Evoker lowest played class

Classes Evoker
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I saw the post showing most played classes with evoker at the bottom my a large margin.

My scientific, psychology, arcane wisdom, divination orb says its because they cant transmog and are yucky skiny lizards. Great, fantastic game play, I main one since they dropped but BOY are they ugly. Their visage form mogs are goated. The shadow flame set and their current mythic set go hard. WTB perma visage form, beefy hardcore cool dragon look options, or armor on my lizard that shows.

Cant share links, ty blizz very cool. : DDD

Original post here WITH the pic : Looking At Class Popularity Crushed My Soul - #117 by Saceria-tichondrius

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Thats kind of a good thing aint it?

Devastation is considered S tier right now according to some websites like wow logs. But yeahz, we need a makeover.

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Preservation is horrible. Augmentation is at the bottom of the DPS charts and doesn’t offer the same utility it once did. It’s easy to see why evokers aren’t played as much.

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Fewer people playing means higher demand for one, especially when they are doing well numbers-wise.

Is a blessing for the good evokers to have less competition.

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It’s a product of being restricted to one race and, yes especially due to the tmog issues. But I mean the tmog issue doesn’t stop druids from playing their class so I can’t say that’s all of it.

The other issue is the mid range, 25 / 30 yard cast range, it turns a lot of players off. It’s a niche playstyle that a lot of people don’t enjoy so it’s not surprising.

I actually like Dracthyr as a race and all the other classes that can be Dracthyr can permanently be in visage form which allows them to enjoy their tmogs. If they allowed that for Evoker I think you’d see an uptick from that alone.

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Honestly if they did another 10-15% buff to Aug damage I think it would be comparable to most dps classes, let it be a DPS class with some minor group buffs. It’s no longer really a support class like it was. I actually love the playstyle for Aug, I think it just needs those buff to damage now and it would be viable.

Another thing I think they could do for Aug would be to rework its mastery since they nerfed it to the ground. if they added an increase in the chance of getting essence bursts as part of Mastery it would smooth out the playstyle for casting eruptions and make that secondary stat more desirable.

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Aug is functionally a dead spec, and Pres is pretty close to a dead spec.

I actually would play Dev Evoker, I think it’s a fun and unique spec… but my concern with putting any time into Dev Evoker is always that Aug will come back to life and shut you out of keys. That spec is so disruptive to the game…

I’m of the opinion that aug needs to be completely redesigned or removed and that Pres needs to drop the range limitation that makes is such a cancer to deal with on certain fights. It’s a super fun healing spec but then you just run into these handful of fights each season that just make you want to rage quit. Honestly they should just drop the range limitation for all specs… the empowered spells differentiate it enough. I think it’s a failed design experiment at this point.

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Aug is only a dead spec in so far as a “support spec” if they buffed its damage a little more and made some tweaks to just let it be a DPS spec it would be fine. It’s actually even more fun to play than Dev imo, it just needs damage tuning and some dps reworks.

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I keep seeing folks saying that Aug’s actually better than Dev under specific circumstances in high M+ keys currently. Dunno how true that is, personally, but I can say I don’t hate my Aug DPS. It doesn’t cook as hard as my Dev, but I bet that’s something to do with stats more than anything.

That said, Aug’s a whole lot more durable than Dev. If Aug got buffed to be competitive in DPS, Dev probably needs buffed to be competitive in survivability.

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Yeah, I don’t do much PvE but I PvP a lot and in many ways I think Aug is better than Dev. I would guess that in M+ when you’re fighting packs of 5 Aug might outperform Dev because Eruption would get the full 150% bonus damage while not being limited with an AoE damage target cap. I know in PvP my damage jumps a ton when a few folks clump up together. Aug superiority in M+ is probably also dependent on the week’s affixes as well.

I do find Dev still much stronger in 3 or less target situations though and the damage is more consistent and less cooldown dependant than Aug.

I’d also agree that with Aug damage buffs should come some Dev survival buffs, heck I’d be happy if they baked in an extra 5% leech for Dev and/or shortened the cooldown of Obsidian Scales.

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Evoker is the least played, because it’s currently the worst performing class in the game.

Augmentation is the worst performing specialization in the game, sitting in dead last place.

Preservation is the worst performing healer in the game.

