Augmentation Evoker DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.0.5)
On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your Augmentation Evoker in both single-target and multiple-target situations. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc. in order to minmax your DPS. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.0.5).
Rotation for Augmentation Evokers
The rotation for Evoker plays largely in 30-second cycles around your empowered spells ( Fire Breath and Upheaval) and Ebon Might. Between these cycles, you want to pool your Essence for the next Ebon Might and have minimal downtime between casts.
Every two minutes, you can use Breath of Eons, and you want to have Ebon Might to go with it to ensure that Ebon Might lasts the full Breath of Eons Duration.
If the rotations below seem overwhelming, you can visit our Easy Mode page, which outlines a close-to-optimal rotation in simpler terms.
You can take a lot of this information with you when you run Mythic+ dungeons, however, the Mythic+ page has more dedicated information to situations you encounter in dungeons.
Information on good targets to buff throughout raid fights can be found in both the raid guide for each boss and in the dedicated buffs page.
General Rotational Goals for Augmentation Evoker
- Use Breath of Eons when your allies have cooldowns up.
- Cast all charges of Prescience before Ebon Might or a single charge if you would overcap soon.
- Maintain Ebon Might for as long as you can.
- Use your Empower spells to give allies Versatility with Shifting Sands and to extend Ebon Might.
Augmentation Evoker Rotations
Augmentation Evoker Rotation
Use the buttons below to select your talents to see how that changes the rotation.
Single-target talent options are selected by default. If you wish to see rotation changes in AoE, select talents related to that or use our presets below.
Hero Talents play a minor role in the rotation so we have provided buttons to display recommendations based on your choice.Hero Talents | |
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Scalecommander | Chronowarden |
Active Talents | Passive Talents |
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Verdant Embrace | Scarlet Adaptation |
Tip the Scales | Leaping Flames |
Upheaval | Pupil of Alexstrasza |
Breath of Eons | Echoing Strike |
Blistering Scales | Font of Magic |
Prescience | Interwoven Threads |
Time Skip | Dream of Spring |
Molten Embers | |
Imminent Destruction | |
Overlord |
Single Target Rotation for Augmentation Evoker
The priority system for Augmentation Evoker is simple as a whole, as you are focusing on your short cooldown abilities like Prescience, Ebon Might, and your empowers. In-between, fill with Living Flame and Eruption.
- Use Ebon Might if Ebon Might's remaining duration is less than 5.5s. This is slightly longer than the pandemic duration, but this leads to more overall uptime by having more Ebon Might casts.
- Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets after Breath of Eons while Temporal Wound is up on the enemywhile Ebon Might is up..
- Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up, if you are at maximum essence, or if you have maximum Essence Bursts. With Imminent Destruction pool essence shortly before each Breath of Eons window. You should continue spending with Essence Bursts or if you have maximum essence.
- Cast Living Flame.
- If you need to move while casting, use Hover. If you have no charges of Hover left, then use Azure Strike.
Healing Spell Utilization
Extra Tips
- Due to the new design of Molten Embers you now always use Tip the Scales on Fire Breath again to maximise Leaping Flames.
- You always want to use the highest rank of Fire Breath possible to maximise Leaping Flames. With Molten Embers you would use the highest rank of Fire Breath that will allow you to buff your Upheaval. If it is not possible to have Fire Breath last until your next Upheaval (E.g. its more than 24 seconds away) then you should just cast it at the maximum rank possible instead.
- In 5-man or less content, your buffs will automatically target the correct targets always for you. For example, Ebon Might will always hit the entire group, Prescience will auto-target the other two damage dealers, Blistering Scales will always go on the tank. This helps alleviate any burdens for you and lets you focus on the enemies in the Keys.
Two-Target and Above Rotation for Augmentation Evoker
Against multiple targets, your rotation stays the same as in single-target unless you do not have Pupil of Alexstrasza. Pupil of Alexstrasza makes you use Living Flame over Azure Strike at all targets, and without it, Azure Strike is a gain from 2+. You uprank Upheaval so that as many enemies fit within the targeting AoE as possible.
