Is bursting the most hated affix?

[Very Tired]

The nice thing about bursting is that it's damage doesn't really increase over higher keys. So if you can handle it in a +7 you can handle it in a +20.

Funny to see how many people are complaining about explosive though... seeing as it's the one main affix that places the extra burden on the dps for once. Most of the affixes just translate to screwing over the healers. Even the ones that burden the dps just mean the healers have to pick up their slack if they mess things up.

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The nice thing about bursting is that it's damage doesn't really increase over higher keys. So if you can handle it in a +7 you can handle it in a +20.

Funny to see how many people are complaining about explosive though... seeing as it's the one main affix that places the extra burden on the dps for once. Most of the affixes just translate to screwing over the healers. Even the ones that burden the dps just mean the healers have to pick up their slack if they mess things up.

I'd say most of the affixes translate to screwing over the tank, as we are the ones taking the hits if something goes wrong. That said I really dislike explosive because it's really not just a dps affix, it completely changes how much you can pull in a really awful way as the number of orbs spawning is purely RNG. Sometimes almost none spawn, and sometimes there's no bloody end to the damn things, and if even two of them go off it's most likely a wipe. It's by far the most punishing affix and it's controlled through RNG.

A more interesting affix targeted towards DPS would be if the trash mobs gained/dropped some form of damage vulnerability/resistance which forced them to re-think their damage spending and use it when it's most effective. Alternatively similar to explosive have extra adds spawn around the group which over time debuffs them lowering their damage output until they are destroyed, each one would be personal for each DPS so only they would be able to see and attack them (as such the tank/healer can't help you). This way you would create an affix that targeted DPS specifically which wouldn't screw over healers or tanks, and it wouldn't limit how much you can pull.