Warlock is fun, but it could be better

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@Ilyon-silvermoon

And there you go, the most fun caster spec in the game.

There are quite a few more issues and necessary fixes than the ones you mentioned.

@Ilyon-silvermoon

1: Bring back shadowlands tier set in place of malefic affliction

the 4 set is a talent. I guess you mean the 2-set then. I don´t think malefic affliction is the problem. The problem is that it tracks onto the target and not the spell itself. They fixed it once, so they could fix it again, see:

Fixed Malefic Affliction… when bugs fix gameplay

I don’t know how is Affliction community feeling but I will miss Malefic Affliction bug from M+ perspective. More I was thinking about it, more I had feeling that it was not breaking the game. The key aspect of ability was still to not let Unstable Affliction drop. Additional problems which was solved with this bug: Priority target swapping - with Malefic Affliction does not drop, you feel more freedom about changing priority target during the combat (let’s be honest, Soul Swap in the current…

Also Soulflame is not the issue, it is SoC cast time and shard dumping. Demo have hand of guldan, Destro have Rain of fire. In AoE affli can barely dump all their shards and having to cancel SoC casts due to affixes or mechanics is very punishing.