- Use Ebon Might if Ebon Might's remaining duration is less than 5.5s. This is slightly longer than the pandemic duration, but this leads to more overall uptime by having more Ebon Might casts.
- Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets after Breath of Eons while Temporal Wound is up on the enemywhile Ebon Might is up..
- Cast Eruption if Ebon Might is up, if you are at maximum essence, or if you have maximum Essence Bursts. With Imminent Destruction pool essence shortly before each Breath of Eons window. You should continue spending with Essence Bursts or if you have maximum essence.
- If you need to move while casting, use Hover. If you have no charges of Hover left, then use Azure Strike.
Healing Spell Utilization
Extra Tips
- Due to the new design of Molten Embers you now always use Tip the Scales on Fire Breath again to maximise Leaping Flames.
- You always want to use the highest rank of Fire Breath possible to maximise Leaping Flames. With Molten Embers you would use the highest rank of Fire Breath that will allow you to buff your Upheaval. If it is not possible to have Fire Breath last until your next Upheaval (E.g. its more than 24 seconds away) then you should just cast it at the maximum rank possible instead.
- In 5-man or less content, your buffs will automatically target the correct targets always for you. For example, Ebon Might will always hit the entire group, Prescience will auto-target the other two damage dealers, Blistering Scales will always go on the tank. This helps alleviate any burdens for you and lets you focus on the enemies in the Keys. However, as a Chronowarden you have Golden Opportunity procs, you will want to make sure to manually target these as the long duration makes them extra impactful if they were to auto target incorrectly.
Example Opener Sequence
Precombat
- Start with >3s pull timer
- Cast Blistering Scales
- Precast Living Flame
Post Combat Start
- Cast Prescience
- Cast Prescience
- Cast Ebon Might
- Use DPS potion.
- Cast Active Non-Mastery Buff Trinkets.
- Cast Eruption
- Cast Eruption
- Cast Eruption
- Cast Eruption
- Cast Eruption
- Continue with normal rotation priority.
This rotation does not apply Prescience nor Ebon Might before pull because these are removed on Encounter start.
Cooldown Usage for Augmentation Evokers
Augmentation Evoker does not have many spells to use, but correct utilization is vital as most of the class's power comes from using its short cooldown spells.
- You should not cast Fire Breath or Upheaval without Ebon Might being up as this would waste the extension from Sands of Time, which is most of the value.
- You should not overcap charges of Prescience unless unavoidable due to lacking targets in range.
- Make sure to hit every enemy with Breath of Eons as this applies the damage amplification effect to every target.
- You should aim to use Deep Breath or Breath of Eons at the shortest distance, as the longer the line, the more time you are locked out from using other spells. It is inevitable if you need to move further, but you will lose some potential damage.
- Ideally, Hover should be used before movement is required, not in response, to avoid missing globals. Hover can be used while on the GCD from an instant cast spell like Azure Strike or Prescience to not incur any DPS loss.
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5
- 04 Oct. 2024: Update default Scalecommander M+ Build based on hotfixes.
- 22 Sep. 2024: Correct Typos.
- 22 Sep. 2024: Update Rotation for Scalecommander & Molten Embers.
- 10 Sep. 2024: Update references of Upranking Firebreath because of Molten Embers.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Improve readability for Tip the Scales info.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within Launch with Hero Talent support.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Opener fixed with Molten Embers.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Prepatch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed and updated for Dragonflight Season 4
- 19 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 13 Jul. 2023: Fix default talent checkboxes and include Auto Targeting note.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Saeldur, an Evoker Theorycrafter since the class came out in Dragonflight. He is an accomplished high end player with top parses on multiple specs, an Expert on the Evoker Discord, and has a deep understanding of many other classes, and how they interact with Augmentation Evoker.
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