>>518073332I'll give you one (1) ounce of good faith and elaborate:
The issue with augvoker is that by design you force groups to go from "Tank, DPS, Healer" to "Tank, DPS, Healer, Support (Aug)", which creates a cascade where the encounters slowly start to shift to be designed around healers and tanks having the bonus mainstat/armor/mana that augvoker brings as the augvoker brings his own dps (split between himself and the DPS buffs it brings) along with eventually mandatory bonuses to the other two (Healer, tank). Note that because of how buffing others work, augvoker's own "DPS" is tied to the other 2+ dps in the group/raid.
There is no fixing augvoker without either
>Destroying the spec (either by gutting it or turning it into another role like tank)This is clean solution, make the spec just not playable outside of meme content (LFR, as augvoker can't solo either)
>Destroying 3+ other specs to turn them into augvoker lite (and not really fixing the problem, just spreading it evenly)This means a handful of classes lose a "spec" or worse, are forced to reroll or don't get invites (because once more, you aren't a DPS, you are a fourth and quasi mandatory role for high end content).
By concept, augvoker is fucking dumb, even without giving bonuses to tanks and healers it means that if half your DPS are bad, the augvoker by proxy, is also a -1 dps because he isn't giving people +2DPS, he is giving them +20% dps so if your dps deal say, 70DPS then the augvoker is catching a stray nerf making it a fucking mess in pug content and also in hard content as if you ever lose a DPS you lost 1.5 DPS but you also can't just, not bring an aug because the healer/tank checks become stupidly tight.
TL;DR: Augvoker is a fucking mess of a design snowflake,
>>518073669 is likely 100% right and in midwoke they'll get reworked into a straight DPS or left to rot and decay in the trashbin like 2 of the pure DPS specs always are.
