Augmentation Evoker DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.2)

The priority system for Augmentation Evoker is simple as a whole, as you are focusing on your short cooldown abilities like Prescience, Ebon Might, and your empowers. In-between, fill with Living Flame and Eruption.

1. Use Prescience on the next targets, you would like to receive Ebon Might if you will cap on Prescience charges within the next 3 globals and use all charges if you will recast Ebon Might within the next 3 globals.
2. Use Ebon Might if Ebon Might's remaining duration is less than 5.5s. This is slightly longer than the pandemic duration, but this leads to more overall uptime by having more Ebon Might casts.
3. Use your DPS potion if Breath of Eons is up or the fight will end in 30 seconds.
4. Use DPS potion.
5. Cast Damage Trinkets on cooldown. If you have an on-use stat trinket then only use damage trinkets if your next Breath of Eons is more than 30 seconds away.
6. Cast Damage Trinkets on cooldown.
7. Cast Active Buff Trinkets for Mastery before Breath of Eons.
8. Cast Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is ready.
9. Cast Fire Breath at maximum rank the highest rank that would allow you to cast Upheaval before the DoT expires rank 1 if Ebon Might is up.
10. Cast Breath of Eons if Ebon Might is up or has less than 4 seconds remaining on its cooldown.
11. Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets after Breath of Eons while Temporal Wound is up on the enemywhile Ebon Might is up..
12. Cast Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is ready.
13. Cast Fire Breath at maximum rank the highest rank that would allow you to cast Upheaval before the DoT expires rank 1 if Ebon Might is up.
14. Cast Time Skip if Fire Breath and Upheaval is on cooldown.
15. Cast Upheaval if Ebon Might is up and Essence Burst is less than maximum stacks.
16. Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up, if you are at maximum essence, or if you have maximum Essence Bursts. With Imminent Destruction pool essence shortly before each Breath of Eons window. You should continue spending with Essence Bursts or if you have maximum essence.
17. Cast Blistering Scales on the current active tank if they do not have any stacks of Blistering Scales left.
18. Cast Chrono Flame Living Flame.
19. If you need to move while casting, use Hover. If you have no charges of Hover left, then use Azure Strike.

With Ancient Flame and Scarlet Adaptation Augmentation uses Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom in place of Living Flame casts when Ebon Might is down. This optimization is only a slight DPS gain, and the main reason for talenting this talent combo is the utility of being able to use your heals at any time without losing damage. If you are not interested in this, you can freely spec out of Ancient Flame.

• You always want to use the highest rank of Fire Breath possible to maximise Leaping Flames. With Molten Embers you would use the highest rank of Fire Breath that will allow you to buff your Upheaval. If it is not possible to have Fire Breath last until your next Upheaval (E.g. its more than 24 seconds away) then you should just cast it at the maximum rank possible instead.
• In 5-man or less content, your buffs will automatically target the correct targets always for you. For example, Ebon Might will always hit the entire group, Prescience will auto-target the other two damage dealers, Blistering Scales will always go on the tank. This helps alleviate any burdens for you and lets you focus on the enemies in the Keys.

Against multiple targets, your rotation stays the same as in single-target unless you do not have Pupil of Alexstrasza. Pupil of Alexstrasza makes you use Chrono Flame Living Flame over Azure Strike at all targets, and without it, Azure Strike is a gain from 2+. You uprank Upheaval so that as many enemies fit within the targeting AoE as possible.

1. Use Prescience on the next targets, you would like to receive Ebon Might if you will cap on Prescience charges within the next 3 globals and use all charges if you will recast Ebon Might within the next 3 globals.
2. Use Ebon Might if Ebon Might's remaining duration is less than 5.5s. This is slightly longer than the pandemic duration, but this leads to more overall uptime by having more Ebon Might casts.
3. Use your DPS potion if Breath of Eons is up or the fight will end in 30 seconds.
4. Use DPS potion.
5. Cast Damage Trinkets on cooldown. If you have an on-use stat trinket then only use damage trinkets if your next Breath of Eons is more than 30 seconds away.
6. Cast Damage Trinkets on cooldown.
7. Cast Active Buff Trinkets for Mastery before Breath of Eons.
8. Cast Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is ready.
9. Cast Fire Breath at maximum rank the highest rank that would allow you to cast Upheaval before the DoT expires rank 1 if Ebon Might is up.
10. Cast Breath of Eons if Ebon Might is up or has less than 4 seconds remaining on its cooldown.
11. Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets after Breath of Eons while Temporal Wound is up on the enemywhile Ebon Might is up..
12. Cast Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is ready.
13. Cast Fire Breath at maximum rank the highest rank that would allow you to cast Upheaval before the DoT expires rank 1 if Ebon Might is up.
14. Cast Time Skip if Fire Breath and Upheaval is on cooldown.
15. Cast Upheaval if Ebon Might is up and Essence Burst is less than maximum stacks.
16. Cast Chrono Flame if Temporal Burst is up and you do not have an Essence Burst.
17. Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up, if you are at maximum essence, or if you have maximum Essence Bursts. With Imminent Destruction pool essence shortly before each Breath of Eons window. You should continue spending with Essence Bursts or if you have maximum essence.
18. Cast Blistering Scales on the current active tank if they do not have any stacks of Blistering Scales left.
19. Cast Chrono Flame Living Flame.
20. If you need to move while casting, use Hover. If you have no charges of Hover left, then use Azure Strike.
21. Cast Azure Strike.

With Ancient Flame and Scarlet Adaptation Augmentation uses Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom in place of Living Flame casts when Ebon Might is down. This optimization is only a slight DPS gain, and the main reason for talenting this talent combo is the utility of being able to use your heals at any time without losing damage. If you are not interested in this, you can freely spec out of Ancient Flame and Scarlet Adaptation.

• You always want to use the highest rank of Fire Breath possible to maximise Leaping Flames. With Molten Embers you would use the highest rank of Fire Breath that will allow you to buff your Upheaval. If it is not possible to have Fire Breath last until your next Upheaval (E.g. its more than 24 seconds away) then you should just cast it at the maximum rank possible instead.
• In 5-man or less content, your buffs will automatically target the correct targets always for you. For example, Ebon Might will always hit the entire group, Prescience will auto-target the other two damage dealers, Blistering Scales will always go on the tank. This helps alleviate any burdens for you and lets you focus on the enemies in the Keys. However, as a Chronowarden you have Golden Opportunity procs, you will want to make sure to manually target these as the long duration makes them extra impactful if they were to auto target incorrectly.

1. Start with >3s pull timer
2. Cast Blistering Scales
3. Cast Tip the Scales
4. Precast Living Flame

1. Cast Prescience
2. Cast Prescience
3. Cast Ebon Might
4. Use DPS potion.
5. Cast Damage Trinkets on cooldown. If you have an on-use stat trinket then you wait on using your damage trinket, priotising the buff trinket instead.
6. Cast Damage Trinkets on cooldown.
7. Cast Active Buff Trinkets for Mastery before Breath of Eons.
8. Cast Fire Breath at maximum rank rank 1.
9. Cast Breath of Eons.
10. Cast Tip the Scales.
11. Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets.
12. Cast Fire Breath at maximum rank rank 1.
13. Cast Eruption until you have 1 or less Essence Burst.
14. Cast Upheaval.
15. Cast Time Skip.
16. Cast Prescience.
17. Cast Eruption
18. Cast Eruption
19. Cast Eruption
20. Cast Eruption
21. Cast Eruption
22. Continue with normal rotation priority.

This rotation does not apply Prescience nor Ebon Might before pull because these are removed on Encounter start.