Augmentation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Augmentation Evoker in World of Warcraft — The War Within Pre-Patch. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.
On this page, we cover all the talents you have access to, explaining how each one is to be used. Some of these talents, active or passive, can make a huge difference in how Augmentation Evokers is played, which is explained on our rotation page.
Some talents have a more versatile use in Mythic+ than in raids; if this is more your thing, we strongly recommend that you check the Mythic+ page.
Dragonflight Talent Builds for Augmentation Evoker
Best Single-Target Talent Build for Augmentation Evoker
This build is optimal for pure single-target situations.
This tree uses Echoing Strike over
Regenerative Chitin
because it improves the power of
Azure Strike as a filler for
movement on Single Target since it still has a 10% chance to repeat itself
and the 15% increased damage done.
Regenerative Chitin does not
provide a significant damage increase on a single target due to tanks
constantly swapping, meaning you need to recast anyway.
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the build directly into your game!
Simple All Round Talent Build for Augmentation Evoker
This build drops Echoing Strike for
Pupil of Alexstrasza
as Pupil provides more damage when there are cleave targets available
as it is a better generic talent.
Variations of this build are still possible, such as removing one point of
Innate Magic for
Cauterizing Flame.
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the build directly into your game!
Best Hybrid/Cleave Talent Build for Augmentation Evoker
This is our recommended build for Raid encounters with multiple targets or add waves.
On fights where the adds are infrequent, it could be better to play
Protracted Talons instead of
Oppressing Roar and stay
Echoing Strike to benefit from the better movement spell for
the rest of the fight.
This build drops Echoing Strike for
Pupil of Alexstrasza
as Pupil provides more damage when there are cleave targets available.
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!
Best Mythic+ Talent Build for Augmentation Evoker
This is our recommended build for Mythic+.
You can adjust the tree to add different utility to suit your group
by subbing out talents like Imposing Presence or weaker dps
nodes like
Regenerative Chitin if you want to take other utility options.
Other common changes to the class tree you can make are removing the points in
Innate Magic for week or dungeon specific utility like
Sleep Walk or
Overawe. For more information, see the
dedicated Mythic+ page.
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the build directly into your game!
Augmentation Evoker Talents Explained
Due to the nature of Dragonflight's talent trees, almost every talent is meant to be viable or have a desirable niche where you may want to select it. As such, we will cover some of the more favored talents that you will want to prioritize most of the time from the top of each tree on down, followed by mentioning some of the more considerable niche talents that are likely only rarely useful. If you would like to see a list of every single talent's effect as well as the abbreviations they are often known by in the community, please consult our Spell List and Glossary section instead.
Rows 1-4 Class Talents for Augmentation Evokers
Noteworthy Talents
Talent | Description/Effect |
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One of your few defensive abilities as an Evoker. Needed for
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Gives you the ability to dispel poisons. |
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An easy-to-acquire cast speed increase for ![]() |
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A very strong instant-cast heal. You can use it on yourself or another player. If used on another player, you will fly to them, which can be handy for mobility, too. |
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This talent acts as one of the main drivers for letting your offhealing
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Your interrupt ability. This paths to ![]() |
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The core spell of Augmentation Evoker. Most of Augmentations talents and spells interact in some way with Ebon Might. |
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Your second empowered spell is one of your hardest-hitting spells. This
will deal the same damage at all empowerment levels. Empowering this ability increases
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Breath of Eons is Augmentation's main cooldown. Only allies with Ebon Might contribute to Breath of Eons. You want to pair Breath of Eons with your allies main DPS cooldowns. While optimal timings may change depending on encounters, a good default timing for using it is every 2 minutes, as a lot of classes have 2-minute cooldowns. |
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This is a cheat death effect that also heals allies when it triggers. Incredibly potent. |
Niche Talents
Talent | When to Consider |
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Dungeon scenarios if you need additional crowd control. |
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If your group needs additional dispels. Can remove Bleeds. Recommended in Mythic+. |
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Rows 5-7 Class Talents for Augmentation Evoker
Noteworthy Talents
Talent | Description/Effect |
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Increases cast speed of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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An easy-to-obtain damage boost for all abilities. |
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This makes your next Empowered spell an instant cast and at the maximum
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4% Magic damage reduction for 2 points. Very good talent. |
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An extra 6% stamina. Always take this talent! It is a huge survivability boost. |
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Increases the duration of your ![]() |
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Reduces the essence cost of ![]() |
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Gives a shield to allies that dealt damage during ![]() |
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This is an incredibly powerful effect that provides you and your 4 nearest
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Another Buff Augmentation can Provide. This increases an allies Critical strike
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This is a fairly essential talent due to Evokers not having many
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This makes you cast your empower spells faster, providing a small damage
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Niche Talents
Talent | When to Consider |
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If you need additional CC in the group. For example, on Incorporeal weeks in Mythic+. |
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Makes it significantly easier to land a ![]() ![]() |
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Increased movement speed when you are above 75%. Useful for some transmog farm content. |
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Makes landslide stun midair enemies for 2s per rank. This is a very strong AOE stun however Augmentation talents are very competitive point-wise. This could be useful in Mythic+ or PVP. |
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Grants you and another ally a ![]() |
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This talent is now significantly weaker after being nerfed to 1% Maximum Health increase per point. This may still see niche play at the highest level of content where you absolutely need every last drop of survivability. |
Rows 8-10 Class Talents for Augmentation Evoker
Noteworthy Talents
Talent | Description/Effect |
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Allows you to pick up a friendly player and fly them to a location you select. Quite useful for getting group members out of danger quickly or providing assistance to a player behind the group. |
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Provides decent passive mana to healers. More importantly, ![]() |
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Zephyr provides damage reduction against area of effect abilities to you and 4 nearest allies. This is another nice defensive utility. |
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Time Skip is a channeled spell that increases the cooldown recovery rate of all
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This is a 3-minute cooldown that increases the cast range of you and a healer by 100% and lets you both cast while moving. This is going to be incredibly useful for progression raid encounters where it can let healers free cast during heavy movement periods. |
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This talent increases damage enemies take from black spells
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Niche Talents
Talent | When to Consider |
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If you are going to fight enemies with absorb shields. ![]() |
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3+ Target scenarios. |
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This is mainly used during Raging weeks in Mythic+ |
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When you need additional stuns such as in Mythic+ |
Rotation
Certain talents require changing how you play and your rotation in varying amounts. We will go over the strengths of those talents here, but if you want to know how to use those talents in the rotation, follow the link to the Rotation page, where we go through the rotation or priority system we follow.
PvP Talents (War Mode)
Opting into War Mode makes you eligible for open-world PvP but also grants you the following benefits:
- World Quests at maximum level have 10% increased rewards (30% if you are Alliance).
- You gain 10% increased Experience while leveling (30% if you are Alliance).
- Allows you to earn Conquest Points towards weekly gear rewards.
- Grants you to use PvP talents in the open-world.
With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended that you enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will make yourself eligible for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.
PvP Talents for Augmentation Evokers
There are no PvP talents for Evokers that increase your total damage output. Therefore, the PvP talents you choose are entirely down to personal preference.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Fixed Mythic+ Talent Tree.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Prepatch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated and Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 08 Mar. 2024: Default builds updated.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 09 Aug. 2023: Builds updated for this weeks changes.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Page added.
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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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