Destro. Got my 2 BiS legendaries. Loved it before 7.1.5, i'm getting used to ILT atm.
Destro. Got my 2 BiS legendaries. Loved it before 7.1.5, i'm getting used to ILT atm.
54 traits in aff, hood, back, and belt legendaries (as well as the slow ring ) and played on PTR long enough to get the rend soul trait and a few of the 3 traits up to 4 with pretty average gear (894 equipped) able to pull 750-800k dps on target dummy.
Last edited by mmoc54945b7ad9; 2017-03-20 at 09:33 AM.
I want to play affliction, but seeing how it is more annoying than fun (and now im not talking numbers) I find myself logging on to play less and less. Will see if the Rend Soul-trait is enough to remove the excessive annoyance of the spec, but if not I will probably just quit.
it all depends on how good is the new Destro traits, looks sick, with aoe CB and flame rift, but before it hits live you dont know. Getting bored with Aff, may try destro, i have the two core legendaris anyway.
As a vanilla warlock main that has always loved the concept of dots, I find myself avoiding legion affliction.
It's playstyle is a mockery at old affliction veterans, people rerolling locks just to play the 3 button rotation and deal high numbers, problem is people are satisfied with just doing numbers regardless of whether a spec is boring or not, which is sad tbh. I'm afraid to say affliction has lost any relevance regarding to skill compared to some of it's past iterations, and no proper usage of reap is not exactly what I would consider "skill", what a mockery.
I quit playing after killing Sha of Fear, so cant comment alot on MoP (and nothing at all on WoD) but I dont remember it being very RNG at that point at least, or in Cata/WotLK. You were relying a lot on draining with the MG we had then too, but we had KJC so we could drain while moving anyways with that version (always up, small snare). For the fights were Destro was better, you also had much better control of when you got shards (embers) and when/how to spend them iirc.
Ofc my memory might serve me wrong, but I honestly dont remember doing the exact same shit for say 1-2 minutes of a fight, with the difference being 20-25% dps sometimes. Now we have soul shards, souls, fatal echoes, movement at the wrong time and in mine (and many others) case, Whispers in the Dark (not aff specific though), all subject to rng. Was it really as bad then, or are you referring to later in MoP/WoD? Because then as I said, I cant really comment on it. But it was not this bad in WotLK or Cataclysm for sure. Not in TBC either, it is hard to add RNG to SB-spam, apart from early crits making us pop soulshatter too early rendering us useless if tank threat was bad
Mop trinkets were ludicrously powerful, getting a few procs over the course of the fight at the correct time could easily result in more than a 20-25% swing. There was also almost nothing to affliction at the time, you maintained 3 dots, spammed filler, and empowered dots with haunt under procs / in order not to cap. It was a pretty brain dead spec. The biggest portion of your damage swings came from snapshotting procs and making sure you had shards for when that happened.
Hence why they removed snapshots in wod, because it was dominating gameplay and causing massive swings in players performance.
..and so he left, with terrible power in shaking hands.
Affli on WotLK, and before, was more a support role spec with the all kind of Curses as: Curse of Weakness, Curse of Tongue, Curse of Elements, Curse of Exhaustion, and another few that i dont remember at the moment... This, and 3 different kind of buff with our demons (imp, felhunter, felguard (AKA, hybrid affly demo build)), made a REALLY fun and reactive way to play... As you could swith curses on the course of the fight as it was needed.
Now, Affli is just... Plain and simple, maybe even boring to some point (never have been feeling boring with my lock before, on any spec).
Affliction.
Warlocks to me are about curses and drains and a liiiitle bit of demon. If affliction is playable, i'll go with it, easy or not.
Also, legendaries: got my first 2 dps legendaries (#7 and #8 total) as afflic, got nothing for demon and destro unless prydaz/norg/sephuz/sacrolash/pants.
Thanks for the heads up!