Evoker Hero Talents — The War Within (11.0.5)

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Augmentation Evoker, check out our Talents page:

Scalecommander is the go to Hero Talent if you want to fire and forget or play content with less than 4 DPS to buff. Scalecommander has less cooldown syncing and tracking requirements than Chronowarden.
Scalecommander is roughly equal to Chronowarden in raids but approximately 1% ahead in content where you do not have four other dps to buff. Scalecommander performs better than Chronowarden does when you have weaker allies since it is less reliant on their throughput to be effective. This means it is the best default recommendation for most players for all content.
Additionally, Scalecommander does significantly more personal damage than Chronowarden which is the main reason it is less reliant on the damage your allies are dealing. Although, since the majority of this damage comes from Bombardments it does not get access to all of it solo because it cannot saturate the internal cooldown by itself.
Scalecommander presses Breath of Eons nearly on cooldown to maximise the effects of Melt Armor, Imminent Destruction and Plot the Future. The increase to personal damage provided by all of these talents mostly outweighs timing Breath of Eons to DPS cds although ideally you still loosely sync it. On single target you will get close to a 90 second cooldown on Breath of Eons and on AoE it can be as low as 60s because of Wingleader granting cooldown reduction.

Chronowarden is an alternative Hero Talent for Raiding and Mythic+. This tree has a larger focus on planning and strategic play with its buffs. You play your Breath of Eons as a 2 minute cooldown alongside Tip the Scales as a Chronowarden.
A large part of Chronowarden is Double-time which increases the strength of Ebon Might. This makes it slightly weaker in Mythic+ where you dont have 4 dps.
Chronowarden buffs abilities you are already using such as Upheaval and Living Flame and provides a lot of haste passively to you via Primacy and Temporal Burst making your rotation feel more fluid.
You also get a powerful movement upgrade with Warp and a defensive boon attached from Temporality.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Augmentation Evoker

Chronowarden Universal Build Scalecommander Universal Build

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Best Chronowarden Build for Augmentation Evoker

Chronowarden is very straightforward to play. We run the same Chronowarden Hero Talents for all content with slight variations in our class and spec trees.

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Best Scalecommander Build for Augmentation Evoker

Scalecommander is very straightforward to play. We run the same Scalecommander Hero Talents for all content with slight variations in our class and spec trees.

Chronowarden has only minor impacts on your rotation although the stat gains from Primacy and Temporal Burst feel really good. As a Chronowarden you will be using Tip the Scales more frequently, and using it on Fire Breath always despite Molten Embers incentivising longer lasting Fire Breaths.

Scalecommander has a large impact on your rotation as you get access to Breath of Eons more frequently. Furthermore, since the cooldown reduction provided by Wingleader is so important maintaining as high uptime on Bombardments becomes a large part of the rotational gameplay adding extra nuance to the rotation to make it more interesting to play.