Devastation Evoker DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Devastation Evoker Gear page for Midnight. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Devastation Evoker, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

OverallMythic+Raid

This list contains the highest DPS setup from all sources for Devastation Evoker. Keep in mind that there are many other setups that perform within the margin of error. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available, your BiS gear might look different in some spots than the below list.

In some non-Tier slots, a max ilvl Craft will technically be optimal since you can customize the secondary stats to your liking. Your mileage here may vary.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1 as a Devastation Evoker, you will want to try and prioritise getting the Helm, Shoulder, Chest and Legs set pieces. The Gloves are not great because we are aiming to have no Versatility on our gear.

Devastation Evoker

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Hornhelm of the Black Talon Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Untethered Berserker's Grips Hands

Crown of the Cosmos

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt Waist

Pit of Saron

Beacons of the Black Talon Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Amirdrassil's Grace

Greaves of the Black Talon Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Darkstrider Treads Feet

Belo'ren Shaladrassil's Roots

Frenzyward of the Black Talon Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Vaelgor's Final Stare Trinket

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Blade of the Blind Verdict Main Hand

Lightblinded Vanguard Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Grimoire of the Eternal Light Off Hand

Vorasius

This list contains the highest DPS setup from mythic+ for Devastation Evoker.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. so take the time to check the value of each item before committing to enchanting and upgrading, even more important when deciding where to bonus roll.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Windrunner Spire: Drops double BiS trinkets, as well as multiple tier slots and BiS boots.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: Drop BiS weapon and double BiS ring, with a very small overall loot table

Devastation Evoker

1.2.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Hornhelm of the Black Talon Helm

Catalyst Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Enforcer's Grips of the Black Talon Hands

Catalyst

Barbed Ymirheim Choker Neck

Pit of Saron

Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt Waist

Pit of Saron

Beacons of the Black Talon Shoulders

Catalyst Amirdrassil's Grace

Greaves of the Black Talon Legs

Catalyst Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Whipcoil Sabatons Feet

Windrunner Spire Shaladrassil's Roots

Frenzyward of the Black Talon Chest

Catalyst Mark of the Worldsoul

Occlusion of Void Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Omission of Light Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Emberwing Feather Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Heart of Wind Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Corespark Multitool Main Hand

Nexus-Point Xenas Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Off Hand

This list contains the highest DPS setup from raid sources for Devastation Evoker. As always what gives you the biggest upgrade will depend on the rest of your gear

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. So be sure to take care when choosing what to bonus roll from the raid, make sure you have simmed your options correctly.

Devastation Evoker

1.3.

Best Raid Gear

Hornhelm of the Black Talon Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Untethered Berserker's Grips Hands

Crown of the Cosmos

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Scornbane Waistguard Waist

Chimaerus

Beacons of the Black Talon Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Amirdrassil's Grace

Greaves of the Black Talon Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Darkstrider Treads Feet

Belo'ren Shaladrassil's Roots

Frenzyward of the Black Talon Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Vaelgor's Final Stare Trinket

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Blade of the Blind Verdict Main Hand

Lightblinded Vanguard Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Grimoire of the Eternal Light Off Hand

Vorasius

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

We would recommend simming the trinkets listed here when you acquire them as it will not be an ironclad rule of what is BiS in every situation. There are other trinkets you can use beside these but they are quite significantly worse.

There are a few strong trinkets for Devastation Evoker this season with three that are a cut above the rest: Vaelgor's Final Stare, Emberwing Feather and Gaze of the Alnseer.

Below we will have a ranking chart to help you get a better understanding of these four trinkets and several more.

Click for Devastation Evoker Trinket Rankings

All trinkets are assumed to be Mythic+ item level unless a lower item level is specified for the sake of comparison. The idea is to compare trinkets at their maximum obtainable item level to give you an idea of where things are placed. We do not suggest using two on use trinkets even if the trinkets are ranked higher than passive trinkets on this list. For more accurate information on how trinkets perform relative to each other for your own character, please sim your character.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Vaelgor's Final Stare On use. Emberwing Feather On use. NOTE - this trinket currently has very peculiar ilvl scaling, the difference between this trinket at heroic ilvl and mythic ilvl is substantially larger than any other trinket so it only really enters the S tier category when compared at mythic ilvl. Gaze of the Alnseer Passive.
A Tier	Heart of Wind Passive. Locus-Walker's Ribbon Passive.
B Tier	Nevermelting Ice Crystal On use, this trinket has a 3 minute cooldown making it awkward to use with Dragonrage. Shadow of the Empyrean Requiem Passive.

Midnight's patch 12.0.5 introduces two systems inspired by systems from previous expansions.

