Devastation Evoker PvP Rotation and Playstyle (Dragonflight 10.2)
PvP requires you to perform various actions during a duel, match, or battleground: interrupting/silencing enemies, healing your teammates and yourself, defending yourself, keeping yourself alive, etc. It is a game mode that fully utilizes your kit, especially spells that are rarely used in PvE. On this page, we go through all the spells you need to use in PvP as a Devastation Evoker, how you should use them, and explain your playstyle.
This page is part of our Devastation Evoker PvP Guide.
Playstyle for Devastation Evokers
The main role of a Devastation Evoker, besides keeping your team alive, is always to keep your team offensive and deal damage when your team is using their burst cooldowns. You also want to use your mobility to help avoid crowd control.
To keep your team offensive, you will push in with your team to try to get
Sleep Walk on the enemy healer. After this, you will focus
on dealing damage with spells like
Living Flame,
Deep Breath,
and
Disintegrate.
Taking advantage of your mobility is crucial. Devastation Evokers can be
hard to catch, but once they are stunned, you will quickly have to trade cooldowns
to stay alive. Use spells like Hover and
Deep Breath to move
around the map and reposition.
Empowered Spells
Devastation Evokers have a new mechanic to their damage: Empower Level. This
makes it so the longer you channel a spell, the stronger the initial damage/healing is.
Using the talent Tip the Scales makes it so your next empowered spell will be
instant at its max empower level. Here are the 3 spells you can empower and how to use
them:
Fire Breath deals damage and puts a DoT on the target. The longer you channel it, the more initial damage it will deal. However, it will make the DoT weaker. Ideally, you will channel this to rank 3 because the DoT is normally dispelled and will not deal much damage. Use
Tip the Scales with this if you want to deal a large amount of damage to enemies that are grouped up.
Damage Techniques
This section will tell you what spells to use in different situations.
Sustained Damage Output
- Use
Landslide to root enemy players.
- Use
Shattering Star off cooldown so enemy players take increased damage from you.
- Use
Fire Breath off cooldown.
- Use
Verdant Embrace for an instant heal and to move around the map.
- Use
Living Flame when you get a
Burnout proc.
- Use
Deep Breath when the enemy team is stacked, or you want to stun them.
- Use
Disintegrate if you get an
Essence Burst proc.
- Use
Azure Strike if everything else is on cooldown.
Burst Damage
- Use
Landslide to root enemy players.
- Use
Deep Breath.
- Use
Dragonrage.
- Use
Tip the Scales.
- Use
Fire Breath.
- Use
Shattering Star so enemy players take increased damage from you.
- Use
Eternity Surge.
- Use
Disintegrate and
Living Flame as filler spells.
- Use
Living Flame when you get a
Burnout proc.
Devastation Evoker Defensives
Obsidian Scales is one of your primary defensives. This reduces the damage you take by 30%. If you use the
Obsidian Mettle PvP talent, it will also make you immune to interrupts, silences, and pushbacks.
Deep Breath deals a large amount of damage to the team and can be used to do damage. However, it is great for avoiding crowd control when the enemy team is pushing toward you. For example, you will want to use this to avoid a Rogue's
Kidney Shot if they are trying to kill you.
- Devastation Evoker's mobility is an incredibly important defensive. Here
are some spells that you should master to help keep your team alive:
Hover launches you forward and increases your movement speed. It also makes you immune to slows.
Wing Buffet/
Tail Swipe are the Dracthyr racials that will help you get away from the enemy team targetting you. If you take the
Walloping Blow talent turns these two spells into slows as well.
Cauterizing Flame removes all bleeds, points, curses, and diseases from a teammate. This is a crucial spell when you play against specializations like Feral Druids, Assassination, Rogues, or Warlocks.
Macros
It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 14 May 2023: Updated correct spell ID.
- 08 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated all damage rotations.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Page created.
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This guide has been written by Mysticall, a seasoned PvP player who has repeatedly achieved 3000 rating. You can watch his stream on Twitch, and you can also check out his YouTube channel.
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