[Suggestion/Feedback] Please consider buffing affliction

IMO, 1.1.5.1’s nerfs to affliction are rather excessive.

No longer the niche pick-up it used to be, affliction might as well not exist on the devotion map.

Here’s a summary of the balance changes affecting affliction:

It gained…

  • 20% retal damage
  • 20 flat acid retal
  • 2 OA

It lost…

  • 18 DA
  • 10% acid res
  • 20% of the proc’s effective firepower

While Affliction is by no means a bad constellation, 2 things make it overshadowed by other retal constellations:

  1. The aforementioned nerfs
  2. Its low affinity yield

My suggestion is for any one of the following:

  1. Keep the nerfs to the proc, but buff affliction’s retal stats while toning down its non-retal stats,
  2. Keep the nerfs to the proc, but double its affinity yield
  3. Return its 10% RTA proc

@medea_fleecestealer: Ah crud, sorry medea.

I must’ve been typing this out when Z posted his thread.