Augmentation Evoker Mythic+ Guide

11.0.5 - The War Within

Last Updated:November 29, 2024|Changelog|FAQ

Welcome to the Augmentation Evoker Mythic+ guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Overview

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker
Augmentation EvokerMythic+
Single-Target
Strong
AoE
Average
Utility
Excellent
Survivability
Strong
Mobility
Excellent
Augmentation Evoker Mythic+ Best in Slot

Hero Talents

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  • For most scenarios Scalecommander edges out Chronowarden but both are at a similar power level and whichever is better depends on which buff targets are available.
  • If you have allies with 1.5-minute cooldown timings Scalecommander is superior
  • With 2-minute cooldown timings Chronowarden ends up better with current tuning.
Chronowarden
Scalecommander
  • Temporal Burst turns Tip the Scales into a strong offensive cooldown that increases your Haste and cooldown recovery rate.
    • The increased Haste, movement Speed and cooldown recovery rate buff effect is reduced by 1% every second during the 30s duration of Temporal Burst.
    • The total reduced cooldown of your abilities is 4.65 seconds.
  • Warp transforms your normal Hover into a Blink
    • Be cautious as this has a small delay.
    • This currently only works when you are on or close to solid ground, if you are too high up in the air it will become a normal Hover.
  • Similar to your Mastery Threads of Fate causes your Empowered spells to provide an additional damage buff.
    • This ability follows the same Targeting Priority as Shifting Sands.
  • When timed correctly Temporality can be very strong as a minor defensive cooldown whenever you are out of everything else.
  • Golden Opportunity
    • This effect has now become chance based which complicates maximizing your output.
  • Mass Eruption
    • Fire Breath and Upheaval changes your next Eruption into a Mass Eruption that either strikes up to 3 targets or deals increased damage for each target less than 3.
    • Mass Eruption can stack up to 2 which means you can cast both empower abilities back to back.
  • Bombardments Is the major interaction of Scalecommander.
    • Bombardments does not pandemic which allows you to cast two Mass Eruptions in a row without losing debuff uptime.
    • This also maximizes Wingleader and allows you to make Breath of Eons a 1.5 minute cooldown when optimized.
    • Diverted Power significantly increases the uptime of Momentum Shift.
  • Hardened Scales and Nimble Flyer are both extremely effective defensive options and such should almost always be taken.
  • Slipstream currently restores both charges of your Hover if Aerial Mastery is talented.
    • This can be extremely useful in certain fights if additional Hover uptime is needed.
  • Maneuverability
    • Causes your Breath of Eons to always be aimed in front of your character and can now be steered.
    • This also makes Breath of Eons fly the entire duration unless you cancel it early by pressing the ability once more.
    • Be careful to not spam your Breath of Eons keybind as you might cancel it before it hits your target while still going on cooldown.

Talents

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Chronowarden
Scalecommander
Chronowarden Augmentation Evoker in Mythic+

When to use this Spec

Both specs are competitive in organized high, as well as low to mid Mythic+ keys. Use this spec when you play with buff targets that have 2-minute cooldown timings.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

  • Ebon Might
    • Your gameplay as an Augmentation Evoker revolves around optimizing and extending this buff.
  • Prescience
    • This causes the target to become the first priority for your Ebon Might and Shifting Sands.
    • Anachronism causes Prescience to have a 35% chance of generating one Essence Burst.
  • Breath of Eons
    • Used as your major offensive cooldown in combination with Ebon Might and Prescience.
  • Essence Burst
    • Causes Eruption to apply Momentum Shift.
  • Molten Embers
    • Causes your Upheaval and Eruption to deal up to 40% more damage depending on Fire Breath empower rank.

Class Tree

  • Rescue
    • Use to save your friends by moving them or utilizing Twin Guardian.
    • Optionally, use it as your own personal defensive in certain fights.
  • Zephyr
    • Used to reduce AOE damage across the entire party.
  • Tip the Scales
    • Used to activate Temporal Burst
    • Used generally with Fire Breath
  • Source of Magic
    • Potent Mana buffs a friendly healer.
  • Oppressing Roar
    • Combine this with either Terror of the Skies or a friendly CC like Sigil of Silence.
  • Cauterizing Flame
    • Massive for certain encounters, often utilized as a bleed dispel for tank mechanics.

