Augmentation Evoker DPS Easy Mode — The War Within (11.1.7)

This build will work in both Raid and Mythic+ although we would still recommend using the dedicated Mythic+ talents there instead as this is lacking some utility options. We suggest using Chronowarden because it is the best performing build that avoids running Time Skip which adds more complexity to your gameplay.

We suggest using Chronowarden because it is the best performing build that avoids running Time Skip which adds more complexity to your gameplay. This can outperform Scalecommander builds that avoid running Time Skip.

The priority system for Augmentation Evoker is not very complicated as a whole, as you are focusing on several short cooldown abilities and filling the gaps with Living Flame. However, delaying casts of Prescience or Ebon Might can lead to large DPS losses quickly. It is important to only use Empower spells during Ebon Might.

• Cast Prescience
• Cast Ebon Might
• Cast Fire Breath at empower level 3 if Ebon Might is up.
• Cast Breath of Eons
• Cast Tip the Scales
• Cast Upheaval at empower level 1 if Ebon Might is up.
• Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up or you have 2 Essence Burst or capped Essence.
• Cast Living Flame
• If you need to move whilst casting, use Hover. If you have no charges of Hover left, then use Azure Strike.

All of Augmentation Evokers Defensive spells are proactive. You need to use them before damage happens to get maximum effect and do not do anything if used afterward.

Defy Fate is a cheat death effect that will save you from dying once every six minutes.

Obsidian Scales is your bread and butter defensive, offering 30% damage reduction on a 90s cooldown with 2 charges thanks to Obsidian Bulwark.

Renewing Blaze is your other main defensive cooldown. Renewing Blaze heals you for damage you take during the effect which is a very powerful effect vs anything that does not outright kill you. This ability is incredible vs DOT effects.

Rescue acts as another defensive and an external due to the talent Twin Guardian providing both you and the player you Rescue a 30% health absorb for 5 seconds. This ability is harder to use than your other defensives but when used well can be a huge boon to any team you play with.

Zephyr reduces the area damage taken by you and the 4 nearest allies by 20%. Due to affecting 5 people this is incredibly strong even if it only applies to AOE damage. Most encounters have heavy-hitting AOEs that this is very good against.

Warp with Temporality ( Chronowarden Hero Talents) provides 20% decaying Damage Reduction, losing 2% every 0.3s.

The Combat Assistant is intended to be a way to help newer players approach content without being as overwhelmed by World of Warcrafts complex rotations. You can have the game highlight your next action for you similar to how addons like Hekili function or have the game take actions for you. The rest of this section primarily refers to the Single-Button assistant as the performance of the base highlighting is outclassed by addons like Hekili. You can find the Single-Button assistant in your spellbook as a button you can drag onto your hotbars that will rotate through your abilities according to priorities defined by Blizzard.

For Augmentation Evoker the Combat Assistant has issues with casting Empower Spells like Fire Breath or Upheaval. When casting Empower spells it will always cast the Empower the full duration of the cast which wastes a second or two each cast as further empowering the spell in the last section does not further increase the Empower Rank of the cast. Another large issue is that currently the Combat Assistant will cancel the Empower spell if you press it multiple times without realising.

Another notable issue with the Combat Assistant is that it cannot help you during movement. Despite Augmentation Evoker having Hover it will not recommend you to use it and can get stuck recommending you cast an Empower spell while you are moving which you cannot do even if you had manually cast Hover. Because of this we do recommend having some of the basic spells keybound in addition to the cooldowns. We suggest making sure Eruption, Living Flame and Azure Strike are keybound as well as all of the classes cooldowns listed below along with utility spells and defensives.

We currently strongly suggest manually casting your Empower spells alongside using the Combat Assistant instead of relying on the Combat Assistant due to the previously mentioned issues. You can cast the Empowers increase over the default performance of the Combat Assistant. This increase will be even higher if you experience frequent cancelled Empowers as this does not take that into account, only the increased time spent casting.

As an Augmentation Evoker this assistant will not use all of your spells for you. The assistant will not use your cooldowns or items and you will need to weave in the following abilities in order to get full damage out of your class and this feature:

• Breath of Eons
• Tip the Scales
• Time Skip
• On-Use Trinkets like House of Cards
• Tempered Potion
• Hover for movement
• We strongly suggest manually casting Fire Breath and Upheaval despite them being part of the Combat Assistant due to the previously mentioned issues.

By using this assistant and weaving in your cooldowns you'll be performing at a high level rotationally. Blizzard balances this out by increasing your Global Cooldown while using the Combat Assistant. Currently the Combat Assistant is 7.9% behind if you do not manually use your Empowers and 5.4% if you do.

This tool is an excellent way to jump into the game and start out. After you get comfortable we recommend that you try playing the rotation manually to improve your gameplay even further.

Currently, item level is by far the most important aspect of gearing for non jewellery slots. On Jewellery it can be worth dropping a small amount of item level for better stats as Augmentation does not scale very well with Secondary Stats. Augmentations best stat currently is Haste with Critical Strike being approximately equal in value for Chronowarden because of Double-time. Mastery is close behind Haste and Critical strike with Versatility further behind. We suggest loosely following this priority:

1. Item Level
2. Haste = Critical Strike = Mastery ( Motes of Possibility builds)
3. Mastery
4. Versatility

On Jewellery (and pieces without Intellect on them), the priority is as follows:

1. Critical Strike = Haste
2. Item Level
3. Mastery
4. Versatility

Currently, item level is by far the most important aspect of gearing for non jewellery slots. On Jewellery it can be worth dropping a small amount of item level for better stats as Augmentation does not scale very well with Secondary Stats. Augmentations best stat currently is Haste with Critical Strike being slightly worse. Without playing a Motes build Mastery is quite far behind, approximately equal to Mastery for non-Motes builds. Versatility performs better due to Scalecommanders higher personal damage but still is a low value stat. We suggest loosely following this priority:

1. Item Level
2. Haste
3. Mastery ( Motes of Possibility builds)
4. Critical Strike
5. Mastery = Versatility

On Jewellery (and pieces without Intellect on them), the priority is as follows:

1. Haste
2. Mastery ( Motes of Possibility builds)
3. Critical Strike
4. Item Level
5. Mastery
6. Versatility