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.
Malefic Rapture has basically been despised since its inception
I can’t find anything it has fixed for affliction
I can’t find why it still takes power budget away from the main spells
Instead of malefic rapture, affliction needs to cast multiple Unstable Afflictions on different targets.
Since its conception, MR caused an issue for Affliction where It couldn’t be balanced due to its application to both ST and AoE and how it scaled with more DoTs on the target. Meaning, if buffed a lot, it would outdps Seeds, if not buffed enough, it would fall behind in ST and they would have to buff our DoTs, which in return again could cause issues in AoE performing too good.
It took them 5 years to finally understand this and now Seeds is no longer (TWW) our go to AoE spell and will be used to apply corruption and we will use MR both for AoE and ST.
The second part of the issue remains though. The work around would be making DoTs do less damage when they are, say, active on more than X target. This way AoE could be balanced without sacrificing ST (Perhaps this is alreadt in place? Idk, don’t play Aff).
Issue is now though, AoE rotation is still disgusting imo.
Seeds, VT, Soul Rot, UA, possibly Haunt and THEN we spam MR. Meanwhile a WW have probably halved the HP of the pack already.
IMO they need to remove Seeds, make VT apply both Corruption and Agony, reduce VT cooldown so we have it available for each pack.
I personally always wanted Malefic Grasp back as a spender. Like your Drain Soul makes your DoTs hit better but spends shards. This would be really good for PvP too.
why? well blame the streamers complaining all the time there is no burst but one thing they all forget Blizz included its not a burst class its a Dot class, we the all time players off affliction are left in the dark in favor off the streamers.
