Where Does Augmentation Evoker Stand in Season 3? - Substantial Nerfs, Log Bugs, and More

Posted 2023/12/14 at 12:45 PM by Jereico

All Eyes on Augmentation in Season 3top-performing spec in RaidSeason 3 Augmentation Evoker Nerfs

Guardians of the Dream Content Update Notes (Nov 7)

Developers’ note: Our goal with these changes is to reduce the power of stacking as many Augmentation buffs as possible on the same 4 targets in raid scenarios. We want to support having multiple Augmentation Evokers in a raid, but also prevent having 4 of them feel required to do maximum damage. By forcing these buffs to spread themselves out, it should still be viable to have multiple Augmentation Evokers without being overpowered.
If 2 Ebon Mights are already active on an ally, Ebon Might will now seek a nearby ally with fewer than 2 Ebon Mights.
Ebon Might’s priority to apply to other Augmentation Evokers has been reduced and will apply to other damage dealing roles first.
If 2 Presciences are already active on an ally, Prescience will no longer be able to be applied to that ally.
When casting Prescience with an enemy selected, its priority to apply to other Augmentation Evokers has been reduced and will apply to other damage dealing roles first.
Prescience now has 2 charges.
Prescience now clears on raid encounter and Mythic+ start.
Ebon Might now clears on raid encounter and Mythic+ start.
Shifting Sands now prefers to apply to an ally who does not already have Shifting Sands.

Updated Patch 10.2 Content Notes

Developers' note: Augmentation's contributions to the party, particularly in Mythic+, are too impactful and are making it difficult for other compositions to shine. As a result, we're doing some targeted nerfs to their group utility by reducing the value of Aspects' Favor, Molten Blood, and Ebon Might.
Ebon Might grants 8% of the Evoker's primary stat (was 10%).
Aspects' Favor increases maximum health by 2/4% (was 3/6%).
Molten Blood absorption reduced by 50%. This does not affect PvP combat.

WoW Hotfixes - November 14

Developers’ notes: The amount of utility that Augmentation Evoker brings on top of its high damage has proven to be too powerful despite recent changes. Therefore we are further reducing their damage contributions to the group in order to balance them against other specializations.
Ebon Might grants 6.5% of the Evoker’s primary stat (was 8%).
Close as Clutchmates increases the effectiveness of Ebon Might and Breath of Eons by 10% (was 20%).
The amount of Versatility granted by Shifting Sands has been reduced by 15%.

Augmentation Evoker was a top DPS spec in terms of both pure damage output, as well as survivability and group utility.

Augmentation Evoker’s buff throughput actually scales with both the Evoker’s gear, as well as their buff target’s gear, meaning that the spec was set to soar to even greater heights relative to other damage specs with groups receiving another 39 item levels of gear in Season 3.

Ebon MightClose as ClutchmatesShifting Sandsmy thoughts on the challenges players might face when stacking Augmentation Evokerspotentially degenerate strategies involving long pull timersAttribution Issues in Combat Logsas was the case with Hunter pets now scaling with Attack Powermaintaining a lengthy list of known combat log attribution issues on GitHubAugmentation & the Race to World Firstall ran two Augmentation Evokers in their raid compositionPre-combat Preparation for Augmentation?bestAugmentation in Season 3 Mythic+Close as ClutchmatesDefy FateEbon MightFinal ThoughtswithoutPrescienceBlistering Scalesthe latest tuning changes which include common buff targets such as Rogue, Hunter, and Demon Hunter

