Augmentation Evoker Best Augmentation Evoker Buff Targets - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

Last updated on May 07, 2024 at 11:20by Saeldur18 comments

This page contains more in-depth information on how Augmentations Buffs workas well as information on who to buff.

Almost all of Augmentation Evokers buffs stack fully with other AugmentationEvokers. Assume it stacks unless it is specified otherwise.

• Prescience increases an allies Critical Strike Chance by 3%.
• There can be at most two Prescience's on a player from any sourceat any one time. You may still only have a single prescience on each player.You will be unable to cast Prescience on a player who already has two.
• The Fate Mirror talent enhances Prescience and grantsallies with Prescience 10% chance to deal 15% of the damage of thetriggering ability.
• Prescience and Fate Mirror works on non class damage liketrinkets and embelllishments
• Prescience works fully with Pets and Guardians.
• Prescience will automatically target the nearest DPS player ifcast on an enemy.
• Ebon Might will prefer to go on allies with Prescienceletting you more easily fine-tune who you buff. This is the main way youcontrol who gets your buffs.
• Evoker Augmentation 10.2 Class Set 2pc makes every third Prescience castlast twice as long.
• Evoker Augmentation 10.2 Class Set 4pc means that casting Prescience gives stacks of Trembling Earth based on thenumber of active presciences you have, including the one you just cast. Thisincreases the damage of your next Eruption by giving it smallfissures that deal damage and extend Ebon Might by 0.2 secondseach.

• Ebon Might has two main effects, granting 6.5% of your primarystat to your allies and increasing your own damage by 20%.
• Just like with Prescience, Ebon Might has a maximum capof 2 buffs on a player at any time from any source, including yourself,other raid members or even other players in the open world.
• The Evoker Augmentation 10.1 Class Set 2pc makes Ebon Might alsoincrease the damage of your empower spells by an additional 30%.
• The Evoker Augmentation 10.1 Class Set 4pc makes Ebon Might giveanother 1% primary stat
• Close as Clutchmates increases the power of the damage amplification effectfor all spells and the Primary Stat buff but not the 2pc effect. Close asclutchmates is a 10% increase and applies after the Season 2 4pc bonus for theprimary stat, increasing it from 7.5% to 8.25%. Without the Season 2 4pc it increasesfrom 6.5% to 7.15%
• Ebon Might prefers to go on DPS with Prescience
• Ebon Might Mastery: Timewalker prefers to give Shifting Sands to allies with your Ebon Might.
• Ebon Might does not snapshot and updates every second.
• Ebon Might will extend the duration of all currently active EbonMights if cast while it is still active.
• Ebon Might will pandemic letting you cast Ebon Might with 30% orless of the base duration remaining and not lose any uptime.
• The Primary Stat provided by Ebon Might does not increase thesize of another Augmentation Evokers Ebon Might. This is why buffing anotherAugmentation Evoker is highly not recommended.

1. Ebon Might will always extend any currently activeEbon Mights overbuffing new targets.
2. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest DPS with Prescience, as long as they have less than two Ebon Mightsfrom any source.
3. Ebon Might prefers to go on nearest Tanks / Healers with Prescience, as long as they have less than two Ebon Mightsfrom any source.
4. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest DPS without any Ebon Might, even other peoples.
5. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest Tanks and Healerswithout any Ebon Might, even other peoples.
6. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest DPS as long as theyhave less than two Ebon Mights from any source.
7. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest Tanks and Healers aslong as they have less than two Ebon Mights from any source.
8. If Ebon Might failed to find a valid target following theabove priority, any extra targets do not happen.

• Shifting Sands is a Versatility Buff based on your Mastery, Mastery: Timewalker, and is triggered by casting empower spells.
• Shifting Sands does not snapshot Mastery and instead updatethe Versatility buff provided to your current Mastery Percent everysecond.
• Shifting Sands prefers to go on the closest nearby DPS player with Ebon Might that does not already have Shifting Sands from any Evoker,including other players. If every player with your Ebon Might already has aShifting Sands, it will go onto the nearest DPS Player.

1. Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest DPS with Ebon Might and without any Shifting Sands
2. Shifting Sands prefers to go on nearest Tanks / Healers with Ebon Might and without any Shifting Sands
3. Shifting Sands prefers to go on the nearest DPS without any Shifting Sands
4. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest Tanks and Healerswithout any Shifting Sands.
5. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest DPS.
6. Ebon Might prefers to go on the nearest Tanks and Healers.

