Augmentation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Season 4

On this page, we cover all the talents you have access to, explaining how each one is to be used. Some of these talents, active or passive, can make a huge difference in how Augmentation Evokers is played, which is explained on our rotation page.

Some talents have a more versatile use in Mythic+ than in raids; if this is more your thing, we strongly recommend that you check the Mythic+ page.

Due to the nature of Dragonflight's talent trees, almost every talent is meant to be viable or have a desirable niche where you may want to select it. As such, we will cover some of the more favored talents that you will want to prioritize most of the time from the top of each tree on down, followed by mentioning some of the more considerable niche talents that are likely only rarely useful. If you would like to see a list of every single talent's effect as well as the abbreviations they are often known by in the community, please consult our Spell List and Glossary section instead.

Talent	Description/Effect
Obsidian Scales	One of your few defensive abilities as an Evoker. Needed for Aspects' Favor. Allocated by default.
Expunge	Gives you the ability to dispel poisons.
Natural Convergence	An easy-to-acquire cast speed increase for Eruption.
Verdant Embrace	A very strong instant-cast heal. You can use it on yourself or another player. If used on another player, you will fly to them, which can be handy for mobility, too.
Scarlet Adaptation	This talent acts as one of the main drivers for letting your offhealing count for damage. The damage of your next Living Flame gets increased based on the amount of healing you have done. By itself, this does not make your offhealing spells a DPS increase, but when combined with Ancient Flame it makes using Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom a DPS increase in place of a Living Flame.
Obsidian Bulwark	A second charge of Obsidian Scales. This is incredibly important to take as it synergizes with Aspects' Favor while also being an extra charge of your own defensive.
Quell	Your interrupt ability. This paths to Instinctive Arcana which is a must-have so even if you do not need the interrupt you still need this.
Ebon Might	The core spell of Augmentation Evoker. Most of Augmentations talents and spells interact in some way with Ebon Might.
Eruption	This is your only spender unless you talent Dream of Spring to make Emerald Blossom into a spender. Casting Eruption extends Ebon Might via Sands of Time.
Essence Burst	These allow Living Flame and Azure Strike to trigger an Essence Burst. Essence Burst makes your next Essence-costing ability free. It also makes Eruption cast faster with Ignition Rush.
Ricocheting Pyroclast	This makes Eruption deal 30% more damage per target struck, up to 150% (5 targets). This adds the target scaling to Eruption as well as boosting its ST.
Essence Attunement	This increases the maximum cap of Essence Burst to 2. This is a big quality of life improvement.
Pupil of Alexstrasza	This makes Living Flame cleave to an additional target. This cleave can still proc Essence Burst. With Leaping Flames, this will still always cleave one extra target. E.g., if you fought 4 enemies, and had 3 stacks of Leaping Flame, the original cast will hit 4 targets, and the Pupil of Alexstrasza living flame will hit any target that isn't the primary.
Echoing Strike	This makes Azure Strike have a chance to hit again based on targets hit. This can chain proc from itself. All procs can trigger Essence Burst. This talent is currently worse than Pupil of Alexstrasza because Pupil has full value immediately from two targets. This can be used on pure Single Target for a slight DPS gain by improving the power of your Azure Strike as a backup filler movement spell. Ideally, you do not need to cast Azure Strike but it often happens in reality.
Upheaval	Your second empowered spell is one of your hardest-hitting spells. This will deal the same damage at all empowerment levels. Empowering this ability increases the radius. Casting Upheaval extends Ebon Might via Sands of Time.
Breath of Eons	Breath of Eons is Augmentation's main cooldown. Only allies with Ebon Might contribute to Breath of Eons. You want to pair Breath of Eons with your allies main DPS cooldowns. While optimal timings may change depending on encounters, a good default timing for using it is every 2 minutes, as a lot of classes have 2-minute cooldowns.
Defy Fate	This is a cheat death effect that also heals allies when it triggers. Incredibly potent.

Talent	When to Consider
Clobbering Sweep / Heavy Wingbeats	Dungeon scenarios if you need additional crowd control.
Forger of Mountains	If using Seismic Slam for the stun.
Cauterizing Flame	If your group needs additional dispels. Can remove Bleeds. Recommended in Mythic+.
Imposing Presence	Lets you cast Quell more often. Useful if a fight needs more kicks or for Mythic+

