Devastation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.1

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Scalecommander is the best Hero Talent for Devastation in every form of content for Season 2, with Flameshaper only being comparable in pure single-target scenarios. Currently we recommend the following:

• Raid - Scalecommander is the choice for every boss, with slightly better single target and an enormous gain any time an additional target is added there is no reason to play Flameshaper unless you really enjoy the playstyle.
• Mythic+ - Scalecommander will be better for all dungeons currently, with Flameshaper only pulling ahead once you reach 8-9 targets nd having to take a significant loss to your single-target damage to achieve this. Therefore it is highly recommended you stick with SC.

The Evoker class tree has plenty of utility options you can pick and choose to suit your needs in any situation. The trees below serve as a baseline profile for maximum damage, and spec into some very minor damage gains at the cost of utility. For scenarios where you want to provide greater control, we would recommend taking points out of Innate Magic and Enkindled to put them in the talents listed below.

• Oppressing Roar this talent is great in all group play, being paired with an AoE stun to increase its duration by 50% is incredibly powerful.
• Sleep Walk this talent is a bit more niche but has some very powerful uses. Tt can be used to split individual mobs from their pack in dungeons, allowing for unique routes, and can function as a hard CC on a target if needed.
• Forger of Mountains this talent is another niche one but situationally very good, as it can help with longer AoE CC rotations and to prevent mobs from moving.

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The builds listed above are popular recommendations, covering various different loadouts suited to each style of endgame content. Each Talent Build will have it's own rotation, and can also be manipulated further for specific types of content and to better benefit your group.

TipsWhen Do I Take Star Salvo Instead of Power Swell?

Devastation Evoker's Season 2 tier set focus heavily on Shattering Star, increasing its damage, and automatically making it hit the maximum amount of targets regardless of Empower level. This leads to it becoming a damage increase at 2 targets, and gaining more power with more targets p resent. The trade-off for this is a large quality of life hit when speccing out of Power Swell. The gain at 2 targets is roughly 1.5-2% DPS, which means you should be fine playing with Power Swell in a raid environment, but you should always be taking Star Salvo in Mythic+.

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Rotations and Mythic+

Want to dive deeper? These guides will teach you how to utilize our Talent Builds in endgame content!

RotationMythic+

The Omnium Folio is a borrowed power system that was introduced in Patch 12.0.7 which lets you choose 5 different "Talents" for minor gains. The majority of these are small damage increases with the defensive nodes providing an almost irrelevant gain.

We recommend the following choices. These can be swapped at any point without returning to the Omnium Folio:

• Rune of Unleashed Fire
• Rune of Void-Tainted Shell
• Rune of Lingering
• Rune of Critical Power
• Rune of Overload

The new Apex Talent for Devastation Evoker is Rising Fury, a stackable Haste and damage increase that activates when we use Dragonrage.

Starting with 1 stack when you activate Dragonrage, you will receive 4% Haste every 6 seconds. This Haste buff stacks up to 5 stacks for a total of 20%. Upon reaching 5 stacks you will also gain a 15% damage increase, which persists for 4 seconds per stack once Dragonrage ends.

When Dragonrage expires you will receive 4 charges of Unbound Flame. This ability deals damage to 5 targets and grants a stack of Essence Burst, and you have until your Dragonrage cooldown becomes available again to spend these charges.

Starting at level 71 you will be able to choose from two new Hero talent trees, for Devastation these are Flameshaper and Scalecommander.

Flameshaper focuses heavily on applying and consuming your Fire Breath with the hero talent Consume Flame. This can be done in two specific ways by casting Disintegrate if you are single targetting or Pyre when doing your AoE rotation. The Flameshaper playstyle does not offer many adjustments from your regular rotation with the only noticeable difference being you will cast Fire Breath much more frequently.

Scalecommander focuses heavily on making Deep Breath a core part of your rotation coupled with the new Strafing Run talent in the Devastation tree. Scalecommander has almost limitless mobility with constant resets of your Hover cooldown each time you cast Deep Breath. It also comes with enhanced spread cleave with its core ability Mass Disintegrate, allowing each Disintegrate following an empower cast (Fire Breath/Eternity Surge) to hit up to three additional targets for a maximum of four. This makes for a very potent raid spec that only suffers from a lack of high single target burst damage.

On the topic of Eye of Infinity or Event Horizon, you will want to sim your character to be sure. Event Horizon has a more forgiving playstyle when it comes to your Dragonrage extends, and I would recommend taking it, even if it is a minor loss. Continue using Event Horizon until you are very comfortable with the spec.

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

• World Quests at maximum level have 10% increased rewards (30% if you are Alliance).
• 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 is recommended that you enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will make yourself eligible for open-world PvP, and the 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 up to personal preference.

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This guide is written by Blueprint. He is a long-term high-end raider in the #1 Oceanic guild Honestly, originally maining a Paladin. He has since swapped to Devastation Evoker since the spec's inception and is a frequent theorycrafter in the Evoker community. You can find him on Discord as blueprint1990.

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