This was like half a page down on the evoker page sorry lol. I forget no one plays this class.
It still buffs DPS and helps with other things in groups too. That is good enough for me. I would prefer to not take my favourite spec in game and make it a tank or a melee spec. Keep Aug a DPS support spec, please. Also definitely keep it a caster.
Edit: Ung, I really have to start checking when the OP for these things are instead of just responding because it showed the last reply recently. Oops.
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I just started playing it. I love it.
I wonât touch Aug, but Dev and Pres yeah. This is the class Iâve always wanted.
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I think lore wise dracthyr having a tank spec would make sense. How do you have a dragon killing army without a front line right itâs kinda a strange idea in the first place that didnât fit the lore what they did.
But I like the idea of a support class. I supposedly itâs still really good on PTR just for DPS boost even without tank and healer support.
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Same! After the downfall of boomy being continually squishier and a spammy dot-based class the last expansion or so, Dev has been a breath of fresh air. Also, I never really liked healing much outside of when disc was super strong offensively. But Pres fits that nice and Iâve been really enjoying healing for the first time with Pres and their offensive power.
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Thing is it still has Tank and Healer support buffs. Blistering Scales for tanks would be a prime example.
How many more nerfs before it before we get a tank spec? Not much juice left in the skinny gecko. Just take it out back and put it out of its misery.
again with this? It is never going to happen drop it and move on holy s
The Dracthyr race was the frontline fighters, Evokers are the super special forces.
Every dracthyr is an expert soldier. Whatever they serve, they use their talents to defend dragonkind in obedience to the Earth-Warder. Yet even among such illustrious ranks, there are a select few who transcend the skills of their kin, who are able to master the specialties of all weyrns and shift between roles at will. These are the evokers; the best of the best, finest of the finest.
These elite forces possess the rare potential to focus their essences into an instrument of preservation or a weapon of devastation. The journey to such mastery is long, and few dracthyr can see this path through. But those who learn to harness their full potential shall be honored with the title of evoker."
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Augmentation has been a disaster for class balance and team compositions ever since it released. Itâs about time this spec got nerfed into the ground after almost 3 years of dominance in M+.
Aug getting reworked into a tank spec has my vote.
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no.
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No ty for Tank spec, I rolled Aug because I like buffing people. You know a support role but it seems we arenât going to be doing much of that either. All I know is if I wanted to play a tank spec I would rather play another class. As for the recent nerfs, according to our discord, we are dead now. Which just means that weâre dead for the vast majority of the regular player base. The top 1% or less than 1% will be unaffected by this. So I have no idea what Blizzard is trying to do with us, nor does our discord.
Yeah, at this point itâs time to just end the experiment and go tank. I wouldnât be surprised if we see this occur in Midnight. Thereâs simply no point in bringing an Augmentation to raid after what they just did to Shifting Sands.
Take the general concept of Deathwing from HotS, give the spec a unique, more robust Dracthyr model, and create a caster style tank.
Just be done with it.
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Why would one spec get a different dracthyr model?
Because itâs a tank, so it should look more formidable and powerful.
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So if I change from your imagined aug tank to preservation, my body shape changes?
I think it would work similarly to Bear Form, except in this case, it would be a tankier-looking Evoker. It could actually work since the ânewâ Augmentation spec would, you know, augment themselvesâthereby enhancing their physique.
Fingers crossed the current Aug spec dies soon.
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Augmentation spells currently only augment performance and I would imagine thatâs all it would ever do even as tank, not physique.
Yes, because youâre no longer Augmenting yourself with the more powerful dragon form.
They keep tweaking the spec so much I believe this could also be changed.
If they wanted to, they could use the Sarkareth models for itâthey could just recolor them. Sarkareth literally gets beefier as the fight goes on, so they could recolor them to match a bronze-and-earth magic theme instead of Void. Alternatively, they could just give us what someone suggested in the Reddit post instead. Either would be fine.
Reddit post:
Iâm hoping Blizzard is saving that body option for an Old God/Black Dragonflight-themed Evoker tank specialization. My headcanon is that since the Black Dragonflight has always been the most susceptible to Old God corruptionâand because Evokers were an experiment created by Neltharionâthey could eventually learn to wield Old God powers without succumbing to corruption.
Sarkarethâs wordsââNeltharion left something for us down thereââsupport this idea. While we havenât uncovered it yet, itâs possible that Evokers simply need more time to develop the ability to harness this power safely. Neltharion was obsessed with control, always seeking ways to weaponize power while mitigating its risks. If he truly left something behind for the Dracthyr, it could be a means to channel the Old Godsâ influence without falling to their whispersâsomething even he failed to achieve.
This could be the perfect narrative justification for a Black/Old God Dragonflight-based tank specâone that embraces shadowy, eldritch power while remaining uncorrupted, unlike Neltharion himself. Alternatively, it could involve Old God influence combined with the other dragonflights working together to keep corruption at bay.
A dragon tank spec makes too much sense for it to not be a thing.
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