Is Augmentation So Weak in PvP?

Classes Evoker
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I currently leveled an Evoker to level 80 and am PvPing with it now with augmentation spec.

However, it seems underwhelming:

  1. The Ebon Might buff to 4 allies is only 5% of your stats. So, for a 70,000 intellect mage, he gets only around 3500 intellect, or maybe +5% damage.

  2. The 2 auras that you can choose gives either +10% movement, which is not bad, or +2% HP, which is very little compared to a priest’s fortitude +5% stamina buff.

  3. The volcanic spike aura buff that you can apply to one ally to grant armor does little damage even with 15 volcanic charges.

  4. Nearly everything needs to be hard-casted, like the Eruption spell to prolong Ebon might.

  5. The damage from me is minuscule, doing very minimal damage throughout the game. Sure, I buff my allies, but so minimally, that I’m better off being devastation or preservation, which does more damage or healing compared to (me + damage from buffed allies).

The 2 things which are good is that flying fire breath attack that leaves temporal wounds + the 2-charge buff that increases +6% crit on an ally and gives his spells a chance to eho at 15% damage.

Am I missing something? Is Augmentation supposed to be so underwhelming?

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25 yard hard-caster could not possibly make it an unfriendlier pvp class in the game.

Wouldn’t touch this at all in any pvp.

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It was great the first two weeks of PVP, especially in RBGs/Random BGs. I loved just buffing, and healing. While CCing / interrupting large groups.

Then people cried horribly, because fun was detected. So Auggie was butt in PVP ever since.

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I really, really wish they just had a bronze Disintegration instead. It makes so much sense to incrementally damage and get buff time. You could even keep the pvp talent to slow. Just this alone would make Aug feel so much smoother to play in PvP.

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Bronze Retcon Beam!

You were ALWAYS at 30% health.

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I am consistently amongst the top damage dealers every BG as Aug. Eruption is omega dam as Scalecommander. Big dam, lots of KBs, decent off-heals and self-heals, tanky af, with better mobility than Dev or Pres. Having a really good time.

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