Hi I am trying to help a friend out.
I noticed when checking logs “Bombardments” is usually the second or third most damage done spell on Dev Evoker. This is a passive skill right?
But my on my friends logs it is either 5 or 6 or on the bottom. Is there a reason for this? Or is there something he is doing wrong that this isn’t on his top 2-3 skills used.
His damage is really low due to this. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
It’s passive in that we don’t have to press a button–they apply when we mass disintegrate, which happens after we use empowers.
Assuming that empowers and mass dis are being used correctly, bombardment will follow automatically.
When you say logs, are you talking about details or logs?
Bombardment can be procd by others and the damage isn’t attributed on details to the evoker, but it is in logs.
If it’s just a difference between both of your actual logs, that’s an issue I’ve never heard of, but without the logs to look at I can’t really help you much more.
EDIT: if it’s the evoker I think it is from your guild logs, his bombardments seem to be attributing fine.
That said, he’s playing the spec very suboptimally. I can give you some pointers to relay but I’m not entirely sure we’re talking about the same person and don’t want to shame someone just looking to learn.
You are correct, his bombardments are showing in the logs fine. And you are looking at the correct logs.
Any tips on how he can improve is appreciated.
No problem-- in no particular order (buckle up, wall of text inc):
He cast shattering star 7 times. This is a massive deal. Shattering star should be used on cd and when possible lined up into an eternity surge (fire breath before surge) and then followed by both mass disintegrates. For the length of fight you had, he could have cast SS 27 times.
He missed an entire dragonrage window. He cast 4, could have gotten 5. Your fight also took a very long time which is probably not helping, considering how devastation mastery works. 8:20 is about 3 minutes slow for current gear.
He used deep breath 5 out of 11 possible times. Deep breath is a huge part of the devastation rotation now.
He missed about 10 total casts each of fire breath and eternity surge. This also means he missed 18 mass disintegrate casts. This also means that he missed well over a minute of having bombardments up on the boss. Again, a huge DPS loss.
Looking at his dragonrage windows, across four of them he only cast a total of three empower spells. That’s very bad, because casting empowers not only gives mass disintegrate and bombardments, but it also extends the duration of dragonrage each time you cast them. He should be casting each empower twice within each dragonrage window.
He is also routinely chaining mass disintegrate into regular disintegrate. What this means is that with one tick remaining on mass dis, he’s pressing it again and losing that empowered tick. This is the right way to cast normal disintegrates, but you always want to either stack two mass d’s with your back to back empowers and let the final one complete its channel before starting a normal disintegrate.
He’s wasting essence burst and burnout procs.
He’s literally never using his defensives (obsidian scales and renewing blaze).
I will assume the lack of food, flask, mana oil, and are due to the start of the season and that he’ll start using them soon.
If this person is a solid player and just new to Dev, this just screams inexperience and panicking in the heat of a fight.
I’d strongly recommend he hits target dummies for while with a rotation guide up from preheat/wowhead and spends time getting muscle memory.
Although I personally think they are a crutch that can create bad habits, having him download hekili to guide his rotation and build muscle memory to start may be helpful.
thank you, really appreciate this
Bombardment is a passive that activates after a certain condition. After you cast an empower spell (i.e. fire breath or eternity surge for devastation), you get a charge of mass disintigrate. Casting that mass disintigrate activates bombardments on the target. If he’s not getting bombardments as his 3rd highest damage dealing ability, that is telling me three possible things:
A general tip from me, always be spreading your mass disintegrates. Your goal is to get as many bombardments out so you can recharge your deep breath rediculiusly fast. If done properly, your deep breath could be reduced to as low as a 25-30 second cooldown. Dont underestimate how much damage it does, it absolutely trucks enemies.
One last thing I wanted to touch on since I’ve been talking about deep breath a bit. In the Scalecommander hero talents, there is a skill called manuverability. This allows you to steer deep breath. What this ability also allows you to do is cancel the deep breath if the button is pressed again. I wanted to mention this because the ability says nothing about this last I checked.
If you’re looking for more advanced tips or advice, feel free to get ahold of me in game and I’d be happy to help where I can.
thank you.
Also, melt armor can add a lot of dps. Without looking, I believe it is 20% additional disintegrate and bombardment damage for 12 seconds after deep breath.