Augmentation Evoker Guide

📊 Stat Priority

Stat priority: Item Level > Critical Strike ≈ Haste > Mastery > Versatility. Crit and Haste are Augmentation's two best stats and are roughly co-equal — Crit increases your buff/empower payoff and Haste lets you cast more empowers per Ebon Might cycle.

• Critical Strike - amplifies your damage and your Breath of Eons / Ebon Might value. A safe stack target.
• Haste - more empowers and Eruptions per cycle = smoother Ebon Might uptime. Pairs near-evenly with Crit.
• Mastery / Versatility - tertiary; Versatility adds a little personal survivability but is the dump stat.

🎁 Tier Set, Trinkets & Consumables

Tier set (via Catalyst): 2pc — Eruption deals more damage and grants an extra Ebon Might application, tightening your buff uptime. 4pc — faster Empower cycling and bonus empower damage during an Ebon Might window. Both bonuses were tuned down from earlier numbers but the 2pc Ebon-Might consistency is the bigger gameplay swing.

• Top trinkets - Shadow of the Empyrean Requiem (best passive) · Vaelgor's Final Stare (big Mastery on-use, line up with Breath of Eons) · Locus-Walker's Ribbon (passive alternative) · Emberwing Feather (M+ on-use Haste burst).
• Gems - one Indecipherable Eversong Diamond (most primary stat) + Flawless Quick Garnet in remaining sockets (Crit/Haste).
• Enchants - Weapon Jan'alai's Precision (or Acuity of the Ren'dorei) + Thalassian Phoenix Oil · Chest Mark of the Worldsoul · Legs Sunfire Silk Spellthread · Ring Nature's Fury · Boots Farstrider's Hunt · Shoulder Akil'zon's Swiftness · Helm Empowered Blessing of Speed.
• Consumables - Flask of the Shattered Sun · Potion Light's Potential · Food Silvermoon Parade feast (or Royal Roast) · Void-Touched Augment Rune (~1% in hard content).

🚀 Opener

Pre-place Blistering Scales on the main tank and pre-cast a filler so Ebon Might lands on the pull. The goal is to stack Ebon Might + Breath of Eons + Tip the Scales empowers + your team's burst into one window. Slam your potion and on-use trinket with Breath of Eons.

1. Pre-pull: Blistering Scales on the main tank
2. Pre-pull (~1.5s): pre-cast Living Flame / Chrono Flame
3. Ebon Might
4. Prescience x2 (onto your best DPS targets)
5. Deep Breath
6. Breath of Eons (+ DPS potion + on-use trinket here)
7. Tip the Scales, then Fire Breath (max rank) for an instant empower
8. Upheaval (low rank for AoE coverage)
9. Time Skip (resets/advances your empower cooldowns)
10. Prescience again as it comes up
11. Fire Breath / Upheaval again off the Time Skip reset
12. Eruption x3 to spend banked Essence
13. Fall into the single-target priority below

⚔️ Single-Target Priority

Everything is built around keeping Ebon Might up 100% of the time and feeding Breath of Eons. Empowers (Fire Breath / Upheaval) and Eruption all extend Ebon Might, so weave them to avoid ever letting it drop. Rank-1 empowers are usually the DPS play in single-target.

1. Ebon Might if it has 4s or less remaining (never let it fall off)
2. Breath of Eons on cooldown (line up with team burst)
3. Deep Breath on cooldown
4. Prescience on cooldown — don't overcap charges
5. Tip the Scales if Fire Breath is available (free instant empower)
6. Fire Breath at its highest useful rank
7. Upheaval on cooldown
8. Time Skip when both Fire Breath and Upheaval are on cooldown
9. Eruption if Ebon Might is active or you're sitting on 2 Essence Burst
10. Blistering Scales — re-apply if it has fallen off the tank
11. Chrono Flame (Chronowarden) as Essence filler
12. Azure Strike (Scalecommander) / Living Flame as the bottom filler

💥 AoE / Multi-Target Priority

Nearly identical to single-target. The key changes: up-rank Upheaval so its impact radius covers the whole pack, and use Living Flame over Azure Strike as filler. Ebon Might now auto-applies to all damaging allies within 100 yds (splitting if more than 2 others), so you almost never hand-target it — only Prescience needs manual targeting.

1. Ebon Might if it has 4s or less remaining
2. Breath of Eons on cooldown — this is your biggest AoE burst (stores group damage, then erupts)
3. Deep Breath on cooldown (strong cleave)
4. Prescience on cooldown onto DPS players
5. Tip the Scales → Fire Breath for a guaranteed full-rank empower
6. Upheaval — UP-RANK so every target is inside the radius
7. Fire Breath (it cleaves the pack and refreshes Ebon Might)
8. Time Skip when both empowers are down
9. Eruption to spend Essence while Ebon Might is up
10. Blistering Scales on the tank if it dropped
11. Living Flame as the bottom-priority filler

⏱️ Cooldowns

Your job is buff orchestration. Breath of Eons is the payoff; everything else either feeds it or keeps Ebon Might rolling. Communicate your 2-minute Breath of Eons window so the group stacks their burst into it.

