This section is focused on the best crafts in a Raiding environment. These rankings tend to prefer more consistent effects that specialize in single-target damage. If your main focus is not raid progression use the Mythic+ list above as it does not lose much ST.

1. Craft Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. This weapon will not be the Best-in-Slot but it will be the biggest gain you can get early on in the Season. If you already have a strong Hero track or Myth track weapon, you can skip this step. Elemental Focusing Lens on the weapon would be slightly more ST but the raid has significant multi-target so we suggest Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension instead.
2. Craft Binding of Binding. This is our best Embellished Item and will be used in all content.
3. Craft Glyph-Etched Binding with Elemental Focusing Lens. This is the 2nd highest ST embellishment we can craft. Recraft your weapon and unembellish it if you are still using it at this point.
4. After you have your Embellished items, you should prioritize upgrading gear pieces using your crests. If you have enough spare crests to craft an item then we suggest crafting whatever is the biggest upgrade for you according to your sims.

Note: Instead of creating Elemental Focusing Lens on your belt you can opt for Writhing Armor Banding if you are still using the weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and want better AOE damage. If you do not have Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension then Writhing Armor Banding does not do anything and you should consider Dawnthread Lining instead.

Note: Binding of Binding is valued assuming it has NOT been bound to another player and is targeting randomly. However it does assume that the majority of people have 4 types of gems in their gear. This does perform slightly worse if people run less on average but it still remains the best Embellishment by a large margin. This will perform slightly better if it is bound to a non Augmentation DPS if the option is available but it is not required.
This does not reattribute damage back to you for the stats granted to the other players.

In Raiding content our best embellishment is Binding of Binding, followed by Elemental Focusing Lens (Pure ST only) then Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Blessed Weapon Grip. As both Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Blessed Weapon Grip require a weapon or an offhand to craft they end up falling out of our BiS list since we value the item level on those slots more than the slightly better embellishment effect.

This section is focused on the best crafts in a Mythic+ environment. These rankings are aimed at maximizing overall damage inside of Mythic+.

1. Craft Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Blessed Weapon Grip. This weapon will not be the Best-in-Slot but it will be the biggest gain you can get early on in the Season. If you already have a strong Hero track or Myth track weapon, you can skip this step.
2. Craft Binding of Binding. This is our best Embellished Item and will be used in all content.
3. Craft Glyph-Etched Binding with Dawnthread Lining. If you still have an embellished weapon then do not craft this with an embellishment. Recraft the Dawnthread Lining on after you replace the crafted weapon with a Myth track weapon.
4. After you have your Embellished items, you should prioritize upgrading gear pieces using your crests. If you have enough spare crests to craft an item then we suggest crafting whatever is the biggest upgrade for you according to your sims.

Note: We craft Blessed Weapon Grip on the weapon because Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension works poorly in Mythic+ because it loses the buff when you leave combat and this is the best all around embellishment available.

Note: Instead of creating Dawnthread Lining on your belt you can opt for Duskthread Lining instead. This is less DPS because Augmentation Evoker does not like Versatility but it provides slight increased survivability in Mythic+.

Note: Binding of Binding is valued assuming it has NOT been bound to another player and is targeting randomly. However it does assume that the majority of people have 4 types of gems in their gear. This does perform slightly worse if people run less on average but it still remains the best Embellishment by a large margin. This will perform slightly better if it is bound to a non Augmentation DPS if the option is available but it is not required.
This does not reattribute damage back to you for the stats granted to the other players.

In Mythic+ content our best embellishment is Binding of Binding, followed by Blessed Weapon Grip then Dawnthread Lining. As Blessed Weapon Grip requires a weapon or an offhand to craft it ends up falling out of our BiS list since we value the item level on those slots more than the slightly better embellishment effect.

Below, you will find detailed information about the various crafted items as an Augmentation Evoker.

The Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension is a weapon-only embellish item that progressively stacks up secondary stats the longer you are in combat. Each time you gain a stack, it picks a random secondary stat and sets the buff to that.

The buff for Ascension is capped at 10 stacks, meaning it takes 80 seconds to fully stack the buff. After it is fully stacked, each time it is refreshed, it will still continue to cycle through secondaries at random.

If you leave combat for long enough to miss a stack trigger the buff is then guaranteed to fall off requiring you to ramp it back up over 80 seconds. For this reason we do not recommend this in Mythic+ because there is always downtime between packs which is usually long enough to make this drop.

Typically, we want to craft a weapon early on in the Season for the large boost in item level in our highest budget slot, and this makes for a great embellishment for that item as it provides very good ST and AOE damage in a raiding environment. If you plan to primarily play Mythic+ then we do not suggest crafting this and instead suggest Blessed Weapon Grip because of the problems mentioned above.

Finally, as this requires a Weapon or Offhand to be crafted it falls out of our BiS list as we prefer higher item level in these slots over the slightly better embellishment.

This ring is the best Embellishment for Augmentation Evoker even without pairing it to another ally. We do not suggest pairing it to another ally early on as this can be expensive to change around since it costs a blasphemite to do so and the ring is still valuable without.

Currently, if you have no one in your group bound from you, the ring will randomly proc on anyone in your group, even if they do not have the ring.

