Good evening all, and happy new year. I’ve already been over in the mage forum asking about this. Evoker is another class that interests me, so I’ll check in here as well.
I’m looking ahead at the next expansion and delves, which I’m excited about since it offers solo play. I realize most people say hunters are the soloing kings, but I like classes that have a little more magical fantasy/theme to them. I get that we don’t have a lot of detailed info yet about delves, but even so I’m trying to gauge possible candidates for a fun class that is decent for soloing. I know virtually nothing about Evokers.
All that said, how are DPS evokers for soloing content? Are they easy or difficult to play (for me, the fewer buttons the better)? How is the survivability? Are they mobile? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
It heavily depends on the content. Our defensives are very proactive so you need to understand incoming damage and when to use them.
Once you’re geared, you absolutely pump anything that isn’t an elite/rare. Once things become immune to cc, it’s definitely more challenging. I don’t know what people that do solo content mean by that per se, but while evoker is strong in the right hands, it wouldn’t even be close to the ease of a hunter.
When you have a lot of gear it’s fine but if you don’t you’ll snap like a twig, specifically as devastation. The other two are more tanky but do less damage.
Devastation used to be an amazing solo spec, but since the nerf to hybrid mana sustain (which hit Devastation particularly hard) it is no longer one of the specs that can kind of tackle anything and everything with the right play. Still not bad, but no longer in the S/A tier.
Dev still solos rather well when geared, most of their self-healing is free: Leaping Flames when having no more hostile targets to hit will heal you or someone nearby after every fire breath, leech, and renewing blaze.
Can casually solo any of the rare elites and while a self-sufficient tank can solo far sooner, whenever I tried soloing without gear on my warlock, rare elites tore through the voidwalker to the point 80% of the time was trying to keep it alive.