Augmentation breaks every possible meta. you have a hard enough time balancing just dps specs. just delete it and admit it was a mistake. Its awful and will continue to cause problems for the game. Thanks, that is all.
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Creating a new meta doesn’t “break every possible meta”, lmao. It’s simply just a new meta.
Metas have and will always exist.
What you’re really mad about is that one of those spots will frequently remain Aug.
They’re not going to delete it, lol.
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Pretty sure that ship has sailed, Aug is here to stay so now I believe it’s a question of will other specs be turned into pure support specs or be added later
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Personally, I think Aug is a failure. A dps spec that can’t output dps except when in a group. Yuck!
A sign it’s a failure is nobody seems to be playing the spec. I don’t even recall the last time I actually saw an Augvoker around town. Maybe 3 months ago? Seems like 90% of evokers are Dev, with the remaining 10% Pres.
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Please delete DK
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Almost like it’s a… Support?
That’s a bit surprising, as they’re almost completely even for representation in m+ this season.
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You don’t like buffs? You don’t like DPS hitting harder? the tank being more protected?
Then don’t play one… but their very existence is just a plus especially if you are on the reciving end of that buff.
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This is a valid frustration though. The game has what, 39 specs? To have one more or less be “guaranteed” meta by design is…bad design.
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Had to clean that up a bit.
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Completely agreed. That doesn’t make the OP’s argument accurate.
Deleting the spec isn’t the answer, lol
This is either trolling, stupidity, or both.
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For sure, that’s an overstep. But I support just reworking it into just a dps spec.
It’s more or less 70% there as it is. But as long as it can bolster healing and survivability, while also bringing competitive damage through itself and its buffs to the dps, it’ll never not be meta.
If an Augs “effective” dps, from itself combined with the increase it brings the other two dps, is comparable to any other dps’s damage, it will always be meta due to the tank/healer buffs it also brings.
It was just a mistake of a design, and I can’t see a world where it’s either not way too op, or way too weak.
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Yep–I’ve said since its release that it should at most get 20-25% of its DPS from buffs-- the rest should be personal.
EM and sands should also ONLY affect DPS players.
Anything that increases group survivability significantly should be heavily nerfed or removed.
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I’d play Aug more but my Dev spec does 2x more damage and I’m filling a dps role…
If there was a designated “support” role I wouldn’t mind doing less dps as long as I was doing my role in supporting
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I don’t care about meta, Aug is just hands down fun in an M+ environment with friends. Those who are upset about aug more often have a personal problem rather than the game being an issue. Stop taking the game so seriously.
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Augmentation should of been the melee spec, dragon magic melee thing would of been so sick
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Y’all kinda miss the point with Aug.
It has nothing to do with them buffing dmg. You actually do less dmg as a group overall bringing them but they’re mandatory because they just bring passive survivability to the tank/group.
Even if they didn’t buff dmg and just did all their DMG themselves they would be mandatory.
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You’re right, missed it completely.
As it stands, every TWW season, I can expect Aug to be top tier/required/wanted. It’s been flavor of the month for too long. The players saying otherwise are literally benefitting from FOTM that never ends. LOL
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I mean sure it absolutely needs changes to not be permanent high end meta, but they’ve only existed so long and mage has spent basically the entire expansion (and most of every one before that) in the meta, and there isn’t ever nearly the same level of uproar. Why is that?
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Agreed. It should be deleted.
LOL. You remind me of a kid who gets caught doing something bad and says, “But they’re also doing it.”
Mages are Blizzards poster child. The favorite kid. That class is Golden, just look how immaculate their Hero talents are. Look at their amazing reworks. Blizzard will not negatively effect that class. It’s a known fact.
On the other hand, you have the “new” kid on the block, Augvokers, kicking sand everywhere and spitting on classes they’re too good to synergize with. Additionally, the player base saw dragons and wanted a tank spec. The disappoint was palpable when they saw it was a support spec.
It’s also a point of envy/jealousy. You want 2 augs for raids and a good Aug for M+ isn’t a bad thing. Meanwhile, other classes are sitting on bench or uninvited and the aug goes through the VIP line. I also want to point that adding more support spec would only add more specs to that VIP line. It just doesn’t work in a game like WOW.
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