Blizzard on Affliction Warlock Talent Rework in The War Within - Malefic Rapture is Go-To Spender for Single and Multi-Target
Blizzard has posted development notes on the General and Affliction Talent Tree reworks in The War Within, noting that they want Malefic Rapture to be the go-to spender for both single-target and multi-target situations.
We want to take a moment to go a bit more in depth as to what certain changes were made and why. As a refresher, here are the goals for our Core and Afflictions that we posted last week along with some additional goals that we can dig into here.Class
- Ensure each capstone is interesting and exciting.
- Reduce the amount of throughput talents, to free up utility choices.
- Reduce the number of ranks for talents that don’t warrant multiple ranks.
- Address the tuning of Malefic Rapture in single-target and multi-target situations.
- Reduce complexity and the amount of active buttons that contribute to it.
- Erase the need to choose between a single-target or multi-target profile by adding more adaptability and flexibility.
We’re removing a lot of throughput talents from the class tree to allow warlocks to pick up more utility without feeling forced to take mandatory talents to be competitive.
These talents aren’t compelling options when placed against utility as they will always be the right answer to have. This allows us to move that power into the specialization trees and tailor throughput-centric talents to be specific to that specialization’s gameplay.Malefic Rapture
In addition to becoming baseline for Affliction, we are introducing new talents that will help Malefic Rapture become the go-to spender for both single-target and multi-target situations.