Hero Talents

  • Temporality
    • Since this functions as an extra defensive, it is fully locked in.
  • Double-time
    • Outperforms and is easier to play than Time Convergence.
  • Instability Matrix
    • Outperforms Master of Destiny.
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In Mythic+

When to use this Spec

Both specs are competitive in organized high, as well as low to mid Mythic+ keys. Use this spec when you play with buff targets that have 45-second or 1.5-minute cooldown timings.

Talent Adjustments

Listing all the changes within the Class and Spec tree compared to the default build.

Spec Tree

  • No changes

Class tree

  • Added
    • Plot the Future
  • Removed
    • Molten Embers

Hero Talents

Changed Chronowarden to Scalecommander for more info visit the Hero Talent section above.

  • Hardened Scales
    • Your default pick since it can save you from having to use multiple defensives.
    • Menacing Presence currently applies on immune targets, this will most likely be fixed.
  • Diverted Power
    • Outperforms Extended Battle with current tuning.
  • Nimble Flyer
    • Small damage reduction from AoE abilities but can still be the difference between living or dying.

Rotation

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Tier Set

  • 2-Set: Upheaval deals 30% increased damage and increases the damage of your next 2 Eruptions by 30%.
  • 4-Set: Ebon Might increases primary stats by an additional 0.4% of your own every 2 seconds it remains active up to 2.0%

Single-Target

Chronowarden
Scalecommander

Opener

  • Your goal in the opener is to quickly cast all your buffs and then maximize the effectiveness of Molten Embers as it heavily buffs your personal damage. Below, you can see an example of how your opener looks when using the recommended Chronowarden spec.
Augmentation Evoker Chronowarden opener in Mythic+

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

  1. Cast Ebon Might If refreshing, cast at 5.5s or less remaining.
  2. Cast Prescience
  3. Cast Breath of Eons
  4. Cast Fire Breath Empower 3 -- Use Tip the Scales when available
  5. Cast Upheaval Empower 1
  6. Cast Eruption with Essence Burst
  7. Cast Living Flame if Momentum Shift stacks = 2 and Essence < 4
  8. Cast Eruption
  9. Cast Living Flame or Azure Strike

Opener

  • Your main goal with the Scalecommander opener is to quickly cast all your buffs and start maximizing the effectiveness of Bombardments. Below, you can see an example of how your opener looks when using the recommended Scalecommander spec.
Augmentation Evoker Scalecommander opener in Mythic+

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

  1. Cast Ebon Might If refreshing, cast at 5.5s or less remaining.
  2. Cast Prescience
  3. Cast Breath of Eons
  4. Cast Fire Breath Empower 3 -- Use Tip the Scales when available
  5. Cast Upheaval Empower 1
  6. Cast Eruption with Essence Burst
  7. Cast Living Flame if Momentum Shift stacks = 2 and Essence < 4
  8. Cast Eruption
  9. Cast Living Flame or Azure Strike

Multi Target

Generally, there are no changes to your rotation based on target count, the only possible change is for you to adapt to how long a pack lives and accordingly hold off using Ebon Might and Empowered abilities.

Deep dive

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Augmentation Evoker

Upheaval and Eruption

  • With the new expansion there are now multiple talents increasing your personal damage.
    • Molten Embers
    • Rumbling Earth
    • Reverberations
    • Tectonic Locus
    • With these in mind, make sure to optimize your rotation.
    • This includes casting Fire Breath on or higher than Empower 3.
      • Make sure you will fit your next Upheaval within the 12-second window of Fire Breath.
    • You should also never use Upheaval unless Molten Embers is active on the target.

Rescue

  • Rescue is a great part of your toolkit as an Evoker. Using it optimally requires fight awareness, but it can often save your less mobile allies from sticky situations.
  • When you don't need Rescue for its movement part, you should be looking to use it for the very potent defensive effect Twin Guardian as often as possible.

