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.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

2.

BiS Gear for Devastation Evoker

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

2.1.

BiS List for Devastation Evoker

This list below contains the highest DPS setup obtainable for Devastation Evoker.

In non-Tier slots, max ilvl crafted items can outperform even max ilvl Myth items if they have worse stats on them (Not Crit/Haste). We suggest simming your character to see if these items are better than crafted. A full guide to simming your character can be found here and will give you tailored results that more accurately reflect your current character.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Blade of the Blind Verdict	Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire.
Off Hand	Grimoire of the Eternal Light	Vorasius in The Voidspire.
Helmet	Hornhelm of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire.
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas.
Shoulder	Beacons of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire.
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Frenzyward of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, or Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Wrist	Farstrider's Plated Bracers	Crafted by Leatherworking
Hands	Untethered Berserker's Grips	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Waist	Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt	Pit of Saron
Legs	Greaves of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, or Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Feet	Spelltreads of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst.
Ring 1	Sin'dorei Band of Hope	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas.
Ring 2	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas.
Trinket 1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift.
Trinket 2	Vaelgor's Final Stare	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire.

2.2.

Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Devastation Evoker

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 1 Mythic+ Dungeons.

In non-Tier slots, max ilvl crafted items can outperform even max ilvl Myth items if they have worse stats on them (Not Crit/Haste). We suggest simming your character to see if these items are better than crafted. A full guide to simming your character can be found here and will give you tailored results that more accurately reflect your current character.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

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

• Windrunner Spire: This dungeon has a lot of BiS items including your BiS trinket.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: This dungeon has a lot of BiS items including the ring two set which you want.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Corespark Multitool	Nexus-Point Xenas
Head	Hornhelm of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Barbed Ymirheim Choker	Pit of Saron
Shoulder	Beacons of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Frenzyward of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst
Wrist	Farstrider's Plated Bracers	Crafted by Leatherworking
Hands	Enforcer's Grips of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst
Waist	Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt	Pit of Saron
Legs	Greaves of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst
Feet	Whipcoil Sabatons	Windrunner Spire
Ring 1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring 2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket 1	Emberwing Feather	Windrunner Spire
Trinket 2	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire

2.3.

Raid Gear BiS List for Devastation Evoker

This list contains the highest DPS setup with items from the Midnight Season 1 Raids.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you are required to provide a list of the most important items you want to your raidleader or want to know the most important bosses to farm then we have listed a few important ones below:

• Vaelgor's Final Stare: Devastation Evokers best Trinket (On Use). This drops from Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire.
• Gaze of the Alnseer: A great passive trinket and part of your overall BiS, you will want to grab this quickly. This drops from Chimaerus in The Dreamrift

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Blade of the Blind Verdict	Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire.
Off Hand	Grimoire of the Eternal Light	Vorasius in The Voidspire.
Helmet	Hornhelm of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire.
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas.
Shoulder	Beacons of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire.
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Frenzyward of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, or Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Wrist	Farstrider's Plated Bracers	Crafted by Leatherworking
Hands	Untethered Berserker's Grips	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Waist	Scornbane Waistguard	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Legs	Greaves of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst, or Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Feet	Spelltreads of the Black Talon	Matrix Catalyst.
Ring 1	Sin'dorei Band of Hope	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas.
Ring 2	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas.
Trinket 1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift.
Trinket 2	Vaelgor's Final Stare	Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire.

I 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.

Patch 12.0.5 brings us the revamped bonus roll/turbo boost system.

• Nebulous Voidcore are the new bonus roll tokens, using one of these after you kill a raid boss or finish a mythic+ dungeon will grant you an item specific to that boss or dungeon. The item you receive will be randomly selected from those available for your current talent specialisation. After receiving an item it will be removed from the loot table to ensure you never received duplicates and making it easier to target a specific item from a boss over a period of time.
• Ascendant Voidcore is the new simplified version of the old turbo boost system, instead of giving you the ability to upgrade all items on Heroic or Mythic track by 2 tiers, it now applies only to weapons and trinkets. This includes Radiance-Crafted items at max quality.

For more information on how to acquire these items, make sure to check out our dedicated guide below.

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!

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.

If you would like to learn more about professions, such as how to craft your own Mythic ilvl equipment, then make sure to check out our Midnight Profession Guide Linked Below:

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 guaranteed 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.

7.

Best Crafted Items for Devastation Evoker

Crafting for Progression Final Optimal Crafted Slots Embellishments Explained

7.1.

Best Crafted Items for Progression Devastation Evoker

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!

7.2.

Best Crafted Items for End-Game Devastation Evoker

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.

7.3.

Embellishment Items Explained for Devastation Evoker

Below you will find information about the two Embellishments that Devastation wants to use.

7.4.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt

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.

7.5.

Arcanoweave Lining

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.

With all the different ways of gearing it is almost impossible to cover every scenario in a guide, we therefore highly recommend simming your own character by using Raidbots. This website allows you to check each and every upgrade you might make before you make it, making it much easier to avoid wasting crests or picking the wrong upgrades from your vault.

The Droptimizer feature on raidbots will give you a list of all the items from both raid and dungeons in rank order of the highest DPS upgrade. This makes choosing which items you want to target farm much easier and will help with knowing what items you want to be looking for in raid. We have a guide that you can access from the link below to help get you started.