Augmentation Evoker Best Augmentation Evoker Buff Targets — Midnight Season 1

This page contains more in-depth information on how Augmentations Buffs work. Almost all of Augmentation Evokers buffs stack fully with other Augmentation Evokers. Assume it stacks unless it is specified otherwise.

• Prescience increases an ally's Critical Strike Chance by 3%. (4% with Nozdormu Adept.)
• There can be at most two Prescience's on a player from any source at any one time. You may still only have a single Prescience on each player. You will be unable to cast Prescience on a player who already has two.
• The Fate Mirror talent enhances Prescience and grants allies with Prescience 10% chance to deal 15% of the damage of the triggering ability.
• Prescience and Fate Mirror works on non class damage like trinkets and embellishments.
• Prescience works fully with Pets and Guardians.
• Prescience will automatically target the nearest DPS player if cast on an enemy.
• If Sense Power is active Prescience will prefer players with the buff active.
• Golden Opportunity makes Prescience last 15% longer.
• Prescience duration is affected by Mastery: Timewalker.

• Ebon Might will go on all DPS players within 100 yards and nothing will let you buff a Tank or Healer with Ebon Might.
• Ebon Might has two main effects, granting 16% of your Primary stat split between all DPS with the buff, and increasing your own damage by 20%. Augmentation needs at least 2 DPS to get the full effect of Ebon Might, with only 1 ally they will receive 8% Primary Stat instead.
• Players have no limit to how many Ebon Might buffs they can have.
• Ebon Might does not snapshot and updates every second based on your Primary Stat.
• Ebon Might will not update the split amount per player if an ally dies, nor will it affect another player automatically. It will only ever apply to new players or update the split portion on recast.
• Ebon Might will extend the duration of all currently active Ebon Mights if cast while it is still active.
• Ebon Might will pandemic letting you cast Ebon Might with 30% or less of the base duration remaining and not lose any uptime.
• The Primary Stat provided by Ebon Might does not increase the size of another Augmentation Evokers Ebon Might.
• The Primary Stat buff provided is increased by 75% during the effects of your Apex Talent Duplicate if you have the last Apex Talent Point Duplicate. This also increases the damage of your Upheaval and Eruption.

• Shifting Sands is a Versatility Buff based on your Mastery, Mastery: Timewalker, and is triggered by casting empower spells.
• Shifting Sands does not snapshot Mastery and instead update the Versatility buff provided to your current Mastery Percent every second.
• Shifting Sands prefers to go on the closest nearby DPS player that does not already have Shifting Sands from any Evoker, including other players.

1. Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest DPS with Ebon Might and without any Shifting Sands.
2. Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest DPS without any Shifting Sands.
3. Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest Tanks, Healers, or Augmentation Evokers without any Shifting Sands.
4. If Shifting Sands failed to find a valid target following the above priority, it will instead extend Shifting Sands on a player following the same priority.

• Blistering Scales is a buff that grants 20% of your armor to an ally, as well as stacks of scales that explode for uncapped AoE damage when they receive auto attacks. You can only have one Blistering Scales at any time.
• Blistering Scales has a 2 second internal cooldown on proccing the damage effect when receiving an auto attack.
• Blistering Scales scales entirely with the Augmentations stats. For example, the damage done is based on your Intellect, Versatility, and Critical Strike Chance despite the damage being sourced from the target.
• If you cast Blistering Scales on an enemy, it automatically targets their target, which helps smooth out gameplay. This means you do not need to swap off the boss in raid to cast this.
• Regenerative Chitin will make Blistering Scales deal 20% more damage, and not lose stacks when it is triggered which makes it permanent.