Hover

  • Managing and timing your Hover casts correctly in combat to get more casts in while dealing with mechanics is where you see the biggest difference in your DPS. Optimizing your rotation is not that complex for Augmentation Evoker.
  • Starting a cast of a spell such as Eruption at the very end of a Hover buff still lets you finish that specific cast while moving. Keep this in mind to get more benefit from each use of Hover!
  • Make sure you are tracking your uptime and charges of Hover on your UI. Get really comfortable with utilizing this ability as it is the most significant unique strength of an Evoker.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

Dungeons

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Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
City of Threads
The Stonevault
The Dawnbreaker
Mists of Tirna Scithe
The Necrotic Wake
Siege of Boralus
Grim Batol
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In Ara-Kara, City of Echoes

Boss Tips

Avanoxx

  • Obsidian Scales on Alerting Shrill.
  • Avoid kiting Starved Crawlers into the boss as it receives Insatiable from that.
    • Use Tail Swipe to keep them stacked.
    • AoE them down as soon as possible.
  • Gossamer Onslaught spawns Vile Webbing below each player, attempt to stack up as a group to conserve as much space as possible.

Anub'zekt

  • Make sure to always keep a charge of Hover for when you're targeted by Burrow Charge.
    • Rescue can be a lifesaver if Impale is accidentally baited badly.
  • Kill Bloodstained Webmages fast and interrupt Silken Restraints.

Ki'katal the Harvester

  • Use a defensive while you're affected by Cultivated Poisons since it hits like a truck!
    • You can dispel this with Expunge.
  • Cosmic Singularity Requires you to pre-emptively stand in Grasping Blood.
    • When you're affected by Grasping Blood you will be rooted and take heavy damage. Any form of crowd control cancels the root, use Tail Swipe to clear your and any friend's root around you.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Resonant Barrage from Trilling Attendant.
    • Horrifying Shrill from Ixin.
    • Revolting Volley from Bloodstained Webmage.
    • Venom Volley from Blood Overseer.
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Alarm Shrill from Sentry Stagshell
      • A really long cast that needs to get disrupted.
    • Massive Slam from Nerubian Hauler and Hulking Bloodguard
      • A short stun that ramps in damage done per cast.

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In City of Threads

Boss Tips

Orator Krix'vizk

  • Use your defensives during Vociferous Indoctrination.
  • Use Hover aggressively during Shadows of Doubt
    • you can also use Spatial Paradox if you are out of Hover charges.

Fangs of the Queen

  • Watch out for Knife Throw. Use defensives if you're targeted by this ability.
  • Make sure stack up to help your tank to deal with Freezing Blood.

The Coaglamation

  • Use your defensives for Dark Pulse. This happens at 100 boss energy.
  • Viscous Darkness continuously summons orbs throughout the room, these need to be soaked before they reach the boss.
    • When you soak an orb you get Corrupted Coating.

Izo, the Grand Splicer

  • It is important to understand how Shifting Anomalies works. After first spawning they will change their positions roughly every 10 seconds, dealing damage throughout their entire path from point A to B.
  • Use your defensives for Splice since it is the highest damage event during this fight.
  • Make sure you have damage and buffs available for whenever Umbral Weave happens, as there are overlaps that require you to kill them within 5 seconds or you will be hit by Shifting Anomalies.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Web Bolt from Sureki Silkbinder.
    • Grimweave Blast from Covert Webmancer.
    • Mending Web from Covert Webmancer.
    • Twist Thoughts from Herald of Anurek.
    • Void Wave from Sureki Unnaturaler.

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In The Stonevault

Boss Tips

E.D.N.A.

  • Always stack up to spawn Volatile Spikes close together to ensure you can detonate them all with 1 Refracting Beam.
    • Use Renewing Blaze whenever it's ready for this ability.
  • Use Twin Guardian for Earth Shatterer.

