Aug needs to be buffed by at least 30% to even compete with the DPS that is above them, and our buff damage is almost non existent now, AND THEY ARE FREAKING PLEASED WITH THIS?!?!! ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING ME?
If you look at the current average aug damage it is 1.9M DPS. Now our personal damage can be anywhere from 50%-60% of our damage (this is including trinkets and other crap too). If we ignore all that and just look at it in a blanket, we are looking at 120k - 171k DPS increase which puts us at 2.02M DPS - 2.071M.
The next lowest DPS is sitting at… 2.5M DPS. Is Blizzard actually freaking serious with this? Our buff damage is almost non existent now and they are “satisfied with it?” Love how much the developers don’t play their own game or even know how to look at the data.
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One step closer to making it just another DPS spec with support options.
My bet is that Aug won’t be good again until they completely rework their mastery and ebon might to be just a scaling damage-proc on allies that scales off of the Augvoker and only the Augvoker (like bombardments) so it does comparable damage in groups without being a matter of “So-and-so gets max benefit at this time” spreadsheeting or being completely gated by the power of their allies to boost their own performance.
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Honestly I hope they rework it that way, because it is obvious they don’t want aug increasing survivability anymore. Would be easier to track in details/logs if they do that as well. Too bad the developers are so disconnected from their game that we won’t get anything reasonable ever again.
Also it seems it is even worse, my blanket dps increase there is way more generous than the reality. We are looking at a +30k dps increase, or 0.15% dps increase overall from this. Absolute joke Blizzard 
I saw that part of the post and I literally rolled my eyes and went back to reading the changes to Dev. They are actively trying to kill the spec
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Thats very sad… I enjoyed playing it.
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The sad part is that the next lowest is us Arcane mages - who are all collectively laughing and shaking our heads at the measly 8% buff we are getting. We get stomped in the dirt but I can’t even imagine how demoralizing it must feel for poor Augs right now.
I’m hoping you guys get a revamp to talents sometime. The Aug spec tree has always felt half-baked to me. Hoping things improve for you more my fellow creche-brethren.
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I’d appreciate it if they brought back the developer watercoolers or provided more frequent class-tuning notes to explain their logic.
When sweeping changes are made with little communication, we’re just left to guess their intentions. The tuning changes to Augmentation seem deliberate. You won’t see them in competitive play and that’s likely the intent until they roll out a spec redesign.
We did get a few talent changes coming into this patch that were buffs, but then they hit us with a last minute 30% nerf to everything right before it went live. Like our Motes of Possibility got buffed from 15% chance to 25% chance to proc, but because of that they nerfed how much vers our mastery gives by half because we had about ~25% more uptime of our mastery. So in total our shifting sands damage got nerfed by 20%, blizzard tuning is amazing.