Devastation Evoker Mythic+ Guide (2024)

When to use this Spec

Use this spec in the low to mid range of Mythic+ keys, it has slightly more damage than the High key variant.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

• Pyre
  • Your AoE essence spender, its essence is cost reduced by Dense Energy.
• Eternity Surge
  • Your spec-specific Empower spell, enhanced by Eternity's Span.
  • This has additional cleave synergy with Scintillation.
• Dragonrage
  • Your main DPS cooldown that is enhanced by Animosity and Tyranny.
• Shattering Star
  • Increases your damage done to the target for a short duration, enhanced by Arcane Vigor.
• Burnout
  • Fire Breath damage ticks have a chance to make your next Living Flame instant cast. Especially useful for optimizing damage while moving.
• Causality
  • Makes Disintegrate and Pyre reduce the cooldown of your Empower spells.

Class Tree

• Source of Magic
  • Provides mana restoration for the buffed healer, in addition to buffing them with Potent Mana.
• Cauterizing Flame
  • An ability unique to Evokers that allows you to dispel Bleed debuffs in addition to other types.
• Scarlet Adaptation
  • Often picked for a small DPS increase, stacks up from passive healing, and active off-healing. You can use your healing spells during downtime to gain some damage.
• Unravel
  • A very powerful damaging spell that's only usable against absorb shields and you want to use it as often as possible in those situations.
• Twin Guardian
  • Alters your Rescue into a very powerful defensive tool, placing a big absorb shield on both you and your target, this has a short 1 minute cooldown. Sometimes using this as a defensive cooldown can conflict with using Rescue as a mobility tool and vice versa.
• Leaping Flames
  • Allows you to shoot an additional Living Flame per Empower rank after every Fire Breath cast for free cleave damage. These additional Living Flames can also proc Essence Burst from automatically healing your allies if there are not enough enemies to hit while also potentially getting Scarlet Adaptation value.

When to use this Spec

Use this spec in higher Mythic+ keys. The Oppressing Roar and Terror of the Skies combo is very useful to control mobs as they become more dangerous.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Talent Adjustments

Listing all the changes within the Class and Spec tree compared to the default build.

Class Tree

• Added
  • Oppressing Roar and Terror of the Skies
• Removed
  • Protracted Talons and Fire Within

Vexamus

• Mana Bomb deals formidable damage so you should rotate between Obsidian Scales and Twin Guardian for it, healing yourself just before it goes off can be crucial as well.
• Approximately 2 minutes into the fight there is an overlap of Mana Bomb and Arcane Fissure, make sure you have a defensive cooldown ready for it.

Overgrown Ancient

• You can hold your Empower spells slightly to line them up for efficient AoE damage if the adds are about to spawn.
• Rotate between Obsidian Scales Twin Guardian Zephyr for Burst Forth.
• Dispel Lasher Toxin from your tank when the adds become active, cleanse it around 15-20 stacks every time.

Crawth

• Deafening Screech does increasing damage each stack. For the first and second casts, you should be fine without any defensive, on later ones you need to use Obsidian Scales, Twin Guardian or Zephyr to survive. You can check the Not Even Close tool to see exactly what you need to survive when pushing higher keys.

Echo of Doragosa

• Use Obsidian Scales or Twin Guardian if you get Energy Bomb.
• If you are at 3 stacks of Overwhelming Power, position yourself well to drop Arcane Rift.

Trash Tips

• Vexamus area
  • Look out for Spellbound Scepters casting Mystic Blast and use either Tail Swipe or Wing Buffet to stop them as needed.
• Overgrown Ancient area
  • Oppressing Roar + Deep Breath for a long Terror of the Skies stun is very good for both damage and helping your tank survive the standard massive pull in this area.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Hackclaw's War-Band

• Kill Tricktotem first. Make sure you instantly swap to Hextrick Totems when they spawn.
• Use your interrupt whenever you can on Earth Bolt
• You should hold one charge of Obsidian Scales for Marked for Butchery.
• Use the rest of your defensives and Cauterizing Flame to help your group deal with Gash Frenzy.

Treemouth

• Treemouth frequently spawns 4 Decaying Slimes, Devastation Evoker has very efficient and frequent damage for these via Fire Breath and Eternity Surge
• You also need to stop the Decaying Slimes cast, Gushing Ooze. Use Tail Swipe or Wing Buffet as needed.

Gutshot

• If someone gets a Crippling Bite from the Rotfang Hyenas you can dispel it with Cauterizing Flame.
• You can also Deep Breath out of Ensnaring Trap if you ever get caught in one.

Decatriarch Wratheye

• Try to time your Fire Breath and Eternity Surge in addition to pooling Essence for each Rotburst Totem as they are crucial to focus down in this fight.
• Use Obsidian Scales and Twin Guardian for Withered Eruption.

