Devastation Evoker DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

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.

The new Apex Talent for Devastation Evoker is Rising Fury, a stackable Haste and damage increase that activates when we use Dragonrage.

Starting with 1 stack when you activate Dragonrage, you will receive 4% Haste every 6 seconds. This Haste buff stacks up to 5 stacks for a total of 20%. After reaching 5 stacks, you will also receive a 15% damage increase that persists until the buff wears off.

When Dragonrage expires, your Rising Fury will remain for 4 seconds per stack, up to a maximum of 20 seconds. This effectively maintains the previous buffs, in addition to granting you a charge of Essence Burst every 4 seconds.

Starting at level 71 you will be able to choose from two new Hero talent trees, for Devastation these are Flameshaper and Scalecommander.

Flameshaper focuses heavily on applying and consuming your Fire Breath with the hero talent Consume Flame. This can be done in two specific ways by casting Disintegrate if you are single targetting or Pyre when doing your AoE rotation. The Flameshaper playstyle does not offer many adjustments from your regular rotation with the only noticeable difference being you will cast Fire Breath much more frequently.

Scalecommander focuses heavily on making Deep Breath a core part of your rotation coupled with the new Strafing Run talent in the Devastation tree. Scalecommander has almost limitless mobility with constant resets of your Hover cooldown each time you cast Deep Breath. It also comes with enhanced spread cleave with its core ability Mass Disintegrate, allowing each Disintegrate following an empower cast (Fire Breath/Eternity Surge) to hit up to three additional targets for a maximum of four. This makes for a very potent raid spec that only suffers from a lack of high single target burst damage.

On the topic of Eye of Infinity or Event Horizon, you will want to sim your character to be sure. Event Horizon has a more forgiving playstyle when it comes to your Dragonrage extends, and I would recommend taking it, even if it is a minor loss. Continue using Event Horizon until you are very comfortable with the spec.

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 up to personal preference.