It makes zero sense to why Preservation is not a Scalecommander candidate.
Flameshaper should have been Pres / Aug
Scalecommander should have been Pres / Dev
Chronowarden should be Dev / Aug
You mean besides it having almost zero weight put on using breath?
The entire gameplay loop of the hero talents have almost no application to pres.
CW also makes no sense for dev, at all. The only bronze spells they use are shared in the class tree/base kit.
Flameshaper makes no sense for aug, either. The only dot they have access to is Firebreath with no way to add additional dots through talents.
Scalecommander makes little sense for Augmentation. Bombardments being tied to eruption is stupid.
Bombardments applying to friendly targets and providing burst aoe healing would be far more creative.
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Aug uses more black spells than any other spec.
Aug hinges on breaths and making them more frequent is an obvious strength.
Aug is also literally based off the Scalecommander fantasy, lol.
While cool in theory, this would be very impractical, especially in a raid setting where it would likely provide mostly overhealing that you had little agency over.
Could be fun in dungeons, though I suspect it would make pres skew even more towards wanting full melee groups as spread groups would get very little value out of this.
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Devastation is Red and Blue magic (Pyre is Devastation only, Disintegrate is their primary spender, with both of their only empowered spells being Red (Fire Breath) and Blue (Eternity Surge). In that regard, Flameshaper appeals to the red magic theme, Scalecommander goes with the Blue (Mass Disintegrate) and the Breath.
Augmentation is primarily Black and Bronze themed with limited amounts of red shared with all evokers with their spender being Black, their spec-specific empowered spell being Black, and all of their other abilities aside from Fire Breath and Living Flame are Bronze, including Breath of Eons. That’s why Chronowarden (focus on the Bronze) and Scalecommander (focus on the Black and Breath) are theirs.
Preservation is Green and Bronze themed, which as before pulls Chronowarden in for theirs as a no-brainer and Flameshaper pulls back towards the healing side of Living Flame a la Alexstrasza as to explain how it fits for a healer.
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Honestly chronowarden dev would go hard.
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