My guildy had the idea, that if you kill the orb it does aoe damage to the mobs. Or for the new orbs, every % of health say 10% dealt, it'll pulse aoe damage onto the mobs. Thought it was a neat idea, especially if that aoe damage counts as your own on meters. Also curious why they don't experiment making the orbs similar to the protoform barrier from fated raids in SL just without the shield on a mob part. The more you contribute to killing the orb, the bigger your buff 🤷

Was actually doing a HoV key as a healer, and during Eye of the Storm, not a single person targeted the explosive orb outside the shield. In a healing moment like that, you simply can't also do that orb. In Nokhud I do the orbs, but then don't expect me to go nuts on interrupts or purges, that's a "when I got a moment free", but groups expect you to do ALL of that. So far, I really hate most of the new affixes, they're just not fun!

In bfa dps was doing the orbs, but it was such a dps loss that it became a dead week for pushing keys, making them ez to kill made it a good week once everyone figured out that it was best to let the healer kill them all. What u want to do would make explosive the best week to push, unless they gave all the level 7 affixes a dps buff, and it would affect the meta a lot, class like sub rogue would get a huge dps increase from something like this and hurt specs with more steady dps out puts like bm hunter

Haha, yeah. What you said about having to do all that at once. As a shaman this week: thundershock, whack explosives, keep your team up, maybe kick too, and damage in-between. I get really tired after two dungeons on explosive week. They seem dead set on not giving any sort of boon for navigating affixes though, other than "you don't fail". If it was a net DPS gain to get explosives the DPS would fight each other to hit them.

awesome video, do you by any means streams keys? i'd love to learn from you streaming

Most of the affixes are healer affixes. Dd‘s have only one job and its looking pathethic into the screen and press 1,2,3

If they wanna keep the wack a mole then they could spawn individual orbs, immune to everyone else’s damage. If they want a big orb it needs to one-shot the group or meta will be to leave it alone and let healer heal. I think a stacking buff will make the affix too technical for many pugs. It will affect logs which will start PI discussions and so forth.

They should keep the health on the orbs the way they are now, and cap them at 3 at a time at most and give it a 30sec cool down

Kiss curse is fun but does have the effect of causing higher keys to sometimes be easier... I know blizz was against that... I had a thought about the "substantially more health" part... Wouldn't it be cool if the explosive scaled with the size of the pull in terms of health rather than numbers... I means you can pull big and burst still but maybe you are targeting the explosive and cleaving mobs as a team rather than afflicting the healer with another affix. You can still pull big around CDs just as you would but you would have to pay attention to the explosive rather as you say 4 people ignoring it and the healer stressing out about loads of orbs and massive dmg on pull.

If new meta turns out to be,let orb explode and have healer heal the damage ,then I m not gonna play during explosive weeks.

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if blizzard is really against the kiss/curse idea for some reason, at least make the orb go away by walking over it or looking at it (like the palegos soulbind power from shadowlands) targeting 1 orb in a pack of 20 mobs is janky af and super annoying. obviously orbs should spawn further away if you go for the "looking at it" route. im also not a fan of blizzards "1 big bomb" idea, unless it takes dmg from aoe effects too. The switching to it is the real problem here, at least in my opinion.

I get what you're saying trying to fix the affix but I'd ague that it's rather pointless. Why bother with affixes at this point... Dungeons are different from one another already and it feels really bad having to change playstyles according to affixes rather than according to the proper dungeon. Just leave the Tyrannical/Fortified alternating weeks and let it be (one week bosses are harder next week mobs are harder - this way we could scale up M+ difficulty with the key per say)

please get mouseover macros, cant watch this gameplay. but otherwise great video! :)

I think they only put these type of affix in the game to make people get so annoyed they pay for boosts to some of these websites (that blizz leaves open) and i'm sure they are somehow affiliated with. Why else would they add them in the game, there so boring and slow and painful, why would you want to pay for something each month only to have 1 week that is really good out of that month. Something else going on there

I think it’s so cancerous that dps and tank can just flat out ignore an entire affix because it was deemed a “healers job” as if healing isn’t the hardest role in the game already.

I’d just rather have more orbs at the same health they have been.