• Breath of Eons is an ability that applies a debuff to enemies hit that will store 15% of the damage dealt by allies with Ebon Might. The amount of damage stored is reduced linearly when Ebon Might affects more than 2 allies.
• Breath of Eons often has a cooldown less than 2 minutes from talents like Time Skip or Interwoven Threads reducing the cooldown, but you still always want to use it every 2 minutes paired with DPS player cooldowns. Breath of Eons is a short-duration damage multiplier, so stacking it with other cooldowns is how to get the most effect.
• Breath of Eons only stores damage from class abilities and auto attacks and does not amplify damage from Trinkets, Enchantments, Embellishments, Consumables, or Gear Procs.
• Breath of Eons works fully with pets and guardians with their damage counting as if it were dealt by their owner directly.
• Breath of Eons always critically strikes but gains no damage from doing so.
• Breath of Eons does not gain damage from other Breath of Eons going off from other Augmentation Evokers nor Fate Mirror procs from yourself or others.
• Breath of Eons will apply Ebon Might if it is not currently active obeying normal targeting rules. The duration of this Ebon Might is always 5 seconds and is not increased by Mastery, nor can be increased by Sands of Time. However, if Ebon Might was already active then it extends it by 5 seconds, and this is affected by Sands of Time. This is one of the main reasons why it is suggested to cast Breath of Eons while Ebon Might is already up.
• Casting Breath of Eons will also summon your Duplicate if you have taken your Apex Talents. If you have Duplicate, then Breath of Eons will extend any active Duplicates (if you had Ebon Might up before casting Breath of Eons). This extension will not apply to the Duplicate summoned by that specific Breath of Eons; only ones that are still up from the previous cast.

• Bombardments scale with your own stats and not with the stats of the players that trigger them.
• Bombardments have a 30% chance to trigger from each hit and a 2 second internal cooldown shared between all players triggering them. This means more players or more frequent hits will proc this closer, on average, to its cooldown resulting in very slightly more DPS. Despite this, there is not a significant difference in proc rate between Mythic+ and Raids.
• The buff for Mass Eruption stacks to 2 and the Bombardments debuff gets fully extended whenever you re-apply to a target that already has the debuff.
• The internal cooldown on Bombardments is reset whenever you re-apply Bombardments so you do not miss any procs if you re-apply it to the same target.

• Spatial Paradox is an external buff for healers, giving you and them the ability to cast while moving with double range.
• Spatial Paradox if cast on an enemy, will default to the nearest healer.
• Spatial Paradox does not stack.

• Draconic Attunements is a talent that gives you the two stances Bronze Attunement and Black Attunement. Bronze Attunement gives you a 10% increased movement speed, while Black Attunement gives you 2% increased maximum health.
• The auras from Draconic Attunements apply to you and your 4 nearest allies.
• Draconic Attunements does not stack.
• Swapping stances between Bronze Attunement and Black Attunement is off GCD, letting you do it any time, but it it has a 3 second lockout after swapping.

Augmentation provides multiple temporary short-duration buffs and is therefore incentivized to cast those buffs on burstier classes to maximize the effect of its own buff windows. This is because a burstier class will be able to pack more damage into the short windows offered by talents like Prescience.

Augmentation Evoker has five DPS buffs:

• Ebon Might - A Primary Stat Amplifier.
• Shifting Sands - Augmentations Mastery, Versatility Percent.
• Prescience - A Critical Strike Chance buff.
• Fate Mirror - A general damage amplifier.
• Breath of Eons - Acts as a cooldown DPS multiplier.

A common misconception people have is that because Augmentation provides Crit and Versatility buffs that classes that invest in Crit and Versatility will like the Augmentation buffs. This, for the most part, is not true.

The more Versatility a class has, the smaller the increase provided by Mastery is. Say you provide 25% Versatility with your Mastery, going from 0% to 25% (25% More DPS). Versatility is a much bigger DPS increase than going from 25% to 50% (20% More DPS).

This means that classes that invest in Versatility by necessity are usually inferior choices for buffing. This is because they do not have any other good stats and are therefore forced to use Versatility to scale their damage and usually have a significant amount.

In Midnight, Ebon Might is no longer targeted by Prescience giving you complete flexibility on who to target with the spell. This spell is best used on the DPS that is doing the most damage in that moment, such as someone who has cooldowns up. You can check your logs in order to better identify who to buff.

However, doing manual buff targeting is a relatively small gain and you will be able to perform just fine letting the game auto target Prescience for you by casting on the boss or by giving it to the best performing DPS overall in your Raid.

Additionally, some specializations also perform better with Critical Strike Chance than expected, such as Frost Death Knight and Devastation Evoker, which can make them slightly better off to buff if you want to increase the overall Raid DPS by the most even if they're 10% behind the top performing class in your Raid.

A notable change to Prescience targeting in Midnight is Fire Mages with the Burn It All talent now scale with the Critical Strike Chance from Prescience when they historically got zero value in their Combustion window.