Devastation Evoker DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.2)

• Casting Disintegrate whenever you are near the Essence cap to ensure that you do not waste any resources;
• Casting Shattering Star on cooldown and ensuring you have 3 Essence in reserve when casting Shattering Star, so you can cast back-to-back Disintegrates inside the increased damage taken window;
• Casting your Empower spells ( Fire Breath and Eternity Surge) when they are on cooldown, but making sure to leave a 4-5 second window between each Empower cast as to maximise the benefit of Power Swell;
• Making sure that whenever you need to move and DPS at the same time you are using Hover; this will allow you to cast both Living Flame and Disintegrate on the move.

• AoE works very similarly to the single target rotation, with the difference that instead of Living Flame you will use Azure Strike, and instead of Disintegrate you will use Pyre.
• You will also be upranking your Fire Breath Empower much more regularly, as you will be casting a lot more Empower spells with the much greater cooldown reduction achieved from casting Pyre in place of Disintegrate.

With the adjustment to the Animosity talent, we are no longer able to get more than 16 seconds of additional uptime from empowered spells cast during Dragonrage, this means that it is not as necessary to have both empower spells ready to cast the moment you activate it.

This change will take a little getting used to, as it will heavily affect both our opener and our immediate cast sequence inside our cooldown burst window, which we will go over below.

In the single-target and AoE sections, you will find a highly detailed priority list breakdown of the Rotation, as well as optimal openers.

1. Pre-cast Living Flame so that it lands on pull.
2. Cast Deep Breath.
3. Cast Dragonrage.
4. Cast Shattering Star.
5. Cast Fire Breath with Tip the Scales.
6. Cast Eternity Surge.
7. Cast Disintegrate until you run out of Essence.
8. Proceed with your normal rotation according to the list below.

This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Devastation Evoker

1. Use Fire Breath empower level 1 on cooldown in order to maintain the damage over time effect.
2. Ensure that whenever you are about to cast Shattering Star, you have at least 3 Essence pooled so you can cast back-to-back Disintegrate in the damage amplification window.
3. Use Eternity Surge on cooldown.
4. Use Deep Breath on cooldown.
5. Use Hover to maintain uptime whenever you are forced to move.
6. Use Living Flame as a filler and to spend the stacks of Iridescence after casting Fire Breath.

1. Cast Azure Strike to gain stacks of Charged Blast whilst mobs are being grouped up.
2. Cast max rank Fire Breath.
3. Cast Dragonrage the 3 Pyre casts that come from this will all benefit from Iridescence.
4. Cast Eternity Surge at rank 1.
5. Cast Disintegrate after casting your empowers to trigger Mass Disintegrate.
6. Cast Pyre after channeling Mass Disintegrate to consume the stacks of Charged Blast.
7. Cast Pyre until out of Essence.
8. Cast rank 1-3 Eternity Surge depending on the amount of enemies you are engaged with.
9. Cast Azure Strike as a filler and to give you Essence Burst procs which you will spend on Pyre.
10. Cast Living Flame with Burnout procs when you have your stacks of Leaping Flames up from casting Fire Breath, this will give you maximum Essence Burst stacks.
11. Cast Shattering Star to generate a charge of Essence Burst.
12. Cast empowered spells on cooldown and avoid overcapping Essence.

1. Cast Living Flame to apply a stack of Ruby Embers.
2. Cast Dragonrage this will cast Pyre at your target applying Enkindle.
3. Cast Shattering Star.
4. Cast Tip the Scales and Fire Breath.
5. Cast Engulf twice.
6. Cast Eternity Surge at Empower level 1.
7. Cast Disintegrate twice.

The new tier set reintroduces Clipping to certain parts of our rotation (see for full details.

1. Pre cast Living Flame.
2. Cast Dragonrage.
3. Cast Eternity Surge.
4. Cast Living Flame until you have two charges of Essence Burst.
5. Cast Shattering Star.
6. Cast Tip the Scales and Fire Breath.
7. Cast Engulf twice.
8. Cast Disintegrate twice clipping these casts as quickly as you can.
9. Cast Living Flame to generate 2 charges of Essence Burst this will give two stacks due to Leaping Flames.
10. Cast Disintegrate twice clipping these casts as quickly as you can.
11. Cast Azure Strike.
12. Cast Disintegrate clipping it as soon as your gcd ends.
13. Cast Fire Breath at Empower 1.
14. Cast Disintegrate twice, clipping only the first cast early then resuming your normal rotation from this point onwards.

This will be a priority list of how you should be spending your gcds to deal optimal damage.

In order to deal maximum damage with Engulf you will need to have all three of your DoT effects on the target, these are applied with Living Flame (Ruby Embers) / Disintegrate (Enkindle) and Fire Breath. Ruby Embers and Enkindle will be maintained almost permanently with no play adjustments required but Fire Breath will require a little bit more thought which i will address below.

1. Cast Shattering Star on cooldown.
2. Cast Fire Breath on cooldown, if you have a Engulf charge ready you will charge your Fire Breath to rank 4 in order to get the full benefit of Scorching Embers, if not you will cast it at rank 1.
3. Cast Eternity Surge on cooldown.
4. Cast Disintegrate as your Essence spender.
5. Cast Living Flame as your filler.
6. Cast Azure Strike if you have to cast whilst moving without any Hover charges.

The playstyle of Flameshaper for season 3 shifts a bit more into pooling resources for specific burst windows, each Engulf activates a 12 second burst window that you want to prepare for. Ideally you will have atleast 4 essence and 1 charge of Essence Burst each time you enter a Fire Breath rank 4 into Engulf cycle, essence abilities and in particular essence abilities that consume Essence Burst are greatly enhanced during this period.

1. Dragonrage is sent on cooldown.
2. Shattering Star is sent on cooldown to gain a charge of your tier set.
3. Fire Breath is always cast at Empower level 4 to maximize the benefits of Leaping Flames / Scorching Embers.
4. Engulf is always sent immediately after casting a Empower level 4 Fire Breath
5. Pyre on everything above 3 targets, switch to Disintegrate if the pack is down to 2 targets or less.
6. Living Flame cast at least once between every Fire Breath cast in order to consume Leaping Flames to hopefully trigger a Snapfire
7. Firestorm cast off cooldown and whenever Snapfire procs.
8. Eternity Surge cast as an absolute last resort when there are only 1-target remaining.