Devastation Evoker DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

• Casting Disintegrate whenever you are near the Essence cap to ensure that you do not waste any resources;
• 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;
• Cast Azure Sweep when available as a higher priority filler than Living Flame;
• 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.

With the change to Animosity every subsequent extension gives less duration meaning after your 4th extend, any further increase is negligible and is not something you really need to be concerned about..

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 Fire Breath with Tip the Scales.
5. Cast Eternity Surge.
6. Cast Disintegrate until you run out of Essence.
7. 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. Use Eternity Surge on cooldown.
3. Use Deep Breath on cooldown.
4. Use Hover to maintain uptime whenever you are forced to move.
5. Use Azure Sweep when available.
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 Azure Sweep when available, this will deal alot more damage and instantly cap your Charged Blast stacks.
12. Cast empowered spells on cooldown and avoid overcapping Essence.

1. Pre-Cast Living Flame .
2. Cast Dragonrage.
3. Cast Fire Breath at Empower level 1.
4. Cast Eternity Surge at Empower level 1.
5. Cast Disintegrate twice.
6. Cast Fire Breath at Empower level 1.
7. Cast Disintegrate until out of Essence.
8. Cast Azure Sweep

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

1. Cast Fire Breath on cooldown, always at Empower level 1.
2. Cast Eternity Surge on cooldown.
3. Cast Disintegrate as your Essence spender.
4. Cast Azure Sweep when available.
5. Cast Living Flame as your filler.
6. Cast Azure Strike if you have to cast whilst moving without any Hover charges.

1. Dragonrage is sent on cooldown.
2. Fire Breath is always cast at Empower level 1 to maximize the damage of Consume Flame.
3. Pyre on everything above 3 targets, switch to Disintegrate if the pack is down to 2 targets or less.
4. Living Flame cast at least once between every Fire Breath cast in order to consume Leaping Flames
5. Azure Sweep cast when available.
6. Eternity Surge cast when you have none of the above available.

Dragonrage extending is achieved by casting Empowered spells, Fire Breath and Eternity Surge, after activating your Dragonrage cooldown when talented into Animosity. Despite Dragonrage no longer having a cap on its duration, you are unlikely to go much beyond 34 seconds due to the diminishing returns on each extension.

Bombardment cleaving is specific to the ScaleCommander hero talent tree and is done by spreading your Bombardments debuff to multiple targets. The primary target of each Mass Disintegrate gets its own Bombardments debuff. Each Essence ability you cast will extend the duration of all active bombardments, allowing you to get twice as much damage dealt and twice as much cooldown reduction on Deep Breath from Wingleader.

Dragonrage is our only major cooldown, available every 2 minutes. It grants full effectiveness of Mastery: Giantkiller and guarantees all of your fillers spells ( Living Flame / Azure Strike / Azure Sweep) will proc Essence Burst. It is important to get as many uses of this in a fight as you can.