: it’s a sort of mix between the Arakkoa of the Burning Crusade, the witches of Drustvar and a scarecrow…
all my affliction locks are only going to play Hellcaller, out of the 3 hero talents, its easily my favorite. I want wither to stay the way it is, and I mean it should HURT.
Something I feel would help immensely for Affliction, since they’re so adamant about keeping Malific Rapture. Is to make it usable while casting Drain Spells, the same way that Monks can use their Vivify while casting Soothing Mist.
Hellcaller has more emphasis on DoT damage (specifically Wither) and is easier to play especially having Wither with Absolute Corruption. I personally prefer AC over Sipon Life, but the sims will propably dictate my choice, I wouldnt mind losing 2.5~ % overall dps by chosing AC instead of SL. Hellcaller doesnt really push you into a specific build, because you naturally pick up talents that buff your Corruption.
I’m most likely gonna go with these hero talents. Malevolence has a cool animation.
Soul Harvester has more emphasis on MR and Nightfall. AC here still makes the playstyle so much easier because Corruption has such a low duration. I think Soul Harvester is propably gonna be the preferred M+ talents because it has more AoE burts on a 1min CD. Where Hellcaller might be the preferred Raid talents since the targets live for longer.
Soul Harvester also forces you into Soul Rot.
I feel like both Hellcaller and Soulharvester feels good to play and I do hope Blizz will do some decent balancing between them. I do prefer the playstyle and fantasy of Hellcaller though.
Honestly, I didn’t try Soul Harvester much due to the truly horrifying visuals. After the recent meganerf it does little single and AOE damage.
Among other things, Soul Harvester forces you to use some talents such as haunt/soul root that some would prefer not to use
Absolute Corruption makes maintaining Corruption for you easier, but you are a DoT spec and spreading DoTs should be your thing. If it was a click and forget thing you might aswell play a DoTless class like mage. Volatile Agony incentivizes you to refresh Agony on targets. Sacrolash’s Dark Strike should extend your Agony duration but is currently bugged, with pre dungeon gear it should roughly give you +6sec on your Agony, which is the original duration of Agony.
Agony is no longer a curse and it does not extend it not in Retail nor in Beta.
I think I am aware that aff spec is a dot spec and we have to manage the DOTs but thats what we already do. Managing 3 dots is not problem managing them on 17 targets is a thing you obviously do not do any m+ runs as aff. It is not about the power or dps of the spec. The spec itself is against its design. It makes you ignore your own mechanics and rotation that is not well done spec.
