![]() People will swap their DPS specs from time to time based on the content they do. But ultimately if players feel like they should swap to devastation, that’s an option as well. Let’s make sure you can solo successfully with this spec. That was one thing we discussed very early on with augmentation. How does that impact tuning? Do you expect players to still use this spec when they’re doing solo stuff?ĭay: Absolutely. Paladins used to have a bit of that, but not for some time. That’s something we haven’t seen in the game for a long time. GamesBeat: You touched on this support role for this spec. ![]() We want to try to create unique play styles every time we explore things like a new spec. Any time we add a new spec, we want to make sure it’s not just something that’s already existing amongst our other specs. We had a bit of a niche there that we could look to fill. That’s a play style that we’ve heard a lot of players over the years mention that they enjoy in other games. It’s a damage role that focuses on helping your friends. We didn’t want to create this new role where you have to queue as a different thing. Augmentation is quite unique in that it is a damage role. On other classes we always look to make sure that it makes fictional sense as well as from a gameplay perspective. We felt like there was a lot of space left to explore on the Evoker, which is why this made sense. Also there’s a lot of black magic influence, which we hadn’t seen in a lot of the Evoker specs as well. From the perspective of the dracthyr, there were two dragonflights that we felt we hadn’t touched on with the Evoker, both using the bronze magic that we’re seeing a lot of the augmentation doing, things like Breath of Eons, which is their really cool deep breath replacement that has a lot of bronze magic influence. And also, in this case we felt like it made a lot of sense. But adding a new spec is something we don’t take lightly. We’re never going to close the door on ideas like that. GamesBeat: Will we see more new specs in the future? We still have one class that only has two specs out there.ĭay: Are you talking about Demo Hunter, I assume? We knew initially, Demon Hunters would be like, wait a minute, where’s our third spec? Nothing to announce now. We felt that in terms of timing it felt really fun to add it in the Fractures in Time update. It also gives us time to button up a lot of the feedback we get from the community that we’re expecting, as well as some of the tuning before season three rolls out. It’s not like this is going to do much–to really throw things out of whack with tuning for the Aberrus raid we had in Embers of Neltharion. We had initially thought to add it in 10.1, or in the Embers of Neltharion update, but we felt like adding it in the Fractures in Time felt both thematic from a story perspective, but also from a tuning perspective. In terms of, was this always the plan, yeah, we always wanted to add this third spec, and we knew we wanted to do it in support of this awakening theme. Not just at launch, but with our updates as well. It very much speaks to that theme that we wanted to pursue all throughout Dragonflight. They learn about these new abilities that they didn’t know that they had. ![]() As superheroes grow, they learn more about themselves. The thing I’ve been saying, which is silly, but to me is funny, they’re kind of like superheroes. That’s a huge part of their story, learning about their origins. ![]() They quite literally awakened in the Forbidden Reach and have been learning more about themselves as the expansion progresses. The Evoker is an extension of that, and the dracthyr in particular. Dragonflight is about the Dragon Isles awakening, all this Titan machinery turning on, the aspects, the Dragonflights, all these things that are awakening. The idea behind adding this spec, and specifically a spec in the middle of an expansion, which we’ve never done before, it really came from this idea of “awakening.” Not only as a theme of the expansion of Dragonflight as a whole. Morgan Day: The Augmentation Evoker is something that we’re excited to bring to the players. Was this always on the road map for the class? That’s something new for the game in general, the idea of adding an entire new spec for a class like this. ![]() GamesBeat: I’m interested in this new spec for Evoker. ![]()
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