Originally Posted by
Maxmuscle
I did play aff during wrath, since 2 months before BC actually. and every expansion since. Draining to increase dot power is and has always been a dumb mechanic. Even blizzard has said that they hated that mechanic; they said it time and time again. thats why it was removed in legion (im talking MG playstyle, not DS) it was only brought back in 7.1 (or w/e patch it was) as a bandaid to the spec, and now they are bringing back an execute phase as another bandaid.
regardless, we will never see shadow bolt type playstyle back in affliction so there is no use even arguing about it....but, SB was normally a 1.2-1.6 sec cast, and if you couldnt time that up to refresh your dots on time, then you arent playing any better with the drain playstyle.
funny though