Devastation is a C-tier DPS specialization. In M+ Devastation only outperforms Priest, Demonhunter, and Monk in DPS. With Priest and Demonhunter being the best healer and tank in the game, I don’t think they’re worried about their damage specialization. And Monk makes a fine tank, leaving Evoker as probably the worst class in M+. Having to choose between AOE or single target, and the lack of a big CC ability hinders Devastation in M+.

Devastation does amazing three target cleave damage. And can do great in cleave raid encounters. But only if they’re allowed to ignore raid mechanic… Rik Reverb is a good example: Devastation can rack up some big numbers cleaving down the Pyrotechnics. But if you’re following mechanics, you’ll be stacked with the ranged group to control where the Amplifier spawns, and will have to drain the amplifiers. This means throughout much of the fight, you’ll be out of range feeling like an idiot, while everyone else is blasting away. So for a Devastation Evoker to pad their stats and pars high, they would have to position themselves out of the range group, and risk wiping the raid if the Amplifier spawns on them. I have no respect for players like that, and don’t care what their scores are. I think the only legit encounter Devastation is good at, is One-Armed Bandit.

As for Evokers in PvP, nobody PvPs anymore, so who cares.

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Ugly lizards, yucky

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if they opened it up to other races i’d probably have an evoker… but they don’t and i make my chars with like pure RNG.

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Now, I’m not saying Evoker couldn’t use some help here and there, but worst performing class it absolutely is not. I’ll go by DPS output for the DPS stuff, HPS output for the healer stuff. If a spec simply isn’t played at a high level, it won’t be represented in the data, and so, the numbers may vary. Here we go!

Since content’s split up, I’ll split my data -

Worst 5 DPS for Raiding: 52) Deathstalker Sub Rogue, 51) Dark Ranger BM Hunter, 50) Spellslinger Frost Mage, 49) Elune’s Chosen Boomie, 48) Fatebound Assassination Rogue.

Evoker Raiding DPS Placements (overall number in comparison to the other 52 specs listed, then spec): 37) Scalecommander Dev, 27) Scalecommander Aug, 20) Chronowarden Aug, 3) Flameshaper Dev.

As you can see, Dev’s doing rather well with Flameshaper for raiding being third overall in the game, Aug should probably go Chronowarden. But their other two specs are certainly not the worst by a good stretch. They’re not great, the worse choice of their specs, but they’re still viable.

Worst 5 DPS M+: 45) Farseer Elemental Shaman, 44) Slayer Arms Warrior, 43) Voidweaver Shadow Priest, 42) Frostfire Fire Mage, 41) Spellslinger Frost Mage.

Evoker M+ DPS Placements: 39) Chronowarden Aug, 33) Scalecommander Aug, 20) Scalecommander Dev, 14) Flameshaper Dev.

Again, as you can plainly see, they’re doing fine. Solid middle of the pack placement, apart from Aug who could clearly still use some DPS bumps if Blizz insists they become a DPS. Of note though is Aug is still viable, and some get better results with it than Dev in M+. Your mileage may vary.

Worst 3 Healers for Raiding: 14) Wildstalker Druid, 13) Voidweaver Disc Priest, 12) Farseer Resto Shaman.

Evoker Raid Healer Placements: 11) Chronowarden Pres, 7) Flameshaper Pres.

As you can see, still very much not the bottom of the barrel, although Chronowarden could use some buffs looks like. Flameshaper is directly middle of the pack.

M+ Worst 3 healers: 14) Flameshaper Pres, 13) Chronowarden Pres, 12) Herald of the Sun Paladin.

Whoa, okay. So you’re right in exactly one place. Pres is bottom of the barrel for M+. I don’t even need to split their placement data.

All other content and roles, Evokers are largely fine, bro. Relax.

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reading this coming from an ugly purple elf is practically a compliment.

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If every evoker spec was ultra S tier it would be the most played class… I don’t think transmog has much to do with it

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transmog is the true end game. the amount of people who have said they wont play because they dont like the look and lack of transmog is a crazy high number

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“If we 1 shot everything people would look past how ugly we are”… duh.

Devastation is currently like top dps and still not played. Preservation is also great atm

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It isn’t the absolute best though.

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dev is probably in the same spot as feral but for different reasons. both can be meta and people still wont play it.

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