Augmentation Evoker Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 2 Augmentation Evoker Tier Set:

• 2 Set: Your damaging spells have a chance to hit a Jackpot!, causing an Upheveal at 100% effectiveness that does not knock enemies up. Casting Breath of Eons always hits a Jackpot!
• 4 Set: Your Upheavals have a 50% chance to grant Essence Burst. Eruptions cast with Essence Burst deal 25% increased damage.

These Set-bonuses look quite promising. They shift a portion of Augmentations overall damage to the player themself which usually feels good. Also Eruption synergizes with many parts of our kit.

The tables below aim to give you a general list of gear that is good for Augmentation Evokers, these lists are not a perfect replacement for simming your character.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Trinkets for Augmentation are a bit different from other “normal” dps specs. Depending on the damage profile of the classes you want to buff, different trinkets can perform better or worse. However Breath of Eons lines up well with 2 minute cooldowns so having a trinket that can support this synergy even more is usually a great fit!

Some good on use trinkets are:

Signet of the Priory - Simple stat stick with a 2 minute on use effect that buffs your highest secondary stat and also nearby allies by the same stat but a smaller number.

Soulletting Ruby - Another 2 minute on use effect trinket that rewards you with additional stats when used on a low hp target.

Following up on the second slot you want to have any trinket that benefits you with a stat boost and/or a flat damage proc.

Eye of Kezan - By far the best passive trinket when it comes to raiding. It stacks intellect and deals damage when fully charged. Note that the buff decreases out of combat. Take that into consideration when picking this trinket.

Mug’s Moxie Jug - This one is super simple. Cast spells and gain extra crit when it procs. Works completely on it’s own and doesn’t tax any brainpower.

There are two embellishments that stand out and should always be crafted in the following order:

1. Craft a 2 handed weapon (Vagabound’s Bounding Baton, Charged Invoker) with a Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension for raiding content or Blessed Weapon Grip for Mythic+ content.
2. Follow this up with a Binding of Binding for both types of content.

Honorable mention: Dawnthread Lining is in theory really strong when you can keep a high uptime on the buff. In most cases it’s not enough to compete with the two above but it’s worth a craft a few weeks into the patch.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

When it comes to the Puzzling Cartel Chips, short “Dinars” there are two things to take into consideration. First and foremost the strength of the item itself and in relation to that, the rarity, or let’s say the chance of you getting that item without using a Dinar for it. Always remember that if you loot an item from the list you can just cross out the ones you already have and spend your Dinars on the other items.

Augmentations Shopping list is quite simple. The only variance that has to be taken into account is if you are going to kill Mythic one armed bandit or not. If you do so, replace the Jastor Diamond with Mythic Best in slots. If you don’t, a Mythic crafted weapon will beat Heroic best in Slots and therefore should be prioritized,

• Best in Slots (Mythic Only)
• Mug’s Moxie Jug
• Eye of Kezan
• The Jastor Diamond

Corruptions

With corruptions coming back in 11.1.5 we once again have the chance to enhance our character with special effects and buffs.

There are two Corruptions that stand out above the others.

Lesser/Greater Rune of the Void Ritual: This is the go-to corruption for any kind of PVE content.

Spells have a chance to increase all secondary stats. Enchant your helmet with it and you’re good to go! Class gameplay and rotation are not affected by this corruption.

Lesser/Greater Rune of Twilight Devastation: For heavy aoe or Mythic+ dungeons Twilight Devastation gets quite competitive with Void Ritual. Although playing Twilight Devastation affects class gameplay with 2 major points.

1. Twilight Devastation beams spawn in front of you and slowly fade forwards so you have to position properly to gain its full value
2. Twilight Devastation beams can pull enemies that are out of combat, make sure to avoid facing nearby packs that could get pulled if Twilight Devastation procs.

Cyrce's Circlet

Going into 11.1 this Ring will still be very powerful for quite a long time. I highly suggest everyone to run a simulation on raidbots to find out when this ring is outperformed by other options. As a guideline other rings will usually be stronger as soon as they are mythic track rings. When using Cyrce’s Circlet you want to socket it with the following gems for any kind of content.

• Singing Thunder Citrine: Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
• Singing Sea Citrine: Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
• Singing Wind Citrine: Legendary Skipper's Citrine