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13 Million DPS Unholy DK in Heroic Aberrus - Stacking Augmentation Evokers Explained
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16.07.2023 в 11:35
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22 Augmentation Evokers and 2 Unholy DKs walk into Heroic Abberus. The result is 13 Million DPS from an Unholy DK.
Find out how to play Augmentation Evoker by clicking here!
Augmentation Evoker Class Guide
2 Unholy DKs and 22 Augmentation Evokers
Our Frost and Unholy DK writer
Bicepspump
hosted a 22 Augmentation Evoker raid earlier today with those Augmentation Evokers buffing 2 Unholy DKs. Unholy DKs have one of the high bursts in the game when combined with all their cooldowns and Augmentation Evokers amplify this burst really really well, leading to a burst of around 7.5 Million DPS from one Unholy DK on Heroic Kazzara. Unlike the
Windwalker run
, there's no exploits or bugs here.
You can see a log of this run by
clicking here
, but remember that Pet Damage is not attributed back to the Augmentation Evoker so these bars
are not telling the full contribution
.
Stacking Augmentation Evokers
Stacking Augmentation Evokers gets to become a problem when you get this many because each Augmentation Evoker scales multiplicatively when you add more Evokers during the burst. We've talked with our class writer Jereico and we'll keep this simple when explaining why:
Each Evokers buffs 5 different factors on two targets:
Intellect:
Черная мощь
Versatility:
Изменчивые пески
Crit:
Предвидение
Flat Multiplier:
Зеркало судьбы
15% Burst Multiplier:
Дыхание эпох
Each buff stacks additively individually but when you combine them all, they scale multiplicatively for explosive results!
Each factor scales multiplicatively with each other when stacked on the same target.
Each Evoker is adding more Intellect to their targets (the DK) which is getting multiplied by more Versatility which is being multiplied by more Crit (and guaranteeing a Crit eventually), which is being all being fed back through more
Зеркало судьбы
procs from each Evoker. All of this is then multiplied through
Дыхание эпох
during the burst window.
Essentially, this is leading to a quintic function -- not quadratic, not cubic, but x to the power of 5. In other words, at low counts of Augmentation Evokers, everything is probably fine, but start stacking them and things get out of hand real quick.
Conclusion
We'll have to see what Blizzard does to address the stacking of Augmentation Evokers in the future due to the quintic scaling when you stack this class. Removing one of these factors doesn't really help as you still have a quartic function that will still scale to the power of 4 with the number of Augmentation Evokers that you bring. Nerfing each individual buff either wouldn't feel great either as it would only bring the scaling more in check and that wouldn't feel good or balanced for players who are just trying to play 1 or 2 Augmentation Evokers. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to just see a cap implemented for the number of Augmentation Evoker buffs that a player can receive (i.e. Each player can only be buffed by one Augvoker).
There's a problem here, and I'm curious to see what Blizzard does for the solution.
Community Reactions
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Reddit Thread
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