Devastation Evoker DPS Guide — 12.0.5

Midnight Season 1 has released, and with it came a lot of new content. It brought with it three new Raids, alongside heralding the start of Season 1 for both Mythic+ and PvP. With all the new things available, we've provided some dedicated hubs covering everything available!

12.0.5 brings very little in the way of class tuning for Devastation Evoker with only two minor changes.

• Unravel has received a buff increasing its damage dealt by 300%, it is still very weak and should only be considered when you have spare points to spend in the class tree.
• Consume Flame has been changed to make Disintegrate detonate 150% of Fire Breath damage over time up from the previous 115%, this leads to a roughly 7% gain in ST DPS for Flameshaper specifically.

The major change for all Evokers coming in 12.0.5 is the new ability Battle Visage. This ability will keep you in your "Human" form in combat and you will only temporarily change into your Dracthyr form when casting specific spells and reverting you back to your regular form after. The Devastation Evoker specific spells that will cause this change are Deep Breath, Fire Breath, Soar, Eternity Surge, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr and finally Verdant Embrace. This may seem like a lot of abilities but with all of them having some degree of cooldown you will notice yourself in your regular form much more frequently.

In addition to this, a variety of open world content releases worth checking out!

• The Voidforge Unlocks!
  The Voidforge is Midnight's take on Bonus Rolls and Turbo Boost, allowing you to target specific big ticket items through a new bonus roll system. You can also further empower trinkets and weapons, and we have recommendations on our Gear page.
• Void Assaults are Unleashed
  Eversong Woods and Zul'Aman are under siege from the forces of the Void. Thwarting their attacks provide a new way to acquire gear all the way up to Hero level, and you can check out more on our Void Assault hub.
• Disrupt Ritual Sites
  Sharing a similar reward structure to Void Assaults, Ritual Sites are instanced content similar to Delves. You can find out all about them on our Ritual Sites page.

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Devastation Evoker received a small Flameshaper-specific buff equating to roughly a 7% dps increase in single target situations. This puts it very slightly ahead of Scalecommander on pure single target, but substantially behind in all real raid content. It does pull ahead in very large sustained AoE situations, but these are uncommon in raiding and Mythic+.

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Devastation Evoker has received a minor nerf with the most recent tuning pass coming with the release of Mythic raid, a 5% nerf to Disintegrate and a Scalecommander specific nerf of 10% to Might of the Black Dragonflight. These combined nerfs are roughly 4% loss in total output as Scalecommander, and 2% for Flameshaper.

The changes listed below reflect all major changes made to Devastation Evoker for the launch of Midnight. For more recent changes, please see the Season 1 tab above.

• Azure Sweep replaces the old Lay Waste node, This causes your Eternity Surge to change your next Azure Strike into Azure Sweep. Making it deal 75% additional damage and hitting all nearby enemies instead of the regular maximum of three.
• Shattering Star has been reworked to deal additional damage for each empower level of Eternity Surge, but it no longer applies an increased damage taken debuff

Engulf has been replaced by Consume Flame causing your Essence spenders Disintegrate or Pyre to a consume some of your Fire Breath duration to deal damage to the target, no longer spreading and cleaving additional enemies.

The only relevant change to Scalecommander is the new talent Strafing Run in the Devastation tree, this allows you to re-cast your Deep Breath within 18 seconds after the initial cast. This means you will be casting deep breath much more regularly.

• Renewing Blaze has been changed to act as an upgrade on Obsidian Scales making it heal for the same amount of damage your Obsidian Scales mitigates, this is 30% for Flameshaper or 40% for Scalecommander.
• Stretch Time has been added, making all damage you take while flying in Deep Breath be taken as a damage over time effect over a 10 second period instead.
• Twin Guardian has been reworked and now grants you and the target you Rescue 100% increased movenet speed and the ability to cast while moving 3 seconds.