Well… 10.2 and a couple cycles of the raid along with a tuning pass- devastation relative to other specs having power loss this patch.
Seems across the board doing worse than in 10.1 across Keys, PvP and raid.
Consider benching till next round.
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I’ve noticed that since the mastery nerf. I struggle to be relevant next to lesser geared, but more developer favored classes. My one AoE spam is totally outclassed and even my boss damage, once so great during last tier, has now consistently left me near or at the bottom of the meters at the end of a fight.
I know I’m missing some pretty powerful BiS trinkets and weapons (all from the raid, thx blizz) but even so, it’s hard to feel like I’m contributing despite my ilv of 473 and 4-set bonus.
I’ve also been really feeling the pointless range limitation on several bosses, like council and Nymue and Fyrakk. Being forced to stand with melee while trying to cast is a strain.
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Devastation dead last right now in Mythic Amirdrassil and gets 0 changes, meanwhile specs a couple % above it get flat damage buff hotfixes, LOL.
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Guess we are the new WW monks.
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I’d say we kept the bench warm for ya but it’s big enough for both of us 
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Damage could be a smidge higher, especially pyre damage. AoE is suffering since the mastery change.
The tier set doesn’t help, because at least the old tier set was good outside of dragonrage too, but the current one is entirely reliant on it. Which is ironic considering their reasoning behind the mastery change was to increase damage outside of dragonrage.
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Well said, except the smidge part. Devoker damage is really very low.
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Whoa… I was just looking at the heroic logs…
I just checked mythic raid logs.
DEVOKER DOWN REALLY BAD FAM - someone talk me off the ledge here— and I just got my sweet staff out of the chest too 
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skill issue
Outside of the first 4 bosses, there are zero, or almost zero, devastation parses. They’re still on the lower end of the middle in mythic, but they aren’t dead last. The issue with looking at all bosses is that the sample pool is zero or <30 on some bosses.
You’re really convincing me here 
so good we aren’t even brought to the later fights.
Aug/Pres it is for the foreseeable tier… and I really want to like devastation.
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If your group is strong enough to be pushing the latter half of mythic this early in the season, aug is generally going to be better. just the unfortunate reality of augmentation
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Not according to my parses. Apparently I’m performing well compared to other Devokers running the same content with my parse generally being in the 80s to 90s for most bosses, yet I was still #13 of 18 dps in my raid last night (19 if you count our Aug.)
I just don’t think it’s a me issue. I’d be willing to believe it if there wasn’t evidence to the contrary. I’m always trying to improve and I’ve been working hard to gear up–I’m already ilv 475 with my 4 set and my io is 2600+, but the only thing that’s different from last season to now is the BiS I’m still missing, the mastery nerf and the new set bonus.
I never expect to be top damage…there’s always a bigger fish, but I’m being casually outdone by players who have not been putting in as much dedicated effort to their character as me and it’s confusing and upsetting.
You’re performing well compared to other Devokers probably because you’re 475 ilvl. You’re parsing bottom 35% for your ilvl. Or just outright flopping 1 minute into the fight 
The logs I went by were from my guild run in which we all performed well with high parses, but my damage was still substantially lower.
The logs I went by were from your guild run in which you parsed bottom 20% by ilvl and the rest of your guild above you did not
And yet I’m doing the same rotation as last season in which I was generally in the top 5 of damage. It really seems to be a class thing, unless you’ve seen evidence of other devoker keeping up with dps at the same ilv in dungeons and raids?
I’d probably be keeping up if my raid didn’t have 6-11 ilvls on me. Or if they didn’t randomly send me 10+ seconds with no healing while I withered away 
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ayqkHAfFLJ6QcMZz#fight=39&type=damage-done
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ayqkHAfFLJ6QcMZz#fight=45&type=damage-done
devastation could easily have 5% overall buff…
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I hope for something my dynamic than more damage buffs, which is all they ever seem willing to give, like extending the duration of Dragonrage since Devoker’s world revolves around it, or allowing more AoE talents to be accessible without murdering our single target.
We all told them it’ll happen and they promised they’d keep a close eye of Dev if Aug was true strong, but no changes at all.
When you make a spec like Aug, the other dps spec needs to be insanely strong, like top 5 in the game strong if not the number one - or there will never, ever be a reason to take devastation, if you really wanted a pure dps you’d take a different class entirely.
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