Devastation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Dragonflight 10.0.7

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.

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.

Talent	Description/Effect
Obsidian Scales	One of your few defensive abilities as an Evoker.
Expunge	Gives you the ability to dispel poisons.
Natural Convergence	An easy-to-obtain damage boost to your most used Essence spender.
Verdant Embrace	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.
Enkindled	An easy-to-obtain damage boost to your most used filler ability on 1-2 targets.
Scarlet Adaptation	This is an interesting talent. The damage of your next Living Flame gets increased based on the amount of healing you have done. This will not mean you want to actively heal others for damage gain, but it is a nice reward for helping the group.
Obsidian Bulwark	A second charge of Obsidian Scales!
Quell	Your interrupt ability, and even if you do not need the interrupt, it paths to Instinctive Arcana which is a must-have.
Pyre	This is your AoE Essence spender. By default, it costs 3 Essence to cast but is reduced to 2 with Dense Energy, which you will also take.
Ruby Essence Burst / Azure Essence Burst	These allow Living Flame and Azure Strike to trigger Essence Burst. Essence Burst makes your next Essence costing ability free (and with Titanic Wrath deal more damage too)!
Eternity Surge	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.
Volatility	Gives your Pyre casts a chance to explode again on a nearby target. The explosions can also have the same chance of exploding again! Suppose you are ever in a scenario where you need to cast Pyre. In that case, you will want to take this talent.
Power Nexus	Increases your maximum Essence to 6.
Dragonrage	This is your big DPS cooldown. It makes Essence Burst trigger on every Living Flame and Azure Strike cast while you have Dragonrage active. Dragonrage is made even more powerful with talents in the next section of the talent tree!
Arcane Intensity	Increases the damage of Disintegrate. This is your most commonly used Essence spender, so it dealing more damage is always nice to have.

Talent	When to Consider
Clobbering Sweep / Heavy Wingbeats	Dungeon scenarios if you need additional crowd control.
Cauterizing Flame	If your group needs additional dispels.
Imposing Presence	If you need to use Quell more often.

Talent	Description/Effect
Instinctive Arcana	An easy-to-obtain damage boost for all abilities.
Tip the Scales	This makes your next Empowered spell an instant cast and at the maximum empowerment level. Tip the Scales is also not on the GCD.
Extended Flight	Increases the duration of Hover to a level where you can get more than a few spells cast; very useful.
Blast Furnace	Increases the duration of your Fire Breath DoT. This DoT is a significant piece of your total damage output from the raw damage of the DoT (which ticks more often with Catalyze) and from Burnout procs.
Panacea	This turns Emerald Blossom into a strong instant-cast heal which then does another heal to you and other players a few seconds later.
Animosity	Increases the duration of your Dragonrage by 6 seconds for each Empowered cast ( Fire Breath and Eternity Surge) during Dragonrage. Extending the duration of your big damage window is a key part of the Devastation rotation.
Essence Attunement	Increases the amount of Essence Burst stacks you can have from 1 to 2, meaning that you do not need to spend them immediately and can hold for more key moments in the fight.
Heat Wave	Increases the damage of Fire Breath by 20% per rank.
Titanic Wrath	Increases the damage of your Essence spenders that are cast with Essence Burst by 7.5% per rank.
Causality	This will reduce the cooldown of Eternity Surge when you use an Essence spending ability (this also works on the extra bounces of Pyre from Volatility.
Tyranny	This provides an additional effect to Deep Breath and Dragonrage where they will both gain full benefit from Mastery: Giantkiller.
Engulfing Blaze	This increases the damage and healing of Living Flame by 40% but increases the cast time by 0.5 seconds. Use this talent for single-target scenarios.
Eternity's Span	This doubles the number of targets hit by your Eternity Surge and Shattering Star. Use this talent for 2+ target scenarios.
Catalyze	Increases the tick rate of Fire Breath by 100% while you are channeling Disintegrate to that target.
Charged Blast	Increases the damage of your next Pyre by 5% per stack, stacking up to 20 times when you deal Blue damage ( Azure Strike, Eternity Surge, Disintegrate, Shattering Star, Unravel). Use this talent for AoE scenarios.
Shattering Star	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 (and 2-target scenarios with Eternity's Span).

Talent	When to Consider
Sleep Walk	If you need additional CC in the group.
Exuberance	Increased movement speed when you are above 75%. Useful for some transmog farm content.
Source of Magic	If your healers need it in Raid.

Talent	Description/Effect
Rescue	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.
Renewing Blaze	This is a fairly essential talent due to Evokers not having many defensive abilities. Renewing Blaze will heal you for the damage you receive over 8 seconds.
Spellweaver's Dominance	Increases the damage of your critical strikes from 200% damage to 220% damage!
Scintillation	This adds a new effect to Disintegrate. Your Disintegrate casts have a 15% chance (per rank) each time it deals damage to launch a level 1 Eternity Surge at the target at 30%/60% power. If the Eternity Surge cast from this crits, you will gain 1 Essence if you have the Eye of Infinity talent.
Hoarded Power	Hoarded Power makes Essence Burst have a 20% chance to not be consumed.

Talent	When to Consider
Unravel	If you are going to fight enemies with absorb shields. Unravel is your hardest-hitting spell, but it comes with the condition that it only deals damage to absorb shields.
Protracted Talons	3+ Target scenarios.
Twin Guardian	When you plan on using Rescue a lot and want to give the group extra healing support.
Onyx Legacy	When you need to Deep Breath more often, such as Mythic+.
Focusing Iris	1-2 target scenarios, above this target count you may want to consider a build that does not feature Shattering Star, however, this depends on the damage profile. This is a good talent pick if targets need to be prioritized and the rest cleaved.

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.

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.

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.