First, read this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/9l03g9/choice_vs_agency_and_why_making_azerite_traits/
Seriously worth the read.
And then this:
https://xelnath.com/2018/05/15/the-mop-warlock-what-you-knew-and-what-you-never-knew-you-missed/
Too bad that YOU will (or also will not, I understand) read this, yet the ones who really SHOULD read this (Blizzard) won’t.
I did like the Cata design though, at least for affli.
Cata affli was pretty good. Still for me as Demo, MoP was better.
Aaand the time seems to be right.
Deepshades also recently put up a VERY well written post about class design issues over on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/bcgx52/wow_potential_improvements_and_suggestions_2/Blizzard wanted to KILL Affliction/Warlock as one of the meta specs for raiding AND m+. You think they don’t realize or understand that talents are broken? Of course they do, but they’re only going to fix them when the population is low enough.
Having drain soul linger there in that talent row uselessly feels just like being mocked. “Remember how cool shard sniping was in Legion? Here, come on, take it and you’ll do less dps than without chosing a talent at all! Mauahah!”
And they don’t understand that it is they are reason why we are in such bad spot right now.
In legion they mocked demonology warlocks. Blizzard added Kanrethad Ebonlocke as a follower
He used metamorphosis and MoP/WoD demo spells, while we was shifted into broken puppeteer mess.
This was truly cynical.
One of the things I like less of this expansion is how things that should be talents/glyphs (thus easily interchangeable) are azerite traits you can’t choose. If azerite traits were simply small damage buffs it wouldn’t be so bad. But they have a huge impact in the playstyle, and playstyle should not be decided by random drops: it should be a choice given to the player, even if the final option is obvious and cookie cutter.
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