It's good to see affixes being re-thought at least!I like the challenge the affixes introduce and the fact they require a mindset adjustment each week. A challenging affix is good. The problem I have is affixes that drive people to skip M+ that week. Surely not what Blizz intended. The obvious example is Grievous on Disc Priest. Trying to heal Grievous on Disc felt like trying to achieve something the game wasn't designed for. Like one of those cheeky shortcuts that require jumping up a rock or something. You keep mashing the jump button but falling back down until you finally hit the invisible ledge that lets you hop up. Now try to jump up 5 of these after every trash pack.
Just remove the damn Bursting....
Seems strange reading these comments. I read these changes and thought they are overall much much better for the game. Most of these comments however are negative and I don't know why.
Dear Blizzard . I really hope you guys are just trolling because at this point this is a joke . instead of Fixing/removing tyranical you guys are reworking and buffing easy affix ? whats the point doing that ? do you even know that when its Tyranical week the game is UNPLAYABLE IN HIGH M PLUS CONTENT so that means HALF of the expansion you cant play high M plus content because of tyranical like for real please do something about that and dont focus on buffing easy affix .. Just go check M plus laderboards ALL KEYS ARE WITH FORTIFIED DOESNT THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU ?
Please get us rid with Tyrannical and Fortified as well as they are really boring now......
Now also remove necrotic and griveous while you at it.
Let´s sumerize the affixes1. Bolstering - affixe that should be significantly nerfed, those 20%+ on HP and DMG is realy too much. Packs in some dungeons are absolutly terrible with this affixe as there are f.e. 5 mobs in the pack (typical MOTHELOAD) -> 3 have half of the the "big" HPs, one has 2/3 and one is that "big" mob. It sholud be like 10% or what I would personaly like most, removed and replaced with something different.2. Bursting - it´s fine affixe when you have DPSs with at least half of the brain and new tuning won´t probably won´t do much if it does not get out of hand on higher keys3. Grevious - one of the hardest affixes right now as it almost doubles the requirements of healing per dungeon. It would be just right affixe if it would fall off at the end of the combat like Necrotic, current itteration is hell for Disco priests4. Necrotic - not that much of problem if you coordinate your slows in the group and tank uses his mobility abilities in the right time (problem only on bosses with many mobs and no time for stacks to fall off -> like cast or channels of boss or kitting if you can outrun the boss)5. Quaking - the new quaking is realy easy to handel6. Raging - can be disspeled so it´s fine7. Sanguin - fine affix if there are no tiny spaces like Tol Dagor or Waycres mannor8. Skittish - well, sometimes it´s a bit tricky for tanks especially with stupid DPS who rushes into the pack before the tank and uses all of its CDs (I´m looking your directin warriors, DHs....) or with unlucky DPS users of TD with proc on the very begging of the pull. Overall this affixe is fine.9. Teeming - not that much problem if Blizzard realy pay attention which mobs they add into the pack (if there is pack of 2 casters with freaquent, heavy hitting abilities and they add one more, it´s gonna be a problem)10. Volcanic - current iterration is easy as hell, those changes would put it in right place (if it does not get out of hand in like +25 where it would one shot you....)And then there are those unfortunate Tyranical and Fortified. From my perspective, they sholud be removed. Especially that Tyranical. And the reason for its removal is (as somebody mentioned) that once you wipe on Tyranical boss, you have to start from zero. If you wipe on Fortified trash, there is high chance you have killed some mobs so you made some progress toward finishing the dungeon. So to sum it up, as I see it, affixes that should be somehow changed are Grevious and Bolstering, affixes that should be removed are Tyranical (and Fortified as Forty without Tyra makes no sense) and those changes to Volcanic and Bursting seem fine unless they get into insane (one shot) numbers in higher keys.Oh and about seasonal affixes, please, no more G´huuns and more of Awakening.
I mean, most of my game play is mythic + these days, and I'm excited for these changes....particularly that bursting can be dispelled.... getting it off of one person immediately and then triage healing the rest just makes it more interesting and honestly easier....I also agree with those that say volcanic is the easiest affix and this should be incentive for people to get out of it.....I understand the caster beef with this, but seriously folks mechanics > dps