Devastation Evoker Raid Guide (2024)

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Disintegrate and Pyre inflict Obsidian Shards after damaging a target, dealing 18% of the damage done additionally as Volcanic damage over 8 sec.
• 4-Set: Increases the damage of Fire Breath and Eternity Surge by 12%, additionally casting either spell gives you the Blazing Shards buff for 5 seconds, which makes Obsidian Shards deal 200% more damage. During Dragonrage the effect of Blazing Shards is active permanently.

Single-target

Opener Rotation

• The goal of the opener is to maximize your Dragonrage window and extend it 4 times with Animosity while not overcapping on Essence or Essence Burst.

• If equipped, always use Nymue's Unraveling Spindle before Dragonrage and Belor'relos, the Suncaller outside of Dragonrage as you don't want to be channeling these during your DPS cooldown.
• Use Tip the Scales with your 2nd Fire Breath of the Dragonrage window.
• Check below for the Dragonrage window priority after the initial opener.

Dragonrage Priority List

This is a general priority for your Dragonrage window.

1. Cast Fire Breath - Rank 1.
2. Cast Eternity Surge - Rank 1.
3. Cast Shattering Star - Cast when at 1 or less Essence Burst.
4. Cast Disintegrate until you are not capped on Essence.
5. Cast Living Flame to proc Essence Burst if you have either Burnout, Iridescence: Red, Iridescence: Blue or Leaping Flames.
6. Cast Disintegrate until you have no more Essence to cast it.
7. Cast Azure Strike to proc Essence Burst.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Cast Fire Breath.
2. Cast Shattering Star if you have 1 or no Essence Burst.
3. Cast Eternity Surge.
4. Cast Living Flame if you have 2 stacks of Burnout or a single one that is about to run out.
5. Cast Disintegrate until you have no more Essence to cast it.
6. Cast Living Flame until you have enough Essence to cast Disintegrate.

Multi Target

2 Target Rotation

• On 2 targets as a Devastation Evoker, you play exactly the same way as you would on single-target.

3+ Targets Opener Rotation

• Below you can see an example of how an opener might look with Volatility talented.
• This can vary with target count because of Causality.

• Use Azure Strike to proc Essence Burst inside Dragonrage window.

3+ Target Priority List

1. Cast Deep Breath when Dragonrage is not active.
2. Cast Fire Breath - Empower according to target count.
3. Cast Eternity Surge - Empower according to target count.
4. Cast Shattering Star if you have 1 or no Essence Burst.
5. Cast Pyre as Essence spender on 3+ Targets with Volatility talented, start using Pyre on 4+ Targets without it.
6. Cast Azure Strike until you have enough Essence for your spender.

Empower spells

Fire Breath

• Used mostly with Rank 1 Empower on single target as you want to have the DoT effect up all the time for Burnout procs and Catalyze synergy.
• Using Fire Breath with a higher Empower rank shortens the damage over time effect in favor of more direct damage, you want to utilize this when your target isn't going to live much longer.
• Ranking up Fire Breath more in AoE situations is also generally recommended as Causality shortens the cooldown of the spell much more with Pyre spam and you would be overwriting your pre-existing DoT effect and wasting damage otherwise. In addition, you get better value from Leaping Flames.

Eternity Surge

• Deciding what rank to use Eternity Surge on is very straightforward as it only increases the targets hit by 1 for each rank (or 2 with Eternity's Span).
• Rank 1-4: 1/2/3/4 or 2/4/6/8 withEternity's Span targets hit.

In general, you should hold both Empower spells when Dragonrage is about to come off cooldown for proper Animosity extensions.

Playing around the current tier set bonus

• (2-set): This is a passive effect that requires no interaction.
• (4-set): with this set bonus you should stagger your Fire Breath and Eternity Surge by 5 seconds while not in Dragonrage to optimize the uptime of Blazing Shards.
• Ideally you want Obsidian Shards up on your target from a Disintegrate or a Pyre before using an Empower spell outside of Dragonrage to maximize the benefit from Blazing Shards.

