Blizzard has confirmed this absolutely stupid decision. It is not unexpected given the doubling down on PI and how unfun that is for everyone but the priest, but still disappointing.
Sure it can be seen by external sites such as WCL, but ingame your performance is purely at the whim of the augmentation evoker. Incoming nerfs to your class if you scale too well with the buffs even if you don’t get it (ala Demo and PI).
It’s like they are deliberately trying to make things less fun and just don’t care.
From what I have read and understood the augmentation dmg wont top charts and only warcraft logs will fully show you how much dps you add to your group maybe details will to I haven’t heard that though
Definitely going to be interesting next week to see what changes with the augmentation spec
They’ve explicitly said they have designed it to that it cannot be tracked in games (to make evokers feel more special by making other people’s bars get higher).
this person gets it . In a raid team there is no I , its all about the team performance .
The only problem is stupid , braindead raid leaders who only look at details/log numbers and not how the group performs as a whole or listen to selfish DPS whinging about not getting PI etc ( and there seems to be plenty of them out there unfortunately )
The people who actually care about performance metrics at high levels will be able to tell.
The problem will be how Warcraft logs differentiates parses between buffed/unbuffed players. Even doing the same as they do with PI will make the difference easily identifiable
Like, that just makes the DPS feel better whilst making the Evoker feel worse because they can’t see how much they’re contributing unless they already know how much the DPS did without them!
Nor can I get an objective measurement of who to prioritise for buffs because they’re being tainted by my own and other evoker buffs
Not to mention community perception will now be “Augmentation does bad damage” because there’s no way of seeing how much they help at a glance.
The only problem is getting your spec/class nerfed because you disproportionately do more DPS with the buffs. Like they did for a few classes with PI - they nerf the whole class just because PI makes it OP - screwing over everyone who doesn’t have a pocket external buffer.
Yes, and no. They’ve said they’re adding in combat hooks (which they confirmed again) - but this will only be for parsing the acl - so sites like WCL can show the difference, but details etc in game the info is specifically hidden. They also haven’t finished the hooks and they wont be ready for launch, they will patch them in later. (ie pets).
Having your dps performance balanced around getting it but never getting it due to a myriad of reasons, then getting nerfed as if you were getting it. ie warlock
But in this case…who cares about details. If the logs support that Augmentation increases DPS by 10%+ for 4 players plus the Evoker’s personal DPS…people will take them either way.
There is no way to directly link DPS increases to the stat buffs that Evokers give. Only if the buffs are there or not.
The only real ways to quantify the effect of stat buffs are sims or log comparisons…which warcraft logs does (see PI)
Well no you are 100% wrong, if you watch the interview there is and they have built it directly into the game via hooks. Their engineers have done a lot of math to ensure actual damage provided by the evoker buffs is logged - it’s just been hidden in game and only available in the advanced combat logs (so only external 3rd party sites can process it).
Here’s a flaw in your argument…third part sites rely on addons to collect the data that they use. They can’t both be invisible in-game to addons and collected by addons for use by third-party sites.
How do you prevent details from displaying data that it has access to?
Unless of course, you are suggesting that Blizzard is going to collect it themselves and send it over to warcraftlogs
Ah I see. In that case, I don’t think anyone cares. People care about their parse. The in-game damage meters are a tool for debugging fights as they happen, not a scoreboard. Frankly even WCL isn’t a scoreboard but I digress. I don’t see this as a problem.
I will watch that interview later though. I hadn’t seen that one and don’t have time for a half hour video right now. I have it bookmarked now.
