Devastation Evoker PvP Rotation and Playstyle (The War Within Pre-Patch)

The main role of a Devastation Evoker, besides dealing damage, is to help keep your team offensive and use your team utility to keep your team alive while your healer is in crowd control. Using spells like Rescue to move your teammate to a safe location is crucial for being successful in arena.

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 Rescue to move around the map and reposition.

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. Note: This spell is normally used with Tip the Scales because of the PvP talent Scouring Flame. This will purge nearly all beneficial magic buffs that enemy team has.
• Eternity Surge is a strong spell that deals damage to an additional enemy for each empower level. You will normally want to use this right before your burst rotation to get the buff from Iridescence. This will buff the damage of your next 2 spells of the same color as the empowered spell. With Eternity Surge, it would buff the damage of your next 2 Disintegrates.

This section will tell you what spells to use in different situations.

1. Use Landslide to root enemy players.
2. Use Eternity Surge to gain the Iridescence buff.
3. Use Shattering Star off cooldown so enemy players take increased damage from you.
4. Use Disintegrate.
5. Use Fire Breath off cooldown.
6. Use Verdant Embrace for an instant heal and to move around the map.
7. Use Living Flame when you get a Burnout proc.
8. Use Deep Breath when the enemy team is stacked, or you want to stun them.
9. Use Disintegrate if you get an Essence Burst proc.
10. Use Azure Strike to slow enemies and kill Shaman Totems.

1. Use Landslide to root enemy players.
2. Use Eternity Surge to gain the Iridescence buff.
3. Use Deep Breath.
4. Use Dragonrage.
5. Use Shattering Star so enemy players take increased damage from you.
6. Use Tip the Scales.
7. Use Fire Breath.
8. Use Disintegrate and Living Flame as filler spells.
9. Use Living Flame when you get a Burnout proc.
10. Use Azure Strike
11. Use Disintegrate.
12. Use Azure Strike
13. Use Disintegrate.
14. Use Azure Strike
15. Use Disintegrate.

• 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.
• Renewing Blaze is another defensive you will want to Rotate with your Obsidian Scales. This will heal 100% of any damage you take while it is up over 8 seconds. It is important to use this right before you start taking damage and not after or the heal will not be strong.
• 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 with the PvP Talent Unburdened Flight.
  • 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.

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.