• Nebulous Voidcore which can be used in dungeons or after killing a specific raid boss, and lets you gain a guaranteed piece of loot from that dungeon or raid boss. The item you get is random, but you can not get a duplicate item so using it again in a specific place will give you another chance on the remaining items.
• Ascendant Voidcore are used to increase the item level of Weapons and Trinkets which are Hero or Myth track if you have scaled them up to the highest item level possible. Alternatively these items can also be used on Crafted items at max quality.

Seasonal Mechanics

Voidforge and Voidcores

Check our our guide on the Voidforge to learn how to acquire this powerful upgrades!

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The items you want and the order in which you want to pursue them will depend on a few factors, but primarily it will be decided by your current gear and the rewards you are expecting to see in your Great Vault. I will go into a little deeper reasoning behind the decisions as i list each raid boss or dungeon you wish to target.

The raid bosses you will be able to effectively target will be dependant on your guilds current level of progression, the list below will be ordered by level of difficulty and the total amount of optimal loot you can receive.

• The Dreamrift - Chimaerus: This is an early progression boss that has only four items, three of which are part of your BiS list.
  • Scornbane Waistguard
  • Gaze of the Alnseer
  • Frenzyward of the Black Talon.
• The Voidspire - Vorasius: This is another early progression boss with four items, two of which are part of your BiS list.
  • Grimoire of the Eternal Light
  • Frenzy's Rebuke (Catalyst this into tier)
• The Voidspire - Vaelgor and Ezzorak: This is a mid tier progression boss that has four items, with three being part of your BiS list.
  • Vaelgor's Final Stare
  • Nullwalker's Dread Epaulettes (Catalyst this into tier)
  • Greaves of the Black Talon
• The Voidspire - Lightblinded Vanguard: This is a mid tier progression boss with four items, two are part of your BiS list.
  • Blade of the Blind Verdict
  • Hornhelm of the Black Talon
• The Voidspire - Crown of the Cosmos: This is the final boss of the raid and has a higher degree of difficulty those before it, it also only has a single item you want with three total items on the loot table making it the lowest priority raid encounter for your bonus rolls. The only item you want here is Untethered Berserker's Grips and these are only a very minor gain over using our tier set gloves.
• March on Quel'danas - Belo'ren: This is the penultimate boss of the tier and again only has four items, three of these are part of your BiS list.
  • Sin'dorei Band of Hope
  • Darkstrider Treads (Catalyst these into optimal stat boots)
  • Eternal Flame Scaleguards (Catalyst this into tier)
• March on Quel'danas - Midnight Falls: This is the final boss of the tier and is likely to take quite some time to get to. It has six items on its loot table with three being part of your true BiS list.
  • Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn
  • Eye of Midnight
  • Oblivion Guise (Catalyst this into tier)

The dungeons you want to target will be exclusively based upon what items you are currently missing and what will give you the biggest gain when getting them on the Mythic loot track.

• Nexus-Point Xenas: This dungeon has six total items with four of them being a part of your dungeon bis, including your weapon.
  • Corespark Multitool
  • Omission of Light
  • Occlusion of Void
  • Greaves of the Divine Guile (Catalyst into tier)
• Windrunner Spire: This dungeon has nine total items with five of them being your dungeon bis, including your two trinkets.
  • Heart of Wind
  • Emberwing Feather
  • Whipcoil Sabatons
  • Spaulders of Arrow's Flight (Catalyst into tier)
  • Grips of Forgotten Honor (Catalyst into tier)
• Pit of Saron: This dungeon has nine total items with five being part of your dungeon bis list. This is a great dungeon to target if you are missing a lot of tier as it covers three slots.
  • Spurned Val'kyr Shoulderguards
  • Black Dragonskin Breeches
  • Horns of the Spurned Val'kyr
  • Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt / Barbed Ymirheim Choker

Use these lists as a basic guide and not the be all end all of what you should be chasing, remember to sim your character and the upgrades before you commit to spending your bonus rolls as we only have a limited amount of them.

Using your Ascendant Voidcores is exactly the same as you would spend your crests.

1. Upgrade your mainhand weapon or your two-handed weapon first.
2. Upgrade your trinkets next.
3. Upgrade your offhand slot last.

You should try and prioritize upgrading items on the Myth track when possible over those on the Hero track, unless you are going to be keeping the Heroic version for quite some time. A good example is Vaelgor's Final Stare as Vaelgor and Ezzorak are a mid tier progression boss and you may be stuck with the Heroic trinket.

Profession gear can be extremely useful to help fill in slots and ensure you are gearing with the correct stats. Devastation currently prioritises Crit and then Mastery/Haste while aiming to avoid Versatility entirely. Additionally, you can use up to two embellishments in total between your crafted pieces which further augment your DPS!

