Seed of Corruption buff Official(ly Awesome)

First thank you for posting, constructively. Our intent is for Seed of Corruption to be more attractive to Affliction, and Rain of Fire more attractive to Destruction. Before the flames begin, please note the word "intent". We realize that is not always the case, depending on numerous variables.

This was already largely the way things fell, though affliction didn't use seed of corruption on small pulls because losing one target could be a big difference.

However, "intent," didn't quite work out. As the rest of that thread discusses, seed of corruption is a very powerful AOE, only held back by the fact that it didn't hit the primary target. Using heroic anub'arak as an example, this is a 25% damage increase - from 4 targets to 5 - and is enough to put seed ahead of rain of fire even for destruction. Hell, it's enough for affliction to pass meta/ruin AOE potential and compete with unholy death knights on their own terms. Good luck keeping up the seed spam in phase 3, though.

In other post-3.3 hotfix news, Ghostcrawler made good on his offer to add drain soul to Everlasting Affliction, the hotfix is now live. Tooltip updates will require a client patch, but the fix is working in-game. This should finally solve affliction's problems with corruption refreshing once and for all. If this isn't enough... Maybe next corruption will just refresh itself.

It's also confirmed by tests that, while the first affliction hotfix put an end to haste rolling, corruption still doesn't update crit on refresh, making Nevermelting Ice Crystal damn near best in slot for the 30% crit it can stack onto corruption. It does work out to a fairly weak trinket for destruction or demo due to fast falloff from the peak buff, unfortunately.