Devastation Evoker DPS Easy Mode — 12.0.5

This build will be used in single-target situations.

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This is our recommended build for all content that is not exclusively single target.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

The primary focus for Devastation is split into three different rotational aspects.

1. Empowered spells: These are short cooldown, high damage abilities that will also give beneficial interactions with your other non-Empowered abilities.
2. Essence spenders: These are Disintegrate and Pyre. You want to ensure that you never overcap your Essence and let it go to waste.
3. Filler abilities: These are Living Flame and Azure Strike. These abilities cost nothing and will proc free Essence spenders as well as an assortment of other beneficial effects, depending on your current talents.

Beyond these three core aspects of the class, you will have certain longer cooldown abilities that you will want to use to increase your damage; this list is very limited.

The priority system for Devastation Evoker is not very complicated as a whole, the majority of your time casting will be spent channeling Disintegrate and using an assortment of abilities off cooldown then filling in with Living Flame where needed.

• Pre cast Living Flame.
• Cast Deep Breath
• Cast Dragonrage.
• Cast Shattering Star.
• Cast Fire Breath with Tip the Scales.
• Cast Eternity Surge at rank 1.
• Cast Disintegrate until you run out of Essence.
• Cast If you run out of Essence and none of the previously listed abilities are ready to be used, cast Living Flame.

A very simple and effective way to ensure you are playing well is sending Eternity Surge/ Fire Breath/ Shattering Star on cooldown. This will end up being correct in nearly every situation.

If you are Scalecommander, you will want to send Deep Breath on Cooldown. If you chose Flameshaper instead, you will want to use Engulf after applying Fire Breath to avoid overcapping charges.

The only real difference is when you focus exclusively on AoE instead of single target is that you will be max channeling the Empowered spell Fire Breath, and then replace Living Flame with Azure Strike and Disintegrate with Pyre.

Midnight gives us the new Apex Talent Rising Fury which serves as a damage steroid inside your Dragonrage. The effect persists for a short duration afterwards granting you additional stacks of Essence Burst allowing you to cast your Essence spenders more frequently.

Midnight Season 1 brings our new tier set, making our Eternity Surge grant two charges of Azure Sweep alongside increasing its damage dealt and making it reduce the cooldown of Eternity Surge by 2 seconds each time you use it. This does not have any real impact on our play or rotation, but makes our new filler ability hit much harder and feel more rewarding when pressed.

Dragonrage — this is your only substantial damage cooldown, which will give your Mastery ( Mastery: Giantkiller) full effectiveness regardless of the target's current health, and will let your filler abilities give you guaranteed free Essence spenders on each cast. The effect of Dragonrage is extended each time you use an Empowered spell.

Obsidian Scales is your main defensive, which will reduce all damage you take by 30%. You can talent into a second charge of this, meaning you can always have a significant damage reduction for predictable incoming damage windows.

Renewing Blaze is another defensive that is automatically applied when you cast Obsidian Scales. This causes 30% of all damage you take over the next 8 seconds also heal you in the form of a HoT with the same 8-second duration. This is very potent for long periods of medium-high damage, as it will keep your health pool high and limit your risk of dying.

Stretch Time this will cause your Deep Breath to turn all damage taken while you are flying into a DoT effect lasting 10 seconds, this is a very potent defensive and will allow you to soak massive hits when needed.

Zephyr will give you and 4 nearby allies a 20% damage reduction from AoE abilities for a short duration. This can be situationally amazing, particularly in Mythic+.

These are the defensive utility talents and abilities for Devastation Evoker, for more details, we recommend you check out the Spell Summary page.

The general stat priority for a Devastation Evoker is seen below. This is very much a rough guideline and is designed for players who do not wish to sim their character. If you are simming your character, please disregard this stat priority completely and follow your sim!

Currently, item level is by far the most important aspect of gearing. Following that, Haste is your highest value stat, followed by Critical Strike and Versatility/Mastery. If at all possible, you would want to prioritize your stats like this. For more information on what's presented on this page, check out our main Stat Priority page.

1. Item Level
2. Haste
3. Critical Strike
4. Mastery
5. Versatility

On Jewelry (and pieces without Intellect on them), the priority is as follows.

1. Haste
2. Item Level
3. Critical Strike
4. Mastery
5. Versatility

The Combat Assistant arrives this patch with two options which can be used to improve your rotation and learn to maximise your damage.

The first is the one-button assistant which will constantly shift itself to the next button in your rotation with a minor global cooldown penalty, this is currently about a 20% DPS loss over playing the class optimally by your own hand.

The second is the highlight assistant which will highlight the next ability you want to press on your action bars in order to follow blizzards pre-set optimal rotation, this does not have the global cooldown penalty that the one-button assistant does however due to following blizzards rotation instead of the more heavily optimised variant in simcraft, this will still lead to a roughly 10% DPS loss.

I highly recommend using both of these when initially learning Devastation, it will not teach you to play perfectly but it will give you a strong foundation to work from with the overall losses not being that significant.