Augmentation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

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

On this page, we cover all the talents you have access to, explaining howeach one is to be used. Some of these talents, active or passive, can make ahuge difference in how Augmentation Evokers is played, which isexplained on our rotation page.

Some talents have a more versatile use in Mythic+ than in raids; if this ismore your thing, we strongly recommend that you check the Mythic+ page.

Due to the nature of Dragonflight's talent trees, almost everytalent is meant to be viable or have a desirable niche where you may want toselect it. As such, we will cover some of the more favored talents that you willwant to prioritize most of the time from the top of each tree on down, followedby mentioning some of the more considerable niche talents that are likely onlyrarely useful. If you would like to see a list of every single talent's effectas well as the abbreviations they are often known by in the community, pleaseconsult our Spell List and Glossary sectioninstead.

Talent	Description/Effect
Obsidian Scales	One of your few defensive abilities as an Evoker. Needed for Aspects' Favor. Allocated by default.
Expunge	Gives you the ability to dispel poisons.
Natural Convergence	An easy-to-acquire cast speed increase for Eruption.
Verdant Embrace	A very strong instant-cast heal. You can use it on yourself or anotherplayer. If used on another player, you will fly to them, which can be handy formobility, too.
Scarlet Adaptation	This talent acts as one of the main drivers for letting your offhealingcount for damage. The damage of your next Living Flame gets increasedbased on the amount of healing you have done. By itself, this does not makeyour offhealing spells a DPS increase, but when combined with Ancient Flame it makes using Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom a DPS increase in place of a Living Flame.
Obsidian Bulwark	A second charge of Obsidian Scales. This is incredibly important to takeas it synergizes with Aspects' Favor while also being an extra charge ofyour own defensive.
Quell	Your interrupt ability. This paths to Instinctive Arcana which is amust-have so even if you do not need the interrupt you still need this.
Ebon Might	The core spell of Augmentation Evoker. Most of Augmentations talentsand spells interact in some way with Ebon Might.
Eruption	This is your only spender unless you talent Dream of Spring to make Emerald Blossom into a spender. Casting Eruption extends Ebon Mightvia Sands of Time.
Essence Burst	These allow Living Flame and Azure Strike to triggeran Essence Burst. Essence Burst makes your next Essence-costing abilityfree. It also makes Eruption cast faster with Ignition Rush.
Ricocheting Pyroclast	This makes Eruption deal 30% more damage per target struck, up to 150%(5 targets). This adds the target scaling to Eruption as well as boosting its ST.
Essence Attunement	This increases the maximum cap of Essence Burst to 2. This is a bigquality of life improvement.
Pupil of Alexstrasza	This makes Living Flame cleave to an additional target. This cleave can stillproc Essence Burst. With Leaping Flames, this will still always cleave oneextra target. E.g., if you fought 4 enemies, and had 3 stacks of Leaping Flame, the originalcast will hit 4 targets, and the Pupil of Alexstrasza living flame will hit any target thatisn't the primary.
Echoing Strike	This makes Azure Strike have a chance to hit again based on targets hit. Thiscan chain proc from itself. All procs can trigger Essence Burst. This talent iscurrently worse than Pupil of Alexstrasza because Pupil has full valueimmediately from two targets. This can be used on pure Single Target for aslight DPS gain by improving the power of your Azure Strike as a backupfiller movement spell. Ideally, you do not need to cast Azure Strike but itoften happens in reality.
Upheaval	Your second empowered spell is one of your hardest-hitting spells. Thiswill deal the same damage at all empowerment levels. Empowering this ability increasesthe radius. Casting Upheaval extends Ebon Might via Sands of Time.
Breath of Eons	Breath of Eons is Augmentation's main cooldown. Only allies with Ebon Might contributeto Breath of Eons. You want to pair Breath of Eons with your allies main DPS cooldowns.While optimal timings may change depending on encounters, a good default timing forusing it is every 2 minutes, as a lot of classes have 2-minute cooldowns.
Defy Fate	This is a cheat death effect that also heals allies when it triggers. Incredibly potent.

Talent	When to Consider
Clobbering Sweep / Heavy Wingbeats	Dungeon scenarios if you need additional crowd control.
Forger of Mountains	If using Seismic Slam for the stun.
Cauterizing Flame	If your group needs additional dispels. Can remove Bleeds. Recommended inMythic+.
Imposing Presence	Lets you cast Quell more often. Useful if a fight needs more kicks orfor Mythic+

