In all honesty before 10.1.5 I think devastation evoker is due for a serious nerf. The ability to just stack mastery and pull 200k overall in mythic+ is just mind boggling while demo lock and other casters are at the mercy of dragon people to basically be picked on a whim.
Especially since evoker rotation is easy as heck to pull off.
-Cast fire breath on it’s lowest stack
-Disintigrate at max stacks
-Azure claws
-Pyre
That’s basically it for the AoE rotation and is similar for the ST rotation except replace pyre with laser beam and it’s GG. I play demo warlock and our AoE and ST are similar too but A TON more involved
-Cast 2 shadow bolts to build full shards and pop Power Siphon with 2 imps out to get 2 stacks.
-Demonic portal into Grimoire and use 1 demonic core stack to get the shards back. Then summon vilefield into dogs.
-Use the last stack of demonic core to replenish and spend soul shards till 4 seconds left of demonic portal to cast tyrant and spend shards as fast as possible
-Spam shadow bolt and hope for procs of demonic core to get rolling into build/spend cycle to empower your next cast of dogs.
That…doesn’t resemble how I play my devastation evoker…? That’s…what’s that word…degenerative?..it’s like someone sat in front of a spreadsheet? Probably what someone did.
I’m really bothered by that. No…scratch that…that’s terrible. Is that what people consider min/max “competitive” gameplay?
Disintegrate…only when you get an essence burst and/or use the talent for short-term damage buff…
Azure claws is normally a waste of a button press…your button to press when you have to move…how…
And Pyre…why press it off-proc?
What ilvl does any of this get good enough to work like the OP is saying? I’ve had ~60% mastery at one point and, outside of some 1st hit crits with a full charge firebreath that can be over 100k…
I’m…really out of sorts with this claim.
Anyone…can someone try and break it down a little bit?
Edit: I do main a lock right now…and I’ve yet to see my devoker get remotely close to my destro spec with similar ilvls running…where the itemization is at least decent to good…?
I agree, otherwise Fury warrior would get slapped. I’m not saying they should be nerfed because it’s easy, that’s just another another thing that makes Devoker unfun to try and DPS against.
The only person who’s a clown is someone like you trying to sound edgy. Devoker has a lot of things wrong with them
Easy rotation, which isn’t necessarily bad but doesn’t help their cause.
Insane movement while being able to do their insanely easy rotation
No real downside to the class outside of a minor lack defensives
had you approached with ANY sort of logical counteraction to what I was proposing instead of “i’m mad and just being mad” I might have taken you seriously.
Hey! I found your other clownish friend who doesn’t understand that Demo is only an A spec at best. Destro and Afflic are basically never ever played until you get 4 set and on top of that afflic doesn’t even see the light of day even WITH the buffs in 10.1.5
Because that isn’t the main focus and I could ask you the same thing honestly. Why even complain if you agree Devoker is insanely good at damage? You alliance players are goons man
I called out your braindead proposition that evoker should be nerfed partly because of the ease of it’s rotation. You were definitely trying to make that argument. Don’t backpedal.
Tell me you are bad at your job without telling me you’re bad at your job. lack of survivability doesn’t justify insanely high damage otherwise mage and hunter would be blowing people out of the water and they aren’t so try again sport
Dude your the one who doesnt seem to understand how the class works. Its like you read the first 5 abilities on your details addon and call it the rotation.
Dont try and act as an authority on a class you clearly dont play. Buff up under preforming classes and stop calling for nerfs.
i hope not. it doesnt feel good on tyrannical week when the boss takes longer to kill. its really only fun for trash pulls
there not busted though. as long as you can burn down trash quick evoker is going to look amazing due to how the mastery works but on long fights it starts to drop like a lead brick. also if anyone brings up a easy spec to play how does bm not get brought up. thats insultingly easy to play in keys but nobody screams nerf them
so you have never played devastation based on what you said. i turret 90% of the time since i have to use my movement ability to avoid mechanics that would kill me. evokers are glass cannons but only under the right circumstances. outside of them like say on a long boss fight with unavoidable damage they dont look half as good. it is amazing that a class that is only playable by a dragon is probably the squishiest class in the game
i thought evokers have pretty insane defensives. renewing blaze heals u for 100% of ur hp over 8 seconds, rescue can give them a shield for 30% of total hp. zypher is a 20% dr. cauterizing flame is a dispell and hot. i feel lik theres more. if it dosent one shot them they’re hard to kill it seems.
