I’m having a blast with Scalecommander Dev evoker. There’s just something so satisfying about pressing an empower ability and then mass disintegrating and watching bombardments go flying. My only issue is I HATE deep breath, I mean I actually love it, I love the visuals, I love the theme, I just can’t seem to get it down correctly where I’m not one shotting myself. Flying into multiple things on the ground, or into a one shot cone. I even cancel it to shorten it, and that’s worked well, but I still sometimes oppsie fly into something bad lol. Any tips?
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The best advice for this is just to watch where you’re going and pay attention to what’s happening.
I think the best tip I could offer is to develop situational awareness – specifically for deep breath. Its a very powerful ability, even to the point where we will use it in single target for patch 11.1. If you’re having problems with controlling deep breath, you could try a cancelaura macro to stop deep breath much quicker compared to pressing the button again.
I personally developed the situational awareness skills by playing a melee character in the same content my evoker partakes in. Not saying you should to, but its an avenue you could consider.
I’m going to try this, thank you!
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Hope it helps! Let me know if you need assistance setting that up.
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Heheh, we’ve all flown into the bad from time to time. Comes with practice, and maybe make a habit at first of hitting scales before you fly just in case.
Once you can move away from damage tunneling and see everything around you (as any spec evoker-wise) the entire class changes and the world sort of opens up.
Rooting for your group and peeling for your heals/dps, rescuing from danger and giving shields, making sure to give yourself ample distance from major damaging abilities and coming back with your cooldowns ready…
This class is all about CC and timing, and once you feel super comfortable in the unique movement, your damage will also improve significantly naturally.
It is the most fun I’ve had in 20 years in this game. My PVP character is named winds because I can carry a flag across a field like no one else. The ground an evoker can cover is truly incredible.
Anyway, glad to hear you’re enjoying it! There are so few evokers out here.
I’m a little worried to see how our class changes will be in comparison to everyone else this patch. They didn’t give us a whole lot to work with, while others seem to be getting massive overhauls in talents and pretty huge damage increases.
Time will tell. I don’t think I’ll ever main another class. Once I started playing it in Beta I was sold forever.
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Having the stun talent for DB helps too if you need time to get safe after using it.
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If you’re having Deep breath issues, you can try binding the walk/run toggle to a convenient key, as it will slow you down immensely and give you a much tighter turning radius.
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Thank you! I actually tried the cancel aura macro and it works pretty well. I did actually try the walk/run one and I kept messing that up or not toggling it off lol.
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With scale commander you can cancel the flight early by pressing Deep Breath again (only works with scalecommander though). No need for a cancel-aura macro.
The Walk-toggle thing is worth getting used to though because it allows you to hit the same target 6+ times with a single cast.
I thought I read somewhere from someone that it doesn’t work like that, that deep breath will hit the same amount of times regardless of how slow you go through them.
In my own experience that’s not true.
It pulses a fixed amount of times, but can only hit the targets you are hovering over; Extra large models not withstanding.
Each hit on the same target after the first does reduced damage, but in single target fights it is absolutely worth.
Oh okay that makes sense. I feel like I also tested this on the dummy’s in dorn, using the normal deep breath and then the walk/run toggle and compared them and both times the cast hit the same amount of times in total. But also the dummy’s in dorn are known to be bugged as hell.
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Both true and false. The cancelaura macro is used to stop deep breath much quicker compared to pressing the button again. Its a night and day difference if you care about min-maxing.
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Looks like the removed Permeating Frost so you cant slow anyone anymore so have fun getting zugged by mouth droolers