Originally Posted by Angelkiller
affliction DPS is too slow to kill anyone.
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As a rule of thumb, or as a generalization, sure.
However, its not that Affliction lacks burst, in fact, in some ways it has larger and more controllable burst compared to destro, and affliction of course has more burst than demon does.
Affliction burst is summed up with Nightfall.
Its like a paladin, you play defensivly and like a shadow priest, until night fall procs. It will, sooner or later, but you better have 12k hp + resilience to even the odds. Once night fall procs, hit your dps trinket, SB, Sburn, DC and tell your teammate to get on him. Non crit your doing 4k damage min, and if you crit a Sbolt your Sburn hits for a crapload. Its burst, just not "controllable". However, the more people you can get corruption on the more controllable it is.
And woe to the receiving end of a double NF proc.
Also, UA is pretty nice burst damage. Its also not controllable, but still exists. Once someone has dispelled UA debuff on them, they pretty much are at 50% or less hp, DC + cast time sb + Sburn isnt bad reliable dps.
I recently specced Felguard, and the biggest difference is the lack of burst I now have.
Edit: For 2v2s, as an affliction warlock + dps, your biggest problem isnt healers, its other double dps teams. Your affliction warlock will have to pull out all the tricks in the book to stay alive against heavy dps.