They could give every class in the game a tank spec and there would still be a shortage, because the role is bad and the Holy Trinity should have been done away with a decade ago.
Evoker tanks aren’t about magically fixing the lack of tanks.
It’s about ditching the unsalvageable support role.
It’s about reusing a spec/racial kit that’s already surprisingly close to what a tank would want.
It’s about an interesting new style for players already willing to tank.
Just like the tank role itself isn’t bad, the shortage is due to swarms of dps one-tricks who are allergic to any form of responsibility.
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I think it should be brought back up to being a meta support spec.
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I would tank on Aug, but it seems wrong to give them the earth-based tank spec when Shamans have been asking for this for years.
yeah but shamans never get nice things
Hmm, not sure if you played DF when Aug came in
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People thinking they need a spec for their group and actually needing a spec two different things
Aug was fairly bad at low-mid levels of play with wonko comps
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why? the addition of dk, monk, and dh did nothing to increase the amount of people actually playing tank.
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fun of course.
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So I’ll admit, I’ve been pretty out of the loop in regard to Aug spec; it always seemed like a cool idea, and I enjoyed the brief time I spent with it in Dragonflight, but I just never got past the lack of transmog or armor-sets.
I have to agree, if it’s not going to live up to the “Support” role it was billed as, I would be inclined to change it to a “Tank” spec, using the Black Dragonflight elements makes more sense for a Tank anyways, imo.
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Are the existing 6 tank specs in the game all completed and well-designed?
No?
Then no more tanks. Not until they finish the ones they already have.
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So putting aside how Evoker’s core set up lacks tanking support (and would thus have to be overhauled) you’d have to rebuild the whole spec as well for a completely different role in order to do… what exactly?
No. The better choice for rebuilding the spec IMHO if support isn’t going to be iteracted on is to go ahead and make it a melee DPS with int as it’s primary stat.
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I fixed that up for you. Nothing wrong with AUg, maybe the problem exists between the keyboard and chair.
Aug should just be made into a normal DPS spec, imo. They just seem to have trouble balancing a support spec.
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Make aug a time-caster.
Nah, it’s far more likely it’ll continue to travel towards being a normal DPS.
It’s ok to have a spec that is niche and unpopular. There are more than enough specs in the game to deal with this. Also aug isn’t worthless, it’s beating dev in raid right now. It’s not season 2 anymore.
Aug is fun to solo quest. Beyond that probably not so much.
This will give me my Shaman tank fix with all the cool earth moves they’d be throwing out while in the middle of huge packs
Augs in an ok spot right now.
If they could change Close as Clutchmates to also buff Ebon might when a player with Ebon might dies, that will fix the issue in M+ where when a dps dies, a chunk of the augs dps goes with them.