Single Target Rotation for Augmentation Evoker

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 Ebon Might if Ebon Might's remaining duration is less than 4s. This is slightly longer than the pandemic duration, but this leads to more overall uptime by having more Ebon Might casts.
2. Use Prescience.
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 Tip the Scales if Upheaval is ready.
10. Cast Tip the Scales and then immediately cancel it with a macro if an empower spell is not available.
11. Cast Breath of Eons
12. Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinketsafter Breath of Eons while Temporal Wound is up on the enemywhile Ebon Might is up..
13. Cast Fire Breath at maximum RankRank 1Rank 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.
16. Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up, if you are at maximum essence, or if you have maximum Essence Bursts.
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.

Healing Spell Utilization

With Ancient Flame and Scarlet Adaptation Augmentation can use 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 rank 1 instead.
• In 5-man or less content, your buffs will automatically target the correct targets always for you. For example, 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.

Two-Target and Above Rotation for Augmentation Evoker

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 Ebon Might if Ebon Might's remaining duration is less than 4s. This is slightly longer than the pandemic duration, but this leads to more overall uptime by having more Ebon Might casts.
2. Use Prescience.
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 Tip the Scales if Upheaval is ready.
10. Cast Tip the Scales and then immediately cancel it with a macro if an empower spell is not available.
11. Cast Breath of Eons
12. Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinketsafter Breath of Eons while Temporal Wound is up on the enemywhile Ebon Might is up..
13. Cast Fire Breath at maximum RankRank 1Rank 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.
16. Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up, if you are at maximum essence, or if you have maximum Essence Bursts.
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. Cast Azure Strike.
20. If you need to move while casting, use Hover. If you have no charges of Hover left, then use Azure Strike.

Healing Spell Utilization

With Ancient Flame and Scarlet Adaptation Augmentation can use 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 rank 1 instead.
• In 5-man or less content, your buffs will automatically target the correct targets always for you. For example, 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.

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

1. Cast Ebon Might
2. Cast Prescience
3. Cast Prescience
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 Breath of Eons.
9. Cast Tip the Scales.
10. Cast Fire Breath at rank 1 rank 1 maximum rank.
11. Cast Tip the Scales.
12. Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets.
13. Cast Upheaval.
14. Cast Time Skip.
15. Cast Prescience.
16. Cast Eruption.
17. Cast Eruption.
18. Cast Eruption.
19. Cast Eruption.
20. Cast Eruption.
21. Continue with normal rotation priority.

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

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.

This is not available during the Midnight Pre-Patch.

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.

Duplicate has additional talents, Duplicate 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 while as a Chronowarden its best to sync each cast with the majority of the raids cooldowns. The best time for this ends typically up being every 2 minutes.

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 instnatly, 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.

Despite Chronoboon reducing the cooldown of Tip the Scales for Chronowarden we still suggest pairing Tip the Scales with Breath of Eons to create a powerful cooldown window every 2 minutes, opting to ignore the reduced cooldown however the DPS is very close either way.

If you want to use Tip the Scales on cooldown as a Chronowarden then we suggest using a macro to cancel the Tip the Scales buff immediately, as you do not care about the fast casted Empower spell and want Tip the Scales to go on cooldown as fast as possible. This is approximately the same DPS as syncing Breath of Eons and a gain after you get Augmentation Evokers Apex Talents with Midnight's official release.

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.