Augmentation Evoker Mythic+ Guide

• 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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