I know blizzard is not going to fix Augmentation’s hooks in the DPS meters. (Don’t know why when they know we want it and use meters… I’m going with they are partly lazy and partly trying to find a way to ring more money out of us.) But I’m still running into players that are not smart enough to understand or to lazy to look up and read how Aug works and claim our DPS is trash.
I don’t use a lot of addons as I learned to play the game back in 04 when we had to actually learn how to play the game since addons weren’t a thing… SO that leaves me behind a curve here as I am looking for a way to post the real logs / real DPS I’m doing so people shut up.
Any help would be great. If you can point to a place that has a walkthrough or this has been covered I would be thankful.
It sacrifices a lot of damage and trades it for a lot of survivability and utility, especially at key moments. You also bring spatial paradox, which is insanely powerful if used on the right healer at the right time.
By and large, the Aug hooks were mostly fixed last season. There’s not a significant amount of DPS that’s still being lost in most scenarios. You can see an updated list of fixed/persisting issues with reattribution here:
Don’t get me wrong, people are still pretty terrible at understanding how to analyze aug logs data, but your DPS in WCL should be relatively accurate at this point. And obviously details is next to useless unless you are just trying to look at buff uptimes.
I’ve been playing since then and add-ons have always played a pretty large role in high end content. I’ve never really understood this veteran “back in my day” rhetoric that insinuates add-ons just recently became some crutch that we didn’t use in the old days.
The encounters were just elementary compared to what they are now and didn’t require extensive WA’s.
At any rate, of all the specs in the game, performing well on Aug is arguably the most reliant on add-ons. Perfectly respectable not to have interest in using them, but it’s most certainly going to impact your performance on the spec if you refuse to.
TL;DR; without a log, I can’t really know much more, but logs are capturing almost all of what they should be. Aug damage is just low as hell, and I can’t personally speak to your performance without seeing logs.