Shadowbolt / rapture proc builds are key now. They nerfed drains hard. I also run single unstable affliction on kill target, keep corruption and agony on everyone else for bolt/rapture procs. Haunt / UA kill target and spam bolts+rapture on target with UA on it with bolts refreshing dot timers. Watch your damage doing that, shits fun. More mobile and kitey. If they let you freecast, then they just die faster. I will say i found a bug where if youre mid cast on a shadow bolt and your instant shadow bolt procs, it just removes your insta bolt proc aftsr you finish channeling the initial shadow bolt. So if they fix that, youll do even more damage
Thank you for those insights, very helpful! Tested it on the dummies and it feels very nice. Cant wait to try. Regarding the insta proc bug, i ust re read the description and it also grants 25% percent more damage on top of the instant cast. So might be that the 25% buff is applied to the currently casted bolt and thus game considers it done. I tested what happens when moving after getting the proc mid-cast, and - as expected - the proc isnt consumed.
@@estebanslavidastic4382 basically , single UA since youre looking to burst a single target down harder instead of cleave all 3. You still want to maintain your other 2 Dots on other targets to help with your instant cast procs on MR and SB, but not having rampant affliction makes your UA hit extremely harder if they dispel or if they leave it alone. And since UA has like a .8 cast time even if they dispell it off your kill target it takes .8 seconds of your time to recast it and hit the kill target with another curse for full DoT then haunt application and then they wasted a dispell basically, it costs no time of yours to get back into bursting. Haunt and UA have a .8 cast time depending on how much haste your running and if you're running the talent that reduces your UA cast time. It's a build I suggest trying , I don't think it will be to everyone's taste. Not having to keep 3 UA on targets also shortens set up (or ramp up time) time In which you have commit before going in to your burst rotation to do meaningful damage. aka your damage just pumps out much faster. You start with 3 shards so now you can , Curse 2 targets, (still jinx) Haunt ua curse kill target and start dumping your your SB and MR. I'd say prioritize dumping your MR shards and then spam Shadowbolt for filler while keeping corruption and agony up on your two off targets. This build will come into play further once TWW comes out and corruption gets replaced with WITHER, then your burst gets fucking astronomical
I'm curious to know what they have in their brains, the affliction was already an affliction for those who played it and in TWW (despite the fact that a total rework was expected) not only did they leave it as before but they managed the epic feat of making it decidedly worse . A spec that is essentially based on drain life and they managed to make this iconic spell as useful as the ritual of doom...🎉🎉🎉
I would have liked to play affliction soul harvester for the powerful drain souls, the more frequent nighfall procs and the stronger dark pact... however for my tastes the animation of the "demon within" (a cross between an arakkoa of the burning crusade and a wind-up clown) disgusts me so much that I won't be able to play it
@@andreamarra9108 you're totally right about that, but are you forgetting that oblivion is now in normal aff talent tree? I played about 30bg the last few days (I was sick and didn't got anything else to do) and I'd say about 25 of those games i was top damage. And currently in every 2v2 with my friend Im top damage majorru of the time around 1900 - 1950 rating
@@rmg1259 oblivion I know it's a talent and no longer a pvp talent, I also know that in bg thanks to multi dotting you can easily top damage. But from the perspective of 3v3 arenas, shuffle,, world pvp etc. it is a huge problem to practically no longer have drain life, and oblivion is not always usable because it is enough that you lose a channel, two shards, a talent
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Shadowbolt / rapture proc builds are key now.
They nerfed drains hard.
I also run single unstable affliction on kill target, keep corruption and agony on everyone else for bolt/rapture procs.
Haunt / UA kill target and spam bolts+rapture on target with UA on it with bolts refreshing dot timers.
Watch your damage doing that, shits fun. More mobile and kitey.
If they let you freecast, then they just die faster.
I will say i found a bug where if youre mid cast on a shadow bolt and your instant shadow bolt procs, it just removes your insta bolt proc aftsr you finish channeling the initial shadow bolt.
So if they fix that, youll do even more damage
Thank you for those insights, very helpful! Tested it on the dummies and it feels very nice. Cant wait to try.
Regarding the insta proc bug, i ust re read the description and it also grants 25% percent more damage on top of the instant cast. So might be that the 25% buff is applied to the currently casted bolt and thus game considers it done. I tested what happens when moving after getting the proc mid-cast, and - as expected - the proc isnt consumed.
From further testing with visual inspection it seems like the 25% buff on damage IS NOT applied to the current cast when a proc happens mid cast.
single UA... wut? what about rampant afflictions? is that just fuckn useless now than?
@@estebanslavidastic4382I’m assuming he is saying he drops rampant afflictions. If we want Soul Swap we have to drop a PvP talent now which sucks.
@@estebanslavidastic4382 basically , single UA since youre looking to burst a single target down harder instead of cleave all 3.
You still want to maintain your other 2 Dots on other targets to help with your instant cast procs on MR and SB, but not having rampant affliction makes your UA hit extremely harder if they dispel or if they leave it alone.
And since UA has like a .8 cast time even if they dispell it off your kill target it takes .8 seconds of your time to recast it and hit the kill target with another curse for full DoT then haunt application and then they wasted a dispell basically, it costs no time of yours to get back into bursting. Haunt and UA have a .8 cast time depending on how much haste your running and if you're running the talent that reduces your UA cast time.
It's a build I suggest trying , I don't think it will be to everyone's taste.
Not having to keep 3 UA on targets also shortens set up (or ramp up time) time In which you have commit before going in to your burst rotation to do meaningful damage. aka your damage just pumps out much faster.
You start with 3 shards so now you can , Curse 2 targets, (still jinx)
Haunt ua curse kill target and start dumping your your SB and MR.
I'd say prioritize dumping your MR shards and then spam Shadowbolt for filler while keeping corruption and agony up on your two off targets.
This build will come into play further once TWW comes out and corruption gets replaced with WITHER, then your burst gets fucking astronomical
bualock get a petition going to re work warlock from the ground up already LOL
I'm curious to know what they have in their brains, the affliction was already an affliction for those who played it and in TWW (despite the fact that a total rework was expected) not only did they leave it as before but they managed the epic feat of making it decidedly worse . A spec that is essentially based on drain life and they managed to make this iconic spell as useful as the ritual of doom...🎉🎉🎉
I would have liked to play affliction soul harvester for the powerful drain souls, the more frequent nighfall procs and the stronger dark pact... however for my tastes the animation of the "demon within" (a cross between an arakkoa of the burning crusade and a wind-up clown) disgusts me so much that I won't be able to play it
Bualock how often do you run across other streamers doing shuffles?
pretty often
Cant join your Discord :( why ? :D i need that build
try when im live on stream twitch.tv/bualock
warlock seems trash in pre-patch right now, thoughts?
thats why i play beta 😂
Destro pretty mid rn but aff and demo are pretty good, I'm top of leaderboard every single game with aff
@@rmg1259 Is the lack of drain life not felt? I'm pretty confused about this
@@andreamarra9108 you're totally right about that, but are you forgetting that oblivion is now in normal aff talent tree? I played about 30bg the last few days (I was sick and didn't got anything else to do) and I'd say about 25 of those games i was top damage. And currently in every 2v2 with my friend Im top damage majorru of the time around 1900 - 1950 rating
@@rmg1259 oblivion I know it's a talent and no longer a pvp talent, I also know that in bg thanks to multi dotting you can easily top damage. But from the perspective of 3v3 arenas, shuffle,, world pvp etc. it is a huge problem to practically no longer have drain life, and oblivion is not always usable because it is enough that you lose a channel, two shards, a talent