Skarmorak

  • Use your defensive before Unstable Crash happens or while you have multiple stacks of Unstable Energy.
  • Take note that you are of a lower priority to pick up Unstable Energy orbs, allow your fellow DPS players to take them first and extend if needed.

Master Machinists Brokk and Dorlita

  • With quick reactions you can Hover towards Speaker Brokk to quickly interrupt Molten Metal with Quell whenever he jumps away.
  • Use your defensives during Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.

Void Speaker Eirich

  • Void Corruption
    • Debuff that does ramping damage, needs to be cleared with Void Rift.
    • You can Rescue someone into a Void Rift and clear both players debuffs.
  • Entropic Reckoning Drops a zone, conserve as much space as you can.
    • Use defensives for this mechanic or when you have high stacks of Void Corruption.

Trash Tips

  • Focus down Earth Burst Totem from Cursedforge Stoneshaper. They have a low amount of health but are not affected by AoE abilities.
  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Howling Fear from Ghastly Voidsoul.
    • Censoring Gear from Turned Speaker.
    • Piercing Wail from Void Bound Howler.
    • Restoring Metals from Forgebound Mender and Cursedforge Mender.
    • Arcing Void from Cursedheart Invader.

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
ScalecommanderAugmentation Evoker In The Dawnbreaker

Boss Tips

Speaker Shadowcrown

  • You can pre-move when Collapsing Night is placed to not take any damage.
    • Getting out of this quickly is important since it deals a lot of damage every 0.5 seconds.

Anub'ikkaj

  • Make sure to bait Dark Orb in a direction that makes it travel a long distance before exploding.
  • Control Animate Shadows with Tail Swipe and Upheaval.
  • Use defensives for the Dark Orb and Shadowy Decay.

Rasha'nan

  • Be aware of Erosive Spray. It applies Lingering Erosion which is dangerous when combined with other damage events.
  • During Phase 2 you can mitigate a lot of damage by making sure to have Hover or Rescue available for when you get targeted by Spinneret's Strands.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Night Bolt from Nightfall Shadowmage.
    • Ensnaring Shadows from Nightfall Shadowmage.
    • Tormenting Beam from Nightfall Darkcaster.
    • Umbral Barrier from Nightfall Darkcaster.
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Anub'ikkaj and Ixkreten the Unbreakable - Terrifying Slam
    • Nightfall Dark Architect - Usher Reinforcements
    • Anub'ikkaj and Deathscreamer Iken'tak - Dark Orb
    • Anub'ikkaj and Ascendant Vis'coxria - Shadowy Decay

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In Mists of Tirna Scithe

Boss Tips

Ingra Maloch

  • Interrupt Spirit Bolt every time a non-tank player is targeted.
  • Try to line up your cooldowns with Droman Oulfarran's Droman's Wrath to gain a huge DPS boost. This happens when Droman Oulfarran reaches 20% health.

Mistcaller

  • Landslide the Illusionary Vulpins to prevent them from reaching their target.
  • Use your defensives during the Guessing Game.

Tred'ova

  • Break Mind Link quickly with Hover.
    • You might need to play in melee to reach everyone for buffs, be cautious and ready to break this quickly.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Harvest Essence from Drust Harvester.
    • Stimulate Resistance from Spinemaw Staghorn.
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Tirnenn Villager - Overgrowth
    • Spinemaw Staghorn - Acid Nova
    • Mistveil Stalker - Mistveil Bite
      • You can dispel it with Cauterizing Flame.
    • Spinemaw Reaver
      • Dispel this with Expunge.

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In The Necrotic Wake

Boss Tips

Blightbone

  • Use Obsidian Scales if you're targeted by Heaving Retch.
  • Control Carrion Worms with Tail Swipe.

Amarth, The Harvester

  • Sleep Walk either the Reanimated Crossbowman or Reanimated Mage if you're not planning on killing them quickly.

Surgeon Stitchflesh

  • Make sure to correctly aim Meat Hook from Stitchflesh's Creation towards Surgeon Stitchflesh.