• Blistering Scales is a buff that grants 30% of your armor to anally, as well as stacks of scales that explode for uncapped AoE damagewhen they receive auto attacks. You can only have one Blistering Scalesat any time.
• Blistering Scales has a 2s icd on proccing the damage effectwhen receiving an auto attack.
• Blistering Scales scales entirely with the Augmentations stats.For example, the damage done is based on your Intellect, Versatility,and Critical Strike Chance despite the damage being sourced from thetarget.
• If you cast Blistering Scales on an enemy, it automaticallytargets their target, which helps smooth out gameplay. This means you donot need to swap off the boss in raid to cast this.

• Breath of Eons is an ability that applies a debuff to enemies hitthat will store 10% of the damage dealt to them by your allies with Ebonmight and then explode at the end of the duration for the storedamount.
• Breath of Eons often has a cooldown less than 2 minutes fromtalents like Time Skip or Interwoven Threads reducingthe cooldown, but you still always want to use it every two minutespaired with DPS player cooldowns. Breath of Eons is a short-durationdamage multiplier, so stacking it with other cooldowns is how to get themost effect.
• Breath of Eons only stores damage from class abilities and autoattacks and does not amplify damage from Trinkets, Enchantments,Embellishments, Consumables, or Gear Procs.
• Breath of Eons works fully with pets and guardians with theirdamage counting as if it were dealt by their owner directly.
• Breath of Eons always critically strikes but gains no damage fromdoing so.
• Breath of Eons does not gain damage from other Breath of Eonsgoing off from other Augmentation Evokers nor Fate Mirror procsfrom yourself or others.
• Breath of Eons will apply Ebon Might if it is notcurrently active obeying normal targeting rules. The duration of this EbonMight is always 5 seconds and is not increased by Mastery, nor can beincreased by Sands of Time. However, if Ebon Might was already activethen it extends it by 5 seconds, and this is affected by Sands of Time. Thisis one of the main reasons why it is suggested to cast Breath of Eons whileEbon Might is already up.

• Spatial Paradox is an external buff for healers, giving you andthem the ability to cast while moving with double range.
• Spatial Paradox if cast on an enemy, will default to the nearesthealer.
• Spatial Paradox does not stack.

• Draconic Attunements is a talent that gives you the two stances Bronze Attunement and Black Attunement. BronzeAttunement gives you a 10% increased movement speed, while Black Attunementgives you 4% increased maximum health.
• The auras from Draconic Attunements apply to you and your 4nearest allies.
• Draconic Attunements does not stack.
• Swapping stances between Bronze Attunement and Black Attunement is off GCD, letting you do it any time, but itIt has a 3-second lockout after swapping.

Augmentation provides multiple temporary short-duration buffs and istherefore incentivized to cast those buffs on burstier classes to maximizethe effect of its own buff windows. This is because a burstier class will beable to pack more damage into the short windows offered by talents like Breath of Eons

Augmentation Evoker has five DPS buffs:

• Ebon Might - A Primary Stat Amplifier
• Shifting Sands - Augmentations Mastery, Versatility Percent
• Prescience - A Critical Strike Chance buff
• Fate Mirror - A general damage amplifier
• Breath of Eons - which acts as a cooldown dps multiplier.

A common misconception people have is that because Augmentation provides Critand Versatility buffs that classes that invest in Crit and Versatility willlike the Augmentation buffs. This, for the most part, is not true.

The more Versatility a class has, the smaller the increase provided byMastery is. Say you provide 25% Versatility with your Mastery, going from 0%to 25% (25% More DPS). Versatility is a much bigger DPS increase than goingfrom 25% to 50% (20% More DPS).

This means that classes that invest in Versatility by necessity areusually inferior choices for buffing. This is because they do not have any othergood stats and are therefore forced to use Versatility to scale their damage andusually have a significant amount. This includes classes like Windwalker Monkand Outlaw Rogue, to name a few.

It is also worth considering that your main way to target Ebon Mightonto specific players is via Prescience, and Critical Strike chancehas virtually no value for some specializations, which makes targeting themwith Prescience inefficient compared to trying to buff them via proximity.Classes with poor Critical Strike Chance scaling include Frost Mages (Unlessthey gear around receiving Prescience) and Fire Mages. You do notwish to give Prescience to these DPS classes if you can avoid it.

