Hey, what's going on guys? Calamazi here, day one of Patch 10.0.5 Affliction is in the books and tonight I want to talk to you all a little bit about how Affliction felt and the few keys to be ran single Target AOE where I think it sort of sits between Destruction and Demonology. Questions hopefully being answered about is it the best spec? Uh, just giving a general feel I guess. Well, how it feels now, we've talked a little bit about some Inquisitors' gays Nerfs with the ringing Nerf there are some bugs also present for Affliction, there's a handful of them so we'll talk about them briefly.
But tonight the video is basically based around how Fountain Keys now when it comes to rating and things. My Guild's currently programmed around the Earth We're extending on that so rightly re-clearing at all at this point, but Affliction is looking pretty solid in single Target. Both from what I've seen, Destruction and Demonology are ahead of Demonology, but once again all three specs have varying damage profiles. Demonology with Pi is very strong with another portliest and F not as strong when it comes to like big burst with CDs even getting Pi, but they're a lot more consistent because they just maintain a high overall damage versus Demonology making it more spiky with portal and then tyrants and tyrants and portal and all that. So tonight we'll cover all that, get it all of it here, links to my tuition Discord down below for free in there and also swing by us any questions anytime.
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So, for those who are wondering, I played Rim Reach for this build, with the talents on the top corner of the screen. I played Dark Lair in the Grim Reach Malevolent Visionary and I played the full Dread Touch Trio here, with one point in Tormented Crescendo. Besides that, I had Soul Flame, Safe and Life and Vile Tank. Now, I will say off the bat that I don't think Halls of Valor is a good dungeon for Affliction. I think it's probably the worst one out there for playing this build. Nonetheless, I wanted to play it, so that was the key.
We had wanted to run it, but didn't expect great results. However, it is what it is - 20. The first thing I'd say is that, when it comes to AoE, Affliction feels fine. You have your Darkglare, your big two minute profile, Brain Reach, Seed Spam - I was still getting a bit used to playing after not having played since Beta, but I think it went fine for the most part.
It feels fine in AOE when you have Dark Layer and Grim Reach, and you know how to spam Seed properly. But when it comes to Affliction outside of that, when you get to three or four targets without Dark Layer being a two minute cooldown and without Grim Reach, your damage feels subpar. It's not terrible, but compared to Demonology, when you can basically AoE pack with multiple Imps being Imploded every pack and Dogs chomping every 20 seconds, it feels a bit lackluster spamming Seed in three or four targets without Grim Reach, because it's just not that impactful. It's a two second cast, which feels a bit slow to cast, and you're juggling dots and spinning plates at the same time, and your damage just feels...mediocre.
Now it's not terrible, but compared to a Rogue or an Enhancement Shaman in Classic, they can do a lot more burst on a shorter cooldown. I feel like that's where Affliction struggles playing this build when it comes to single target. For example, I did like playing safe and life, and it's built a good bit when you have one or two mobs left; they all die, you have one prior mob left, put your Aon it, put a Siphon Life up, and shift more towards a Rapture profile, because Siphon Life.
Indeed, bringing more single-target priority damage and being able to burn things down with Rapture spam and Dread Touch having left afflictions up solid now, left afflictions is currently bugged from what I've seen. When this mob dies, you can see I still have three stacks of Malefic Affliction, which is currently a bug I've heard affects Dread Touch by not giving you a damage increase. I haven't verified it myself, but hopefully it's fixed soon. The Corruption bug, which is not benefiting from your four-piece set, is still indeed in-game as well. However, when it comes to single-target damage on a boss like this, it actually felt pretty good. I popped CDs.
Here, we could go into my old tank Rapture spam and you can see we're bursting to the Fe670k. Here's the thing to look at: you're playing Dark Lair with Rim Reach. So, Rim Reach is basically an ali-based cooldown. You're going through Malevolent Visionary to get a bit of an increase in Dark Lair damage and duration, but your sustained damage, as far as F is concerned, is still surprisingly high comparatively to Demonology. That can pop another portal, have him scrolling from the previous pack right into a Tyrant. But that big demon Heather portal key profile, if you put an Aflac versus a Demonology, the most going to burst higher.