Talent	Description/Effect
Ancient Flame	Increases cast speed of Living Flame after casting Emerald Blossom or Verdant Embrace.When combined with Scarlet Adaptation makes using Emerald Blossom or Verdant Embrace a DPS gain.
Instinctive Arcana	An easy-to-obtain damage boost for all abilities.
Tip the Scales	This makes your next Empowered spell an instant cast and at the maximumempowerment level. Tip the Scales is also not on the GCD.
Inherent Resistance	4% Magic damage reduction for 2 points. Very good talent.
Draconic Legacy	An extra 6% stamina. Always take this talent! It's a huge survivability boost.
Extended Flight	Increases the duration of Hover. Extremely good talent.
Blast Furnace	Increases the duration of your Fire Breath DoT. This is an efficient damage node.
Source of Magic	Provides decent passive mana to healers. More importantly, Potent Mana requiresthis to be taken.
Panacea	This turns Emerald Blossom into a strong instant-cast heal, whichthen does another heal to you and other players a few seconds later.
Volcanism	Reduces the essence cost of Eruption.
Chrono Ward	Gives a shield to allies that dealt damage during Breath of Eonsbased on the damage it deals for that player. This shield is capped to 30% oftheir maximum health. This provides a helpful amount of sustain to your gripafter their cooldowns.
Blistering Scales	Blistering Scales gives armor to an ally based on 30% of your own.Additionally, attacks against that ally proc an explosion that deals a smallamount of damage. This increases your main tank's survivability againstphysical damage and provides a small amount of damage. Try to maintainon the main tank. Outside of AOE this talent does not contribute much damage.
Draconic Attunements	This is an incredibly powerful effect that provides you and your 4 nearestallies either Black Attunement or Bronze Attunement. You willusually want to have this on Black Attunement for the maximum health toimprove survivability. You can swap Attunements off GCD. This is furtherenhanced by Aspects' Favor.
Spatial Paradox	This is a 2-minute cooldown that increases the cast range of you and ahealer by 100% and lets you both cast while moving. This is going to beincredibly useful for progression raid encounters where it can lethealers free cast during heavy movement periods.
Tectonic Locus	This makes Upheaval deal 50% more damage to the primary targetgiving a nice single-target boost.
Molten Blood	This makes Blistering Scales provide an absorb shield tothe target. This shield starts at 40% of the maximum at full hp, andlinearly scales to 100% of maximum at 20% hp. This effectively adds passivetank sustain which is not very valuable currently.
Font of Magic	This makes you cast your empower spells faster, providing a small damagegain. Additionally, the extra maximum rank of Fire Breath gives youan additional Leaping Flames cleave. This is also a small damagegain. This is worth taking because damage nodes are rare, although itcan be dropped for more utility if you desire.
Aspects' Favor	This talent is absurdly powerful. Being able to provide both aparty Rallying Cry effect when you use Obsidian Scalesor a speed boost when you use Hover is incredible. This talentis one main attractors for having an Augmentation Evoker in your team.

Talent	When to Consider
Sleep Walk	If you need additional CC in the group. For example, on Incorporeal weeks in Mythic+.
Bountiful Bloom	Increases the healing of Emerald Blossom by letting it hit 5 targets.Take this if you are playing Dream of Spring.
Walloping Blow	Makes it significantly easier to land a Seismic Slam stun after a Tail Swipe.
Exuberance	Increased movement speed when you are above 75%. Useful for some transmogfarm content.
Seismic Slam	Makes landslide stun midair enemies for 2s per rank. This is a very strong AOE stun howeverAugmentation talents are very competitive point-wise. This could be useful in Mythic+ or PVP.
Stretch Time	Gives a 50% Time Dilation effect during Breath of Eons or Deep Breath.This is nice if you want extra safety for using Breath of Eons as it can often feel risky in hecticfights.
Bestow Weyrnstone	Grants you and another ally a Weyrnstone that lets you teleport to each other. Nichepick that may make some fights easier.

Talent	Description/Effect
Potent Mana	This talent means your Source of Magic target deals 3% additionalhealing.
Rescue	Allows you to pick up a friendly player and fly them to a location youselect. Quite useful for getting group members out of danger quickly orproviding assistance to a player behind the group.
Renewing Blaze	This is a fairly essential talent due to Evokers not having manydefensive abilities. Renewing Blaze will heal you for the damage youreceive over 8 seconds.
Twin Guardian	This adds an additional powerful defensive and external to Rescue.We always suggest having this talent as it is extremely strong. It is veryuseful for mitigating large AoE damage on both yourself and another squishyparty member.
Zephyr	Zephyr provides damage reduction against area of effect abilities to you and4 nearest allies. This is another nice defensive utility.
Prescience	Another Buff Augmentation can Provide. This increases an allies Critical strikechance by 3%. Additionally, Ebon Might prefers to go on targets with Prescience.
Time Skip	Time Skip is a channeled spell that increases the cooldown recovery rate of allyour skills by 1000% for 2 seconds. 3 seconds with Tomorrow, Today.
Accretion	This talent makes Eruption reduce the cooldown of Upheaval by 1second per cast.
Anachronism	This talent makes Prescience have a chance to generate Essence Burst
Fate Mirror	This talent makes Prescience have a damage proc effect that acts as anotherdamage amplifier on the target with Prescience.

Talent	When to Consider
Unravel	If you are going to fight enemies with absorb shields. Unravel isyour hardest-hitting spell, but it comes with the condition that it only dealsdamage to absorb shields.
Protracted Talons	3+ Target scenarios.
Overawe	This is mainly used during Raging weeks in Mythic+
Terror of the Skies	When you need additional stuns such as in Mythic+

Certain talents require changing how you play and your rotation in varyingamounts. We will go over the strengths of those talents here, but if you want toknow how to use those talents in the rotation, follow the link to the Rotationpage, where we go through the rotation or priority system we follow.

Opting into War Mode makes you eligible for open-world PvP but also grantsyou the following benefits:

• World Quests at maximum level have 10% increased rewards (30% if you areAlliance).
• You gain 10% increased Experience while leveling (30% if you are Alliance).
• Allows you to earn Conquest Points towards weekly gear rewards.
• Grants you to use PvP talents in the open-world.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it isrecommended that you enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards atmaximum level. However, you will make yourself eligible for open-world PvP, andthe possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.

There are no PvP talents for Evokers that increase your total damage output.Therefore, the PvP talents you choose are entirely down to personal preference.