Augmentation Evoker Raid Guide

Welcome to the Augmentation Evoker Raid 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!

Augmentation EvokerRaid

Single-Target

Excellent

AoE

Strong

Utility

Excellent

Survivability

Strong

Mobility

Excellent

• Scalecommander Is generally your best choice and across most raid scenarios outperforms Chronowarden.
• Chronowarden is still competitive and can be better but requires fully optimal usage of Golden Opportunity and having perfect Ebon Might targets including the proximity targets.

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Upheaval deals 30% increased damage and increases the damage of your next 2 Eruption 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

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.

Golden Opportunity

• Playing optimally with Golden Opportunity can be finicky without the aid of certain WeakAuras.
• To play Golden Opportunity efficiently, you need two separate assignments. One which accounts for optimal damage in a normal Prescience and Ebon Might and a separate list which shows the best target for a double duration Prescience and two cycles of Ebon Might.

Rescue

• Rescue is a great part of your toolkit as an Evoker. Using it optimally requires fight awareness, especially in raids but 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.

Ebon Might Target Priority

In War Within this is once again a major optimization for your output. When applying Ebon Might through either Breath of Eons or casting Ebon Might it follows a list as to who it targets.

The following table showcases Ebon Might's application priority from top to bottom.

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.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

The following tips are mainly applicable to Heroic Bosses. Mythic tips are released after our progression concludes.

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

• 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.

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 raid boss.

Active Trinket alternatives

• Treacherous Transmitter
  • Good option in general but exceptional for Scalecommander when planning around 1.5m cooldowns.
• Aberrant Spellforge
  • A decent trinket that comes from an early raid boss.

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
  • Outperforms both Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg and Mad Queen's Mandateif they are the same upgrade track.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj
  • Roughly 10% uptime on its stat buff.
• Unbound Changeling
  • Great stat passive trinket with a somewhat high uptime.

Embellishments

• 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 636 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 most likely gonna 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.

• 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

• 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 is going to be continuously updated.

Discover recommended macros for Augmentation Evoker during Raid encounters 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

Prescience -- Uses Prescience on your mouseover or your target.

#showtooltip Prescience
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Prescience

Cauterizing Flame -- Uses Cauterizing Flame on your mouseover or your target.

#showtooltip Cauterizing Flame(Red)
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Cauterizing Flame(Red)

Time Spiral and Spatial Paradox -- Uses Time Spiral or Spatial Paradox on your mouseover.

#showtooltip
/cast [known:374968] Time Spiral; [@mouseover] Spatial Paradox

Blistering Scales -- Uses Blistering Scales on your mouseover or your target.

#showtooltip Blistering Scales
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Blistering Scales

Generic and Cancelaura macros

Black Attunement -- Removes the need for manually casting Black Attunement and if playing Scalecommander allows you to cancel Breath of Eons early.

#showtooltip Eruption
/cast [nostance:1] Black Attunement
/cancelaura Breath of Eons
/cast Eruption

Tip the Scales Cancelaura -- Casts Tip the Scales on first press and cancels the buff on second press.

/cancelaura Tip the Scales(Bronze)
/cast Tip the Scales(Bronze)

Utility Macros

Rescue Mouseover -- Casts Rescue on your focus target with the end position being your cursor.

#showtooltip Rescue
/tar [@focus]
/cast [@cursor] Rescue
/targetlasttarget

Rescue Mouseover -- Casts Rescue on your target with the end position being your cursor.

#showtooltip 
/cast [@cursor] Rescue

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 Raids to make your life easier.

Addons

• Cell-- Raidframes, and standalone frames
  • Extremely useful addon for Augmentation Evoker due to how easy it is to set up their standalone frames for assigned bufftargets.
• MRT -- Notes, Raid cooldowns, and more
  • Helpful addon for Raiders, especially for Raid leaders and officers.
• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• BigWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.
• Plater -- Advanced Nameplates
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.

WeakAuras

Ebon Might "Punch" by Xepheris

Plays a sound when casting Eruption, Fire Breath or Upheaval. without Ebon Might up or if it will expire before cast success.

