Evoker Guide

Devastation Evoker is a mid-range DPS spec, specializing in high mobility, target swapping, and cleave damage. While other ranged DPS can struggle in high movement situations that don't allow them to cast, Devastation is able to always reliably get their damage out thanks to Hover allowing them to not only cast while moving, but also reposition quickly. Thanks to their mastery ( Mastery: Giantkiller), they are always looking for opportunities to swap to new high-health targets that need to die quickly.

Despite having a limited range, Devastation Evokers have all the tools necessary to output heavy amounts of damage no matter the target count. While their utility may also fall behind that of Augmentation, they still offer more to their groups than most specs. Time Spiral, Spatial Paradox, and Rescue all provide massive boosts to the groups mobility. Zephyr can help to reduce damage intake and Stretch Time has a unique benefit of allowing you to soak dangerous mechanics that may kill other classes. With all different types of utility, Devastation Evoker can always make an impact in any group.

Devastation Evoker may not be the most highly desired range spec, but it is often seen in most compositions (sometimes even multiple in one raid) due to their ability to deal massive amounts of cleave damage and target-swapping. While many specs tend to suffer when having to swap targets, Devastation excels and actually gains damage. Combined with high mobility and high durability, the spec is a very strong choice for any player wanting to raid as Evoker.

In a Mythic+ setting, you are often faced with situations where specific targets need to die very quickly to prevent the group from being overwhelmed, or new targets spawn in that need to be swapped to and dealt with quickly. Both of these challenges are areas where Devastation has extreme strengths, allowing them to excel in a Mythic+ setting. Additionally, Devastation has relatively short cooldowns with Dragonrage only being two-minutes, allowing them to constantly be able to output high damage on important packs compared to classes with much longer cooldowns.

Preservation Evoker is a healer specialization focused on utilizing Essence and Empower abilities such as Dream Breath and Fire Breath to keep allies alive. Preservation gameplay tends to focus around one of the most unique abilities in the game: Echo. Allowing you to replicate healing spells onto other targets that may not be able to hit normally, massively increasing the total number of players you can heal with each ability. While this can require a bit of planning and setup, Preservation also has tools to deal with unexpected incoming damage such as Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom. The spec also has quite possibly the most powerful raid healing cooldown: Rewind.

As a Preservation Evoker, you will either focus on generating as many Echos as possible through spending essence but also by casting Temporal Anomaly with the Resonating Sphere talent. Once you have Echos out, the next healing spell you cast will be replicated to targets with Echo, allowing you to heal a large amount of players with a single ability, and with a healing spell that best suits the damage windows you are facing. Reversion for example can be useful when dealing with a lot of slow ticking damage while Verdant Embrace might be better to very quickly heal players up. The key to Evoker is that you have choice. No matter what situation you are facing, you have the tools necessary to handle it.

Of every healer, Preservation is the only one with a 30-yard range, making it more difficult to reach other players to heal them. Despite this, they are often tuned to do very high amounts of healing and have also been given heavy mobility to counteract this weakness. They also possess one of the strongest healing cooldowns in the game: Rewind while also offering unique utility such as Time Spiral or Spatial Paradox. While they are far from mandatory in a raid setting, they are frequently brought due to their strong numbers and flexibility.

In Mythic+, Preservation has consistently remained a top pick. The range weakness is not nearly as prevalent in a Mythic+ setting which allows their strengths to better outshine their weaknesses. It is also extremely easy for Preservation to output very high amounts of damage. While other healers may have to sacrifice healing to deal damage, or even have complex DPS rotations, Preservation can simply use Fire Breath and Deep Breath to deal high damage.

Devastation Evoker is a mid-range DPS spec, specializing in high mobility, target swapping, and cleave damage. While other ranged DPS can struggle in high movement situations that don't allow them to cast, Devastation is able to always reliably get their damage out thanks to Hover allowing them to not only cast while moving, but also reposition quickly. Thanks to their mastery ( Mastery: Giantkiller), they are always looking for opportunities to swap to new high-health targets that need to die quickly.

Despite having a limited range, Devastation Evokers have all the tools necessary to output heavy amounts of damage no matter the target count. While their utility may also fall behind that of Augmentation, they still offer more to their groups than most specs. Time Spiral, Spatial Paradox, and Rescue all provide massive boosts to the groups mobility. Zephyr can help to reduce damage intake and Stretch Time has a unique benefit of allowing you to soak dangerous mechanics that may kill other classes. With all different types of utility, Devastation Evoker can always make an impact in any group.

Devastation Evoker may not be the most highly desired range spec, but it is often seen in most compositions (sometimes even multiple in one raid) due to their ability to deal massive amounts of cleave damage and target-swapping. While many specs tend to suffer when having to swap targets, Devastation excels and actually gains damage. Combined with high mobility and high durability, the spec is a very strong choice for any player wanting to raid as Evoker.

In a Mythic+ setting, you are often faced with situations where specific targets need to die very quickly to prevent the group from being overwhelmed, or new targets spawn in that need to be swapped to and dealt with quickly. Both of these challenges are areas where Devastation has extreme strengths, allowing them to excel in a Mythic+ setting. Additionally, Devastation has relatively short cooldowns with Dragonrage only being two-minutes, allowing them to constantly be able to output high damage on important packs compared to classes with much longer cooldowns.

Augmentation Evoker is the only support specialization in the game. Rather than focusing on healing allies or simply dealing damage, you instead provide your allies with very strong buffs, allowing them to increase their own output. They can also provide utility that no other specialization in the game can such as Blistering Scales or Draconic Attunements in addition to class-wide utility such as Time Spiral or Spatial Paradox.

The core gameplay of Augmentation is based around Ebon Might and Prescience. Both of these buffs provide your allies with strong increases to their output. With changes to the spec in Midnight, Ebon Might will apply to all damage dealing allies, but you will need to pick your Prescience targets carefully. This will increase an allies critical strike as well as providing them a chance for their spells to deal additional damage or healing.

It is important to keep in mind that while you are a support class, you are still considered a DPS. This is the role you will fill in dungeon and raid groups and while you are primarily buffing your allies, the healing and damage they do is attributed to you in Damage Meters and when looking at logs. The better your allies are playing their classes, the more damage you will do. The worse they are doing, the less you will do. You are highly reliant on your own teammates gameplay in order to truly succeed.

Augmentation has strong representation in Raiding largely due to the utility that they bring. Most raid compositions will want at least one Evoker in order to gain the Blessing of the Bronze raid buff, and Aug continues to be a very popular choice to achieve this. They may never top the damage meters, but with their defensive options and overall durability, they frequently see play at the highest levels of raiding.

Augmentation Evoker has an up and down history in Mythic+, at times being by far the most popular spec and absolutely required to push anything key level higher. But after nerfs to the spec to combat its popularity, it has struggled to regain its footing and has become one of the least popular Mythic+ specs. While that doesn't mean that Augmentation is unplayable, it is safe to say that it will not be a highly desired spec heading into Midnight.