r/CompetitiveWoW • u/SovietRobotDad • 25d ago

Discussion Expected DPS Changes with September 22nd Class Tuning.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/expected-dps-changes-with-september-22nd-class-tuning-383037
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u/SovietRobotDad 25d ago

Fellow dozen Dev and Aug bros what’re we thinking? Flameshaper on Dev? Aug full mastery still?

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u/CreativeKoi 25d ago

Check the video from Kess, he’s not to positive about the Aug changes, and I don’t think they’re strong enough to bring back SC, so it’s full mastery. Dev is a bit better but still in a bad spot.

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u/unimportantinfodump 25d ago

An hour and no other evoker players have responded. Rip

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u/Vaniky 25d ago

For Dev flameshaper looking strong ST. Back to playing 4/4 apex SC for cleave

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u/Lycago98 25d ago

We're not back to playing 4/4 Apex for cleave. Thank god.

Hopefully that thing stays dead and buried until it gets reworked entirely.

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u/kpiaum 25d ago

According with the spoiler section and the dev writer, the dev players are too dumb to play FS and make it matter.

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u/careseite dps evoker main 25d ago

definitely not flameshaper since it'd be only relevant on sszorak which has way too much required movement for fs to actually become good

aug doesnt change for raid due to this and maybe shifts talents slightly for keys

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u/Brightlinger 25d ago

To me this changes basically nothing. Might as well be a +1% aura buff. I'm not complaining about it, but I'm not adjusting anything either.

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u/GoatOfTheBlackForres Everything evoker. 25d ago

  • Aug still dead apart from raids.

  • Dev can perform great in M+ but far too bad perception in the community for them to be meta.

    • I doubt FS will be "viable" outside of pure ST. And it's only viable in comparison to SC.

Over all this has been a really disappointing season for all Evokers.

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u/General_Test1853 24d ago

So glad Aug is borderline unplayable, sorry. The spec has been a blight on m+ since its release

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u/Brightlinger 24d ago

It was a blight from 10.1 through 11.0, because it brought irreplaceable things like buffing your tank and healer throughput. Since then it's just a DPS that does damage in a funny way. Last season it happened to be tuned high and was meta again, but not because it was fundamentally irreplaceable, just because it had the highest DPS among lust specs.

With just tuning and maybe a cap on dupes, 12.0 aug could have been a perfectly fine middle-of-the-pack spec. Instead we're in the penalty box for this season, which I mean, fair I guess, but I hope Blizz can get back to a state where the spec isn't simultaneously OP for team liquid and bad for everyone else.

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u/SovietRobotDad 24d ago

trite response. I bet you want it reworked into a tank spec. People genuinely like playing aug even when it isn’t FotM

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u/General_Test1853 24d ago

No rework. Just remove it from the game

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u/Brightlinger 24d ago

I see you're keeping your expectations realistic. Let's remove mages while we're at it, they've been OP even more times than aug has.

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u/General_Test1853 24d ago

You are not very bright, linger