New week, and the first with new m+ affixes, and the opening of the Sepulcher raid. It was exciting with a new affix. I can use the new mobs to get a higher buff for my legendary so that I will do more damage to the boss.
It was fun in the new raid. We did 4/11 bosses on normal. The last boss we wiped on 1% 3 times I think. It was a very movement heavy fight, so not very ranged friendly. But I enjoyed it anyway.
Even though I enjoyed both the raid and the premade dungeons we did, the patch still don't spark joy for me. Right now, I think I'm playing the game just because I'm afraid to miss the progression. I feel that if I take a break now, I will be behind everyone for the rest of the patch. And my prediction is that this patch will be very very long.
This week I have played both demo and affliction. My verdict is that the specs are good for different things. But affliction is still my strong favorite of the two.
Affliction
Pros
More action, shorter cast times, more mobile and feels lighter to play
I enjoy both the single target and the seed aoe builds
Insane on trash with cooldowns up
Not the worst on heavy movement fights
Can get shards from explosives. If things gets heavy, can insta kill explosives with corruption.
I perform best with this spec in dungeons
Cons
Low single target damage
Very bad on target swapping, due to very long ramp up time (except for seed build)
Not very good on fights with mostly single target and a few adds since you do no aoe damage at all if you spec for st
Cannot cancel your dots if you dot something you shouldn't. Like mobs that should be cc-ed, and bad at handling bursting
It's hard reading that your favourite spec is in the "swamp ass tier". That automatically makes it feel worse, even if it is not. It even states in the wowhead affliction guide that you should play demo instead of affliction in single target fights.
My current use
Dungeons
Raid bosses with lots of movement
Demo
Pros
OK on single target fights
A solid solo spec. Can survive a lot by using the demon right.
Good on single target with some aoe
Rules in the new Torghast boss mode thingy
Gets very good powers in Torghast
Is supposed to get very good tier sets, so looking forward to that
Cons
Demo feels slow and heavy, and those hand of gul'dan cast noises makes my head hurt.
I'm still learning to play the spec, so I don't perform well yet. Requires a lot of concentration to play a new-ish spec, so I am worse at mechanics when playing it.
Looses a lot of damage if you have to do mechanics when building up demons for your tyrant
Really bad at handling explosives
My current use
ST raid bosses and raid bosses with some aoe
Soloing elites
Torghast
This week
Sepulcher
Guardian as affliction (was a bad choice)
Skolex as demo
Artificier as demo
Dausegne as demo
Several wipes at Halondrus as affliction
Dungeons
11* Halls as affliction
11* Necrotic wake as affliction
12 DOS as affliction
10** Sanguine as affliction
10** TOP as affliction
10* Plaguefall affliction
10* Spires as demo
11 Mists as affliction
6 Tazavesh streets as demo
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