Devastation Evoker DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within Pre-Patch

• 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 Fire Breath empower level 1.
3. Cast Shattering Star.
4. Cast Disintegrate x3.
5. Cast Dragonrage.
6. Cast Eternity Surge.
7. Cast Disintegrate x2 if enough 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, it will naturally be 4-5 seconds after your Fire Breath so you will get the Power Swell benefits.
4. Use Hover to maintain uptime whenever you are forced to move.
5. 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 Pyre until out of Essence.
5. Cast rank 1-3 Eternity Surge depending on the amount of enemies you are engaged with.
6. Cast Azure Strike as a filler and to give you Essence Burst procs which you will spend on Pyre.
7. 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.
8. Cast Shattering Star to generate a charge of Essence Burst.
9. Cast empowered spells on cooldown and avoid overcapping Essence.