Idea: Remove Aug

WoW itself did it many times already.

Gladiator Warrior (RIP, it was fun as F, despite the bad numbers)
Survival Hunter (this is the worst, ranged into melee)
Combat Rogue (Never played it, but I know outlaw is something else entirely)
Frost/UH DK Tanking (Frost Tanking was nice)

Some specs have also changed way too much from their original iterations, some for the better, some not so much.

I swear the people who want Aug removed are the same people that got Power Infusion nerfed & still want it to be completely removed, despite however the class may be performing at the time (Even if its terrible).

Heck even after removing it, I’d imagine the same lot of people would still probably not be happy with priests – especially if the class got some kind of compensation for the removal & I’d imagine the same ordeal would happen with Evokers.

Hmm :thinking: … How about —

:dracthyr_no1: :dracthyr_no2:

3 Likes

Yes I am and I am happy that PI was nerfed and still think self-cast only PI would be great for balancing and the game in general. I also want hpal blessings to be self-cast only or removed by the way. I’m not interested in having my class be tuned to do worse damage because I give someone else more damage. I never asked to buff someone else.

1 Like

Honestly I think self-cast PI or ā€˜randomly gifts another damage dealer in your party or raid with the same benefit’ – would be ideal.

Personally though? :eyes: …
— :joy: I’d rather trade PI for a battle-rez.
It’s heresy we priests don’t have brez yet. :triumph:

Aug will keep getting nerf as we get more data on their performance.
They admitted to make aug op because this is their expansion.
Also remove PI thanks, insanely unfun to play unholy dk and being balanced around it.

1 Like

I said took out not change

OP is saying REMOVE not CHANGE

Nah add more support specs imo! Hell add a new role type like Gladiator a hybrid dps/tank that can dps as well as dps but maybe needs a support to keep it up. Or a hybrid zero dps (master of cc)/healer perhaps :open_mouth:

Imo take a bulldozer to the old trinity and make it more interesting.

1 Like

Support specs are just dps specs, I don’t get people that think adding more of them changes anything xd

Apparently it does for these people shrugs

But anyway I’d love to see a couple new ones added!

I’m down for more support specs, actually. I would love if Holy Paly could officially become a support healer that also augments dps a little. The flip side of Augvoker.

1 Like

I don’t think they’ll ever turn an existing spec into a support spec, and if they are thinking of doing that, they need to not. They would have hell to pay if they turned an existing spec into a support spec, especially if it was a popular spec. Look at what happened with Survival hunter, that spec is the least played hunter spec now, and I think overall least played spec right now after the change from ranged to melee.

Noooo… don’t remove Aug… that’s our travel month…

1 Like

I don’t think they should remove Aug. I think they should double down on the idea and add atleast 3 more support specs in War Within. I’d also be ok with them toying with the idea of adding another party slot. I’m sure that would introduce a swath of bad stuff at first but, I’d be open to seeing where it goes. Having a 6 player party would be quite interesting to see what players decide to do with it. Do you bring an extra dps? support? Healer? Tank?

I think it’d be cool if they did that and then tuned dungeons in certain ways. Maybe one dungeon its best to have 2 healers. Another, an extra tank. And more often then not a standard of 1 tank, 3 dps, 1 healer, 1 support would be whats needed.

There are so many things that could obviously go wrong with this huge shake up in design but…it’d also be very fun.

How about changing healers to provide the buffs on a shorter duration. That way, healers aren’t dps’ing during downtime and instead are buffing the tanks / dps like a supporting class should.

You’re right, nerf demon hunters.

That would be much worse. Augs can only replace 33% of the other DPS in the game, you’d rather they replace 100% of the other healers instead?

By this point the defensive value is the only reason because you’re now better off taking a 3rd DPS lol. The survival Aug brings is the only reason now

Also OP
:dracthyr_no1: :dracthyr_no2:

1 Like

I meant that all healers should be supports

That is not really true because logs have been said to be bugged when it comes to aug. Liquid have run their own tests and still claim aug are your top dps in raids even when you see the logs putting them at the bottom.

We’re getting that with Lightsmith but you have to throw down your weapons and hope people pick them up.

Aug is strong, but there are multiple teams on the front page of raider.io without an Aug.

Season 2 this isn’t.