Augmentation Offense Underperforming in Arena

Boomy has less healing both self and ally than aug :confused:

Ret has negative bealing everywhere pvp idk where you got that a 500k wog ( 7M pools ) at low hp is ok

Welcome to being a ret pally, the lowest off-healing spec in the game :sweat_smile:

Some people are still terrified of Aug being viable and that’s a good reason why they shouldn’t be.

When these people lose, they say “OMG that class does too much damage,” but if it’s Aug, they have a harder time describing how it’s not their fault. It gets uncomfortably close to feeling like they got outplayed. Confronting this fear is unhealthy for the PvP scene so let’s not complicate things and hurt people’s feelings with Aug pls.

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That’s very contradictory

Friendly reminder that aug shouldn’t be playable

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Play a furry class, do furry dmg.

Feral doin’ big dam.

Ferals suffer from a different kind of dark proclivity.

10/10 Agree. Aug is one of the few specs (Maybe only) that the community’s consensus is that people who don’t play it are most qualified to decide its fate. And on top of that, their belief is “I don’t wanna learn what the new spec does, so I’d rather it just stay bad”.

Cant tell you how many streamers ive heard say that exact line. Terrible, terrible class balancing philosophy.

Glad we agree. Aug should stay in the gutter.

Not very contradictory, doesnt take every nerf for this spec to underperform. Everyone knows it was very bad in Arena in the 2nd half of Dragonflight and in The War Within its been even worse in Arena. Not enough constant pressure for the Mythic+ constant AOE damage.

Again not advocating for burst buffs, upheaval is in an excellent spot imo. I just think Living Flame and Eruption’s low end damage both need brought up for a net gain. Maybe nerf hero talent modifiers to prevent Eruption being too powerful for Scalecommander.

MY BIGGEST PVP RECOMMENDATION because we do decent into some melee and are really weak into casters, is to add a new PvP Talent, I came up with Bolstering Scales.

Bolstering Scales: The damage effect from your Blistering Scales may now trigger from ranged and magical attackers.

I especially like this idea because it helps our sustained vs spellcasters and hunters where we struggle most, and it makes us give up a current PvP talent, all of which are extremely competitive. It would likely mean trading a healing and magical dispell CD in Dream Projection, or Scouring Flame (The Fire Breath purge).

I think highly competitive PvP talent options like this make for interesting decision making, and help drive us away from “Cookie Cutter” builds. Even if they are just swapped for certain matches, it makes match ups more interesting.

Moonkin would like a word with you.

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Aug is up there now too. Rescue shield is our best “Heal” but playing without inner radiance or dream of spring and the healing is very little. Actually less than Devastation when you consider that Devastation gets tons of instant living flame procs from the fire breath dot.

I think emerald blossom could really benefit from an off heal buff as the 35% increase on dream of spring still has it healing sooooo much lower than chrono flame.

There was a late build on the beta that address evoker healing underperforming, which buffed both Living Flame and Verdant Embrace’s healing by 30 - 35%. Emerald blossom was excluded from this change, which I believe is why it is grossly underperforming for the mana spent with dream of spring, versus living flame / chrono flame.