Originally Posted by
Kirroth
The thing is, I'm totally okay with that. The class fantasy for Afflic, at least back when I enjoyed playing it, is a steady inescapable demise. I felt like I was trapping my foes under a heavy millstone that was going to grind them down no matter what. In PvP, the question wasn't if my DoTs would kill them, it's would they be able to take me with them or would my Drain Life delay my death long enough for them to die first.
Those are powerful fantasies that they don't lend themselves to big flashy graphics because there's no big flashy spell that a major part of your damage depends on. I've played those specs the last couple expacs, throwing Chaos Bolts and Demonbolts. Now I'm ready to go back to Afflic because Afflic is ready to offer me that grindstone playstyle again. No more of this nonsense where you're supposed to combine Haunt and Malefic Grasp to get a DoT pseudo-nuke that's inferior to a real nuke in every way.