Dragonflight Season 2 Mythic+ Affixes - A Review
Dragonflight Season 2 released with 3 brand new affixes and reworked old affixes. We review the changes and give thoughts on what we would want to see for affixes in Season 3!
New Affixes
Afflicted
Afflicted was a new affix added in Dragonflight Season 2 and has been dubbed a «passenger affix» by the community. The biggest problem with this affix is the range in difficulty depending solely on your class composition — ranging from trivial to very difficult, with a large punishment for failure. It has thus has not been received well by the community.
Afflicted looks to have been made to try to replace the «healer» affix of Grievous, but Afflicted has not turned out to be a healer affix at all. Since Afflicted Souls can be dispelled, the easiest method of dealing with Afflicted is to have multiple hybrids in your key and just have them dispel it. Actually healing the Afflicted Souls is difficult due to targeting and a large health pool / low single target healing. As if Dragonflight Season 2 dungeons, didn't have a wide range of dispels already that promote bringing hybrids, Afflicted weeks have only increased the difference between «meta» specs and non «meta» specs.
In addition, this affix just feels like it happens so often. It has a chance on spawning every 30 seconds, which means you can deal with up to 60 sets in a 30 minute dungeon. It's just overwhelming and feels like you're setting up your comp and play to deal with the affix and not playing the dungeon.
I don't think this affix has worked out as intended and I think it's personally harmful to community perception as classes that don't have a dispel do not feel useful this week. It'd be a different story if the classes without a dispel brought a bunch of other
