Maybe you do that.
No joke. People have been playing augmentation for weeks and they act like it’s their main from BC.
Sorry to tell you, some of us have been waiting for a support spec since long before BC.
It is also alot of peoples main specs long before any patch notes… If people were dipping out after a nerf its understandable but the class being balanced so it doesnt become a mandatory best in slot for everything is extremely important and people understand that.
FoTM kids dont
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It’s not really what you care about, it’s what pugs think. It has to be viable in pugs as everyone doesn’t have friends and guilds.
That being said, I was treated like absolute trash for playing dev over aug evoker. I had people accept me into the group, see my spec, say nothing, and wait until the key started to berate me and call me the worst names just for not being aug, so I think aug is fine in pugs if I can be treated like scum for not playing it
The issue is most everything is viable other than a few outliers but that toxic crowd doesn’t care about viable. They just want the easiest time possible, but they also aren’t the smartest. They don’t realize having someone play the class they’re experienced at is better than having them play a class they’ve never played but is currently Meta. Honesty I think they’re just better off ignored.
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Completely agree with this, I don’t understand why normal gamers don’t get this and instead try to cosplay pro players and think that if we just “play what they play” we’ll perform like they do - which is silly. Me on Aug = Me being mostly clueless, as I only played it on PTR for a bit, ages ago, before they made changes to it.
Ugh.
Yeah I’m a fan of leaving the buffs big and balance dungeons as 1 tank/healer/support and 2 dps. Make more support classes in future patches/xpacks.
havnt had an issue in pugs. If there is Two Augs i just leave… its happened once.
Did +22s on day of patch, and spamming 20s to the point i dont really care about score any more lol.
Game needs a 3k reward like a mythic mastery token or something
How many times has these little things crept in only for it to erode over time and become a larger problem in the long run. I think most people want to nip it in the bud.
I mean look at shaman. They use to be supportive and they lost all of that over time and became just another ranged magic and melee DPS. The totems still only exist due to the lore keeping them clamped to the class otherwise the devs would have tossed them out and homogenized the class feature to play like other classes instead of something on its own.
So yea i say they should rise an issue about this to keep the devs from slowly making a long term mistake that will kill the spec and ruin any chance of other true support in the future.
It’s more of there are support players out there that don’t get to use the playstyle they like.
Me i like support too. But there is more to support then healing.
Back in planetside 1 i would run a medic/engineer. Didn’t bother with using firearms but i still contributed to fights just as much as the grunts. In time i switched to engineer/hacker because i could shut down enemy vehicles from trying to roll up and blast the infantry. Or i could open any door and unlock terminals for someone to rearm at in an enemy base. I could use the emp nade and put a whole bunch of enemy implants on cooldown thus robbing them of their free cheat deaths.
Support is more then healing. It’s boosting other players to greatness, being that foundation they can build on and people don’t want this idea to be taken away as this is a clear sign of that. It’s better to nip it in the bud then let it grow out of control and ruin the spec.
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Surethje just need the buff Aug give and no personal damage buff. That should make you happy. You did say you don’t want damage buff
I think Aug is a terrible idea.
Blizzard already had the support class and that is hybrid classes.
They are Enh / Ele Sham, Boomy / Feral, Ret, WW, Spriest.
They have supportive dmg amp abilities whether it be by attacking, a totem, a dispel, a heal, a team mobility, a team heal, or a buff.
Augvoker, though I play is just awkward. It doesn’t fit the niche. It almost feels like they need to add an additional role to the dungeons changing it from 5 people to 6.
I dunno it is a mess fundamentally in the design. I dunno what they are going to do. But I feel like they regret Aug. They nerfed it into the ground for PvP. They are literally destroying the buff aspect, the heals aspect.