Surprised Sanguine's not on this list over some other choices. It's a bloody nightmare when CC immune mobs start spamming hardcasts in the pools, especially if they're minibosses on fortified weeks. (LOOKING AT YOU, TAUREN LADY BEFORE THE FINAL BOSS IN RLP)

I remember the days of Griveous and Necrotic combo, that was a week I took a break from wow and played Witcher 3.

My friends and I used to call bolstering "build-a-boss" week lol

Teeming/Skittish was THE WORST! I hated it so much in Legion as a tank main.

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Sanguine plotarmor continues to amaze me...

I totally expected infested to be at number one and it's not even on the list???

I dont think anyone remembers original quaking that did unavoidable damage every 20 seconds. If you ever died in a dungeon as a class without healing spells, you would just chain die on the runback until you somehow convince your healer to come back for you.

How if Infested not on here?

You can tell who never in their lives have ever played a melee class. Not even an honorable mention to storming.

With regards to overflowing it was not "super bad" for rdruid. Rdruid/disc was probably the best equipped healers to deal with the affix, as it had a high level or determinism with your hps output and HoT overhealing is rather insignificant . Hpaladin had frustrations with the affix because holy shock and their casted heals had high healing variance and had a tendency to overheal very large amounts, overflowing was largely an issue for healers who do really high healing single spells, not the opposite, which is why it was a push week affix.

I’m sorry but I’m nostalgic for prideful. It was satisfying to pull of routes that make use of the damage boost

Huh? Overflowing was non existent for resto Druid because one tick of hot applying shield, other removes it. It was nightmare for shamas and holy palas

I absolutely despite tyrannical. Most garbage affix...

I feel like Sanguine could have easily taken third or fourth spot on this list. That affix is cancer.

I quite enjoyed prideful. Required good planning and was a nice test for you (as a healer), and then gives you a reward of big damage

I remember absolutely hating skittish as a fury war back in legion. Class was all about popping bigass bursts at the start of every pack.. oh how i miss you og odyn's fury. But it was esp worse when we had our druid tank lol.

how was Overflowing bad for resto druids, if their hots overhealed they would also get rid of the absorb with the next tick

But are there any good affixes tho?

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Incorporeal is super annoying, especially because the adds keep spawning way behind, having to rotate the canera always around to check, run back at corners and stairs, and so on.

Good video! I would take out thundering though and swap it with infested, the seasonal affix from BFA season 1. Also for quaking I would move that up 1-2 spots because I think you forgot the most annoying part about it. Back in BfA quaking wasn’t only restricted to in combat, and it hit really hard, so generally after a few pulls when your healer needed mana you had to sit and drink and you could get hit with a quaking that interrupted your drink while the dps tried frantically to top themselves with food since the healer was OOM.

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For me as main tank prideful was by far the worst affix Blizz ever made, it was so bad that it almost made me quit tanking , everything was about the tank, they had so much responsibility, were expected to know so much and have so many addons , it was ridicules.

I don’t mind affixes but I LOATHE affixes that combo into making keys dead for a week. Also side note quaking made me rage more than anything in wow dogshit affix.

The worst thing from Thundering was the chat messages of dbm. Because of that I was never able to tell in the beginning what is what till I learnt it....

how on earth is sanguine not number 1 by a large margin

Back in legion our healer pulled some stray adds for percent in Kara. Brought them into the chess event and bolstered it! Never had an 8 minute chess event fight until that day lol.

Surprised Beguiling didn't make it in here. That affix was actually the worst to deal with in BFA.

Teeming wasn't too bad on the lower levels, but putting skittish on top of that, yuck. Only place I ever had any trouble with that affix ever was Atal'Dazar with that triple Pterrodax pack before/after the middle (for teeming weeks only.) Pretty much had to be on it for interrupts or get feared left and right and potentially pull the middle pack.

S1 Dragonflight had some weeks that I couldnt believe they did to us. At the height of them trying to bring back players they would just put is in torture hell for weeks in a row 😂

and ghun affix? u didnt plays BFA?

No mention of the ghosts spawning and fixing on someone or sanguine?

Sanguine was my #1 worst🩸 Disliked playing it but kind of enjoyed watching it in MDI 👀 Bolstering & Quaking were my personal hell as a Mage main🧙‍♂️🕳️

They need more kiss/curse affixes. Those are fun like prideful and when done well you at least get a buff.

I liked teeming in the way that it changed the "route" that you re supposed to do on some dungeons the weeks that it was active, but on pair with skittish it was very deadly yeah. But it wouldnt be bad if you took skittish away

Necrotic was way worse for warriors. Bdk had ams to reset the stacks and way more parry on big pulls.

The combination of Sanguine, Bolstering and Teeming in Arcus... The spiders broke me.... And yes in Legion the affixes were random..

