Augmentation Evoker DPS Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)

• Molten Embers now scales with the casting Empower Rank of your Fire Breath. With Blast Furnace and without Font of Magic (as is default in all Augmentation builds currently) a R1 Fire Breath is a 10% damage increase, a R2 is a 13% damage increase and R3 is a 20% damage increase. Previously this provided a flat 20% regardless of the rank Fire Breath was cast at.
• Imminent Destruction buff now lasts for 15 seconds (was 12).
• Unravel damage was increased by 25%.
• Renewing Blaze is no longer affected by positive (such as Guardian Spirit or Attuned to the Dream) or negative healing modifiers. It is still affected by dampening in Arenas.
• Permeating Chill is now baseline for Evoker.
• Heavy Wingbeats and Clobbering Sweep are no longer a choice node. Heavy Wingbeats has been moved to where Permeating Chill was and Clobbering Sweep remains where it was.
• Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet are now 3 minute cooldowns (previously 90 seconds).
• Clobbering Sweep reduces Tail Swipe's cooldown by 2 minutes (was 45 seconds) and Heavy Wingbeats reduces Wing Buffet's cooldown by 2 minutes (was 45 seconds).

The changes to our Crowd Control abilities Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet is a nerf for Mythic+ content as well as for Broodkeeper Ovinax. In Mythic+ Content we will be losing two talent points and have no flexibility if we still want to take the utility that people invite Augmentation for. On Ovinax you no longer will be able to use Tail Swipe on every single add set as the minimum cooldown is now 1 minute instead of 45 seconds.

The buff to Imminent Destruction and rework of Molten Embers have been present on live servers since a recent hotfix so they will not cause any shifts or changes to builds. We will still favour Scalecommander for all content although Chronowarden remains competitive and a completely viable option for those who enjoy its playstyle more. For more information on the differences please see our Hero Talents page linked below.

In a recent hotfix blizzard fixed the bug with Overlord and Mass Eruption so we no longer recommend using this talent in Mythic+, instead taking Inferno's Blessing and Ignition Rush. You can also take Molten Embers over Ignition Rush. We recommend Ignition Rush as it allows for smoother gameplay in general but some players may opt to still play Molten Embers for the slightly increased ST and to let Upheaval deal more damage after a R3 Fire Breath. Either talent choice is viable and within very small margins for damage.

Evoker's Class Tree has had some minor changes, the most important of them listed below. For all changes please see the Class Changes page linked further below.

• Spatial Paradox is now a choice node with Time Spiral.
• Overawe now only reduces the cooldown of Oppressing Roar by 30 seconds instead of 20 seconds per debuff dispelled.

Augmentation's Talent Tree has had a large rework, primarily focusing on the 2nd and 3rd gates, with new pathing for talents, buffs to old talents, and a few new talents altogether. I have a brief summary of the most important changes below so that you get the most relevant changes. The full, exhaustive list of changes can be found on the Class Changes page linked further below.

• New Core Spell: Sense Power — A togglable passive ability. When toggled on Sense Power will show an indicator buff on allied player frames when they have cooldowns active and Prescience will prioritise players with this buff active.
• Removed Passive: Close as Clutchmates — This passive used to be a 10% increase to Ebon Might and Breath of Eons in dungeons. This has been removed to weaken Augmentation Evoker in Dungeons without impacting its raiding viability.
• New Talent: Arcane Reach — This increases the range of your beneficial abilities (e.g. your buffs and heals) by 5 yds.
• New Talent: Rumbling Earth — Upheaval will repeat itself two times for half damage at its original location. These repeats do not trigger Shifting Sands nor extend Ebon Might.
• New Talent: Molten Embers — enemies to take 20% more damage from your Black Spells ( Upheaval, Eruption, and Bombardments) while affected by Fire Breath.
• Buffed Talent: Imminent Destruction — reduces the essence cost by 1 and increases the damage by 10% of Eruption for 12 seconds after you land from Breath of Eons.