Augurer

About

• Rodpedia: Augurer
• Genre: Sorcerer
• Races: Drow, Dwarf, Elf, Gith, Gnome, Half-Troll, Human, Sea-elf, Tiefling
  • Race Recommendation: Dwarf. They get more HP, which you want for max Spiral Blast damage.
• HP Gained per Level: 13-18
  • Prestige: 14-20
• Average Hitpoints: Non-prestige average hp/level should be 15.571
  • Avg: Should be around 793 (30 + (49*15.571))
• Magic Object: Aug's must cast the 'crystallize' spell to create a magic crystal that is required to cast most of their spells.
  • Those get consumed fairly quickly while fighting so you'll always have a pile on you.

Stats

• Primary: Wisdom
• Secondary: Luck
• Deficient: Dexterity

Max Augurer Stats

CLASS	Str	Int	Wis	Dex	Con	Cha	Lck
Augurer	20	20	25	18	20	20	22
Harbinger	20	20	26	18	20	20	22

Suggested Base Stats: Honestly I have no clue, use the eq database to dress up an aug with shit you can get then adjust stats to fit. Aug gear tends to have a lot of str/wis on it, so you can allocate more stats to luck, and then con or dex.

Fighting

• Weapons: (95% Adept)
  • Flexible Arms - "Whipping, Flailing"
  • Augurers get "Dual Wield" weapon skill

Alpha Attack

Attack	Type	Damage Modifier	RIS Type	Resist	Suscept	Saving Throw	Restrictions	Lag
Spiral Blast	Spell	HP	None	None	None	None	None	1/2 bar

• Spiral Blast is tied to your current hp, the more hp, the more damage
• Spiral is the fastest attack in the game with really a 1/2 bar lag, you can launch many per round (and more as Prestige)

Tactics:

• Coil of Flame
  • Coil is an AoE attack that will hit all mobs in the room
  • Coil is a fire-based attack (RIS fire)
  • Coil is an ongoing spell that lasts for multiple rounds and triggers every round. Therefore, fighting as an Aug ideally means casting coil to get that going, then spiraling a shit ton, then re-casting coil, over and over
    • Regular Augs can cast coil then 13 spirals before they have to re-coil
    • Prestige Augs (Harbingers) can cast coil then 17 spirals before they have to re-coil

Note that coil has a (pink) expiry message that is shown TWICE before the spell expires, re-coil upon the second instance of the message:

The coil of flame evaporates as the spell runs its course.

Combat Passives

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
15	Second Attack	60%	fighting (berserk)
22	Enhanced Damage	75%	fighting (berserk)
22	Parry	95%	fighting (aggressive)
31	Third Attack	66%	fighting (berserk)
41	Fourth Attack	40%	fighting (berserk)

Combat Styles

Level	Skill Name	Adept
1	Evasive Style	90%
1	Standard Style	70%
1	Aggressive Style	60%
4	Defensive Style	85%
40	Berserk Style	40%

Combat Actives

Combat Spells

Level	Spell	Max %	Min Position
7	Shocking Grasp	90%	fighting (berserk)
10	Psychic Surge	95%	fighting (evasive)
28	Scorching Surge	95%	fighting
43	Coil of Flame	95%	fighting
44	Backlash	95%	fighting (berserk)
46	Spiral blast	95%	fighting (aggressive)

Combat Skills

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
2	Strike	90%	fighting (berserk)
4	Kick	90%	fighting (berserk)
9	Cuff	90%	fighting
17	Spurn	80%	fighting (berserk)
14	Rescue	50%	fighting (berserk)

Buffs & Debuffs

Buffs

Level	Spell	Effect	Max %	Min Position
20	Inner Warmth	90%	fighting (evasive)
40	Fireshield	95%	fighting (evasive)
49	Spirit Chain	95%	fighting
50	Herald Death	75%	fighting (berserk)

DeBuffs

Level	Spell	Effect	Max %	Min Position
7	Weaken	Str -3	80%	fighting (aggressive)
18	Sleep	ZzzZzzz	85%	standing
19	Caustic touch	Poison	90%	fighting (berserk)