Nalthor the Rimebinder

  • Use Rescue whenever targeted by Dark Exile.
    • Make sure you are in the flying animation of Rescue when the projectile hits.
    • Do note that you still die after 50 seconds after doing this.
    • Don't do it if you have 0 combat resurrections ready!
    • You can also use Rescue to save someone else.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Drain Fluids from Corpse Harvester and Corpse Collector.
    • Necrotic Bolt from Zolramus Sorceror & Zolarmus Necromancer.
    • Rasping Scream from Skeletal Marauder.
    • Frostbolt Volley from Reanimted Mage.
    • Goresplatter from Corpse Collector.
    • Repair Flesh from Flesh Crafter.
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Zolramus Necromancer Grim Fate
    • Skeletal Marauder - Gruesome Cleave
    • Flesh Crafter - Throw Cleaver
      • This spell also does damage to enemies and should be aimed at any enemy to deal extra damage.

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In Siege of Boralus

Boss Tips

Chopper Redhook

  • Line up your cooldowns with the boss walking over Bombs which afflict him with Heavy Ordnance.

Dread Captain Lockwood

  • Focus down the Ashvane Cannoneer during the phase change to quickly use Unstable Ordnance to get the boss down from the ship.
  • Avoid stacking up when Fiery Ricochet happens.

Hadal Darkfathom

  • Break Water
    • Very important for you to bait these water pools away from the middle statue.
  • Tidal Surge
    • Spawn 2 waves that need to be dodged back to back.
    • Utilizing the middle statue is the only way to deal with this mechanic.

Viq'Goth

  • Putrid Waters
    • Extremely dangerous debuff, make sure to have defensives ready if you aren't first dispel.
    • Make sure you are in range for a dispel after shooting the cannon.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Watertight Shell from Irontide Waveshaper.
    • Choking Waters from Bilge Rat Tempest.
    • Stinky Vomit from Bilge Rat Pillager.
    • Bolstering Shout from Ashvane Commander.
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Irontide Raider - Iron Hook into Fire Bomb.
    • Blacktar Bomber - Fire Bomb

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst
Scalecommander Augmentation Evoker In Grim Batol

Boss Tips

General Umbriss

  • Use defensives on Commanding Roar.
    • Find the safe lane as fast as possible.
  • Rock Spike
    • Places a zone below you and knocks you forward, make sure to conserve space.

Forgemaster Throngus

  • Attempt to bait Fiery Cleave towards a wall.
  • Use Renewing Blaze during Blistering Heat.
  • If targeted by Molten Spark use Obsidian Scales.

Drahga Shadowburner

  • Use Obsidian Scales for Twilight Buffet.

Erudax, the Duke of Below

  • Use defensives during Abyssal Corruption and Void Surge.
  • You can use Breath of Eons to immune Void Tendrils to clear the room.
  • Void Infusion
    • Summons Twilight Hatchlings, these explode when killed and apply Shadow Wound.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Mass Tremor from Twilight Earthcaller.
    • Sear Mind from Twilight Beguiler.
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Twilight Destroyer - Umbral Wind
      • This cast is able to be LoS
    • Twilight Lavabender - Ascension
      • Ascension triggers on 50% HP and causes the mob to pulsate with Scorching Heat.
    • Faceless Corruptor - Corrupt and Mind Piercer
      • Getting hit by Mind Piercer causes you to become mind-controlled, make sure to dodge it.

Pre Dungeon Start

  • When playing Chronowarden you can use Tip the Scales before keystart and it resets giving you 18s of Temporal Burst

Affixes

The Affix system got revamped going into The War Within Season 1 retiring most Affixes as well as introducing new kiss-curse ones while also changing on which key level these appear.

  • +2 Affixes -- Rotates on a weekly basis
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
  • +4 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis
    • Tyrannical
    • Fortified
  • +7 Affix
    • Challenger's Peril
  • +10 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis, is always the opposite of the +4 Affix
    • Tyrannical
    • Fortified
  • +12 Affix
    • Xal'atath's Guile -- Replaces the +2 Affix

Following you get some useful tips for handling different Mythic+ Affixes as a Augmentation Evoker.

