If you want to solo difficult content this might now be the class for you. Evoker is great right now, but they’re not super soloers, like a Paladin or Hunter.
With the mana changes, i just dont see augmentation as a good soloing spec. Even if you plan on pulling a giant mob of enemies, Augmentation just lacks the raw damage potential to clear packs. The longer you’re in the fight healing via blossom or flame, the closer you come to ooming. It lacks the infinite resource sustain that tanks have. If preservation had an aoe spender like pyre or eruption, it would be better to just run that for solo play.
Not every class is going to be as strong as a tank class or a hunter in solo content, but evoker is still insanely capable of most solo content with the exception of maybe soloing some rares. talents like reduced cd on landslide, sleepwalk, and the full dev burst kit combined with knowing when to use defensives have made most content relatively easy in dev, even when ilvls were lower.
you’re playing an advanced class. You need to utilize the full kit to solo effectively as evoker. Definitely don’t try solo’ing as augmentation. either of the other two specs are fine.
LOL, ROFL, etc.
not my words. straight from blizzard. people unfamiliar with the game and game techniques such as kiting and fully utilizing their kit shouldnt play evoker because they won’t have a good time and won’t be able to play the class effectively lol.
Obviously I’m aware given that I had to type it into a window to make this toon, but that doesn’t mean it’s accurate and not a meme lol. There’s nothing more advanced about this class than most others.
except for the exact issues that OP is facing, currently, yeah.
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Has nothing to do with difficulty, plenty of other classes have to use their kits and kite to kill mobs, especially at lower ilvl. Someone having a problem on a forum does not make a class advanced, or more difficult than others.
You especially can’t consider anything about the leveling experience requires ‘advanced’ skills, as nothing is designed to be particularly challenging.
At the time of posting, that ilvl at that level was incredibly low. OP is now over 400 ilvl at 70 and should be experiencing much less trouble with soloing.
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Indeed I do, biggest problem that remain now is soloing rares or elite immune to CC
This isnt a solo game
What a vapid point. Even if it isn’t a solo game, it is a game with substantive solo components.
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I’m leveling my first one, but finding Augmentation super tanky. Multiple mobs or elites are no problem.
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Lol, comon, what class/spec do you envision feeling as strong in open world pve as a prot paladin other than another self-healing tank?
That’s what I found trying Aug on a new evoker. Maybe it’s different at 70), if I did a 3-4 pull like folks are saying, or accidentally got a 5th, I’d be OOM after just a few mobs and having to hover away. I don’t see anything in the Aug tree that helps mitigate that.
When I was leveling I didn’t experience any mana issues pulling 3-4 mobs at a time. I took all healing buffs so maybe I was getting more bang for my mana buck.
The only time I’ve ever experienced mana issues was the other day in a BG when I was chain healing the back line.
I fear evoker isnt a spec for solo difficult content. At least not the way u usually would. You dont have a pet and you are not tanky, and no big life regen or self healing. The only way to solo difficult is by kiting. Aug is def desogned for group. Dev is high damage so maybe can be compared to a fire mage or arcane, but small range so forced to kite more…
I wished Aug was tank/support more than dps/support 
It’s really your pick. Augmentation has the Blistering Scales for more damage and shields as well as Emerald Blossom resetting when you kill a mob, compared to Devastation your mastery lets you nuke mob HP pretty quickly instead of ‘grinding’ the fight out in a sense.
If anything, use your Renewing Blaze when your HP is around 70-80% and you should realistically live through its self heal. You can also use Landslide to root enemies and back away to heal yourself if you really need to.
Hovering and Azure Striking is also a good habit to get into to practice your kiting if you think you need it.
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Which they’d also be facing on a multitude of other classes, yeah.
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Im not going to beat around the bush. I hope you actually got your evoker to 70 and some decent gear to test out your overworld solo adventures.
Preservation is not suppose to be doing overworld content as dps… it can with medium to high gear but low gear you are just going to end up healing yourself more and more.
Everything Preservation can do, Devastation can do better as its the same abilities just with healing mixed in.
Devastation is suppose to be the dps spec, and it has extremely high sustainability regardless of what people here are saying. It has been proven time and time again that you should be using your green spells to heal yourself in and after combat.
Panacea instantly heals you for about 25k at a fresh 70 and by the time you hit 440ish its 35k. Then the emerald blossom its self will also heal you for about 30-50k depending.
Verdant Embrace heals you for 65k at 440, i think its 48k at fresh 70.
Obsidian scales its 30% damage reduction, 2 charges for what, 12 seconds?
Hover lets you cast basic spells while moving, this includes the strongest spell devastation has, Disintegrate. Casting hover then channeling dps into them while moving in circles or away is extremely effective.
Augmentation is rough for leveling, it actually struggles at low level gear but once you start stacking mastery , regardless of the level you start doing immense damage and not taking so much. Blistering scales can be cast on yourself for another 2-3k armor based on your armor, you can also get the defensive to give you a shield while its up.
Remember that Aug is a support spec and you shine when supporting other players. With saying that i actually solo fairly easy with it at a high ilvl. It is probably because im giving myself 24-26% vers every time i use an empower, which in turn lowers incoming damage and raises outgoing damage and healing.
Keep at it
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