Sigilo de invocación superior de Wilfred – A legion favorite has returned to us in Shadowlands! This effect brings with it a 1 second reduction to your
Invocar miradaoscura for each
Fragmentos de alma you spend. While this effect is powerful, we already have the new
Invocar miradaoscura trait which syncs our
Alma oscura: Angustia ability to our
Invocar miradaoscura. Taking into consideration that we are going to cast somewhere around 20-25
Éxtasis maléfico every two minutes; this effect sadly does not seem extremely powerful.
Garra de Endereth – This effect does not have any kind of interaction with
Muerte inevitable or granting you any additional ticks of
Drenar vida. It simply does what it says it does, which is make your
Drenar vida channel twice as fast. It can lead to some very quick burst/self-healing in PVP potentially with a high stack of
Muerte inevitable, but I don't see it making much of an impact in PVE.
Reliquia de sinergia demoníaca – This legendary grants
Éxtasis maléfico a 10% chance to refund all
Fragmentos de alma spent, which will always be 1. It is basically a weaker version of
Conducto de alma 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.
Pilares del Portal Oscuro aka “Portal Pants” – Making your
Portal demoníaco 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.
Agonía perpetua de Azj'Aqir – Giving
Agonía a 20% increased chance to generate a
Fragmentos de alma 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.
Cólera maléfica – This effect causes your
Éxtasis maléfico to increase the damage of your
Descarga de las Sombras and
Drenar alma spells by 25%, stacking up to three times. If you pair this effect with
Descarga exterminadora and the
Drenar alma talent, it truly becomes a powerhouse. Initial testing has shown
Drenar alma 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
Drenar alma (if selected) burst windows; which revolve around casting
Descarga exterminadora and maintaining a 3 stack of
Cólera maléfica.
Golpe oscuro de Sacrolash – Another returning effect from Legion,
Golpe oscuro de Sacrolash was one of the reasons Warlock was so strong in Mythic +. It has the same
Corrupción 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?
Cólera de consumo – 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
Agonía 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
Cólera de consumo in certain settings.