Devastation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Dragonflight 10.0.7
On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Devastation Evoker in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.7. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.
On this page, we cover all the talents you have access to, explaining how each one is to be used. Some of these talents, active or passive, can make a huge difference in how Devastation Evokers is played, which is explained on our rotation page.
Some talents have a more versatile use in Mythic+ than in raids; if this is more your thing, we strongly recommend that you check the Mythic+ page.
Two default builds are detailed below. These provide a balance of throughput and unique utility. You can import these talent trees in-game by pressing the "Copy Export String" button on the calculator and Importing the string as a new talent layout in-game.
Raiding:
For pure single-target boss scenarios such as Terros, you would not need
Protracted Talons or
Leaping Flames and should pick two
points in
Innate Magic for a slight DPS boost.
For fights with multiple targets constantly, such as Primal Council, you will want to adjust some talents in the Devastation Tree for more AoE:
- Remove:
Power Nexus,
Catalyze (as
Pyre is the essence spender),
Font of Magic,
Focusing Iris and
Feed the Flames.
- Gain:
Volatility x2,
Firestorm,
Snapfire, and
Everburning Flame (and use higher ranks of
Fire Breath as
Pyre and
Firestorm will keep the DoT active).
Mythic+:
If your group needs an Enrage dispel the point in Clobbering Sweep
can be removed to obtain
Overawe, but it will result in a loss of
potential CC.
Devastation Evoker Talents Explained
Due to the nature of Dragonflight's talent trees, almost every talent is meant to be viable or have a desirable niche where you may want to select it. As such, we will cover some of the more favored talents that you will want to prioritize most of the time from the top of each tree on down, followed by mentioning some of the more considerable niche talents that are likely only rarely useful. If you would like to see a list of every single talent's effect as well as the abbreviations they are often known by in the community, please consult our Spell List and Glossary section instead.
Rows 1-4 Class Talents for Devastation Evokers
Noteworthy Talents
Talent | Description/Effect |
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One of your few defensive abilities as an Evoker. |
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Gives you the ability to dispel poisons. |
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An easy-to-obtain damage boost to your most used Essence spender. |
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A very strong instant-cast heal. You can use it on yourself or another player. If used on another player, you will fly to them, which can be handy for mobility, too. |
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An easy-to-obtain damage boost to your most used filler ability on 1-2 targets. |
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This is an interesting talent. The damage of your next ![]() |
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A second charge of ![]() |
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Your interrupt ability, and even if you do not need the interrupt, it paths
to ![]() |
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This is your AoE Essence spender. By default, it costs 3 Essence to cast but
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These allow ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Your second empowered spell and is one of your hardest-hitting spells. This will deal the same damage at all empowerment levels. Still, the amount of targets it can hit is increased the higher you go. |
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Gives your ![]() ![]() |
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Increases your maximum Essence to 6. |
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This is your big DPS cooldown. It makes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Increases the damage of ![]() |
Niche Talents
Talent | When to Consider |
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Dungeon scenarios if you need additional crowd control. |
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If your group needs additional dispels. |
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If you need to use ![]() |
Rows 5-7 Class Talents for Devastation Evoker
Noteworthy Talents
Talent | Description/Effect |
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An easy-to-obtain damage boost for all abilities. |
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This makes your next Empowered spell an instant cast and at the maximum
empowerment level. ![]() |
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Increases the duration of ![]() |
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Increases the duration of your ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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This turns ![]() |
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Increases the duration of your ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Increases the amount of ![]() |
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Increases the damage of ![]() |
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Increases the damage of your Essence spenders that are cast with
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This will reduce the cooldown of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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This provides an additional effect to ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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This increases the damage and healing of ![]() |
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This doubles the number of targets hit by your ![]() ![]() |
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Increases the tick rate of ![]() ![]() |
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Increases the damage of your next ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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15-second cooldown deals damage to your target and causes them to take 20%
more damage from you for 4 seconds. Use this talent for single-target scenarios
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Niche Talents
Talent | When to Consider |
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If you need additional CC in the group. |
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Increased movement speed when you are above 75%. Useful for some transmog farm content. |
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If your healers need it in Raid. |
Rows 8-10 Class Talents for Devastation Evoker
Noteworthy Talents
Talent | Description/Effect |
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Allows you to pick up a friendly player and fly them to a location you select. Quite useful for getting group members out of danger quickly or providing assistance to a player behind the group. |
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This is a fairly essential talent due to Evokers not having many
defensive abilities. ![]() |
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Increases the damage of your critical strikes from 200% damage to 220% damage! |
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Niche Talents
Talent | When to Consider |
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If you are going to fight enemies with absorb shields. ![]() |
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3+ Target scenarios. |
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When you plan on using ![]() |
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When you need to ![]() |
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1-2 target scenarios, above this target count you may want to consider a
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Rotation
Certain talents require changing how you play and your rotation in varying amounts. We will go over the strengths of those talents here, but if you want to know how to use those talents in the rotation, follow the link to the Rotation page, where we go through the rotation or priority system we follow.
PvP Talents (War Mode)
Opting into War Mode makes you eligible for open-world PvP but also grants you the following benefits:
- World Quests at maximum level have 10% increased rewards (30% if you are Alliance).
- You gain 10% increased Experience while leveling (30% if you are Alliance).
- Allows you to earn Conquest Points towards weekly gear rewards.
- Grants you to use PvP talents in the open-world.
With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended that you enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will make yourself eligible for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.
PvP Talents for Devastation Evokers
There are no PvP talents for Evokers that increase your total damage output. Therefore the PvP talents you choose are entirely down to personal preference.
Changelog
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 06 Feb. 2023: Fixed typo for Unravel.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Changed talent trees from damage focused ST/AoE to Raiding and Mythic+ with descriptions of changes that can be made when necessary.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 15 Nov. 2022: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Panthea who has taken an early liking to Evoker from the Alpha and has been actively involved with figuring out the spec. You will find him in the Evoker discord where he is regularly helping people with the spec.
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