Augmentation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.1

Augmentation has two Hero Talents that focus on different aspects of the class. Chronowarden has a greater focus on Prescience and the power of your buffs. Meanwhile, Scalecommander focuses on higher damage output with buffs to Eruption and additional damage sources like Bombardments.

Additionally, Chronowarden will feel more fast paced as it grants additional Essence Burst procs and Haste buffs which accelerate your rotation.

We are recommending Chronowarden for the default raiding choice, as it will vastly outperform Scalecommander in all scenarios in Raid. We currently recommend playing Scalecommander in weekly keys and Chronowarden for higher keys.

For more in-depth information please check the dedicated sections for each build and hero talent below.

Recommended Build Import Codes:

The builds listed above are popular recommendations, covering various different loadouts suited to each style of endgame content. Each Talent Build will have it's own rotation, and can also be manipulated further for specific types of content and to better benefit your group.

Combat Information

Rotations and Mythic+

Want to dive deeper? These guides will teach you how to utilize our Talent Builds in endgame content!

RotationMythic+

The Omnium Folio was a new system added in Midnight's Patch 12.0.7. After a short questline, you will be able to choose from several small bonuses that provide additional throughput, survivability or utility. We recommend completing these quests as soon as possible, as this system will be active for the rest of Midnight and provides a noticeable boost in power.

We currently suggest the following talents as your default progression path. As you can swap the runes at any time, you can always adjust these later based on the encounter or personal preference once you are more comfortable:

• First Rune: Rune of Unleashed Fire
• Second Rune: Rune of Self-Mending
• Third Rune: Rune of Lingering
• Fourth Rune: Rune of Masterful Cunning
• Fifth Rune: Rune of Overload

FAQWhich secondary stat rune should I pick?

As an Augmentation Evoker you should always take Rune of Masterful Cunning.

In Midnight Augmentation Evoker gains access to the Apex Talent: Duplicate. This Apex Talent and its upgrades have significant impact on Augmentation Evoker's Talent Choices and Stat Priority.

The First Point Duplicate summons a Pet after you cast Breath of Eons that deals significant damage while active. This Pet casts Eruption, Fire Breath, and Upheaval. These casts will not extend Ebon Might. The Eruption casts will scale with all of Augmentation's talents except for Mass Eruption and Melt Armor.

The Second and Third Apex Talent Points 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 considerably increases the power of Haste and Critical Strike as these boost the uptime of Duplicate. Additionally, it significantly boosts the power of the Breath of Eons' talents Imminent Destruction and Plot the Future as they increase the amount of casts you can get within your Duplicate.

The Final Apex Talent point, Duplicate, makes the Duplicate provide an incredibly powerful buff effect that increases your Ebon Might on allies by 75% and significantly boosts the damage of your Upheaval.

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.

Even though Breath of Eons' amplifier is a more significant DPS boost than the 12% Primary Stat increase from having your Duplicate up with Duplicate, 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.

Hero Talents become available at Level 71 and are mutually exclusive trees that offer slightly different gameplay and visuals. As an Augmentation Evoker you can pick between Scalecommander and Chronowarden. We go into some of the details and differences between them below!

Scalecommander is the Personal Damage focused Hero Talent Tree that has the least emphasis on Buff based gameplay instead opting to boost Empower Spells and Essence Spenders. This is perfect for anyone who wants fire and forget gameplay and does not want to track their co-DPS's cooldowns.

Currently we recommend Scalecommander in Mythic+ for weekly keys as it functions better with worse performing allies. In optimal conditions Chronowarden can significantly outperform Scalecommander, but both are viable at all levels of Mythic+, depending on what you enjoy the most.

For Raiding Scalecommander is 15% behind Chronowarden and we strongly recommend against playing it.

The core focus of Scalecommander gameplay comes from applying Bombardments with Eruption after gaining stacks from using Fire Breath and Upheaval. After applying Bombardments you want to extend it as much as possible by casting Eruption while having the talent Extended Battle. These bombardments add additional damage procs from your allies which ends up doing a considerable amount of damage over time!

Another central pillar of Scalecommander gameplay is Mass Eruption. After casting each of your empower spells you will gain a stack of Mass Eruption which will allow your next Eruption cast to cleave dealing additional hits to other nearby enemies. This is especially important now that Wingleader is tied to Mass Eruption instead of Bombardments. The extra cooldown reduction provided to Breath of Eons provides makes Scalecommander lean into Breath of Eons talents like Imminent Destruction and Plot the Future. All combined, you are strongly incentivised to maximise the overall casts of Breath of Eons for personal benefit instead of opting for higher quality casts that deal more damage from allies.

Chronowarden is the Buff Oriented Hero Talent Tree that is themed around Time Magic. As a Chronowarden a larger fraction of your damage comes from Buffs than Scalecommander since you get stronger Prescience and Ebon Might buffs from Nozdormu Adept and Double-time. This tree is perfect for players who want their friends to be the strongest they can be and, is slightly more forgiving for personal play.

Chronowarden enhances your Living Flame turning it into Chrono Flame augmenting it with bronze magic that deals additional damage based off of damage dealt recently. Chrono Flame still functions as a normal Living Flame that interacts fully with all Living Flame talents, with each projectile fired dealing additional Chrono Flame damage.

This is currently our recommended Hero Talent tree for High End Mythic+ and Raiding as it outperforms Scalecommander considerably.

If you are playing Time Skip as a Chronowarden you will want to use a Cancelaura Macro for Tip the Scales. This lets you keep the cooldowns of Time Skip and Tip the Scales lined up. You need to do this because the cooldown of Tip the Scales only starts when the buff is consumed.

Chronowarden does not add any additional rotational gameplay elements that you have to play around. Instead, you just get you more resources and stats. You gain more Haste from Primacy and Temporal Burst, and better resource generation from Chronal Dynamo and Afterimage, to help the performance your base rotation. These resources and stats makes it significantly easier to maintain your buffs.

FAQWhen Should I Play Chronowarden Over Scalecommander?

We recommend playing Chronowarden over Scalecommander in most scenarios. That said, due to Chronowardens heavy reliance on ally performance, you may experience better performance as Scalecommander on average in Mythic+.

Enabling War Mode grants you several benefits in the open world which you made decide are beneficial. We have listed the main benefits below.

• PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
• At least 10% increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.
• 10% more experience gained while leveling.
• Earn Conquest Points, which can reward gear every week.

We do not recommend enabling War Mode for general leveling and PvE content as it allows other players to kill you which is incredibly frustrating. The War Mode talents available to Augmentation Evoker are not a considerable time save as none of them provide a significant increase of DPS. That said, it is optimal to enable it if you are willing to engage in PvP.

Augmentation Evoker PvP talents barely provide any noticeable speed up in combat. We have listed the best ones to have active below.

1. Nullifying Shroud is recommended as it gives you an easy way to immune loss of control effects from both NPCs and enemy players trying to gank you.
2. Obsidian Mettle will allow you to safely cast spells while enemies are trying to knock you back.
3. Unburdened Flight can be useful when you are trying to run away from a pack of enemies and not be slowed by Daze.

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This guide has been written by Saeldur, an Evoker Theorycrafter since the class came out in Dragonflight. He is an accomplished high end player with top parses on multiple specs, an Expert on the Evoker Discord, and has a deep understanding of many other classes, and how they interact with Augmentation Evoker.

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