Introduction
Welcome to the Augmentation Evoker guide written by Daylea!
Daylea has been playing Evoker since its introduction into the game and never looked back. Achieving cutting edge tier after tier with her friends, she is a regular in the Evoker class discord, Wyrmrest Temple, and encourages others to link up with their fellow Evokers to share information. If you have any additional questions that this guide does not answer, feel free to message her directly on Discord (daylea) or join the Wyrmrest Temple Discord where you can get any help you need!
Augmentation Evoker Overview
Augmentation is a DPS spec with a twist! Your main focus is on buffing allies to support them, having them deal more damage.
A very huge change to how this specialization works in 12.0 is that Ebon Might, your primary buff to help your allies, is raid and group wide for all DPS specializations in your raid or group instead of targeting only up to 4 players. This has made Augmentation a much easier spec to get into, and requires much less specific knowledge of other classes and cooldown timings. There has never been a better time to get into this wonderful specialization than patch 12.0.
By providing tons of utility with knockbacks, dispels, shields, damage reductions or even rescuing your friends into a good position, augmentation is a great fit for numerous encounters and always has options to excel in raid and mythic + scenarios. No matter what the content requires, you have it to solve the situation!
What has changed
Patch 12.0 Pre-Patch Changes for Augmentation Evoker
Evoker Class Changes:
- Tier sets from season 3 have been changed for all classes for the remainder of TWW. 2 set is 6% increased damage and 4 set is 10% increased damage for all damage dealing specs.
- New Talent: Stretch Time – While flying during Breath of Eons or Deep Breath, 100% of damage you would take is instead dealt over 10 seconds.
- New Talent: Strike from Above – Glide speed and height increased by 20%.
- New Talent: Inner Radiance – Your Living Flame and Emerald Blossom are 30% more effective on yourself.
- Twin Guardian has been redesigned – Rescue increases movement speed by 100% and allows spells to be cast while moving for 3 seconds.
- Renewing Blaze has been redesigned – Now upgrades Obsidian Scales, causing it to heal you over 8 seconds equal to the amount of damage it reduced.
- Unravel has been redesigned as a passive effect – Fire Breath consumes absorb shields from enemies, dealing additional Spellfrost damage to them.
- Azure Strike damage increased by 50%.
- Strike from Above increases Glide height and speed by 10% (was 20%).
- Leaping Flames now changes the icon for Living Flame while active.
- Fixed an issue where Fire Breath could engage enemies if the player died and resurrected while it was active.
- Several talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Fire Within
- Quell (moved to the Augmentation and Devastation talent trees)
Augmentation Changes:
- New Talent: Clairvoyant – Motes of Possibility may now grant Prescience to allies and have a 10% increased chance to activate.
- New Talent: Improved Defy Fate – Defy Fate healing increased by 100% and its cooldown is reduced by 1 minute.
- Regenerative Chitin has been redesigned – Blistering Scales no longer loses charges and deals 20% more damage.
- Imminent Destruction has been redesigned – Breath of Eons reduces the Essence cost of your next 6 Eruptions by 1.
- Molten Embers has been redesigned – Enemies affected by Fire Breath's damage over time effect take 25% increased damage from your Black spells.
- Quell is now learned in the Augmentation specialization tree (was a class talent).
- Ebon Might now grants 8% primary stat (was 5%).
- Ebon Might is now applied to all damage dealing allies within 100 yards.
- Ebon Might now splits its effect when applied to more than 2 other allies and is no longer is limited to 2 maximum applications.
- Temporal Wound now reduces its effect when Ebon Might is applied to more than 2 allies.
- Breath of Eons' debuff Temporal Wound is now visible to all allies, and indicates how much damage it accumulates on the aura tooltip.
- Breath of Eons accumulates 15% of damage (was 10%).
- All spell and ability damage reduced by 23%.
- Damage dealt by pets and minions reduced by 15%.
- Defy Fate healing increased by 100%.
- Molten Blood absorption increased by 30%.
- Inferno's Blessing now only targets you and 1 nearby ally (was all allies with Ebon Might). New visual of a flame sprite added to represent the blessing.
- Inferno's Blessing damage increased to 350% spell power (was 88% spell power).
- Ignition Rush now increases the damage of Eruption by 20%.
- The cooldown manager has been updated to reflect changes made to Augmentation and can now be used to track the duration of Fire Breath, Breath of Eons, and Bombardments on targets.
- Several talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Imposing Presence
- Inner Radiance (moved to the class talent tree)
- Rockfall
- Stretch Time (moved to the class talent tree)
Scalecommander Hero Talent Changes:
- New Talent: Command Squadron – While flying during Breath of Eons or Deep Breath you are assisted by a squadron of Dracthyr who assault enemies with Pyre, dealing Fire damage to nearby enemies up to 8 times.
- New Talent: Concentrated Power – Mass Disintegrate or Mass Eruption strikes 1 additional target.
- New Talent: Refined Essence – Essence abilities deal 15% more damage.
- Slipstream now grants a charge of Hover instead of granting full charges.
Chronowarden Hero Talent Changes:
- New Talent: Chronoboon – Tip the Scales' cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds.
- New Talent: Overclock – Chrono Flames' maximum damage or healing is increased by 40%, up to 350%.
- New Talent: Energy Cycles – Temporal Burst grants Essence Burst every 6 seconds.
- New Talent: Nozdormu Adept – Temporal Anomaly mana cost reduced by 15% and cooldown reduced by 4 seconds or Prescience cooldown reduced by 2 seconds and it grants 1% additional critical strike chance.
- Golden Opportunity has been redesigned – Now increases the effectiveness of Echo by 10% or the duration of Prescience by 15%.
- Threads of Fate has been removed.