You may very well be right. My test with affliction vs anvil is limited to one spec.
I’ve noticed that despite having 100% block recovery and 75% block chance, anvil doesn’t prov very frequently.
I suppose I just like the consistency of affliction.
It’s also great in that you can get its proc with 3 spare devotion points
Devotions are intertwined with your mastery/skill choices and overall balance/gear etc… what makes you think it’s less complicated? They go in tossing new stuff in there then the stuff outside it has to reflect it as well.
You’re vastly underselling what all goes into it.
I just think some devotion like scorpion and tip the scale could get a buff. People are pretty much forced to use Revenant or Ele storm for flat RR.
Imo adding new devotion is one of the most complicated things, on the level of adding new big conversion. The map is already big. It needs balancing.
Manticore should at least get bonuses to bleed on par with its bonuses to acid. The only paths that are seriously going to consider it are bleed builds without Nightblade, since purple/green is on the way to their T2 RR constellation and T3. Since manticores also do bleed damage in-game, it’s thematically fitting too.