Evoker Hero Talents — The War Within (11.2)

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Augmentation Evoker, check out our Talents page:

Scalecommander is the go to Hero Talent if you want to fire and forget or play content with less than 4 DPS to buff. Scalecommander has less cooldown syncing and tracking requirements than Chronowarden but has slightly higher personal gameplay requirements.

Scalecommander is currently our default recommendation for all content due to the more consistent output provided. Scalecommander is at most 3-4% behind Chronowarden in raids when Chronowarden is played perfectly with ideal allies and is ahead always in Mythic+. As it is so hard to find allies that will play close to that level even in high performing Mythic raiding guilds we strongly suggest playing Scalecommander even if there is a small theoretical loss. Although, if you like Chronowarden it is still very strong.

Scalecommander is less adversely affected by allies performance since it is not as reliant on their throughput to be effective which is very useful in content where you cannot guarantee your teammates performance (Such as Pugging Raids or Mythic+). Additionally, Scalecommander is slightly stronger comparatively (1-2%) before BiS gear due to the power of running the old Season 2 2pc.

For Raiding Scalecommander will perform even better than Chronowarden if you do not have the Mastery stacked gear that Chronowarden prefers (such as having a set of Devastation Evoker gear) or have weaker allies.

Scalecommander does significantly more personal damage than Chronowarden which is the main reason it is less reliant on the damage your allies are dealing with a very large amount of that damage coming from the Season 3 Tier Set.

Scalecommander presses Breath of Eons nearly on cooldown to maximise the effects of Melt Armor, Imminent Destruction and Plot the Future. The increase to personal damage provided by all of these talents mostly outweighs timing Breath of Eons to DPS cooldowns although ideally you still loosely sync it. On single target you will get close to a 80 second cooldown on Breath of Eons and on AoE it can be as low as 60s because of Wingleader granting more cooldown reduction with additional targets.

With the Season 3 Tier Set Scalecommander can either opt in to playing Motes of Possibility and invest in Mastery for stronger Shifting Sands or play Molten Embers and invest primarily into Haste and Critical Strike Chance to maximise its personal damage.

The Dracthyr Commandos from the Season 3 Tier Set scale with Critical Strike Chance and Versatility but do not scale with Haste or Mastery.

The Evoker Scalecommander 11.2 Class Set 2pc will launch a Pyre per Dracthyr Commando approximately every 0.5 seconds (unhasted) you spend in the Air, with one launched immediately. They will shoot a maximum of 4 Pyres each for a total of 8. After you land from Breath of Eons they will start casting Disintegrate with one being cast approximately every 3 seconds (unhasted).

Currently using the Evoker Scalecommander 11.2 Class Set 2pc alongside the Evoker Augmentation 11.1 Class Set 2pc is a significant DPS gain for AOE despite losing ilvl as the Evoker Scalecommander 11.2 Class Set 4pc is very weak on AOE. This is approximately a 4% DPS gain on 5T (684 Season 2 Tier vs 723 Season 3 Tier) and a slight DPS loss on ST (~0.5-1%).

Chronowarden is an alternative Hero Talent for Raiding but is significantly weaker for Mythic+. This tree has a larger focus on planning and strategic play with its buffs. This is completely viable in Raid for players who want a more buff focused gameplan and has a slightly higher damage Ceiling than Scalecommander.

A large part of Chronowarden is Double-time which increases the strength of Ebon Might. This makes it slightly weaker in Mythic+ where you do not have 4 DPS.

Chronowarden buffs abilities you are already using such as Upheaval and Living Flame and provides a lot of haste passively to you via Primacy and Temporal Burst making your rotation feel more fluid.

You also get a powerful movement upgrade with Warp and a defensive boon attached from Temporality.

The Evoker Chronowarden 11.2 Class Set 2pc halves the cooldown on Tip the Scales which massively increases the uptime of Temporal Burst. The higher uptime of Temporal Burst results gives you more CDR which leads you to playing Time Skip instead of Interwoven Threads as it allows you to get a breakpoint in CDR for Breath of Eons. By using abilities on Cooldown you will get two 90s CD Breath of Eons uses and then one 120s CD Breath of Eons before the cycle resets. For example, this would be a Breath of Eons cast at approximately 3s, 93s, 183s, 303s, 393s, 483s, 603s.

The high uptime of Temporal Burst with the Evoker Chronowarden 11.2 Class Set 2pc also massively increases the power of Master of Destiny making it the default pick for all content.

The high average haste provided by Temporal Burst with the Evoker Chronowarden 11.2 Class Set 2pc makes Motes of Possibility even stronger as you can cast more Eruptions every minute which in turn makes Mastery better. This leads to Mastery being Chronowardens best stat to stack. This is further amplified by the Evoker Chronowarden 11.2 Class Set 4pc which causes Chrono Flame to shoot to multiple targets during Temporal Burst. This effect works just like Leaping Flames where if there are not enough valid enemy targets it will instead heal an ally instead. When these heal an ally they can still roll to proc an Essence Burst if they do effective healing.

With the Evoker Chronowarden 11.2 Class Set 4pc on 2T or higher you will proritise using Chrono Flame over casting Eruption during Temporal Burst if you do not have an Essence Burst up.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Augmentation Evoker

Scalecommander Universal Build Chronowarden Universal Build

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Best Scalecommander Build for Augmentation Evoker

Scalecommander is very straightforward to play. We run the same Scalecommander Hero Talents for all content with slight variations in our class and spec trees.

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Best Chronowarden Build for Augmentation Evoker

Chronowarden is very straightforward to play. We run the same Chronowarden Hero Talents for all content with slight variations in our class and spec trees.

Chronowarden has only minor impacts on your rotation although the stat gains from Primacy and Temporal Burst feel really good. As a Chronowarden you will be using Tip the Scales more frequently, and using it on Fire Breath always despite Molten Embers incentivising longer lasting Fire Breaths.

The Season 3 Tier Set has a larger impact on your Rotation as discussed above in the main Chronowarden section.

Scalecommander has a large impact on your rotation as you get access to Breath of Eons more frequently. Furthermore, since the cooldown reduction provided by Wingleader is so important maintaining as high uptime on Bombardments becomes a large part of the rotational gameplay adding extra nuance to the rotation to make it more interesting to play.