Misguided WoW Players Keep Kicking Its New Augmentation Spec, Completely Missing The Point

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Even though the entire point of Augmentation Evoker is to buff the rest of the group, some players haven't gotten the memo.

By Cameron Koch on

Players of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's new Augmentation specialization for Evokers are having a tough time trying to justify themselves in dungeon groups, as it seems some members of the community aren't exactly clear on what the spec is all about.

While technically a DPS specialization, Augmentation is unique in Blizzard's MMO in that it is a buff-focused spec that revolves around upping the damage output of whatever group they are in. Augmentation Evokers do damage on their own, too, but their main goal is to chain together abilities to provide maximum buff uptime for their group, bringing a new style of support gameplay to WoW for the first time.

Unfortunately for Augmentation players, one of the game's most popular add-ons, the DPS tracker Details!, doesn't currently accurately show how Augmentation is contributing to their group. That is leading some ignorant players to decry the new spec for dealing low damage, seemingly ignoring or unaware of the fact that the damage the rest of the group dishes out is massively buffed in order to compensate for Augmentation's lower DPS.

But Augmentation Evokers seem to be taking it all in stride. As seen on on the WoW subreddit, members of an Evoker-centric Discord server have been compiling all of the times they've been harassed or kicked from a group for playing Augmentation, and it's a sad (albeit funny) glimpse into the mind of blissfully unaware WoW players who only see that the number representing one player is far lower than the others, therefore that player must be underperforming.

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