This is my first season playing a ranged DPS ever and Dev honestly felt pretty good in pvp once I got the hang of it. I sit between 2k-2.3 so not the best but not the worst. My question is am I the only one who feels like Dev Evoker is going to be nuts in SS with reset? Given the game type already lends its self to overwhelming stuff with Dam and DH getting nerfed I don’t feel there will be a ton holding us back. DH really the only melee currently that feels like a big problem given its dam and uptime so where do we all think Devastation lands after Tuesday?
Devastation still has the problem of being forced into the middle of the map to do damage when ranged on the other team just sit pillar and outrange you. Ele will just lottery global you through wall and blaze
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In a full caster lobby this is for sure an issue as they all can hit you when you cant hit them. That being said I feel like using mobility to properly get in and out of range its usually manageable. You can’t just turret dam but you can pop in and out with burst and given a lot of my kills either come in the 1 or 2min cd burst windows I think it should be ok. We will see I guess.
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yeah, have to see with the spriest and dh nerfs. spriest/demo/dh/dk are the 4 I really struggle against, and dh will have less burst pressure for sure but they are still going to hold W at you all game. DK has spellwarden which is just passively reducing damage and its hard to do damage into AMS since disintegrate just immunes. With demo, we might have to go back to lining/ccing tyrant to not get deleted with the upcoming buff, but should be okay outside of that cooldown.
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I’m just gonna keep on trying to stay alive. I’ll probably never touch my hunter again.
Dev has some issues but I love it in PvP personally. With some of the overturned classes getting smacked down a little, it will be great for us. 
I have a little trouble with good Fury warriors too as they have too much mobility and a ton of root removals on top of that but DH being less oppressive along with a few other specs makes me excited for SS.
Larger crits and more ES damage is great for us. I might take the deep breath talents too as a 30% DB boost is huge when you line up their team. I just kinda regret going haste > crit in PvP with us doing even more crit damage but I think it will be ok.
The iridescence damage buff for the more consistent damage build is also nice to see.
I always take unravel unless the team has no shielding. It just destroys the DK and pally shields in a hit or just about if not and is great for other classes too.
same, but its not enough to remove ams and it feels bad to throw azure strike or try and hard cast living flame into it to get rid of the last little bit. Feels better to just swap and let it expire unless you have a caster teammate also damaging ams
My negative experiences with Dev at high MMR has primarily been due to a lack of utility, not a lack of damage. I don’t think the changes on Tuesday will change that, but DH/DK lobbies have been super rough for me, so it does seem like the overall metagame will potentially be more in our favor.
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With the balance changes to other classes and our buffs it should start to feel better.
But it’s still very punishing to be mid range in most pvp content.
I thought they normalized all ranged classes to 40yards for a reason. The game is literally designed around it. BGs, arenas.
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Definitely feels like our relative position improved even if we were only marginally buffed directly. Some rough match-ups nerfed and match-ups that are better for us buffed relatively. Like feral is crazy good right now and I feel like matches with them slap super hard for us. When we’re on the same side our raw combined pressure is ungodly, and when they’re on the other team we have great tools to deal with them.
I sadly didn’t pull the hat trick and complete my 4 set from the vault this reset, but with epics in every slot but my PvP trinket I think this is the strongest I will be for a while. Off tomorrow and planning on feasting on as many falling demon hunters et al. as possible to see if I can’t hit 2.4. If that fails I may have to do the unthinkable and learn to play, but hopefully it doesn’t come to that.
You are very good. I suck so much i did most of my solo shuffle as preserv and could never pull over 1500 rating. When i tried devastation i won 1 of 6 rounds. I dont understand how to pvp i guess.
Even as preserv, i always pull twice as much healing as the other healer and never win . Maybe im just too old for this competition
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If you’re on Stormrage, or a connected realm, look me up. We can learn together. 
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Damage is pretty nutty rn. Was running haste crit and I can definitely feel the pressure.
Deep breath goes are bonkers, and shatter star/surge/flameprocs/disintegrate absolutely slaps.
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