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Comment by KerathrasEasy solution: ignore logs, damage meters, and the whole third party nonsense. Instead just enjoy the game and as long as you clear the raid or dungeon who cares?Comment by KerathrasNumbers-wise, Aug seems like it's the most balanced it's been since release. It still has a lot of utility, but that's not a bad thing for a support. Hopefully Blizzard uses the knowledge they've learned from this and applies it to future support specs.Comment by AsherrTheRedi hav never h8 a spec so much, it has ruined everything i liked about this game, mostly parses and M+, i know bliz will never be able to tune this &*!@ show properly and ill probably just unsub after this season
#DeleteAugComment by Olympus3129They need to just ease off AugVokers until next xpac and actually build a support role and add more classes/specs to it instead of them being thrown into the dps role make content harder change it to 6 man content healer support 3 dps and a tank that way people can play how they want and not be screwedComment by aquagamesq8since most people aren’t happy with Aug evoker as a support they can change it to tank spc as a main evoker i am happy with the current situation but please stop killing the Aug with all that unnecessary negativity and unnecessary changesComment by TOMRUSIts overnerfed for sure, just like hunters are and needs massive buffs to be viable again.Comment by Loner705Turn aug into a tank spec -- problem solved.
You can not fit a "support spec" into WoW, this game was not designed with a support dps role, it is impossible to balance, it will always be an endless can of worms and a source of drama.Comment by pghcrewThey nerfed the damage and that was a mistake. Gut the utility and let them be a dps or like some said just make it a tank. There's Dracthyr using shields, just add that too.Comment by SeniaaYou can complete most keys faster without an Aug.

But Aug's utility can help compensate for mistakes made by less experienced players.

It's in a great spot, actually. It should never be required, no classes should, and this is as close to that as we can get. It's a good choice, not the only choice, not the best choice in all situations. Less damage means a slower key timer, but great utlity.

Good. I'm for this. Make 4 more specs that do the same thing.

Season 3 Aug has felt way better than 2.

When we have meta comps, people don't ask DH to be deleted. Why Aug?Comment by SeniaaTurn aug into a tank spec -- problem solved.
You can not fit a "support spec" into WoW, this game was not designed with a support dps role, it is impossible to balance, it will always be an endless can of worms and a source of drama.Comment by svingarmthey should drop it completely, and then redo all dps classes a bit so that everyone gets some form of support.

retri can buff everyone's life ,
hunters can give everyone more dps.
shamans can give a good buff for healing, etc.
DK's can give a huge armor buff for all and a chance when someone takes damage to summon an undead who does dps or heals for 10 sec .
mages dps can have a good chance to give a good shield to everyone

So give all dps claases some kind of good buff,
don't be afraid to try something new, make so all dps classes have something special they can bring.
and don't collect them all on one charComment by NarniisTurn aug into a tank spec -- problem solved.
You can not fit a "support spec" into WoW, this game was not designed with a support dps role, it is impossible to balance, it will always be an endless can of worms and a source of drama.Comment by wtfmangbuff aug tbhComment by lovelywazWhere Does Augmentation Evoker Stand in Season 3?MANDATORY!Comment by FathommgamingHow do augmentation buffs work? Does the evoker c lick on players like PI or is it group based like windfury? What's the best way to know if you will benefit from the aug evoker in the raid? - Sorry just came back to the game and haven't really raided with an augment.Comment by swiftdh0aug needs to be put in the binComment by Certifiedit's just sad how one spec can ruin an entire season. class balance was in a very good place in 10.1 and they ruined it with Aug Evoker. not only did they ruin the M+ class balance, they also ruined the other 2 evoker specs.

in a raid setting, the damage they provide is just ridiculous and in M+, the utility they bring is just too good to pass up in high keys.

nerf Aspects' Favor into the ground and see where that leads to.

Augmentation should've never happened.Comment by CertifiedTurn aug into a tank spec -- problem solved.
You can not fit a "support spec" into WoW, this game was not designed with a support dps role, it is impossible to balance, it will always be an endless can of worms and a source of drama.Comment by FathommgamingChange aug into a tank spec where you tank as a dragon or dragonoid-esque. Who wouldn't want to tank as a dragon?Comment by SchattensangAugmentation is in a dumb position. For the top players it's amazing, for everybody else it's a complete waste of space. If you aren't at least doing 25s right now, don't even think about Augmentation, because they will be a lot less useful to you than any decent real DPS spec.

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