Talent	Description/Effect
Ancient Flame	Increases cast speed of Living Flame after casting Emerald Blossom or Verdant Embrace. When combined with Scarlet Adaptation makes using Emerald Blossom or Verdant Embrace a DPS gain.
Instinctive Arcana	An easy-to-obtain damage boost for all abilities.
Tip the Scales	This makes your next Empowered spell an instant cast and at the maximum empowerment level. Tip the Scales is also not on the GCD.
Inherent Resistance	4% Magic damage reduction for 2 points. Very good talent.
Draconic Legacy	An extra 6% stamina. Always take this talent! It's a huge survivability boost.
Extended Flight	Increases the duration of Hover. Extremely good talent.
Blast Furnace	Increases the duration of your Fire Breath DoT. This is an efficient damage node.
Source of Magic	Provides decent passive mana to healers. More importantly, Potent Mana requires this to be taken.
Panacea	This turns Emerald Blossom into a strong instant-cast heal, which then does another heal to you and other players a few seconds later.
Volcanism	Reduces the essence cost of Eruption.
Chrono Ward	Gives a shield to allies that dealt damage during Breath of Eons based on the damage it deals for that player. This shield is capped to 30% of their maximum health. This provides a helpful amount of sustain to your grip after their cooldowns.
Blistering Scales	Blistering Scales gives armor to an ally based on 30% of your own. Additionally, attacks against that ally proc an explosion that deals a small amount of damage. This increases your main tank's survivability against physical damage and provides a small amount of damage. Try to maintain on the main tank. Outside of AOE this talent does not contribute much damage.
Draconic Attunements	This is an incredibly powerful effect that provides you and your 4 nearest allies either Black Attunement or Bronze Attunement. You will usually want to have this on Black Attunement for the maximum health to improve survivability. You can swap Attunements off GCD. This is further enhanced by Aspects' Favor.
Spatial Paradox	This is a 2-minute cooldown that increases the cast range of you and a healer by 100% and lets you both cast while moving. This is going to be incredibly useful for progression raid encounters where it can let healers free cast during heavy movement periods.
Tectonic Locus	This makes Upheaval deal 50% more damage to the primary target giving a nice single-target boost.
Molten Blood	This makes Blistering Scales provide an absorb shield to the target. This shield starts at 40% of the maximum at full hp, and linearly scales to 100% of maximum at 20% hp. This effectively adds passive tank sustain which is not very valuable currently.
Font of Magic	This makes you cast your empower spells faster, providing a small damage gain. Additionally, the extra maximum rank of Fire Breath gives you an additional Leaping Flames cleave. This is also a small damage gain. This is worth taking because damage nodes are rare, although it can be dropped for more utility if you desire.
Aspects' Favor	This talent is absurdly powerful. Being able to provide both a party Rallying Cry effect when you use Obsidian Scales or a speed boost when you use Hover is incredible. This talent is one main attractors for having an Augmentation Evoker in your team.

Talent	When to Consider
Sleep Walk	If you need additional CC in the group. For example, on Incorporeal weeks in Mythic+.
Bountiful Bloom	Increases the healing of Emerald Blossom by letting it hit 5 targets. Take this if you are playing Dream of Spring.
Walloping Blow	Makes it significantly easier to land a Seismic Slam stun after a Tail Swipe.
Exuberance	Increased movement speed when you are above 75%. Useful for some transmog farm content.
Seismic Slam	Makes landslide stun midair enemies for 2s per rank. This is a very strong AOE stun however Augmentation talents are very competitive point-wise. This could be useful in Mythic+ or PVP.
Stretch Time	Gives a 50% Time Dilation effect during Breath of Eons or Deep Breath. This is nice if you want extra safety for using Breath of Eons as it can often feel risky in hectic fights.
Bestow Weyrnstone	Grants you and another ally a Weyrnstone that lets you teleport to each other. Niche pick that may make some fights easier.

Talent	Description/Effect
Potent Mana	This talent means your Source of Magic target deals 3% additional healing.
Rescue	Allows you to pick up a friendly player and fly them to a location you select. Quite useful for getting group members out of danger quickly or providing assistance to a player behind the group.
Renewing Blaze	This is a fairly essential talent due to Evokers not having many defensive abilities. Renewing Blaze will heal you for the damage you receive over 8 seconds.
Twin Guardian	This adds an additional powerful defensive and external to Rescue. We always suggest having this talent as it is extremely strong. It is very useful for mitigating large AoE damage on both yourself and another squishy party member.
Zephyr	Zephyr provides damage reduction against area of effect abilities to you and 4 nearest allies. This is another nice defensive utility.
Prescience	Another Buff Augmentation can Provide. This increases an allies Critical strike chance by 3%. Additionally, Ebon Might prefers to go on targets with Prescience.
Time Skip	Time Skip is a channeled spell that increases the cooldown recovery rate of all your skills by 1000% for 2 seconds. 3 seconds with Tomorrow, Today.
Accretion	This talent makes Eruption reduce the cooldown of Upheaval by 1 second per cast.
Anachronism	This talent makes Prescience have a chance to generate Essence Burst
Fate Mirror	This talent makes Prescience have a damage proc effect that acts as another damage amplifier on the target with Prescience.

Talent	When to Consider
Unravel	If you are going to fight enemies with absorb shields. Unravel is your hardest-hitting spell, but it comes with the condition that it only deals damage to absorb shields.
Protracted Talons	3+ Target scenarios.
Overawe	This is mainly used during Raging weeks in Mythic+
Terror of the Skies	When you need additional stuns such as in Mythic+

Certain talents require changing how you play and your rotation in varying amounts. We will go over the strengths of those talents here, but if you want to know how to use those talents in the rotation, follow the link to the Rotation page, where we go through the rotation or priority system we follow.

Opting into War Mode makes you eligible for open-world PvP but also grants you the following benefits:

• World Quests at maximum level have 10% increased rewards (30% if you are Alliance).
• You gain 10% increased Experience while leveling (30% if you are Alliance).
• Allows you to earn Conquest Points towards weekly gear rewards.
• Grants you to use PvP talents in the open-world.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended that you enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will make yourself eligible for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.

There are no PvP talents for Evokers that increase your total damage output. Therefore, the PvP talents you choose are entirely down to personal preference.