Huge WoW Dragonflight affix changes are exactly what Mythic needs
If you’ve attempted to run high key Mythic+ dungeons in WoW Dragonflight, you’ve probably run into the Explosive affix. Well, not anymore, as coming into the MMORPG‘s next season World of Warcraft‘s most frustrating affix has been removed, while others have been shuffled around to keys that better suit them.
Explosive, an affix released with Legion, basically summons huge explosions that detonate and, if you’re too close to them, wipe 50% of your health. While they have health bars and can be destroyed, they’re immune to any AoEs, meaning you have to pull off of the mobs or boss that you’re fighting to destroy them.
Sure, this adds a whole new level of challenge to your keys, but the issue I’ve always had with Explosive is that it’s more an annoyance than a skill test. It never really enhanced runs or made the gameplay more complex, it just sort of… existed and was irritating.
Well, not anymore, as Blizzard has revealed that it’s removing the affix for WoW Dragonflight season 2. A blue forum post from developer ‘Stonekey,’ states “as we continue to watch everyone play Mythic+ on the PTR and take in your feedback, we wanted to share additional changes to this week’s PTR. Our changes this week aim to further lessen the impact of affixes on Mythic+ dungeon gameplay and to match our more challenging affixes to later keystone levels as players progress through the system.”
The most important of these is that “Explosive will be retired for Dragonflight Season 2 and replaced by Volcanic.” Whether or not this means the affix is gone entirely remains to be seen but, for now, at least Blizzard has listened and you won’t need to deal with it.
Other changes include periodic affixes (Incorporeal, Storming) being added at key seven
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