Utilities

Utility Spells

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos	Translation
11	Float	95%	fighting
12	Invis	95%	standing
13	Forecasting	95%	fighting (defensive)	Detect Invis
13	Dispel Magic	75%	fighting
13	Remove Invis	85%	standing
14	Balm of Time	95%	standing	Cure Serious
14	Midas Touch	95%	fighting (evasive)
16	Divination	90%	fighting (evasive)	Identify
18	Detect Hidden	95%	fighting (berserk)
19	Foreshadow	95%	standing	Scry
24	Word of Recall	95%	resting
25	Second sight	85%	standing	Locate Object
29	Nostrum	95%	fighting (aggressive)	Heal
33	Third Eye	95%	standing
36	Prescient sight	85%	standing	Farsight
42	Helical flow	85%	fighting (defensive)	Astral Walk
47	Seek passage	95%	fighting	Pass Door

Utility Skills

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
2	Discern	95%	standing
3	Scan	85%	standing
12	Meditate	95%	resting
15	Sneak	75%	standing
16	Aid	90%	fighting (aggressive)
17	Hide	75%	standing
35	Dual-Wield	80%	fighting (aggressive)
37	Two-Handed	50%	fighting (aggressive)
38	Swap	65%	resting

Standard shit: cook, dig, mount, search, climb, etc....

Equipment & Align

Equipment Info: Augurer EQ

Augs should just pump hp hp and more hp to maximize spiral blast damage. Keeping stats up is a challenge, so max hp then swap whatever gear you must to fix stats (or spend glory to add stats to something). Augs can easily be either Devout or Evil, your pick!

Augs have some nice gear that is pretty aug-specific that you'll need to get some friends to run for (not necessary WITH augs, but for the gear). Working to get your guy all that good aug gear can be fun, or frustrating. If you can find some friends to help most of those runs are not hard really, and can be fun to go figure out and work on. Here's a brief list of the more aug-specific gear you'll be working towards:

Longinus - Ziggurat - Timelessness, Immortal Light (Archer run) Zharr'mak - Salburg - sandals of the messenger and sash of prophetic knowledge Anasia Pye - La Chute - the mantle of [good omens / ill portents], a twist in time, sleeve of legerdemain

Most Aug's will be devout I think, but really not for any reason. Evil Aug's are also cool and pretty easy to dress, you can basically wear like 85% the same gear and just swap a few pieces to change align. So, go whichever way you want based on which eq you think you can actually get.

Gameplay

• Quests: As part of the Sorcerer genre, they can do the Magus Armor equipment set quest.

• Runs: Aug's are pretty much more damage output, with the speed of coil they can pump out damage very quickly, without lag
• Mob doesn't change tanks, so someone can tank it with a dedicated char, and Augs can hit hit hit without fear of becoming the tank.
• Mob spawns little guys. Coil of Flame (room attack) will clean those guys up.
• Mob is resistant to fire damage and Coil of Flame lands.
• You want very fast damage output, without huge attack lag so you can heal if you need to.

The have (or at some point HAD) the highest DPS of any class - these days with Prestive that may or may not still be the case, I'm not sure.

Runs that people typically use Augs on: They can probably be used on almost anything as far as smaller mobs. Things I actually use my Aug for are Bridgette, Tipsy Lizard Tavern Nymphs, Gorog's Watchdog.

Summary

Ehhhh they're cool but I don't use my much. If you like the thematic elements, go for it. Spiral+Coil is super solid, they're just a bit flimsy if you have to eat any damage really. For me, I kinda put them in the same class a Fathomers - both are fine, both are valid choices for a lot of runs, but..... if you have a big dread or hunter those are probably better in most cases.

They do have some other nice perks. Helical Flow (astral walk) is of course convenient. Third Eye is a key skill that you can learn to use and abuse if you put your mind to it. They get all the useful functional utilities like scry (discern is a cool variant as well that lets you 'consider' a mob in an adjacent room too), detects, identify, invis, etc, etc, so they're pretty good at walking around exploring, winging it in the wild. Wow that might be the name of my next album. Sums up my entire life story actually.

Prestige

A Harbinger is really a nice step up from regular Augurer. The speed of spiral is even faster which is fucking insane and you can really output some real damage. They don't get anything else really, so, its just that faster spiral and it definitely makes them a beast as a hitter if you pump hp (and maybe spend all the glory you got to prestige on extra hp).