Foreword: This thread concerns aesthetics of the spec, not the mechanics or playstyle. Please, if this doesn't matter to you or if you don't care about it or think it is not important, don't sabotate the thread, because there might be others like me, who thinks the visual side of the game is a very important thing (not the only important thing, not the most important, but important nevertheless). Thank you.
Hello guys,
if you've read some of my few posts here, you probably know I main Destruction as a raiding spec.
However I like to switch my spec from time to time for a... change of scenery if you will.
I decided to pick up affliction as my off spec, because for me, the spec feels completely different from Destruction while Demo, on the other hand, shares some similiarities with Destro (pooling special resources, releasing it upon powerful procs, etc.).
I am however still quite torn between Affli and Demo, and unsure of my choice, which results in swapping my off specs between Affli and Demo back and forth.
Why?
Well simply because Demo looks so beautiful. It might be the best designed spec in terms of visuals in the whole game. The violet aura when you reach half of your Demonic fury bar, the horns, the whirling violet thing when your bar fills up and not to mention Metamorphosis.
Affliction on the other hand feels very hollow in that sense. Yes, you have Malefic Grasp which is a very cool spell, but it's not like Hand of Guldan is ugly. I suppose that what I'm missing the most from the spec is a bigger stress on the "soul theme" of the spec.
Read the tooltips of the spells used in affliction. You're sending a ghostly soul , you're Soulburning, you're Soul Swapping and Soul draining, yet when you see an affliction warlock (and I mean the character itself) standing somewhere or fighting, it doesn't exactly screams "Run away, because this guy is going to mess up your soul so bad"... it screams nothing.
Only "soul-like" animation we have is when we Soulburn and let me tell you, I'd trade that with DKs' Soul Reaper effect any time. I was suggesting to GC via twitter bringing the old eradiction animation back via a minor glyph (speaking of which, we could use some more minor glyphs as well). It would appear upon a Haunt cast and lasted for X seconds.
I'd like to hear your opinions about this matter, whether you agree or disagree, because I think there's a lot of room for creativity as the potential of the"soul theme" of the spec is largely unutilized.