Like, I don’t ever really die, yeah? I’m parsing 90+ for aug even in bad groups, yeah? And yet I’ve had 6 keys today that bricked and the group disbanded, and one that we overtimed by like 45 seconds. Doing 12s and 13s.
Some of these people are doing less than 3M overall even with me buffing them, or people are just dying to stupid stuff and then my damage contribution goes way down and we spend 3 years on a boss, or the healer is just incapable even with my throwing down symbiotic bloom and using rescue shields and all that…
How do you pug keys as aug? It’s fine in raid, but in keys it’s just kinda miserable.
Push N
Look under your specializations
Find your devastation or preservation spec button and click it
Apply talents and setup your bars
Then do content.
You don’t aug keys. I would even so far as to say you don’t aug raids either (at least pug raids). Aug is a spec designed for the most organized and capable of groups who specifically need the aug DEFENSIVE buffs to survive content…the damage buffing aspect you can just get indirectly by having a competent actual DPS spec.
Any non tippy top content level an aug “works” in works better without the aug in all truth. They’re just a carry in disguise which is fine because everything but the tippy top content levels has significant room for carries.
Edit - It isn’t meant to be mean either. That’s just how Blizzard has designed it now. You want to actually help your group? Be a competent devastation evoker pulling your own weight on the meters.
I do significantly more damage as aug, and actually enjoy it and stay mentally present.
The only other DPS I parse well on is shadow priest (and only in raid). I’m not a DPS player, but modern healers are horrendously boring. Aug is kind of an inbetween.
You do you, but I can guarantee your dev playstyle is absolutely atrocious if you honestly are going to try and argue your aug DPS is better.
But hey your mind is made up so doesn’t seem like there is anything to discuss. I guess just run your own key since you can’t be declined for it and cherry pick whatever players you think are going to synergize well with your oh so needed “aug buffs”.
So you pug keys as aug by pressing N which will open your talent book then you want to press the tab called “specialization” and scroll over to “activate” under Devastation. Parse means nothing as aug because there are so few of them, it’s borderline a grief spec.
Augmentation is a support class. That means that per definition you CANNOT parse 90+ in bad groups, because those bad groups, that’s your performance. If you say that you have done +12s and +13s and you overtimed them by 45 seconds, great - you didn’t do nearly as much as you could’ve if you had played a non-support specialization.
The point of a support role is to empower others, so others performance become you performance. That’s why support roles doesn’t work when the game relies on the group trifecta system. You have a tank, a healer, and damage dealers; to play a hybrid of any of those means doing worse in both.
A support role further compounds that issue because not only do you need to effectively perform at 180% since you performance realistically gets halved as a hybrid, but then on top of that if that hybrid role comes in the form of a support that then in turn is only reflected on “how well did I help my teammates perform well.” If they perform badly, you did badly - no matter how you played.
Don’t pug as a support role when the game isn’t built for it. Augmentation is only good when you break the game with it. The same way that Power Infusion breaks the game and become an endless topic of “should this remain in-game because of how other non-priest classes abuse it.”
Which sucks both for priests and non-priests because priests lose their abilities because of how other classes perform with it, and other classes gets balanced based around priest’s PI. Now that priests get their own PI when using it on others, folks aren’t happy but… folks are going “eh, I don’t care enough about it.”
Augmentation is an entire specialization doing that. So… don’t play Augmentation, play something else. Unless you are playing with a group planning to abuse it, don’t play augmentation.
The worst part is I think they might be genuine. Because an alt sniff shows that they do have logs in heroic playing aug. I do not think anyone would willingly subject themselves to that just to troll on the forums.
I think aug/support, as a concept, is a great idea and should’ve been in the game from the start.
But it hasn’t and while objectively the content the literal 99.9% of people play at can get away with having an aug, in the strictest of senses, an aug IS just a carry toon whose class fantasy is supporting the team at the cost of their own personal glory.
But this community literally obsesses to the point it could be classified as a fetish for min maxing and if it isn’t first place it’s garbage tier last place so that class fantasy has no real place from the community perspective despite mechanical balance/tuning having more than enough slack/leeway.
Dev I average like 1.2-1.3ish mil overall, but I haven’t played dev since like 648ilvl, so who knows what I do now. I was gray parsing. Most other DPS I play, I also sit around 1.2-1.3 overall, some classes I get closer to 1.7ish.
Aug I average like 2M overall in keys, and in good groups that goes up to 4M+ overall.
My aug’s personal DPS is the same as what I do on some other DPS, at around 1.2-1.3, lol.
does not work on resil keys