威尔弗雷德的超级召唤魔印 – A legion favorite has returned to us in Shadowlands! This effect brings with it a 1 second reduction to your
召唤黑眼 for each
灵魂碎片 you spend. While this effect is powerful, we already have the new
召唤黑眼 trait which syncs our
黑暗灵魂:哀难 ability to our
召唤黑眼. Taking into consideration that we are going to cast somewhere around 20-25
灾难狂欢 every two minutes; this effect sadly does not seem extremely powerful.
恩德雷思之爪 – This effect does not have any kind of interaction with
大难临头 or granting you any additional ticks of
吸取生命. It simply does what it says it does, which is make your
吸取生命 channel twice as fast. It can lead to some very quick burst/self-healing in PVP potentially with a high stack of
大难临头, but I don't see it making much of an impact in PVE.
恶魔协同印记 – This legendary grants
灾难狂欢 a 10% chance to refund all
灵魂碎片 spent, which will always be 1. It is basically a weaker version of
灵魂导管 and feels a bit underwhelming. If the refund rate was increased to say 20% or so it might be a bit more impactful but currently feels lackluster.
黑暗之门柱石 aka “Portal Pants” – Making your
恶魔传送门 instant cast and also giving it two charges is more impactful than it may seem. It can certainly be of use in PVP/arenas or similar settings but the real question is why play this over a damage based effect? It did see a good bit of play in Legion Mythic + when it came to traversing a large area quickly, but that was only due to gear swapping being a thing.
阿兹亚基的永恒痛苦 – Giving
痛楚 a 20% increased chance to generate a
灵魂碎片 might seem like a powerful effect but when compared to the other legendaries that Affliction has and the RNG of an effect like this, I think we can do a bit better.
灾难狂怒 – This effect causes your
灾难狂欢 to increase the damage of your
暗影箭 and
吸取灵魂 spells by 25%, stacking up to three times. If you pair this effect with
屠戮箭 and the
吸取灵魂 talent, it truly becomes a powerhouse. Initial testing has shown
吸取灵魂 to be nearly 60% of our damage output in execute when paired with said effects thus making Affliction Warlock execute damage extremely potent. Even outside of execute it causes you to alter your play style around 45 second
吸取灵魂 (if selected) burst windows; which revolve around casting
屠戮箭 and maintaining a 3 stack of
灾难狂怒.
萨洛拉丝的黑暗之击 – Another returning effect from Legion,
萨洛拉丝的黑暗之击 was one of the reasons Warlock was so strong in Mythic +. It has the same
腐蚀术 damage increase from Legion but the slow effect has been reduced from 60% (Legion) to 15% in Shadowlands. I will say that the effect still currently applies the full 60% slow on Beta realms right now but I believe that will be changing soon. A 45% difference in the slow effect will certainly be noticeable but the question is, is just how noticeable?
吞噬之怒 – This effect is another iconic ability from Legion but with a slight difference; In Legion the effect stated that whenever you “kill a target” you received a bonus effect to your damage over time spells. In Shadowlands that target has to die with
痛楚 applied to it but the effect also has a much larger bonus, 5% per stack and stacking up to 5 times. Affliction's toolkit has certainly changed a bit from Legion but you simply cannot deny the power level of
吞噬之怒 in certain settings.