  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
    • Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet
    • Be careful to not carelessly pushback the mob pack you are currently fighting.
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
    • Make sure to target the Void Emissary and kill it
    • If needed you can talent into Unravel for this affix.
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
    • Utilize Hover and intercept as many orbs as possible.
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
    • You can dispel it with Expunge and Cauterizing Flame.

Stat Priority

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Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Mythic+ dungeons as a Augmentation Evoker. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

Chronowarden
Scalecommander
Augmentation Evoker Chronowarden Stat Priority in Raids
Augmentation Evoker Scalecommander Stat Priority in Raids
  • Haste is your best stat up until around 15-20%, after that Haste, Mastery and Critical Strike are all roughly equal.

Higher Item level items are better in most scenarios. Generally you can find stat weights in the Evoker Augmentation discord. In the BiS gear there is more haste than technically optimal according to sims, but having more haste smoothens out the spec and makes it simpler to play.

All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

  • Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
  • Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing. Most of your damage comes from buffed players, thus it becomes not optimal.
  • Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.

Gear

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Farmable Alternatives
SlotItemLocation
HeadRattling Deadeye HoodThe Necrotic Wake
NeckSureki Zealot's InsigniaSikran, Captain of the Sureki
ShoulderFumaroles of the DestroyerRasha'nan Tier / Catalyst
CloakWings of Shattered SorrowRasha'nan
ChestScales of the DestroyerBroodtwister Ovi'nax Tier / Catalyst
WristGlyph-Etched VambracesCrafting
GlovesRippers of the DestroyerSikran Tier / Catalyst
BeltLost Watcher's RemainsThe Bloodbound Horror
LegsLegguards of the DestroyerKy'veza Tier / Catalyst
BootsSure-Foot SabatonsSiege of Boralus
Ring 1Seal of the Poisoned PactQueen Ansurek
Ring 2Binding of BindingCrafting
Trinket 1Mad Queen's MandateQueen Ansurek
Trinket 2Spymaster's WebSilken Court
WeaponTakazj's Entropic EdictSilken Court

Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.

SlotItemLocation
HeadRattling Deadeye HoodThe Necrotic Wake
NeckTrailspinner PendantMists of Tirna Scithe
ShoulderCourier's Dragonriding SpauldersGrim Batol
CloakTroggstitched DrapeGrim Batol
ChestCoagulum CuirassCity of Threads
WristPenumbral RimeguardsCity of Threads
GlovesCorpseleecher GripsThe Stonevault
BeltReinforced Anti-Intruder ChainmailThe Stonevault
LegsEntwined Chimeric LegguardsCity of Threads
BootsSure-Foot SabatonsSiege of Boralus
Ring 1Umbriss BandGrim Batol
Ring 2Seal of the City WatchSiege of Boralus
Trinket 1Ara-Kara SacbroodAra-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket 2Signet of the PrioryPriory of the Sacred Flame
WeaponStaff of Siphoned EssencesGrim Batol

Very rare items

  • Sureki Zealot's Insignia
    • This neck has perfect stats for Scalecommander but even for Chronowarden, this neck is still effective on Augmentation as any other class, so if needed for the mana effect, you should equip this.
  • Wings of Shattered Sorrow
    • You should always equip this if available as long as it's a similar item level to your other cloak.

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the mythic+ dungeon.

Active Trinket alternatives

  • Treacherous Transmitter
    • Good option in general but exceptional for Scalecommander when planning around 1.5m cooldowns.
  • Signet of the Priory
    • Very strong farmable option for early gearing.
    • This item can only be upgraded to 606 due to it coming from a Mythic Dungeon.

Passive Trinket alternatives

  • Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg
    • If played well it competes with Mad Queen's Mandate and should be used until you have access to myth track Mad Queen's Mandate.
  • Ara-Kara Sacbrood
    • Decent damage and uptime on the Intellect buff
  • Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj
    • Roughly 10% uptime on its stat buff.
  • Unbound Changeling
    • Great stat passive trinket with a somewhat high uptime.