On the other hand, some specializations also perform better with CriticalStrike Chance than expected, such as Frost Death Knight and DevastationEvoker. This increases the value of giving them Ebon Might, as wellas they usually come as a combined package deal.

These rankings are based off of preliminary simulations. All of theserankings are based on Augmentation using its own Season 4 set as well as thedps being buffed using their Season 4 sets. These are still subject tochange as tuning occurs and as more information becomes apparent and will beupdated accordingly to maintain as high accuracy as possible.

This ranking is not absolute. Player skill and gear have a large impact onhow good classes are; use your own judgment in combination with the list towork out who you wish to receive. Classes receiving Power Infusiongain significant value.

This ranking includes the Prescience to force the buffs onto thatclass. Classes that mention weak or no Critical Strike scaling gainsignificantly if buffed via proximity (by standing near them as Ebon Mighttargets nearby allies).

These rankings are based on a mixture of Simulation Data and Real WorldPerformance.All of these rankings are based on Augmentation using its own Season 4 set aswell as the dps being buffed using their Season 4 sets. These are subject tochange as tuning occurs and will be updated accordingly to maintain as highaccuracy as possible.

Augmentations opener lasts for approximately a minute unless youintentionally avoid refreshing your first Ebon Might by holdingyour Ebon Might cast until it falls off (typically around 32-34 seconds intothe fight, this is common practice at high levels of optimization where youuse tools like WoWAnalyzer to optimize each segment individually). You haveopportunities to retarget your Ebon Might whenever it drops and it is anoticeable Single Target gain to do so, although not required to enjoy thespecialization. Below are intervals into the fight for which classescooldowns come back up to help you judge who to buff.

Cooldowns shown below are the cooldown required to be active or nearlyready for the class to be valuable to buff. Any class without a cooldownshown is always a good target, regardless of whatever cooldowns they have.

Class	Cooldowns
Unholy Death Knight	Army of the Dead with Army of the Damned
Arcane Mage	Arcane Surge
Balance Druid	Incarnation: Chosen of Elune
Destruction Warlock	Summon Infernal

Class	Cooldowns
Devastation Evoker	Dragonrage
Assassination Rogue	Deathmark
Feral Druid	Convoke the Spirits / Berserk
Shadow Priest	Power Infusion
Destruction Warlock	Summon Infernal with Grand Warlock's Design
Frost Death Knight	Breath of Sindragosa / Empower Rune Weapon
Subtlety Rogue	Flagellation - This has a varied CD between 1m and 1m30s. Youalways wish to buff this damage window with whatever you have available.
Havoc Demon Hunter	Metamorphosis
Affliction Warlock	Summon Darkglare
Frost Mage	Icy Veins - Do not use Prescience; only buff via proximity due to poor crit scaling.
Windwalker Monk	Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger alongside Serenity
Marksmanship Hunter	Trueshot

Class	Cooldowns
Arcane Mage	Arcane Surge
Subletly Rogue	Flagellation - This has a varied CD between 1m and 1m30s. You wantto buff Subtlety during these windows if possible and there aren't other moreimpactful 2-minute cooldowns available.
Unholy Death Knight	Apocalypse

Class	Cooldowns
Subletly Rogue	Flagellation - This has a varied CD between 1m and 1m30s. You wantto buff Subtlety during these windows if possible and there aren't other moreimpactful 2-minute cooldowns available.
Shadow Priest	Dark Ascension
Affliction Warlock ( Soul Rot)	Soul Rot
Retribution Paladin	Avenging Wrath
Assassination Rogue	Kingsbane

Class	Cooldowns
Arms Warrior	Boss HP <35%.
Frost Death Knight	Pillar of Frost
Beast Mastery Hunter	-
Havoc Demon Hunter	-
Enhancement Shaman	-
Arms Warrior	--
Balance Druid	-
Affliction Warlock	Vile Taint and Soul Rot
Destruction Warlock	-
Survival Hunter	-
Marksmanship Hunter	3t+
Fire Mage	Combustion / Sun King's Blessing - Do not use Prescience, only buff via proximity due to poor crit scaling.
Elemental Shaman	-
Outlaw Rogue	-

Arms Warrior has a talent called Fatality, which incentivizes makingsure they have your buffs for when the boss goes below 30% health, as thisdoes a large amount of instant burst damage.