Печать усиленного призыва Вилфреда – A legion favorite has returned to us in Shadowlands! This effect brings with it a 1 second reduction to your
Призыв созерцателя тьмы for each
Осколки души you spend. While this effect is powerful, we already have the new
Призыв созерцателя тьмы trait which syncs our
Черная душа: страдание ability to our
Призыв созерцателя тьмы. Taking into consideration that we are going to cast somewhere around 20-25
Пагубный восторг every two minutes; this effect sadly does not seem extremely powerful.
Коготь Эндерета – This effect does not have any kind of interaction with
Неизбежная гибель or granting you any additional ticks of
Похищение жизни. It simply does what it says it does, which is make your
Похищение жизни channel twice as fast. It can lead to some very quick burst/self-healing in PVP potentially with a high stack of
Неизбежная гибель, but I don't see it making much of an impact in PVE.
Реликвия демонической синергии – This legendary grants
Пагубный восторг a 10% chance to refund all
Осколки души spent, which will always be 1. It is basically a weaker version of
Посредник душ 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.
Столпы Темного портала aka “Portal Pants” – Making your
Демонические врата 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.
Бесконечная агония Аз'Акира – Giving
Агония a 20% increased chance to generate a
Осколки души 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.
Пагубный гнев – This effect causes your
Пагубный восторг to increase the damage of your
Стрела Тьмы and
Похищение души spells by 25%, stacking up to three times. If you pair this effect with
Стрела опустошения and the
Похищение души talent, it truly becomes a powerhouse. Initial testing has shown
Похищение души 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
Похищение души (if selected) burst windows; which revolve around casting
Стрела опустошения and maintaining a 3 stack of
Пагубный гнев.
Темный удар Сакролаш – Another returning effect from Legion,
Темный удар Сакролаш was one of the reasons Warlock was so strong in Mythic +. It has the same
Порча 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?
Ярость поглощения – 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
Агония 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
Ярость поглощения in certain settings.