Considering you reverted the unnecessary breath of eons nerf cause you said your primary cooldown should be good… I’m gonna assume you are not okay with Aug doing more damage by UNTALENTING breath of eons and using deep breath…
The bug spreads 3 bombardments with overlord talent, which was a bug even eons did last season but it got fixed.
The spec needs buffs targeted for dungeons… Preferably something that isn’t another flat aura buff… Like, close as clutchmates is there for a reason.
Explain to me how using deep breath instead of eons is a “bug” lol
This.
Breath of Eons is a talent. Players aren’t required to take it.
Using Deep Breath over Breath of Eons might be poor game design, but for players it should be perfectly acceptable and not an exploit.
The reason why it is being used is because you are getting 3 guaranteed bombardments on 3 targets due to an overlord bug(which got fixed last season for eons)…
Second: they reverted the dumb eons nerf because they noted your “MAJOR CD” should be good to press.
Every spec in the game has a major cooldown as a talent. Even devastation can run a build without it… but it would be unintentional and a design issue if you did more damage NOT running it and they obviously don’t want you to do that.
So are you advocating for Overlord to cast bombardments for Eons? Or advocating for Deep Breath to not trigger bombardments with Overlord?
I’m assuming you want it for Eons otherwise it’s just a nerf which Aug doesn’t really need currently…
Also for the PvP side of things you won’t convince Aug PvPers to take Eons because a 10 second delay on damage is never gonna fly (pun intended).
Hey look they FINALLY fixed the bug after however long this stupid season has gone on for? Thanks for putting it in the spotlight, it was hilarious when they thought the 2% buff/revert was enough to stop using an exploit that actually let us do damage and complete keys. Hopefully Blizzard will finally pull their heads out of their butts and actually give us some proper tuning so we can actually play the game again, was fun while it lasted at least. Doubt the 15% “buff” tomorrow will be enough to make up for the DPS loss we are getting for them finally fixing it. Once again the largest problem isn’t our personal damage, it is our buff damage that has suffered so much that this exploit was even viable.
Now we are back to augs only doing damage if the other two dps players are doing insane dps 
hopefully they have more in mind for us than just 15%, although maybe since they are also fixing the bug to our Mass Eruption spell id being the S3/4 Dragonflight maybe it will be okay. Still 100% need a buff to our dmg given but maybe I am being too hopeful with just a simple hotfix and they just really don’t want us playing the spec.
Well, there is one issue with buffing your buffs which you mentioned below… The better your buffs are, the more reliant you are on others to do well.
So, not only does an aura buff that only buffs your personal damage require 0 dev time/resources, it puts more responsibility on YOU to do well.
There is a world where they can just rework our external buffs so that it doesn’t really matter who it goes on… Like bombardments, your team can proc it and it scales off their crit, so they could do something like that for the rest…
Who knows where we are on the prio list for a rework though.
Yeah sadly that is the issue, and that is blizzards fault for making our ebon might/prescience/shifting sands as percent gains instead of something that scales off of our gear (bombardments was a great idea in the sense that is is a static thing that is easy to see in details/logs).
So yeah totally 100% on they need to rework our external buffs like you said, as for the prio list of reworks? Idk, with how long it took a well known bug to be squished because they don’t have anyone that plays the class working on the team. We are probably a few specs below shaman on that prio list, cause shaman needs their 3/4th rework this expansion alone.
Since we haven’t seen any major reworks/design changes in the last 2 patches, I’m gonna take a guess that we might see something on midnights for any major rework, and not just aug.
Until then, it is time for 90% personal damage aug it seems lol