Augmentation Evoker Best Augmentation Evoker Buff Targets — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)
A guide for everything you need to know about what specs to buff as Augmentation Evoker, and when to buff them, both for Raiding and Mythic+.
Please refer to our Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities for more information regarding the general Augmentation Evoker Rotation.
How Augmentation Evokers Buffs Work
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
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Prescience increases an allies Critical Strike Chance by 3%. (4%
with
Nozdormu Adept.)
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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.
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The
Fate Mirror talent enhances
Prescience and grants
allies with Prescience 10% chance to deal 15% of the damage of the
triggering ability.
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Prescience and
Fate Mirror works on non class damage like
trinkets and embellishments.
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Prescience works fully with Pets and Guardians.
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Prescience will automatically target the nearest DPS player if
cast on an enemy.
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If
Sense Power is active
Prescience will prefer players
with the buff active.
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Golden Opportunity makes
Prescience last 15% longer.
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Prescience duration is affected by
Mastery: Timewalker.
Ebon Might
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Ebon Might will go on all DPS players within 100 yards and
nothing will let you buff a Tank or Healer with
Ebon Might.
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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.
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Players have no limit to how many
Ebon Might buffs they can have.
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Ebon Might does not snapshot and updates every second based on
your Primary Stat.
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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.
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Ebon Might will extend the duration of all currently active Ebon
Mights if cast while it is still active.
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Ebon Might will pandemic letting you cast Ebon Might with 30% or
less of the base duration remaining and not lose any uptime.
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The Primary Stat provided by
Ebon Might does not increase the
size of another Augmentation Evokers Ebon Might.
Shifting Sands
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Shifting Sands is a Versatility Buff based on your Mastery,
Mastery: Timewalker, and is triggered by casting empower spells.
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Shifting Sands does not snapshot Mastery and instead update
the Versatility buff provided to your current Mastery Percent every
second.
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Shifting Sands prefers to go on the closest nearby DPS player that
does not already have Shifting Sands from any Evoker, including other
players.
Shifting Sands Auto Targeting Priority Order
Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest DPS with
Ebon Might and without any
Shifting Sands.
Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest DPS without any
Shifting Sands.
Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest Tanks, Healers or
Augmentation Evokers without any
Shifting Sands.- 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
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 2s icd 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
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Breath of Eons is an ability that applies a debuff to enemies hit
that will store 15% of th damage dealt by allies with
Ebon Might. The amount of damage stored is reduced linearly when
Ebon Might affects more than 2 allies.
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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 two 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Bombardments
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Bombardments scale with your own stats and not with the stats of
the players that trigger them.
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Bombardments have a 30% chance to trigger from each hit and a 2
second shared ICD between all players triggering them. This means that 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 M+ and Raids.
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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 ICD 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
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Spatial Paradox is an external buff for healers, giving you and
them the ability to cast while moving with double range.
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Spatial Paradox if cast on an enemy, will default to the nearest
healer.
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Spatial Paradox does not stack.
Draconic Attunements
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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.
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The auras from
Draconic Attunements apply to you and your 4
nearest allies.
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Draconic Attunements does not stack.
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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.
Changelog
- 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Midnight pre-patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.5.
- 12 Aug. 2025: Add Buff Information for Season 3.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 25 Mar. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0 Hotfixes including initial data from raid.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 24 Feb. 2024: All buff mechanics were updated for Patch 11.1. Best Buff section temporarily removed.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7
- 05 Dec. 2024: Updated for latest tuning during Patch 11.0.5
- 21 Oct. 2024: Added disclaimer for Patch 11.0.5
- 17 Sep. 2024: Update buffs page for a better snapshot of Mythic week launch.
- 11 Sep. 2024: Correct another typo
- 11 Sep. 2024: Correct a typo
- 10 Sep. 2024: Preliminary update of Buff Targets for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: All buff mechanics were updated for The War Within Launch. Best Buff section temporarily removed.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Disclaimer added for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed and updated for Dragonflight Season 4
- 19 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 08 Mar. 2024: Rewording and typo fixes
- 15 Jan. 2024: Update Buff Targets with latest Priorities.
- 22 Nov. 2023: Update Buffs Page - BM Now Attributes
- 13 Nov. 2023: Update Buff Targets after Latest Hotfixes and Tuning
- 09 Nov. 2023: Update Buff Targets Slightly
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 09 Aug. 2023: Update information on Buffs for recent Changes.
- 15 Jul. 2023: Redo Priority List for recent Eons Changes.
- 13 Jul. 2023: Change note for Elemental Shaman Opener Priority.
- 12 Jul. 2023: Buff Priority Adjusted for Feral.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Page added.
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