But after that portal expires when tepidly is gone it doesn't maintain as much damage in a single Target Affliction maintains a surprising amount by just keeping dots up maintaining dread touch it's based off Crescendo proxy bit too to maintain thread touch like just keep dread touch up Cash train Soul cast your filler spells you’re just doing a good bit of damage right now like I said the one weird thing is that comparatively to demonology you have two minute CDs in your dark layer versus demo having one and Tyrant and three in its major CDs but overall it didn’t feel that bad.
It felt like that you had now that you have Focus malignancy around it actually brings a pretty solid sustainable single Target profile when it comes to playing vial taint number one the AOE application of Agony is very good I'm a bit Rusty when it comes to actually casting the spell and pulling shards around it I haven’t played it since actual Alpha but it don’t sell it it honestly vile tank is seeming higher in single Target that even Phantom Singularity is now so it’s sort of a two birds one stone kind of thing you want it in Plus for those Trash Packs we want to put up seven eight agonies.
But you also want it just for that single Target damage right so playing biotank plus life and life plus malignancy electric afflictions dreadtouch haunt and Crescendo versus wrath consumption sort of a dungeon based kind of thing some you might want rafts which some might want for sure to win but it actually felt Pretty good overall solid single Target solid AOE just a good choice all around when it came to playing Affliction like said I hadn't played it in probably two or three months since probably more than that since actual Alpha and beta is that there's this weird point when it comes to like having to reapply your agonies where you're having you're close to having bioteank off cooldown but your Aggies are falling you have so you have to manually refresh them all if you want to keep them active and then like five seconds later you actually have your file tint back up again which is sort of awkward.
Takes a bit of a I guess a bit of just feeling it out and like I don’t know just getting used to it not the end of the world but what we talked about it bit before as well like I feel like affliction whether it's Soul flame value we're just like you know I guess I don't say Niche but like I guess in my Niche see the corruption value all that it reminds mean lot of Destro when it comes to destruction The Infernal build having really really strong AOE in dungeons where you can get these eight nine ten mob poles like the coup defensive like Ruby Life Pools like Shadow Moon Battlegrounds where you can get these really large poles eight nine ten plus mobs or pull two packs into one hitting 15 plus mobs something crazy and get insane Reign of Fire value insane.
Inferno value insane charred refunds and just chain that value right Affliction reminds me a lot of that the single Target really isn't a concern anymore and once again playing safe life actually felt pretty good this pack for example here I can put up siphon life in this mob and Rapture it down get more value here right where if I was playing it wouldn't bring us much value you don’t have to apply siphon to every mob in a six mob hole I mean you're not actually doing it you're not applying a single ciphon life.
Like here I want to apply one all seed and just Spam C like I’m playing AC we want all these mobs die there's a chance I might applies-fi to this main target depending what happens if it's still at a high health for that bit of extra single Target on all Rapture by you right but I feel like here for example apps AOE is sort of Niche look at this whole flame damage we're sitting at 50 sole flame 20seed the other packs coming in here as well Shadow members rounds with Arts Academy the tree boss places where you can get good soil flame lead value even with sole flame being a square root of like soft capped eight targets right you can still get that Niche Glee value right.
But once again comparatively to demo DMO can still bring big damage here maybe that's not as abusable with soul flame but you can still bring implosions dogs chomping demonic strength pillow storm imp gang boss based implosions larger implosions harder hitting impotions right and when you’re comparing after single Target the demo single Target if you're playing another portals demonology you're probably doing more than half is anyways it's not being very close to it right so it's sort of air feel like f and Destroy both have just a sort of Niche damage profile where in certain spots like Shadow moon like Ruby Life Pools like not good offensive you can get massive AOE value Great Soul flame value like right here.
Once again just bursting 250k for casting one spell all right but at the same time you can shift the casting siphon life here in these two mobs right because there's two left or prior damage more dot damage Alike the way Ash profile feels I just feel like comparatively to demonology when You’re Building implosions casting dogs relatively simple smooth flowing rotation it's just I don't know you I don’t want to say not worthwhile it just seems like it's it’s niche its niche so like the gist of what I got from running keys today and we’re gonna run more tomorrow on things but the gist of what I got is that after single Target feels good it's solid FM makes it worthwhile.