Patch 11.0.5

• Evoker
  • Tail Swipe is now learned baseline for Evokers.
  • Permeating Chill is now baseline for Evoker.
  • Unravel damage increased by 25%.
  • Blessing of the Bronze now costs 1% base mana (was 4%).
  • Clobbering Sweep reduces Tail Swipe’s cooldown by 2 minutes (was 45 seconds).
  • Heavy Wingbeats reduces Wing Buffet’s cooldown by 2 minutes (was 45 seconds).
  • Renewing Blaze is no longer affected by healing received modifiers (both positive and negative). Dampening in arena is a special case and will continue to decrease the healing of Renewing Blaze.
  • Heavy Wingbeats and Clobbering Sweep are no longer a choice node, and their position has changed in the class tree.
  • Permeating Chill no longer spams immune messages when attacking enemies who are immune to slows

• Augmentation
  • Imminent Destruction Breath of Eons reduces the essence cost of Eruption by 1 and increases its damage by 10% for 15 sec (was 12 seconds) after you land.
  • Molten Embers Fire Breath causes enemies to take up to 40% (was 20%) increased damage from your Black spells, increased based on its empower level.

Patch 11.0.2

• Evoker
  • Disintegrate damage increased by 10%.
  • Fire Breath damage increased by 10%.
  • Azure Strike damage increased by 10%.
  • Deep Breath damage increased by 10%.
  • Verdant Embrace healing increased by 20%.
  • Living Flame healing increased by 30%.

• Augmentation
  • Black Attunement increases the maximum health of you and 4 nearby allies by 2% (was 4%).
  • Aspects' Favor increases Black Attunement by 1% max health per talent point invested (was 2%).
  • Ebon Might increases primary stat by 5% (was 6.5%).
  • Close as Clutchmates has been removed.

Patch 11.0

• Evoker
  • All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated. 
  • Evokers now start at level 10 (was level 58) and the one-Evoker-per-realm restriction has been removed.
  • Evokers now unlock the talent pane immediately after choosing a specialization in the Forbidden Reach, and they no longer learn “temporary” talents as they complete the Forbidden Reach experience.
  • Several base spells that were previously learned at level 58 are now learned at level 10.
  • Mass Return is now learned at level 38 (was level 59).
  • Fury of the Aspects is now learned at level 48 (was level 60).
  • Overawe has been redesigned – Now grants 30 seconds of cooldown reduction (was cooldown reduction per Enrage dispelled).
  • Spatial Paradox has moved to the Class tree (was Augmentation) and its cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes). Choice node with Time Spiral.
  • Lifecinders now upgrades Renewing Blaze to allow 1 friendly target. If no target is selected, it will find a nearby injured ally.
  • Panacea healing reduced by 50% and now also heals the caster when Verdant Embrace is cast. 
  • Panacea is now considered a Green spell, and is improved by Lush Growth.
  • Oppressing Roar cone radius increased to 60 degrees (was 45 degrees).
  • Landslide now roots targets for 15 seconds (was 30 seconds)

• Augmentation
  • New Talent: Arcane Reach – The range of your helpful magics is increased by 5 yards.
  • New Passive: Sense Power – While enabled, allies with their major cooldown active will be highlighted in the game field and will display a buff icon on party and raid frames. Learned automatically and can be toggled on/off.
  • New Talent: Rumbling Earth – Upheaval causes an aftershock at its location, dealing 50% of its damage 2 additional times.
  • New Talent: Molten Embers – Fire Breath causes enemies to take 20% more damage from your Black spells.
  • New Talent: Imminent Destruction – Breath of Eons reduces the Essence cost of Eruption by 1 and increases its damage by 10% for 12 seconds after you land.
  • Prescience has been updated – When cast without a friendly target, the smart-targeting will now prefer damage role players who have their major cooldowns active.
  • Spatial Paradox has moved to the Class tree.
  • Motes of Possibility now give a random Augmentation Evoker buff (was reduces the cooldown of your major ability by 10 seconds). In addition, the motes will spawn closer to the caster, and they will also slowly float towards the nearest ally.
  • Overlord now guarantees Motes of Possibility will spawn from the Eruptions it casts.
  • Echoing Strike now also increase Azure Strike damage by 15%.
  • Reactive Hide increases damage of Blistering Scales by 15% per stack (was 10%).
  • The following talents are now 1 point:
    • Seismic Slam is now a 1-point talent. The stun duration remains at 4 seconds.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Geomancy has been removed.

Q: Do you play around Momentum Shift?

Yes, you want to attempt to snipe gaining Essence Bursts for Momentum Shift as more often than not you don't lose anything by attempting to do so.

F.e. If you end up with 2x Essence Burst and 6 essence you want to

• Cast Eruption with Essence Burst
• Cast Eruption with Essence Burst
• Cast Eruption
  Cast Living Flame attempting to snipe an Essence Burst for a Momentum Shift extension

Credits

Written By: Saltad

Reviewed By: Fraggo