BIG Evoker Changes! Analyzing Patch 11.1 for Devastation & Augmentation Evoker - World of Warcraft

[@DeMonDog68]

I don't know what it is about Dev, but it really feels like it hits a ceiling of how much damage it can do. Last expansion, it felt like in AOE, it would just sore with more enemies, but now with Scalecommander wanting us to press Mass Disintegrate in AOE (unless I've just being doing that wrong this whole time lol), it feels like it really cuts me off at the knees as to how many pyres I can pump out and to me leaves AOE pulls bigger than 5 feeling like I just peeter out once I hit a this threshold. DF, loved huge pulls, like AA tree boss room, now it doesn't feel great.

[@elkholm]

Personally, I'm extremely excited for these changes: I'm someone who leans a little more into liking Flameshaper myself and the changes look really good and solve a lot of the gameplay complaints I had about it (mostly the Engulf/Fire Breath synergy), and Scalecommander looks like it's going to still be just as good if not better than in Season 1. Hoarded Power was also removed for the new Azure Celerity talent and I feel like HP was probably a bandaid that needed to be ripped off for a number of reasons. Super looking forward to testing these changes out and see how it feels!

[@Aaronxhu]

They updated the tooltip for Vigor to "Casting Shattering Star Grants Essense Burst" from "Shattering Star Grants Essense Burst". So it's likely that the tierset won't trigger Vigor? They didn't have to change the wording on the tooltip right?

[@Preheat]

Maybe? Tooltips are often misleading, need to log onto the ptr before we can know for sure.

[@Aaronxhu]

@@Preheat If tier can trigger Vigor then missing EB refund is kinda justified. Otherwise we'll be casting LF a lot more

[@liamdavies2823]

I wish they would let dev sit in a position where it's a consistent top performer in raid and B tier for m+, kind of like DF. The utility is great, the damage (after the recent buffs) is great, the current attention feels nice but they should make ALL (spec and class tree) 2 talent points 1 point. And combine the 2 essence burst talents, put essence burst as the first talent and make pyre+dense energy baseline. Fixing these things would put the spec on par with how most others are now (i feel like an outlaw in early DF) and also free up points to make Flameshaper viable and possibly maybe allow SC to take volatility. They need to not lock scorching embers behind font of magic and make firestorm MUCH better. They are adding so many versions of spells to different classes where an aoe follows the target or can be placed at the target's location. Where are these kinds of changes for firestorm? Also dragonrage does not need to take up 3 points. If they want talents to modify it then maybe a talent that puts it on a shorter duration, 1 min cooldown and only allows 2 extensions. Right now it lasts 38sec and I think the option to split that into 2 charges would be perfect for m+ to combat the issue of having a little too much power concentrated into it. They did this for boomy recently and it feels amazing tbh.

[@Preheat]

I like these ideas

[@liamdavies2823]

@ at the very least I would love a baseline pyre, and combined essence burst. Maybe they could add a talent at the top that goes something like “heal for 5% of pyre and disintegrate damage, overhealing creates an absorb”. The final issue I have is that azure strike does ZERO damage, it feels painful to even consider pressing it in m+ outside of dragonrage lol

[@zangbangtv2889]

i hope the rescur root break is for all 3 specs not only augmentation...

[@Preheat]

Will likely be for all 3

[@kingtut8367]

I mean cool but can you talk about fire mage

[@Preheat]

Mage recap is tomorrow!

[@MrMonkles]

With the Aug tier bonuses and 25% to dps from ebon it’s actually a buff lol

[@Preheat]

Yep

[@josesalamanca5140]

Still waiting for frostfire frost guide, guess not gonna happen 😢😢

[@Preheat]

It's still in the works. Poe2 has been a great distraction

[@josesalamanca5140]

@ 😮‍💨😮‍💨 thanks!