the self heals got nerfed into the gutter. i hate this spec overnight lol.
might as well go play boomkin its quite literally better in every single way
i dont get how they do balance.
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Yeah, I love devastation, but coming from a pvp perspective there’s no point. Augmentation can do everything devastation can do, but better. In every RSS melee lobby I’m the kill target 100% of the time, if you don’t one shot somebody in the first 30 seconds of the match, it’s just an uphill battle for the rest of the game where you can’t do anything because you get zugzug’d to oblivion. As augmentation I feel practically unkillable, while supporting my other dps when the healer get’s CC’d, and boosting everybody’s damage.
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I honestly still prefer Dev over Aug in pvp from the shear burst it has throughout a fight. Plus, I have a much easier time kiting melee with Dev because of disintegrate. Which Aug forces you to lose. However, that mana regain nerf is a tough loss for us. Evoker is already severely underrepresented in pvp and taking away our ability to sustain ourselves in a fight just pushes that further. We’re already known for being squishy and have to fight close range, so why take away our ability that let’s us actually stay in the fight instead of crumbling right away?
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ding ding ding exactly
i thought deva had awesome heals on purpose… seeing as how they have shortest caster range, no mortal strike, very limited CC…
but i guess not.
boomkin seems like its just better on paper in everrrry single way possible
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Yeah, I feel the nerf.
I think they went way too hard. It was supposed to be a 2% nerf. It feels like 20%. I hope they revert and or look into bringing auggies defensives to us because at this point Aug is the only viable RSS spec and for 2’s and 3’s Presvoker is alright and dev is literal trash.
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Why even play deva at all? Augmentation is infinitely easier and brings 10x more utility with the same if not more damage contribution.
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that just makes me feel super super sad to hear that mane.
deva was one of the funnest things iever played in wow in my life.
maybe one day it can get a bit of uptuning
Well it’s not stopping at deva either. Other dps specs just have 1 less spot to compete with in m+ right now because of aug. Raids aug is mandatory and likely to have 2 in the raid. So other specs like shamans and hunters who bring much less compared to every other class just have less room to be brought.
I don’t mind a spec that does damage through other people. It’s not my cup of tea, but I know other people like it and it brings in new people. It just does too much right now to even consider deva or other lesser dps specs.
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same man. this whole buff the other player doesnt really work for me… cuz im a random bg player and most of these ppl on my team do 1k dps.
=(
Classes with more than one DPS spec:
“First Time?”
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Agree on the self heals and choosing verdant embrace will make your dps suffer in a big way.
To, take away survivability to an already squishy class may have been an oversight in the class tree in regards to Devastation only. The 16% chance to instant cast living flame is way to rng and is not enough to compensate.
May need a rework (shrug).
Ide play dev if its range wasnt dumb.
They said it was a mid ranged dps then made it one of the squishiest characters in pvp.
Just kite people say. Oh sure let me kite out pally ran… oh wait.
Let me kite out od dk…no, no not that either.
War, oh god the mobility.
Rogue, maybe if outlaw.
Dev either needs heavy sustain like a pally or normal range.
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Im eyeballin a double aug comp maybe. I think with the right dps it has great potential.
cant make this crap up
boomkin has twice the range, twice the tankiness, twice the damage and twice the cc…
gooood god where oh where is the BALANCE
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Devastation is fine in PVE. It’s just PvP where it’s suffering.
In bgs dev still feels fine to me. Still have enough mana to cast enough flames to top myself i just cant do it forever now which honestly is the way it should be. Burst is still there. Aug is better if you cant kite and dps while being trained and keeping urself alive.
The problem is not the range is how squishi it is, it needs to be more resistant, either self-heal more or passively take less damage.
I went oom trying to keep myself alive in a solo shuffle. Never had that happen before the patch. Mission accomplished, Blizz?
The problem is one or the other. Its fine with how squish it is if it had normal range. Since it doesnt, its not fine.
They go together. Either increase range, or, increase sustained defenses.
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In truth, anyone thinking that Blizzard has designed with ANY mindshare given to pvp in the last like 15 years is going to be disappointed.
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