Multiple expansions in a row, feedback was given, that it’s bad. People hate it.
I stopped playing the spec because of that.
People playing affliction want to deal damage through DoTs.
Malefic Rapture as a core spending ability is not a DoT.
It doesn’t fit affliction and actively drags it away from DoT class to a class that needs to do boring set up (DoTs that barely do damage) and then spams direct damage.
That is probably worst of all things. It fails as both direct damage class to be fun and as DoT class to be fun. It’d be healthy to remove Rapture, and move it to purely DoT class, make spender Haunt or something that buffs DoTs greatly and you cast once per X seconds. maybe with choice node that buff dots bit less, but on all targets. Or whatever, but something with DoTs and not direct damage.