Makes it sound well the siphon life deal with biocentres good the AOE is strong with seed but I feel like consistent AOE outside of the packs we have Grim reach the packs where you don't have Grim reach those three Target poles even those four Target poles Immunology can do more with dogs with implosion with Yellowstone with monks rightapp industrial both I feel like lack a good bit in those settings in those three Target settings where you don’t have major CDs you can spam seed is your damage okay it's all right but demo does more so when it comes to playing aft versus demon plus I wouldn't be surprised to still see a lot of play oath and algathars CF being played in Shadow moon or destroy being played in Shadow Moon or to see it being played in Ruby life fools.
Right but I feel like currently demonology still Takes the Cake it is the overall best Universal spec when it comes to Mythic Plusbut once again f is gained ground and I don’t think it's that bad I I don’t really enjoy the uh juggling plates of18 different dots at the same time while trying to seed spam and everything else but I think a lot of its just trying to shake the rust off and once we do it I feel even better but like I saddler the spec feels good the Buffs in single Target help and once again the major changes today were more based around single Target we got FM we got Pi.
They moved to a one target node or one Talent node but as far as the changes this week in 10.05F single Target I think is more than enough when it comes to make plus it just its damage profile AOE is a bit Niche and in the end you want both to be good I think looking at overall specs Dash redeem appdemo still brings the most when it comes to being consistent in both single Target and AOE with cooldowns and without just due to the pacing of demonology minute Tyrant 20 second dogs minute fellow storm or demonic strength and just faster impulsions right so after it feels good it’s good.
I'll play it more but I don’t think it's enough to just Dethrone uh in quotations I guess Dethrone demonology has the best Universal spec currently for warlock in Mythic Plus
now when it comes to Affliction and raiding for day one of patch 10.05 I guess warlock in general uh heads up I’ll be making a video about this more in depth probably later on this week looking at like a week one raid review but very briefly because people are going to ask how is it doing this is so filter sort of day one of 10.05 for all classes now for the most part I’m assuming I sort of look at logs here already but the specs that are already doing well on fights like demon aeronauts are still going to be the specs that are being played the most I don’t think apps can overtake you know Aaron always the best spec and I think for the most part that's going to be the case I mean we see two demo lock here.
Interestingly enough so the number one parse here on taros out of any class is actually an Affliction War like getting three pis the PS part of the game it is what it is actually an Aflac reconcile a lot of boomkin sonars other stuff here warlock's not great this tier either way it is what it is but if you sort by actual warlocks so airing still a wall of demonology not very surprising once again Demo's minute profile stat Cleve profile very strong on fights like Aaron.
All right taros basically a wall Affliction with one Destro parse keep in mind Destroyer good in single Target as well but very immobile right 88k 81k 80k coming-out of the afflux here just cracking out serious damage on terrorists here mobile spec uh solid City timing overall I also want to say briefly yet so they're not playing someone's Soul keeper here blizzard swapped the spots of Soul keeper inquisitor's gays talent tree wise I don't believe worker Vlogs updated yet so they're all playing inquisitor’s gays but it shows that as someone told keeper here just they ‘replaying they're playing the eyeball don’t worry about it but tarot is still lot of Aflac’s here predominantly Aflac’s.
Now once again f is just getting better on the fights it already was pushing destroy out of the way a little bit Primo Council seeing a few aft parses here a few Destroy ones I think long term this is still a demo fight number one being demo I think it's more or less the buff that came in today didn’t really affect Affliction when it comes to promo Council you got focused malignancy we got pandemic location which yes FM will bring a little more single Target priority image but there really wasn’t any any Buffs today so for the majority of this build I guess this parse like the aab application parts of it were still around last week the week before whenever the previous Buffs came in right so but still a bit more African Council sonar looking like mostly an Affliction boss.
Now playing the very interesting dread touch wrath consumption build in this fight maintaining wrath just big ticking damage in the boss when it runs up the stairs very strong build played it onbeat for testing very good in this boss once again solidifying itself is probably the best spec in this fight at this point in time daphia being a lot of f as well now when it comes to daphia all three specs see play but the big thing is that if you ‘replaying Affliction on dathya you’re basically staying on the main platform just doing damage to the boss you can see here he just damaged Adithya and thelarge Avid spawns when you charge them up other people have large like the abides in their profile but him the straight up boss damage and volatile infusers right so once again on daphia.
