It’s okay. That’s really the most I can say. Feels a bit clunky, dps is pretty low, and the need to cast for the spender was a bit off putting. As it’s the first of its kind, a dps/buff class, I understand it not being perfect. It’s not terrible but it’s also not great. I see myself preferring the other two specs still at the moment.
The biggest issue is I don’t really see a basic rotation just a lot of meh spells. Non really blowing me away as far as how powerful they are. Sick animations but not to much power to back their punch atm.
Also the drop threat spell should be on the basic evoker tree.
It’s way too turrety and has no real instant cast options for single target for stutter stepping. Just hover.
I’d honestly rework Pupil of Alexstrazsa so it no longer cleaves, but Living Flame is now instant (Or replace the talent with burnout), and that way you make more of a choice of single target vs aoe. And i’d make Ebon Might instant.
The rotation does feel very simple, and it’s virtually the same in ST or AoE, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it just needs to feel better. In fact i think that may well be the point of the spec to be “i can’t cut it as a normal dps so i’ll just make the others do better”
Ignition Rush, needs to make Eruption instant cast when consuming Essence Burst.
Prescience + Anachronism should give Essence Burst, like Shattering Star + Arcane Vigor.
Geomancy makes Azure Strike reduce the cd of landslide, why not change it to Eruption has a 35% chance to be casted twice, this then can extend Ebon Might further, reduce the cd of Upheaval quicker, little extra dps too and will feel better to press aswell.
These three changes alone would definitely smooth things out and vastly improve mobility.
Eruption is our only spender, I can’t stress this enough, they need to then make it feel good to press, essentially our whole spec is playing around Eruption, it reduces the cd of Upheaval, it does AoE, it extends Ebon Might.
I wrote this in another thread, but I agree… They need to make eruption channel like disintegrate, adding 25% of the EM buff and restore 25% of the upheaval cd per tick. Would basically just send out 4 waves of the current animation and look like underground arcane missiles but with rocks.
Would look and feel better, and you’d get value from partial channels.