Single Target Rotation
AoE Rotation
World of Warcraft: Dragonflightsees the introduction of a new class, the Evoker. It is a Hero class available only to the Dracthyr race and starts at level 58 and has two specializations:Devastationfor damage andPreservationfor healing. While there has been somecontroversy surrounding the potential damage outputof the spec it’s largely due to the fact that Blizzard is still actively tuning the new class. It’s also possible that players don’t know how to play it efficiently.
That’s where we hope to help give players a deeper understanding of the class and provide a general understanding of the currently best-known talent builds and rotations for both Mythic+ and Raids.
Basic Information
The general play style of the Devastation Evoker is a mid-ranged spell-casting damage dealer. Focusing on Fire damage from Red Dragonflight and Frost damage from the Blue Dragonflight. There are a number of utilities that the class brings which are provided by the Bronze Dragonflight.
Empower-type skills are a new type of skill that requires holding down a key to charge a spell. The longer the spell is held the more damage it does. Spells can be held for up to 3 seconds and then fired immediately.Along with some other new features in the expansion, there is an option in the Interface menu that allows tapping and releasing the skill to activate the cast and then tapping and releasing it a second time to release it. Some players may find this method easier while others may have difficulty timing it correctly with a second key press.
The information below has been gathered from the Dragonflight Beta, which is still currently under very active development.This guide will be a living document for the Dragonflight Beta and Pre-Patch launch on November 15th and continue to develop with new updates to the game.
Devastation Evoker Stat Priority
The current stat priority for Devastation Evokers largely depends uponCritical Strike, Mastery, andHaste.
Devastation Evoker Talents
The talent builds below provide a good starting point for single-target and Multi-Target encounters. Copy the Import code below anduse the Import Loadout feature in the Talent menuto quickly add them to your talents.
The Class Talents largely improve mobility and healing with only a few mandatory talents to help improve damage.Tip the Scalesis a 2-minute cooldown to help with burst damage. From top to bottom other key damage-boosting talents include:
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Key talents in this build put the focus onEternity Surge,Essence Burst, andDisintegration. It also includes Shattering Star as a short-duration buff on a fairly quick cooldown.
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This build is largely the same as the Raid build but leaves out Shattering Star in favor ofTitanic Wrathfor greater Essence Burst damage.
Devastation Evoker Rotation: Single Target
For Single-Target encounters the rotation is fairly simple, the goal is to generateEssence Burstand useDisintegrateto consume them. Generate Essence Burst withLiving Flame(ideally instant cast fromBurnoutprocs) orAzure Strike,and critical hits ofEternity Surges.Ensure that theFire Breathdamage over time debuff is maintained on the primary target to procBurnoutwhich causesLiving Flameto be instant cast, theFire Breathdebuff also increasesDisintegratedamage due to the talentCatalyze.
Finally, onceCharged Blasthas 20 stacksuseDragonrageto automatically castPyreand consume the buff and continue the regular skill priorities. CastingPyreat 20 stacks of Charged Blast doesn’t deal enough damage to warrant using it over other abilities.
Devastation Evoker AoE Rotation
In AoE encounters the skill priority remains largely the same, however, there are two slight differences.
Firstly,Fire Breathshould be used at Level 3 Empower as targets are generally not going to be living long enough to benefit from the higher damage over time effects.Fire Breathcan also be used to consumeTip the Scalesfor front-loaded burst damage.
Secondly,Pyrecan be added to the priority as soon asCharged Blastreaches 20 stacks due to having multiple targets able to be hit by it.
Check out some of our other class guides as well! We’ve put together some in-depth guides with talent builds that involve the new talent system that came with the Pre-Patch update.
