"Patch 5.4: New Archimondes Vengeance, Soul Swap and Affliction changes"
Listen at 1:16, 1:34 (this is most likely the best affli PvE lock at the time saying this, meaning he was probably one of the first to make this popular and making blizzard aware of it)
Blizzard does a lot of stealthfixes. Especially for complex mechanics such as Soul Swap and Nightfall. Just listen to the video and what he is saying! First of all it is clearly a bug how soul swap worked. Secondly afflis still did over 1million dps in SoO HC without abusing this bug that only existed for some months when you look at other videos than just that shitty council.
I asked a friend of mine to investigate with an Blizzard mechanics employee on this too. >>Pre 5.4 this wasn't a thing EVER
Snapshotting does NOT equal having PROCS as your BASE-STAT for the eternity of fights. It is simply trying to use procs as effectivly as possible to SOULBURN soulswap when procs are lining up.
All I am 100% sure about is that how it was before the update is 100% not legit dmg. Afflis would do 45% dmg of all players in arena. I was looking for DPS meters of Snutz etc and could not find anything even close to what DPS they do on here.
Hmm, lets see if there is a savior to this problem or arenas will slowly die on pandawow cause of this aidsfest.
From the video that displayed the bug when it came live:
https://i.gyazo.com/08c01bfa2ccdb2374ff0f4c750270451.png
https://i.gyazo.com/582c1825b1f51c42097a43e8a962ccca.png
https://i.gyazo.com/89a1b12f4a9ec02321dfb836a69272ab.png