I cannot think of any worse affixes than Incorporeal/Afflicted. Not only does this force some kind of trust in players (especially pugs) to actually handle the affix by investing in specific talents just to stop them, but it also makes a few to several classes completely undesirable for the week. Warriors and Rogues especially have it rough, having no cures for Afflicted and their solutions for Incorporeal don't have the cooldowns to counter every wave.

quaking was also awesome in dungeons with portals, like the 2nd half of Tazavesh, where you could get very unlikely timing and have quaking kill your party while everyone was loading into the next area. yay

Players nowadays don't event know what we have gone throught with all these affixes :')

Maybe I was just bad, but back when I played discipline, I always took a break during Grievous weeks

this vid popped up on my feed and I had no idea M+ was so horrible! I just started this x-pac and now ALL affixes are gone next x-pac; guess i dodged a massive bullet

"Oh man I can't wait for (insert affix here) because it's so much fun" said no one ever. I think that's the problem that Blizzard needs to address. I think affixes should reward players rather than hinder them. Buff the heck out of fortified and tyrannical to compensate for the difficulty then, I think those are probably fine to change things up week-to-week.

I had arguably my best push group during prideful and it made it decently fun, until you get up to the point where its just better to ignore it all together

I wish they got rid of ALL affixes once and for all and just let the dungeons increase in difficulty strictly by damage done and health per key level. No need to complicate it.

For me personally Explosive was the most annoying Affix in Shadowlands. In some dungeons it was flat out unfair or almost overwhelming or bugged at first. Tazavesh (Stormheim part), Halls of Atonement last room before endboss or when the re-introduced Karazhan. The first week with Explosive and Westfall Story was undoable for us in 14+ Keys. Every dead mob spawned orbs and additionaly you had to avoid the boss mechanics aswell. They patched it a few days into the Affix week. And in Dragonflight it is by far the most annoying Affix (for me as a healer) is Afflicted. Every few seconds you have to heal/dispell a f*** annoying ghost. You can LoS it and DPS can dispel as well but still it is a pain in the ass. Especially in PUGs. Incorporeal is more manageble

I'll be honest....the worst 'affix' for me was the ticking clock. My brain just turns to mush when I have a ticking clock over my head.

tank main here necrotic was my favorite affix would legit do keys in 4-6 pulls depending on the key so sad that they got rid of it

Rather disappointed that Infested wasn’t a far and away 20 tiers above #1, since the affix did literally nothing but make the game worse and every dungeon slower, both on high and low levels

F u c k bolstering!!!! My buddy loves pulling tons of groups and try to min/max damage. I hate bolstering as a healer.

Idk i would swap pridefull with Sanguine 😁, otherwise i completely agree with this list 😁🤜🤛 but you forgot that bolstering was affecting bosses as well, so if you accidently pull trash into boss that would cost you mostlikely a wipe 😁

I love tyrannical, but that's because boss fights and mechanics is the #1 reason I even play WoW. But I understand that it is very punishing on any wipes, and many of the dungeon bosses become 5+ minutes of monotonous rotation.

25:32 lmfao watching the tank go in

As a MW Monk, Overflowing was the absolute BANE of my existence because we built for crit back then.

22:39 I thought you from the future gonna say they removing bolstering :((((

Video idea: Top 10 underwhelming last boss of raids. mogu'shan vaults comes to mind as it doesnt even feel like a last boss

blood dks were able to reset necrotic while it was plague damage due to AMS preventing more stacks from being applied.

Tyrannical is just the most boring garbage I’ve ever seen. It gets worse when they stack more trash on top of it (ie: thundering)

unnerfed storming in shadowlands, was a desaster for melees

I rather prefer Tyrannical over Fortified. I like it when the challenge comes from fighting the unique bosses, as opposed to efficiently churning through the stuff between them. It just feels more fun to me.

When i look first place and not see (i forgot its name since i left the game a while ago) that affix that makes if u drop below 90% health u gain a bleed effect that last until u are healed up, and STACK 4 times!!! GOD that fakin affix was a nightmare, specially being a disc priest, since u dont have any great one target heal at those times. I get why overflowing could be up to that.. but for overflowing u just need to be careful, and if u messed up, just wait to the group drop a bit of heal to heal the absorption shield and the actual dmg... but with the other affix, u are healing non-stop, at the point where after any pack of trash, ppl had to eat to heal faster TW T

I still cant figure out how bolstering and sanguine exist in this game especially because ele shamans get F-ed over and over by having earthquake as only uncapped AoE and tanks are kiting all the time...

After a long break after legion I restarted BFA at the beguinning of 8.3 with my trusty protection paladin. I was learning the route until +10 ... then I learned about the +10 mandatory affixe that completly change the route with the pylons mini boss to skip packs and forced me to learn a whole new set of routes again. This was very bad, especially when you arrive at the final boss and you realise you forgot an obelisks and now the boss is even harder... On tyranical.

While I don’t think it deserves a spot on the list, I despised Storming as a dedicated Melee player.

