My TWW Wish List for Evoker Talent Changes (Dev PoV)

Classes Evoker
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With all three hero talents unveiled for TWW, I wanted to make a thread about changes I’d like to see come to the Evoker class overall when the next expansion launches. These changes are mentioned to address specific quality-of-life issues for the class and to provide more variety for talent builds than what currently exist. I’ll be addressing it mainly from a Devastation pov, but please feel free to add changes to Preservation and Augmentation in the comments.

  1. Addressing Evoker Threat

Even with the nerfs to our mastery over the course of the expansion, devastation is still prone to pulling aggro due to how bursty we are at the beginning of pulls in dungeon. For that reason, I’d love to see a talent added to the class tree that addresses threat. A misdirection-like talent or even a passive buff to reduce threat would be much appreciated.

  1. Move Spatial Paradox to the Class Tree
    This is something that Preheat has advocated for, and I agree with him. Giving devastation the ability to give healers more movement would help Devastation offer what might a vital utility spell and not pidgeon-holing players into playing Augmentation because an encounter requires healers to move.

  2. Reworking the Left Side of the Devastation Tree
    For me personally, I feel like the Hero Talents are at their most interesting when they help breathe life into talents that we wouldn’t otherwise take. With Scalecommander, talents like Imminent Destruction, Lay Waste, and Onyx Legacy are going to become much more appealing choices.

Unfortunately, even with Flameshaper, the talents on the left side of the tree are still very lackluster. The four talents that should be looked at for reworking are Firestorm, Raging Inferno, Feed the Flames and Everburning Flame. FtF and EbF in particular just seem really weak compared to other capstone talents like Causality and Scintillation.

Therefore, I would like to see these talents be reworked or just replaced with more compelling options for our red spells.

What changes would you all like to see come to the Evoker Class and Specialization Trees?

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Agreed on your changes–I think they should make timelessness a passive for dev and a baseline ability for aug/pres tbh.

The left side of the tree is the big one–given that Flameshaper doesn’t even address firestorm, I feel like it’s being reworked or removed.

I’d also be into seeing defy fate make its way over to the class tree with a talent on each spec tree to give it different interactions (would do an AoE explosion for dev, AoE heal for pres, AoE shield for aug, for example).