Disintegrate Mechanics

• Baseline Disintegrate has a cast duration of two global cooldowns and four damage ticks occur within this time frame.
• Utilizing the Pandemic mechanic you can start a new cast of Disintegrate after the 3rd damage tick has occurred which transfers the remaining duration and 4th damage tick of the previous cast to the next one.
• This is how you spell queue Disintegrates, minimizing downtime and enabling you to use up Essence slightly faster to prevent overcapping.
• All of this means that it is crucial to have a cast bar with Disintegrate ticks shown on it so you can re-cast at proper timings, one such cast bar is featured in the WeakAuras section further down the guide.

Using Rescue

• Rescue is a great part of your toolkit as an Evoker, using it optimally requires fight awareness, especially in raids it can often save your less mobile allies from sticky situations.
• When you don't need Rescue for its movement, you should be looking to use it for the very potent defensive effect Twin Guardian as often as possible.

Using Hover

• Managing and timing your Hover casts correctly in combat to get more casts in while dealing with mechanics is where you see the biggest difference in your DPS as the actual rotational optimization is not that complex for Devastation Evoker.
• Starting a cast of a spell such as Disintegrate at the very end of a Hover buff still lets you finish that specific cast while moving even if the buff runs out during the cast, keep this in mind to get more benefit from each use of Hover!
• A minor optimization is activating Hover during a global cooldown from an instant skill such as Living Flame with an Burnout proc.
• Make sure you are tracking your uptime and charges of Hover well on your UI and get really comfortable with utilizing this ability as it is the most significant unique strength of an Evoker.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

Vault, Aberrus & Amirdrassil

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Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Raid boss fights as a Devastation Evoker. For more detailed information, visit theStats and Attributesguide.

All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

• Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
• Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing.
• Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to the recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the scenario.

Active Trinket alternatives

• Spoils of Neltharus
  • A good farmable 2 minute on-use trinket, always use with Dragonrage.
• Ashes of the Embersoul
  • A good 2 minute on-use trinket alternative with a 1 minute haste penalty after, always use with Dragonrage.
• Belor'relos, the Suncaller
  • A strong on-use direct damage that has on-demand burst.

Passive Trinket alternatives

• Neltharion's Call to Chaos
  • A very good alternative passive trinket with more variance, also with this you don't have to worry about what trinkets other people in the raid have unlike with Ominous Chromatic Essence and Whispering Incarnate Icon. The negative side-effect is not too relevant in the current raids.
• Whispering Incarnate Icon
  • Is better or worse depending on how many people in your group are using it, overall very slightly weaker than the Ominous Chromatic Essence.
• Umbrelskul's Fractured Heart
  • A decent single-target alternative.

• There are a lot of usable trinket options, item level is always the most important factor so you should sim / check the list below for other trinkets. You should in general aim to have one passive and one active trinket though.

Simcraft

To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.

• Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards
  • The best available embellishment.
• Blue Silken Lining
  • Albeit being available for many slots, you should aim to craft it on your Neck, Cloak, Waist, or Boots depending on your gear.

Remaining Sparks

• Make sure to apply Alchemical Flavor Pocket if you have an additional crafted item equipped to keep your food buff even if you die.
• You can fill slots in as you are gearing up with various crafted pieces but they are 525 ilvl and regular items are 528 on max item level therefore it is not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your two embellishments when you have BiS gear.

Phials

• Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage -- For maximum DPS.
• Phial of Tepid Versatility -- For less DPS but more survivability.

Food

• Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak
• Deviously Deviled Eggs

Combat Potion

• Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
• Residual Neural Channeling Agent
  • Can be used while being dead if your potion is ready.

Health Potion

• Potion of Withering Dreams -- For a big burst of healing
• Dreamwalker's Healing Potion -- For less healing upfront but an additional small heal over time.

Weapon Rune

• Buzzing Rune
• Howling Rune

Augment Rune

• Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
• Draconic Augment Rune

Sockets

• Inscribed Illimited Diamond or Fierce Illimited Diamond -- Unique, made by work order
• Crafty Alexstraszite or Crafty Ysemerald

Discover recommended macros for Devastation Evokers during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

#showtooltip /cast [@cursor] Deep Breath

#showtooltip/cast [@cursor] Firestorm

Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Devastation Evoker, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Raids to make your life easier.

Credits

Written By: fraggo

Reviewed By: Saltad