I can time high fort keys but high tyrannical keys have been my achillies heel.

Blizz: How can we make dungeons more soul crushing and obnoxious?? Blizz:

prideful???

As a person who only raided in vanilla, it's funny to discover that having to manage aggro is now something devs avoid

Skittish wasn't that bad but however i got tank alts and its annoying that i keep on spamming taunts to get my threat back and other affixes are the worst are Afflicted and Incorporeal.

No bursting on the list? I hated that affix

Quaking should be higher lol. Trying to heal with it was hell on some pulls and often was a 100% chance to wipe. There were cases where you had to hit a perfect rotation of healing just to keep up with the damage and suddenly you have to stop casting for an extended period of time with no way to respond to the situation.

Grevious / Bursting was cancer, how didn't this make it to the list?

Prideful was awesome, it changed the "meta routes"

Quaking was the bane of my existence

I thought Inspiring was rather good, you could always cc it via a polymorth and just pull the mobs back. In a matter of fact, i actually loved when it was inspiring because it was rather easy to focus down.

teeming skittish was the worst thing ever, and necrotic by far too i remember trying to heal through 80 stacks of that

I haaaaaaated prideful. I was a prot paladin and prideful ruined mythic plus for me. It made me stop tanking because it wasn’t fun at all.

Tyrannical really just made the timer more difficult and not fun at all due to almost everyone want to complete it under the time limit

for me.. is understandable u choose healing afixes over any other.. but by far the worst combo was bolstering and reinforced... MIX WITH the one that made the packs bigger.. i dont remeber the name.. in legion those 3 were the main reason of fear.. u cant kill anything without buffing the living shit out of all the other mobs.. i remeber 2 places where this was awfull.. cathedral and tower of the guardens.. those 2 dungeons were IMPOSIBLE.. cuz just the start had like 7 mobs.. xD and the middle part had like 12 mobs.. dude that on 15 was imposible.. afixces teeming/bolstering/empowered..

I have PTSD from this list....

Infested and Beguiling should have been top 4, absolute ptsd

The part about Necrotic being especially bad for BDKs. I was tanking back in Legion and found that AMS was a fantastic tool to help deal with. Stacks would get high, pop AMS (no more stacks can be applied and can't be refreshed). Legion and the legendary's also meant being able to swap in/out pieces of gear for all kinds of stuff. Few players did it. But it was a lot of fun. I honestly miss the whole 3 chest reward system from Legion

Despite it not being that long ago, I blocked thundering from my memory.

I preferred Tyrannical, i HATE using my CDs on trash, i like dunping everything ive got into sinle target damage

prideful was my favorite. making sure you do the right routes to spawn prideful right before a boss on tyrannical and stacking lust with it was amazing. i remember in s1 shadowlands my holy pally would top dps on those fights using ashen hallow with those buffs lol

i'd replace prideful with sotrming tbh. storming gave me stage 4 cancer

Prideful was great

every affix who only heals have to care and wow how much i wasted myx time with m+

Key depletion needs to go.

I find it kinda funny that you used dk aus your example for tanks having a bad time with necrotic, when warriors were the ones with the real issues. - Monks and Dhs had high avoidance and would generally receive very few stacks and have mobility to dip on a whim. - Paladins had bubble taunt and two bubbles to get rid of it whenever they felt like they needed it - Dks had ams which would make you immune to getting any more stacks, so as long as you weren't having a pull with both casters AND melee enemies you had no issues whatsoever and you had a crazy slow if things didn't work out - Druids had no crazy healing and were taking very little damage to begin with - Warriors had their mobility and that was it. If you think they had no self healing, necrotic also reduced absorbs, which was warriors bread and butter beyond shield block. You make a mistake, you die. Warriors had it the worst and it wasn't even close... Source: I played all 6 tanks on a mythic level at the time. PS: Skittish was a free affix for anything except for druid tanks. Teeming on the other hand was a nightmare on its own...

Imagine Blizzard having the opportunity to get rid of bolstering, raging, and sanguine and they instead got rid of entangling and volcanic. I don’t understand how many times we have to say we don’t like bolstering, raging, sanguine. We play the game, not them.

Teeming skitish sucked but teeming necrotic was a week i would just level alts.

Bfa season 1 was pretty bad. A bad pull with dps that didn't focus the spawned adds down and your key was over

6:58 thats not true,in necrotic week,absolutly 0 tank want play key,0,nada,nothing a entiere group could wait many hours for nothing,because 90% of tank skip necrotic week,it was a dead week for absolutely everyone,not just the tanks.

That isn't how you spell fractals of the mists.

Grivous to me is the worst of the worst specially when healing

Incorporeal 💀💀

Spiteful is my least favorite. It makes me want to go play league of legends so I can vent my frustrations in All-chat

Man idc what anyone says. BOLSTERING is by FAR the WORST and the most unfit afixx of all time. They know about this, but they just don't remove it because they want ppl "take a week off".