Embellishments

As for your first Spark item its almost always the most efficient to craft either a staff or offhand. But going further into the patch you want to replace it with a Myth track weapon and change to BoB

  • 1x Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension
    • It can only be crafted on weapons or offhand.

with

  • Writhing Armor Banding
    • Doubles the effectiveness of your Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension

or

  • 1x Elemental Focusing Lens
    • Deals a decent amount of damage in single-target.
    • The optimal slots to craft on are Wrists, Boots, Waist depending on your available gear.
  • 1x Binding of Binding
    • Augmentation scales worse from secondaries than other classes, due to that BoB is good.

Remaining Sparks

  • Crafted items are 636 item level and regular items are 639 on max item level, therefore it is not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

Simcraft

To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.

Augmentation Evoker is now technically supported on Raidbots, but they are very early alpha, and you are going to most likely get weird results.

  • If you end up having issues with the simulations and have questions I might not be able to help, for such issues, you could need to ask in the Evoker Discord.
  • DO NOT use Stat Weights Sims, they only affect your personal damage. As such, you won't be given relevant results.
  • Use only Top Gear and Droptimizer.
  • RDPS or "Raid DPS" is the damage dealt by your entire group. This is done because Augmentation is a Support that buffs other DPS therefore they are required for it to operate. Due to this and a few factors mentioned below, sims do not output the contribution of the Augmentation Evoker individually and can only provide comparisons. Thankfully, comparisons are all you need to optimize gear or talent choices.

Consumables

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker
  • Phials
    • Flask of Tempered Mastery -- maximum DPS.
      • If playing Scalecommander Flask of Tempered Swiftness can be better depending on your stats.
    • Flask of Tempered Versatility -- less DPS but more survivability.
  • Food
    • Feast of the Divine Day
    • Feast of the Midnight Masquerade
  • Combat Potion
    • Tempered Potion
  • Health Potion
    • Algari Healing Potion -- a big burst of healing
  • Weapon Oil
    • Algari Mana Oil -- default
    • Oil of Deep Toxins
  • Augment Rune
    • Crystallized Augment Rune
  • Sockets
    • Deadly Onyx or Masterful Emerald
    • Culminating Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem color to enhance your Culminating Blasphemite.
      • Masterful Ruby
      • Masterful Emerald
      • Masterful Sapphire

Enchantments

HeadNerubian Gemweaver
NeckMagnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
CloakEnchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace
ChestEnchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
WristEnchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance
Nerubian Gemweaver
WaistNerubian Gemweaver
LegsSunset Spellthread
BootsEnchant Boots - Scout's March
Ring 1Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
Ring 2Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
WeaponEnchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power
Augmentation Evoker Enchantments in Mythic+

You buy Nerubian Gemweaver from the Great Vault Vendor to add sockets to your Helm, Wrists & Waist.

Log Review

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker
  • With pre-patch, roughly 50-55% of your damage as Augmentation is strictly from your buffs. Due to that, it is vital to buff the correct targets. For the easiest time, you look at Details and buff the top 4 players. The next stage is utilizing Warcraftlogs and buffing the top 4 DPS. For the last stage, you manually input your timings into Warcraftlogs and make decisions upon that.
  • This Section is a WIP and will be continuously updated.

Macros

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker

Discover recommended macros for Augmentation Evoker during Mythic+ dungeons and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

Cursor Macros

Breath of Eons -- Casts Breath of Eons on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip 
/cast [@cursor] Breath of Eons(Bronze)

Mouseover Macros

Generic and Cancelaura macros

Utility Macros

Addons

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker

Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Augmentation Evoker, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Mythic+ dungeons to make your life easier.

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Augmentation Evoker Mythic+ User Interface

Addons

WeakAuras

Changes this Patch

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker

Patch 11.0.5

Patch 11.0.2

Patch 11.0

FAQ

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Augmentation Evoker

Q: Do you play around Momentum Shift?

Credits

Written By: Saltad

Reviewed By: Fraggo

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