How To Improve As Augmentation Evoker — The War Within (11.2.7)

Both Interwoven Threads and Time Skip cause Breath of Eons to drift from being a two-minute cooldown. As a Scalecommander you are instead targeting 90 second cooldowns or pushing for 80s for personal damage and resyncing with two-minute cooldowns every 4 minutes. As a Chronowarden with the new Season 3 Tier Set you are doing two 90 second cooldown uses followed by a 120 second use forming a 5 minute cycle that repeats.

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 a lot of 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.

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 is not efficient to wait too long. This is why we suggest using it every 2 minutes every time for Chronowarden and 80-90 seconds/on cooldown for Scalecommander.

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.

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 be used at the highest rank that still lets you cast Upheaval inside of the DoT. Your Upheaval does significantly more damage than Eruption so it is more important to maximise the amplification on Upheaval instead of fitting more Eruptions in. 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 incentivizing 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.