How To Improve As Augmentation Evoker — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will find out how you can improve at playing Augmentation Evoker in World of Warcraft — The War Within Pre-Patch. We list the common mistakes that you should try to avoid and the small details that can greatly improve your performance.
Using Breath of Eons on Cooldown.
Both Interwoven Threads and
Time Skip cause
Breath of Eons to drift from being a two-minute cooldown.
As Breath of Eons is a multiplier to other players' damage, you want to
time it when other players are doing the most damage. Other players do the
most damage during their own cooldowns; hence we want to use it at the same
time as their cooldowns. For the classes that synergize best with
Augmentation this is every two minutes. This means you need to hold your
Breath of Eons for a short duration to let them line back up.
Not using Breath of Eons enough.
As with all cooldowns, if you are holding them for too long you are wasting them.
Breath of Eons is no exception to this, despite the previous point.
Whilst there is an incentive to hold Breath of Eons to line up with
other players' cooldowns, as just mentioned, it isn't efficient to wait too
long. This is why we suggest using it every 2 minutes every time and
choosing players with
Prescience and
Ebon Might to match
a 2-minute cadence.
Using Hover without a GCD being used before
Hover is not on the GCD and only has an animation lockout. This means
that you can cast an instant cast spell and during the GCD of that spell use
Hover to not lose any GCDs in your rotation. This should be used for when
you need to do movement to not lose DPS.
Charging Your Empowered Spells too Much
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.
Fire Breath should be charged to the maximum rank possible with
Leaping Flames but should only be charged to Rank 1 without as there
is no gain to spending more time casting. Leaping Flames is a recommended
talent for every Augmentation build due to power, so most of the time you
will want to use a high-rank Fire Breath.
Casting Empowered Spells outside of Ebon Might
Most of the value of your Empowered Spells comes from Sands of Time
and Empowered Spells have similar cooldowns to
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.
Casting Eruption outside of Ebon Might
Most of the value of your Eruption comes from
Sands of Time
incentivizing you to make sure all casts happen within Ebon Might, however
if you're 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.
Overcapping on Essence
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.
Casting Prescience on a Tank or Healer in Raid
As Ebon Might prefers to go on targets with
Prescience
ignoring what role they have, it is not recommended to ever cast Prescience on a
Tank or Healer due to both having lower damage throughput than DPS classes.
It is correct to cast
Prescience on Tanks in Mythic+ content.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Prepatch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 19 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for patch 10.2.5
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 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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