Augmentation Evoker DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Midnight (12.0.1)

Augmentation Evoker AoE Rotation is very similar to its Single Target rotation with only minor changes to its filler priority. The rotation otherwise is still simplistic and focuses on maintaining Ebon Might for as long as possible by weaving in its other abilities. While maintaining Ebon Might Augmentation Evoker should use its short Cooldown spells like Fire Breath, Upheaval and Prescience on Cooldown for optimal DPS filling time between with Eruption and Living Flame.

Augmentation Evoker AoE Rotation is very similar to its Single Target rotation with only minor changes to its filler priority. The rotation otherwise is still simplistic and focuses on maintaining Ebon Might for as long as possible by weaving in its other abilities. While maintaining Ebon Might Augmentation Evoker should use its short Cooldown spells like Fire Breath, Upheaval and Prescience on Cooldown for optimal DPS filling time between with Eruption and Chrono Flame.

A more in depth Rotational Priority List is shown below:

Full Rotational Priority

1. Cast Ebon Might if it has 4 or less seconds remaining on its duration.
2. Cast Breath of Eons on cooldown.
3. Cast Deep Breath on cooldown.
4. Cast Prescience on cooldown.
5. Cast Fire Breath at Rank 1.
6. Cast Tip the Scales on Cooldown.
7. Cast Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is on cooldown and Upheaval is available.
8. Cast Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is up.
9. Cast Fire Breath at the highest rank available.
10. Cast Upheaval on Cooldown.
11. Cancel the Tip the Scales Buff if you do not have an empower available within the next GCD to maximise uptime of Temporal Burst.
12. Cancel the Tip the Scales Buff if you do not have Upheaval available within the next GCD to maximise uptime of Temporal Burst.
13. Cast Time Skip if both Fire Breath and Upheaval are on Cooldown.
14. Cast Time Skip if both Fire Breath is on Cooldown.
15. Cast Hover if you need to move.
16. Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up or you have two Essence Burst.
17. Cast Blistering Scales if it not currently active on any tank.
18. Cast Azure Strike.
19. Cast Chrono Flame.
20. Cast Living Flame.
21. Cast Azure Strike.
22. Cast Azure Strike for Movement if you do not have any charges of Hover remaining.
23. Cast Azure Strike for Movement if you do not have any charges of Hover remaining.
24. Cast Blistering Scales in downtime while no enemies are available.

Example Opener Sequence

1. Cast Blistering Scales on the main tank.
2. Precast Chrono Flame 1.5s.
3. Precast Living Flame at 1.5s

1. Cast Ebon Might.
2. Cast Prescience.
3. Cast Prescience.
4. Use Mastery Trinkets before Breath of Eons.
5. Cast Breath of Eons.
6. Use Mastery Trinkets before Deep Breath.
7. Cast Deep Breath.
8. Use DPS Potion.
9. Use Trinkets.
10. Cast Fire Breath at Rank 1.
11. Use Tip the Scales.
12. Cast Fire Breath at the highest rank possible.
13. Cast Upheaval at the lowest rank to fit all enemies in the AoE.
14. Cast Time Skip.
15. Cast Eruption.
16. Cast Eruption.
17. Cast Eruption.
18. Continue with Normal Rotation Priority.

Ebon Might is a powerful buff that is one of your most significant damage sources. Ebon Might both increases your own damage and boosts the primary stat of allied DPS. For this reason, maintaining this buff is the highest priority while playing Augmentation Evoker and, most decisions are based around maximising the uptime of Ebon Might is one way or another.

Extending Ebon Might is the core gameplay loop of Augmentation Evoker. Ebon Might can be extended by:

• Casting Empowers — Fire Breath and Upheaval.
• Casting Eruption — This means generating additional resources, either Essence or Essence Burst, lead to increased Ebon Might uptime by letting you cast more Eruptions.
• Casting Breath of Eons — If this is cast without Ebon Might being active it will function as a new cast. If it is cast during Ebon Might then it will extend Ebon Might.
• Casting Ebon Might — Ebon Might can Pandemic its duration up to an additional 30% extra duration. This means you can refresh Ebon Might before it expires!
• Casting Emerald Blossom with Dream of Spring.

Bombardments is the core gameplay mechanic tied to Scalecommander. Bombardments is a debuff that is applied to the main target of Eruption whe consuming Mass Eruption. You get stacks of Mass Eruption after casting your Empowers ( Fire Breath and Upheaval).

Bombardments deal significant damage on Single Target but deal less on AoE as they deal split damage. The way Bombardments contribute to AoE damage is via the cooldown reduction they provide to Bombardments via Wingleader. Wingleader will provide more cooldown reduction when Bombardments hits multiple targets which gives a significant increase to the frequency of Breath of Eons casts.

Bombardments can be extended by casting Eruption while the debuff is active via the talent Extended Battle. This talent is a choice node with Diverted Power but Diverted Power is severely undertuned and is never taken.

Duplicate is Augmentation Evoker's Apex Talent. Duplicate has a significant impact on Augmentation Evoker's Rotation, Stat Priority, and Talent Choices.

Duplicate deals significant damage while active casting Eruption, Fire Breath and Upheaval. Eruption will scale all of Augmentation's talents except for Mass Eruption, Melt Armor and Molten Embers. These casts will not extend your Ebon Might.

Duplicate has additional talents, Duplicate (2pts) and Duplicate, that significantly increase the power of and maintain high uptime of Duplicate.

Duplicate grants an incredibly powerful buff effect during Duplicate that doubles the power of your Ebon Might on allies and significantly boosts the damage of your Upheaval.

