How To Improve As Augmentation Evoker — Midnight Season 1

Thanks to the power added by Augmentation Evoker's Apex Talent Duplicate it is correct to use Breath of Eons on cooldown for all Hero Talent options.

In Mythic+ it can be correct to hold Breath of Eons for a few seconds to line up with at least one DPS's burst. Holding for more than 5 to 6 seconds will end up being a significant DPS loss as the wasted time will accumulate over the entire run and might cost you a use! Currently, Augmentation gets a significant amount of value from pressing the cooldown even with bad Alignment as it deals a lot of damage with Breath of Eons and Duplicate.

In raid there is little incentive to hold Breath of Eons for DPS cooldowns unless the entire raid is syncing back up for an important raid mechanic like a damage amplifier. It can also be worth holding Breath of Eons for 20-40 seconds to use with Bloodlust or Time Warp if it will not cost you a use.

Upheaval should only be charged so that its AoE covers every mob you are fighting. Charging this spell further than it needs to does not deal any additional damage and just wastes time.

With Molten Embers Fire Breath should always be used at Rank 1 to get the highest uptime on the DoT as possible to maximise the damage amplification. If you do not have Molten Embers then Fire Breath should be maximally charged with Leaping Flames or Rank 1 without.

A large portion of the value of your Empowered Spells comes from Sands of Time and Empowered Spells have similar cooldowns to Ebon Might which means they should never fall outside of Ebon Might.

Because of this, you want to never cast an Empower outside of Ebon Might preferring to sit on them until Ebon Might is back up. This should never be long because Fire Breath has the same cooldown as Ebon Might, and Upheaval gets reduced by Accretion, which is a recommended talent in all builds.

Most of the value of your Eruption comes from Sands of Time incentivising you to make sure all casts happen within Ebon Might, however if you are flooded with resources, it can still sometimes be correct to cast outside.

When Ebon Might falls off, you want to stop using Eruption unless you are about to cap on Essence or have capped on Essence Burst to make sure you have as much resources for your next Ebon Might to extend it as long as possible.

Sometimes this will happen, and it is out of your control, such as when you get a lot of Essence Burst or Hoarded Power procs in a row. It can also happen when you are pooling resources for your next Ebon Might. Outside of that, you should not be experiencing this and see Essence as more of a Combo Point system; if it is full, it needs to be spent.