This section focuses on crafting items in the most optimal order to gain immediate, efficient and effective power gains. Some of the items you make here will not be a part of your final Best-in-Slot gear list in the endgame and will need to be replaced. We will be crafting them anyway though as they are an incredibly effective way to get DPS from your Sparks and Dawncrests.

Devastation Crafted Gear Priority

• Aln'hara Cane with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt. Skip this if you get a Mythic Staff. If you get a Myth 1H then it is still correct to make the crafted staff due to crest efficiency.
• Highest upgrade Armour Slot (ideally not tier) with Arcanoweave Lining.
• Farstrider's Plated Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining, removing the Embellishment from your weapon if you are still using a crafted weapon.
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

FAQWhy Craft a Weapon First if it is Not Best-in-Slot?

Weapons are the highest budget slot and scale extremely well with item level, so making this item provides the largest boost to your DPS early while being Crest efficient. You are effectively spending 80 Dawncrests to cover 2 slots worth of power, although you do need to spend 2 crafts worth of sparks to get there. This season we have a large number of sparks available to start the season with so spending these sparks has low opportunity cost.

FAQAny Alternatives to Farstrider's Plated Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining for the Second Craft?

You could instead opt to craft in your gloves/belt/boots slots as these slots have a higher stat budget than bracers making the crests you spend to craft the items give you greater overall value.

FAQWhy Use Arcanoweave Lining?

We opt to use Arcanoweave Lining as it is currently the highest budget embellishment when including the Primary Stat granted to an ally.

FAQAny Slots to Avoid Crafting For?

You should try to avoid crafting in Tier Set slots unless you already have the full Tier Set. Equipping the full Tier Set is more powerful than the crafted item so you would effectively be losing out on a Spark!

This section focuses on crafting items that will be permanently equipped to your character as they are Best-in-Slot. After that, you should use any of your remaining Sparks to get the highest DPS increase possible. This is not the most effective way to gear your character at the start of a season!

Check out the Progression tab if you want the better path for optimising efficient crests and sparks.

Devastation Crafted Gear Priority

• Farstrider's Plated Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining
• Adherent's Silken Shroud with Arcanoweave Lining
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

FAQWhy Craft Wrists and Cloak?

We are crafting the wrists Farstrider's Plated Bracers because both Cloak and Wrists are the lowest budget slots meaning we are not significantly affected by the lower item level of the crafted items while still getting the full benefit of the Embellishments.

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

Embellishments are additional effects that can be applied to crafted gear, either as a baseline or as an optional reagant when crafting. These can significantly improve the power of a crafted item depending on the Embellishment chosen.

You may only have two embellishments active at a time.

The Embellishment that you will ultimately want to be using is the Arcanoweave Lining this will spawn a mana wyrm that will buff both you and an ally with Primary stat. This does not mean you will absolutely craft items with this Embellishment first. In the section Below we will break down the crafting choices into two specific categories: Progression based and then your final optimal pieces.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt grants a temporary secondary stat buff when your spells or abilities trigger it. The stat granted depends on the type of creature you are fighting:

• Haste: Elemental, Aberration, Demon
• Critical Strike: Beast, Mechanical
• Mastery: Humanoid, Dragonkin
• Versatility: Undead, Giant, Other

For Devastation Evoker, this embellishment is powerful because it has a very high uptime. This effect is completely passive and does not require you to play around it.

Important Notes:

• The stat gained is determined by the enemy creature type, meaning its value can vary depending on the dungeon or raid encounter making this embellishment better or worse.
• Many raid bosses and dungeon enemies fall into the Humanoid or Demon categories, which often results in Mastery or Haste. Both of these are very powerful for Devastation Evoker.

Arcanoweave Lining has a chance to summon a Mana Wyrm that grants Arcanoweave Insight to you and a nearby ally. This effect increases the Primary Stat of both players for a short duration.

This is Devastations best Embellishment being nearly .5% dps better than the closest alternative Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt making it a must have in your BiS gear.

Sockets can be added to Helmets, Belts and Bracers with the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for the Radiant Jewelbinder item that allows you to add a socket to the above piece of gear, if it was acquired in Season 1.

Early on in the season your access to crests is going to be severely limited by the weekly cap. During this period you will want to be as efficient as possible when spending Myth Dawncrest and Hero Dawncrest. You can use these currencies to upgrade gear to higher item levels. We suggest taking the time to consider what is both the biggest gain per upgrade and how likely you are to replace each item before choosing what to spend your crests on.

Devastation Evoker Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon (Mainhand) ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots

This priority will be correct the vast majority of the time but as always there will be exceptions, this is often the case for items that have special effects or procs attached to them.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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Blueprint

Guide Author

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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.