Duplicate allows anything that triggers Sands of Time to also extend Duplicate. This leads to a minigame very similar to maintaining Ebon Might where you attempt to maximise the uptime of Duplicate. This leads to Augmentation Evoker prioritising Haste and Critical Strike over any other stat as these boost the uptime of Duplicate. Additionally, it significantly boosts the power of the Breath of Eonss talents Imminent Destruction and Plot the Future as they increase the amount of casts you can get within your Duplicate.

Another significance of Duplicate is that it heavily incentivises pressing Breath of Eons on cooldown. Maximising uptime on the doubled Primary Stat from the Buff ultimately contributes more for overall DPS than holding Breath of Eons for an ideal damage window. Although Breath of Eons storing 30% of the raids DPS during its 10 second duration is a larger boost in dps than the additional 16% Primary Stat from having Duplicate up, using Breath of Eons on cooldown results in significantly higher Duplicate uptime due to more frequent casts that get extended by Duplicate. At the same time, you will still get a sufficiently strong Breath of Eons window due to how varied most DPS are in their damage profile.

Handling movement on Augmentation Evoker is quite simple as you have access to Hover. Hover can be cast during any non-empower cast to give yourself the ability to cast on the move. If Hover is used while moving in any direction it will perform a short dash in that direction.

For short movement events we suggest using holding a charge of Prescience to handle it to preserve charges of Hover for more important moments.

If you find yourself caught without Hover or any charges of Prescience available you should use Azure Strike to fill with. This can still generate Essence Burst for you making the DPS loss very small.

Breath of Eons is Augmentation Evokers major cooldown. Breath of Eons will debuff enemies storing a portion of damage dealt by allies, exploding dealing that damage when the debuff expires.

Make sure to hit every enemy with Breath of Eons as this applies the damage amplification effect to every target.

You should aim to use Breath of Eons at the shortest distance, as the longer the line, the more time you are locked out from using other spells. It is inevitable if you need to move further, but you will lose some potential damage.

Augmentation Evoker has many talents that enhance Breath of Eons such as Imminent Destruction, Plot the Future and Melt Armor, Maneuverability, Command Squadron and Wingleader from the Scalecommander Hero Talent.

As a Scalecommander you will want to cast Breath of Eons on cooldown due to its Apex Talent Duplicate adding significant value to each cast.

As a Scalecommander you get Maneuverability which lets you steer your Breath of Eons and end it at any time. It is important to end it as soon as you can, but wait for all of the Pyre casts from your Command Squadron. They take approximately two seconds to complete all of their casts.

Please see our dedicated section on our Buffs Page for more precise mechanics on how Breath of Eons works.

Ebon Might is the bread and butter of Augmentation Evoker's damage output and gameplay. All decisions revolve around maintaining this buff as much as possible.

You should aim to cast Ebon Might if there are 3 or less seconds remaining on the buff. We opt to cast Ebon Might at 3 or less seconds because it can pandemic, adding up to 30% of its duration to the next cast without losing any duration, which makes this the most efficient point to recast at to optimise for effect and cooldown efficiency.

If you are playing Mythic+ and are approaching the tail end of a pull it might be correct to hold Ebon Might and allow it to drop for the last few seconds to guarantee that you will have it at the start of the next pull. If you know that there is enough time between the end of the current pull and the start of next to get the cooldown back then you should stil use it.

Please see our dedicated section on our Buffs Page for more precise mechanics on how Ebon Might works.

Tip the Scales is a 2 minute cooldown that will make your next Empower cast instantly, at maximum rank.

Tip the Scales does not start its cooldown until you consume the buff by using an Empower Spell.

As a Scalecommander this spell is best used on cooldown as it has very little effect. If you have the Molten Embers talent then you should avoid using it before Fire Breath as this would give you a shorter DoT which would be worse. Instead, you should use it before Upheaval to make the cast slightly faster.

As a Chronowarden you get several talents that boost the power of Tip the Scales. The most notable being Temporal Burst which gets enhanced by Energy Cycles and Chronoboon. These additional talents turn Tip the Scales into a potent cooldown.

We suggest using Tip the Scales on cooldown as a Chronowarden and using a Macro to cancel the buff immediately if it would not be used on an Upheaval within the next GCD. We do this to maximise the uptime of the Temporal Burst buff for a significant DPS gain by increasing the uptime of Duplicate.

If you do not want to use Tip the Scales on cooldown then we strongly suggest holding it to be used alongside Breath of Eons as this remains perfectly viable, albiet slightly weaker for performance.

Prescience is a short cooldown, 2 charge, buff spell that Augmentation Evoker should use rotationally. The Prescience buff will give Critical Strike Chance to an ally of your choosing. You should avoid ever overcapping on charges of Prescience unless forced to by downtime.

Prescience is enhanced by Anachronism which gives you a chance to receive an Essence Burst on cast, Fate Mirror which gives the player with Prescience a chance to replicate damage done. Additionally, there are three Chronowarden talents that buff Prescience: Double-time, Nozdormu Adept and Golden Opportunity.

You can choose to optimise the targeting of this buff by putting it on the players who are doing the most damage in your Raid but it will not be a significant difference in DPS. You could instead opt to cast it on the boss and allow the games auto targeting to take care of it. Manual targeting can be up to a 2% DPS gain from a worst case to a best case.

Please see our dedicated section on our Buffs Page for more precise mechanics on how Prescience works.

Augmentation Evoker has two empowers: Fire Breath and Upheaval.

Augmentation Evoker gets additional effects from casting Empower spells. The most significant effect is that you will grant a nearby DPS the Shifting Sands buff which increases their versatility. Please see our dedicated section on our Buffs Page if you would like to know more specifically about how Shifting Sands works. Additionally, Augmentation will extend Ebon Might via Sands of Time.

You should not cast Fire Breath or Upheaval without Ebon Might being up as this would waste the extension from Sands of Time, which is most of the value.