This ring also requires that allies have 5 total sockets before you start getting max value out of the ring. This is because the secondaries granted to the allies scale based on the color of the gems (the main stat granted) they have in their gear. As all DPS will want to use a Primary Stat Meta gem, this makes five sockets before it is at full effect. You can acquire up to 6 sockets by using Magnificent Jeweler's Setting but this may not be common early on due to the cost of the Jewelers Settings.

We use Blessed Weapon Grip in place of Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension as it has no downsides unlike Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension but it is not the best at any one thing, instead acting as a compromise choice thats average for everything. It provides on average a similar amount of stats to Dawnthread Lining with 60% uptime.

The Writhing Armor Banding is a unique embellishment that actually does nothing by itself. To get it do anything, you need to pair it with a Nerubian embellished item. For Augmentation this would be Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. When paired with Ascension, it doubles the effect (the amount of stats gained, not the rate at which stats are gained).

This is effectively the same as using Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on a 1-handed weapon and an off-hand weapon. The difference here is that Writhing Armor Banding can be placed on most normal gear items, like Glyph-Etched Vambraces. This is important so that we can prioritize a top item level Myth track weapon in our main-hand and lose much fewer stats by putting this on a slot like Wrists, Feet, or Waist.

Dawnthread Lining and Duskthread Lining are both only obtainable on armour pieces and thus cannot be selected on Weapons, Offhands, or Jewelery.

Augmentation Evoker does not scale well with Versatility and so would rather use Dawnthread Lining over Duskthread Lining but players opting to push keys may decide to use Duskthread Lining for the half a percent damage reduction (from the versatility) they provide each to large AoE hits at the cost of a small amount of damage.

This embellishment is not very good. The effect does a similar amount of damage to Elemental Focusing Lens but has to go on your wrist slot. This also has a downside of slowing you and having Versatility statted which makes the overall DPS gain from using this low. We do not recommend using this Embellishment.

We do not recommend using this set as it is not very strong numerically and has poor gameplay associated with the set. The orbs spawned by the set require you to manually walk into and pick up which can be difficult to do during a hectic fight making this even less enticing to run.

We do not recommend using this item as the damage provided by the effect is very small and it forces us to use our worst tier piece Horns of the Destroyer as this is in a tier slot.

This Trinket Tier List is single-target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Raiding. When Trinkets are equal on single-target, I will "break the tie" by looking into which Trinket performs better in AoE/mixed scenarios.

All trinkets are assumed to be 678 unless a lower item level is specified for the sake of comparison. The idea is to compare trinkets at their maximum obtainable item level to give you an idea of where things are placed. For more accurate information on how trinkets perform relative to each other for your own character, please sim your character.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

NOTE: To keep things brief, not every Trinket is listed below, only ones that are particularly relevant or popular. If a trinket is excluded from this list, it is likely well below D-Tier.

Inside Mythic+ dungeons, you typically want to use trinkets that are good for maximizing overall dungeon damage. This is not always just slamming full AoE trinkets, as Bosses will still take up a significant portion of the key.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

NOTE: To keep things brief, not every Trinket is listed below, only ones that are particularly relevant or popular. If a trinket is excluded from this list, it is likely well below D-Tier.

The following section will go over specific notes on the various trinkets to consider as an Augmentation Evoker. Not every Trinket is listed, only ones that have interactions worth discussing.

This trinket is quite powerful, particularly in sustained Raid encounters for the stacking benefit you get from long fights. On progression this will be a highly desirable trinket that should do well even in some farm encounters.

The biggest downside with Eye of Kezan is the way the stack depreciates quickly outside of combat. Once you leave combat you will start losing stacks and will be totally drained no later than 20 seconds after. This means that getting optimal usage of this trinket in Mythic+ will be quite tricky and very punishing with downtime between packs.

For this reason in Mythic+ you might have a better time using a different trinket unless your group is comfortable chain pulling around the trinket.

Is a passive trinket that spawns a barrel that you can attack. This barrel cannot be hit by any AoE damage and must be killed with a Single Target spell. Augmentation can kill this for free with no DPS loss by using Living Flame alongside Pupil of Alexstrasza making it quite powerful as you also get the extra chance for an Essence Burst. The only downside to this trinket is that it can be hard to keep track of during hectic fights or large AoE pulls where there are a lot of nameplates on screen.

This is one of the most consistently good trinkets you can get in Season 2, being viable in all forms of content. While Augmentation Evoker is not actively stacking Critical Strike, the scaling of this trinket in particular is very strong, and since we are never close to diminishing Critical Strike stat we always get max benefit from this trinket.

Another on-use trinket that barely falls below Signet of the Priory for most players. This trinket is tuned around being used every 90 seconds and depending on the classes you have to buff may end up being used every 2 minutes making it worse.

Spymaster's Web is both a passive trinket and an on-use intellect trinket and is the most versatile Trinket available in Season 1. Currently it is ideal to sit on the Trinket for as long as possible, pressing the Trinket every 4 minutes at maximum stacks with your Breath of Eons, but you can use it earlier if there was an important damage event earlier or sit on it for longer if there is one to come without losing any damage due to its flexibility.