Breath of Eons2 min

Signature cooldown. Records a share of the damage your Ebon Might / Prescience targets deal during the window, then detonates it as a huge burst. Stack as many allied DPS cooldowns + your potion + on-use trinket into it as possible. Always have Ebon Might active so it lasts the full window.

Ebon Might~30s buff

Your main damage source — grants your primary stat to nearby allies. Auto-applies to all damaging allies in 100 yds (splits past 2 others). Refresh at <=4s left; empowers and Eruption extend it, so weave them and it should never drop.

Prescience~12s recharge, 2 charges

Instant buff that boosts an ally's crit/output and feeds Breath of Eons. Put it on your strongest DPS; cast at an enemy and it smart-buffs a random DPS. The one buff you still hand-target. Don't sit on 2 charges.

Fire Breath / Upheaval~12s empowers

Core empower spells. Both extend Ebon Might and are big chunks of your own damage. Rank 1 for single-target throughput; up-rank Upheaval in AoE for coverage. Use Tip the Scales to make one instant at max rank.

Tip the Scales2 min

Makes your next empower instant at maximum rank. Pair with Fire Breath in the opener and on cooldown. Cancel its buff if no empower is coming within a GCD so you don't waste it.

Time Skip~1 min

Advances all your ability cooldowns — channel it when both Fire Breath and Upheaval are down to get them back early and squeeze in extra empowers during a burst window.

Deep Breath~45-60s

Flies across the area dealing damage and is part of the priority on cooldown; also a positioning/burst tool that's strong as cleave in AoE.

💚 Defensive Toolkit

Evoker is a sturdy ranged spec. Obsidian Scales is your bread-and-butter mitigation; Renewing Blaze and Zephyr cover sustained / magic damage, and Defy Fate is a cheat-death safety net.

Obsidian Scales2 charges

Reduces damage taken; two charges means you can cover back-to-back hits or pre-empt a tank buster. Your primary personal defensive.

Renewing Blaze~1.5 min

Heals you for the damage you take over its duration (talented = passive healing equal to 100% of damage reduced over 8s). Great for sustained/ticking damage.

Zephyr~2 min

Group damage reduction + minor mobility for you and nearby allies — a mini raid cooldown for predictable AoE.

Defy Fate6 min (5 w/ Improved)

Cheat death — survive an otherwise lethal blow. Passive safety net for progression and high keys.

Twin Guardiantalent

Reworked in Midnight to grant movement speed and cast-while-moving rather than an absorb. Mobility-as-survival on demand.

Verdant Embrace / Emerald Blossomself-heal

Off-rotation self-healing to top up between damage events; Verdant Embrace also leaps you to an ally for repositioning.

🧰 Utility & Crowd Control

🗝️ Mythic+ Tips

• You're carried by your buffs, not your damage meter — keep Ebon Might at ~100% uptime and Prescience rolling on the highest-output player (often a Devastation Evoker, Mage, or Hunter).
• Call your Breath of Eons window in voice/chat so the group dumps cooldowns into it — a coordinated 2-min window can be a third of a pull's damage.
• Scalecommander is the M+ default: more personal AoE (Mass Disintegrate / Bombardments) and fire-and-forget, so you can focus on routing and mechanics.
• Rescue is a key/run saver — yank a low ally out of a swirl or fly the tank past a bad pull. Practice the reverse (Rescue yourself toward an ally is not possible; use Hover/Verdant Embrace for your own escapes).
• Sleep Walk enables skips and locks down a dangerous add; Quell + Tail Swipe/Wing Buffet cover interrupts and pack displacement.
• Blistering Scales on the tank is free mitigation — keep it applied; re-cast when it falls off during downtime.
• Source of Magic on the healer in long pulls keeps their mana healthy on draining keys.

⌨️ Macros & Addons

WeakAuras is unavailable in Midnight (12.0) — use Blizzard's built-in Cooldown Manager (import configs from Wago.io). Addons: ElvUI, DBM/BigWigs, Cell or Grid2 with click-casting for Prescience/Rescue/Source of Magic targeting, OmniCD for ally cooldown tracking (helps time Breath of Eons).

#showtooltip Quell
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@focus,exists,harm,nodead][] Quell

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

#showtooltip Rescue
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@focus,help,nodead] Rescue

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

#showtooltip Fire Breath
/cast Tip the Scales
/cast Fire Breath

🚫 Common Mistakes

• Letting Ebon Might drop — it's your single biggest damage source. Refresh at <=4s and weave empowers/Eruption so it never falls off.
• Firing Breath of Eons solo — without the group's cooldowns and your Ebon Might targets active, the recorded-damage payoff is a fraction of its potential. Coordinate the window.
• Buffing the wrong players with Prescience — put it on the genuinely highest-output DPS, not whoever's closest. Watching the meter mid-pull helps.
• Overcapping Prescience charges — a wasted charge is wasted group damage. Press it on cooldown.
• Hand-targeting Ebon Might — it auto-applies to all damaging allies in 100 yds now; only Prescience needs manual targeting.
• Up-ranking empowers in single-target — rank-1 Fire Breath is usually the throughput play; only up-rank Upheaval for AoE radius coverage.
• Hoarding Rescue/Hover — these win pulls. Holding them 'just in case' all key long is wasted utility; use them on the mechanics you can see coming.