Affliction you can't die playing ID drain life right very solid here overall just gets better right karog still destroy Fest bricky red Aaron it's a bit of an odd one if you're playing F in this fight you're basically chasing the boss around as one of the like DPS tours if you're playing demo you can get baggage leave so we've seen ax played in this boss from people before trying to get my boss damage in I think Brew Keeper's still a demo fight if you’re on ads if you're on the boss though app seems to be pretty strong and currently razzigat has no Affliction kills publicly however I've seen some private AF kills and logs they’re actually it's actually pretty strong I’m curious to see where this week goes yapp is played more as a gift but tracking of Target is strong it's solid over the next couple days I'll have a video coming out on Sims for affliction demon Destro and later on the week.
Once again having a review video talking about you know where I guess day two day three day four parses we have for warlocks in the raid once this gets a bit more solidified but either way Ash looking better it’s looking solid we thought it'd be good and wellas far as rate is concerned it’s looking good so thanks for watching guys hopefully the video answered I guess any questions you might have had about how f is playing currently at least day one and 10.0.5 now I might tray few different builds tomorrow onstream over the course of the weekend but the main build they played and plus once again has been like this dark layer Grim reach with Dread touch which has been uh like I guess the general building the past few weeks or I guess a month or so if you're playing F and plus.
Now I don’t think app's not bad at all but the buff that came in today to affliction honestly most of the buff to Affliction have really been based around single Target and Dot damage now there was a I think a five percent buff to see the corruption and there is indeed the bugs well with the four piece which is only buffing one seed out of three if you cast c with a four piece proc but regardless most of the damage that was I guess increased today is due to FM being focused malignancy and pandemic implication but we only play them plus.
So what we're looking at today in plus again is mainly aft's single targets boss damage prior damage and it felt fine playing deciphon life vial teambuilder actually having siphon left around felt pretty good it gives you the option of putting siphon life on a prior mob Ina pack if the rest of the pack dies shift from seating to rapturing and two Targets getting some safer life value it felt pretty good but once again I feel like appendestro or in an odd spot where they struggle a bit on these three four pack or I guess three four mob holes where you don't have dark Lair or you don’t have you know your internalization you don't have your major CDs right you have seed spam you can you can spam randifiers for you.
If you ‘replaying Deathstroke you can cast seed if you’re playing Affliction but the thingies is that compare the demonology demo has CDs air pack implosion cycling Bell storm demonic strength uh third dog cleave imp gang boss you have resources in that big AB profile every single pack whether it's you know one target two three four five it brings a good profile and good burst damage mostly regardless of any setting now if you're in a huge Au setting like a knockout offensive or Ruby Life Pools Shadow Moon, battlegrounds big seed spam big Soul flame value for even big rain of fire spam but Inferno for Destro all that eight nine ten plus targets that's where those specs came a lot of value Soul flame value on alcith Academy tree boss.
All that it's a bit more Niche when it comes to like guess AV value or you can get it and stuff but I think all three specs Dash redeem on F are all good all playable in with a plus uh I think that demo is still the best overall when it comes to like you know if you're playing one spec and plus and not the others I go with demo the most most rounded good single Target good AOE short cooldowns Tire ripping a minute implosion cycling ingang Moss demo has a very unique profile with once again just a one minute CDs another board if you're playing a good single Target and it has a solid prior profile but it has almost passive cleave with implosion third dog Bell storm cleave demonic strength cleave.
All that impulsion cycling it's just good but AF also feels good having FM around with this build here you finally have a good bit of single Target damage and Seed spam I wouldn't be surprised depending on how things shift in 10.01or 10.01 10.1 things if I've started seeing more and more plait’s solid all around I like it it’s good all three specs are playable empathy plus so uh rant aside if you guys have any questions or anything put them down below in the comment section I’m sure to get back to you once again in the week whereas add-ons and profile it’s on the video links to my twitch and Discord down below you can get them all for free.
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Are probably still the best specs but like we said apps getting ground half looks strong and depending on how A probably has the most abusable profile in a sense depending on certain rate encounter so we'll see where it goes 10.1 looks hopefully it’s been pretty awesome and I hope we have a bit of a better raid for warlocks we had in 10.0 because I enjoyed vault locks were sort of mediocre so with that being said thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed the video hit the like and sub buttons below helps out a ton and I will catch you all again soon on stream peace!
