Devastation Evoker DPS Guide — 12.1

With Midnight Season 2 beginning you will want to keep your Devastation Evoker as up to date as possible, be sure to check out our dedicated guides below!

Patch 12.1 brings a bunch of new content worth checking out:

• The Venomous Abyss - A new 8 boss raid for all difficulties.
• The Coiled Isles, a new outdoor zone.
• Another flex style raid in place of the world boss, scaling up to Mythic difficulty designed for 15-25 players.
• A new season of mythic+ featuring 3 dungeons from previous expanions, 4 from Midnight and a brand new dungeon the Altar of Fangs.
• Significant updates to the UI and cooldown manager, including the ability to track potions and trinkets.
• Updates and improves to housing.

New Patch Content

Patch 12.1 Overview

Check out our 12.1 Patch Hub for all the information you may need on new content, new gameplay systems, and more!

Midnight Patch 12.1 Guide

Season 2 brings some very significant changes to Devastation Evoker, the most crucial being a change to our rank 4 Apex talent. Our rank 4 Apex talent is being changed to grant us 4 charges of Unbound Flame when our Dragonrage ends. This will let you cast Unbound Flame to deal damage to your target and nearby enemies also granting you a stack of Essence Burst, you have until your Dragonrage cooldown ends to spend these 4 charges. This is a nice change allowing you to grant yourself Essence on demand when you reach heavy essence downtime points or to utilize it for a burst window during AoE.

The other major changes are tuning based, we originally had a very powerful Season 2 tier set and they shifted over 80% of its power into the base class instead of the tier, this has further skewed the classes talent choices to heavily favour Scalecommander.

• Disintegrate damage increased by 40%
• Deep Breath damage increased by 30%
• Living Flame damage increased by 50%
• Pyre damage increased by 10%

With how much better the damage profile is for Scalecommander on any reasonable target count, without further tuning Flameshaper is basically an afterthought.

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2.4.

Season 1 important Changes

Season 1 brought 1 major permanent change for Evokers, the addition of Battle Visage.

The major change for all Evokers that came in season 1 was the new ability Battle Visage. This ability will keep you in your "Human" form in combat and you will only temporarily change into your Dracthyr form when casting specific spells and reverting you back to your regular form after. The Devastation Evoker specific spells that will cause this change are Deep Breath, Fire Breath, Soar, Eternity Surge, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr and finally Verdant Embrace. This may seem like a lot of abilities but with all of them having some degree of cooldown you will notice yourself in your regular form much more frequently.

The changes listed below reflect all major changes made to Devastation Evoker for the launch of Midnight. For more recent changes, please see the Season 2 tab.

• Azure Sweep replaces the old Lay Waste node, This causes your Eternity Surge to change your next Azure Strike into Azure Sweep. Making it deal 75% additional damage and hitting all nearby enemies instead of the regular maximum of three.
• Shattering Star has been reworked to deal additional damage for each empower level of Eternity Surge, but it no longer applies an increased damage taken debuff

Engulf has been replaced by Consume Flame causing your Essence spenders Disintegrate or Pyre to a consume some of your Fire Breath duration to deal damage to the target, no longer spreading and cleaving additional enemies.

The only relevant change to Scalecommander is the new talent Strafing Run in the Devastation tree, this allows you to re-cast your Deep Breath within 18 seconds after the initial cast. This means you will be casting deep breath much more regularly.

• Renewing Blaze has been changed to act as an upgrade on Obsidian Scales making it heal for the same amount of damage your Obsidian Scales mitigates, this is 30% for Flameshaper or 40% for Scalecommander.
• Stretch Time has been added, making all damage you take while flying in Deep Breath be taken as a damage over time effect over a 10 second period instead.
• Twin Guardian has been reworked and now grants you and the target you Rescue 100% increased movenet speed and the ability to cast while moving 3 seconds.