Evoker Hero Talents — The War Within (11.0.5)
This guide will walk you through the best Hero Talents for Devastation Evoker for Raiding and Mythic+, how they impact your gameplay, and more.
Best Hero Talents for Devastation Evoker in The War Within
This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Devastation Evoker, check out our Talents page:
Raiding Hero Talents for Devastation Evoker
Flameshaper
Flameshaper is the weaker of the two choices currently and does not excel in any scenarios outside of high AoE burst on targets that live a very short period of time; it is unlikely you will see this used in raid without further tuning.
Scalecommander
Scalecommander, both from a numerical standpoint and a playstyle standpoint, is superior to Flameshaper with better ST, better cleave, and better sustained AoE, having the triple Disintegrate beam also feels great, this is also a more new player friendly choice as it does not add any additional spells to the rotation or require massive rotational adjustments to get used too.
Mythic+ Hero Talents for Devastation Evoker
Flameshaper
Flameshaper will potentially be great at lower keys when mobs have lower health pools and are not likely to live very long, but if Devastation Evoker is going to be played at a high end m+ scenario, it is unlikely to be the optimal hero tree.
Scalecommander
Scalecommander brings a lot more to the table in mythic+, much greater sustain and far better priority target damage, Mass Disintegrate being able to access so much free cleave damage with very little single target loss is a massive benefit that Flameshaper lacks currently and means you'll almost exclusively be running this hero tree if you're aiming to push higher keys.
Best Hero Talent Builds for Devastation Evoker
Hero Talents Rotation for Devastation Evoker
Flameshaper
Flameshaper is designed around Engulf and the way it interacts with Fire Breath causing it to increase the duration, spread to additional targets, and then once you have specced into Consume Flame making it also consume 4 seconds of the remaining duration on Fire Breath to do an AoE burst nuke; these are the only real active aspects of the Flameshaper tree, and the rest is based on passive interactions.
Scalecommander
Scalecommander plays almost identically to Devastation in DragonFlight, with the only adjustment being Deep Breath becoming a core part of your rotation as it now provides multiple benefits in the form of a large DoT effect, ability to turn and adjust direction, and making the target take 20% increased damage from your Essence spenders and Bombardments for 12 seconds, everything else in the tree is entirely passive.
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Devastation Page added.
- 02 Aug. 2024: Page added.
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This guide is written by Blueprint. He is a long term high-end raider in the Oceanic guild Honestly, originally maining a Paladin. He has since swapped to Devastation Evoker since its inception and is a frequent theorycrafter in the Evoker community. You can find him on Discord as blueprint1990.
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