We actually run some stats on this and I got curious (I'm an affliction lock myself) to see how often warlocks were in successful runs with the explosive affix. It looks like they are the 4th most popular class for the DPS role across the board (for bolstering, explosive, tyrannical). Blizzard doesn't give us player specs on runs so I can't get specific enough to say whether or not affliction is a popular choice, but if I click through some of the warlocks in the top level runs it looks like most of them MS Affliction. At least you're not a monk - they are the least represented among tanks, healers, AND DPS for almost every affixes.
Jesus, just stop and admit you don't know a fucking thing about prot warriors. Devastator has little to do with "epeening meters" (hint: if you're in any kind of half-ass group, the tank dmg isn't going to be the make or break factor) and everything to do with Shield Slam procs/rage generation (which makes Ignore Pain quicker/stronger). Yeah, you could spec out of Devastator and into Indomitable (which increases your throughput by zero, by the way), but it's a net loss on mitigation, rage, and damage. In the meantime there's 3 DPS who could stop tunneling for a few seconds and one-shot the bomb.
Edit: Nice chart. I like your website, btw... the way information is presented is really cool. As for monks... aren't they the least represented class throughout the game? I swear I remember seeing that on MMO-C recently and being impressed something finally surpassed rogues/locks.
Last edited by Jimson; 2017-06-07 at 01:28 PM.
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Soak the purple swirls that come out of the boss as he's spawning adds (think Krosus). They do damage when you soak them though so be aware.
Explosive isnt even hard on prot warrior. As a matter of fact, you are nigh unkillable with it as it procs victory rush. Just tell ur dps to let you kill the orbs and just click>VR>click>VR.....
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Its not like you need to kill it the millisecond it spawns if you target swap quick enough. If SS is on cd then just wait ~2 seconds max and ur auto atk devastator will take care of it while you continue to aoe the surrounding mobs. Then the victory rush spam begins.
This affix is easymode. They are tab targetable now. Did a +11 Arcway with Explosive/Bolstering/Tyrannical. Just don't pull like a shithead and explosive is a joke.
Taking specific talents that are normally non-optimally its TOTALLY OKAY for hard m+ affixed. If devastator is the norm, but devastate trivializes explosive, then don't take devastator. Duh
It's even worse on Necrotic weeks....
The whole point is to be needlessly annoying? Limiting means of selection is annoying, plain and simple, the "whole point" is that we have to kill them period, not worry about how to rapidly target them as well.
You're coming off as if I dislike anything "difficult". Feel free to stop, I always top damage on the orbs, top interrupts in groups, and know how to do more than just tank. Tab targetting is indeed doable now and it's still not trivial, it's something you have to pay attention to, particularly in large groups, but not a needlessly shit, it works well now imo.
I did a BRH +7 last night and it did feel like they could be tab targeted.
i feel like they upped the spawn rate tho, they seemed to appear alot faster than before, it was common we got orbs from the same mobs twice per pull, even when we comfortably 3chested medium keys...
94 orbs in ~19 minutes DHT +13, roughly 5 per minute. 262k hp each. 0 damage taken, all killed!
Easiest lvl 7 affix by far.
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