Trash Tips

• Hackclaw's War-Band area
  • Use Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet to stop Vicious Clawmangle or Bone Bolt as needed. If the bolt does go through you can dispel it with Cauterizing Flame.
  • Be ready to Quell whatever is needed in this area as there are a lot of dangerous casts, such as Hideous Cackle
• Treemouth Area
  • Fetid Rotsingers cast Summon Totem, focus down the Decay Totem spawned from this instantly.
  • Use Tail Swipe or Wing Buffet to stop Summon Lashers as needed.
  • Cauterizing Flame is great to help your healer deal with the bleeds.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Watcher Irideus

• On higher keys you can Oppressing Roar + Deep Breath for a long Terror of the Skies stun on the intermission Nullification Devices to stop them from casting Purifying Blast.
• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Static Surge.
• Rescue is particularly useful in P2 for moving your allies out of the now larger Power Field and negating the initial damage ticks with Twin Guardian.

Gulping Goliath

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Overpowering Croak.
• Use Wing Buffet (and Tail Swipe to a lesser extent) to help control the Curious Swoglets.
• Use Expunge and/or Cauterizing Flame to dispel Gulp Swog Toxin from your allies as needed.

Khajin the Unyielding

• Use your defensive cooldowns well as this is a rough healing fight, on higher keys you should coordinate more with your healer.
• Renewing Blaze gets particularly good value because of the constant ticking damage.
• Zephyr does not work for the damage in this fight even though it might seem so.

Primal Tsunami

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Tempest's Fury
• Use Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet to stop the intermission adds from casting Inundate.
• Sleep Walk can be very useful in stopping one of the four intermission adds early and making it move closer to the other ones (especially as Evoker tends to be one of the fastest runners.)

Trash Tips

• Watcher Irideus area
  • Use Quell Tail Swipe Wing Buffet and Terror of the Skies to stop Expulse and Demoralizing Shout.
  • Focus on killing the Containment Apparatuses.
• Khajin & Primal Tsunami area
  • Rotate your defensive cooldowns for the Glacial Proto-Dragons Deep Chill.
  • Stop Ice Shard to help out your tank.
• Gulping Goliath area
  • Use your utility spells to help control the Curious Swoglets.
  • Expunge and/or Cauterizing Flame to dispel Gulp Swog Toxin from your allies when needed.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Chargath, Bane of Scales

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Fiery Focus. This happens roughly every 55 sec so plan accordingly.
• Try to pool Essence and have your Empower spells ready for every Fetter.
• You can dispel every other Dragon Strike with Cauterizing Flame.

Forgemaster Gorek

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns to cover every Might of the Forge.
• Renewing Blaze gets very good value on this fight as the boss chain-casts two high damaging abilities in a row.
• If you use Obsidian Scales just before the second hit of Might of the Forge(about 60% through the cast), it also covers the Blazing Aegis right after.

Magmatusk

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Magma Eruption. This mechanic has a longer duration for each cast so later in the fight you might want to use multiple cooldowns and self-heals, especially if you are targeted by Lava Spray.

Warlord Sargha

• Use Cauterizing Flame to dispel Curse of the Dragon Hoard once per phase.
• Make sure to pool Essence and line up your burst damage for when Magma Shield breaks.

Trash Tips

• Chargath area
  • Try to have Fire Breath, Eternity Surge and Deep Breath for burst damage when your group uses a Burning Chain.
  • Watch out for Qalashi Hunters Bold Ambush. The mob leaps on a random player and applies a short massive bleed, quickly dispel it with Cauterizing Flame or use a defensive cooldown like Twin Guardian to cover it.
• Forgemaster Gorek area
  • Lava Flares cast Melt continuously that need to be interrupted or stopped. Use Tail Swipe, Wing Buffet, Terror of the Skies and Quell when needed.
• Magmatusk area
  • Interrupt Molten Core from Qalashi Thaumaturges. They also cast Magma Conflagration, this spell needs to be stopped after the initial cast finishes and it starts a targeted channel.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Melidrussa Chillworn

• Rotate defensive cooldowns for Chillstorm also make sure to instantly Hover or Verdant Embrace away after placing it if you are targeted.
• Unravel is great extra damage for the Frost Overload shield.

Kokia Blazehoof

• Kokia casts Ritual of Blazebinding every 30 seconds, which spawns a Blazebound Firestorm. This add needs to be killed as soon as possible, Devastation Evoker has strong 2-target cleave for this fight.
• Always make sure to bait Molten Boulder in a direction that doesn't block your group off, usually, this is towards the existing fire and edges of the area.
• Apart from the interruptable spell, Blazebound Firestorm also casts Inferno which is the ability you want to rotate your defensive cooldowns for in this fight.
• You can dispel Searing Wounds from your tank with Cauterizing Flame if they are in trouble.

Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein

• In P1 Kyrakka targets one random player with Infernocore, use your Obsidian Scales if you are targeted.
• In P2 Kyrakka starts applying Infernocore to multiple players so you want to nuke her down as quickly as possible, this is a great time to Bloodlust / Heroism and focus down the dragon while chaining defensive cooldowns whenever needed.

Trash Tips

• Melidrussa Chillworn area
  • Flashfrost Earthshapers cast Tectonic Slam which need to be stopped, use Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet as needed.
• Kokia Blazehoof area
  • This area is one of the roughest in all of Mythic+, Blazebound Destroyers casts Inferno and Living Bomb which are extremely deadly.
  • Rotate your defensive cooldowns for the Inferno casts while trying to keep one charge of Obsidian Scales available if you get a Living Bomb.
  • Interrupt Primalist Cinderweavers as much as possible and use Tail Swipe or Wing Buffet to stop Primalist Flamedancers Flame Dance.

• Kyrakka and Erkhart area
  • Flame Channelers cast Flashfire which needs to be interrupted.
  • Tempest Channelers and High Channeler Ryvati both cast Lightning Storm, you need to rotate defensive cooldowns for these, including Zephyr for the whole group.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Leymor

• Rotate between Obsidian Scales and Zephyr for Explosive Brand and Consuming Stomp.
• If you use a defensive just before Explosive Brands go off you can also cover the following damage event.
• Fill gaps in your defensive cooldown rotation for the stomp with Twin Guardian.
• In Higher M+ use the Not Even Close tool to check exactly what you need for surviving.

Azureblade

• Interrupt and kill the Draconic Images.
• Rotate defensive cooldowns for the intermission Overwhelming Energy as it is the only damage source in the fight.
• Make sure to save Hover charges for the intermission as there is a lot of movement and dodging.

Telash Greywing

• Keep a charge of Obsidian Scales ready in case you get targeted by Icy Devastator.
• Rotate between the rest of your defensive cooldowns for Frost Bomb and Absolute Zero.

Umbrelskul

• At 75%, 50%, and 25% Umbralskul spawns Detonating Crystals and one Hardened Crystal. The latter one has an absorb shield that needs to be broken, while the shield persists it deals massive AoE damage to your group.
• Pool your Essence and have your Empower spells ready for these thresholds, also in higher keys you should coordinate big damage cooldowns and Bloodlust / Heroism usage.
• These timings are also when you should use your defensive cooldowns so plan accordingly.

Trash Tips

• Azureblade area
  • Interrupt Arcane Elementals Waking Bane and Ritual Seal Keepers Icy Bindings.
  • You can also use your Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet for stops here.
• Telash Greywing area
  • Focus Drakonid Breakers, and use your defensive cooldowns on Shoulder Slam if targeted.
  • Use Zephyr on Bestial Roar.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Granyth

• Rotate defensive cooldowns for Shards of Stone.
• Focus on killing Nokhud Saboteurs, your Permeating Chill automatically slows them down, you can also consider using Wing Buffet.
• Once the boss is low enough that you only need one more Ballista, root the Saboteur going for it with Landslide and then you can ignore the next add.

The Raging Tempest

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Electrical Storm, using Renewing Blaze at the start of the cast is optimal.
• Make sure to soak orbs early on to stack up Surge of Power quickly.

Teera and Maruuk

• Rotate your defensive cooldowns for Gale Arrow. This is a very hard hitting ability so stacking multiple cooldowns might be required. Check the Not Even Close tool for higher M+ to see exactly what you need to survive.

Balakar Khan

• You can dispel Rending Strike from the tank with Cauterizing Flame in P1.
• Renewing Blaze is great for the intermission Stormwinds
• Use Wing Buffet to help gather the Nokhud Stormcasters in the intermission while also interrupting one of the first casts.
• Use your other stops as needed for the Storm Bolts.
• Save a charge of Obsidian Scales for when you get targeted by a Spear in P1 or P2.

Trash Tips

• Granyth area
  • Stop Rally the Clan or Hunt Prey with your Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet
  • Focus on killing Nokhud Lancemasters and interrupt their Disruptive Shout.
  • If someone gets hit by Swift Stab you can dispel it with Cauterizing Flame
• Teera and Maruuk area
  • Desecrated Ohunas cast Rotting Wind which needs to be stopped. You can use Wing Buffet or Tail Swipe but try to stop it last second as they are coded so that the next one starts when the first one is about to finish, this way you can stop two at the same time.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

The Lost Dwarves

• Use a defensive cooldown if you are targeted by Ricocheting Shield.
• Interrupt Defensive Bulwark.

Bromach

• Be ready to destroy Quaking Totems instantly, they spawn roughly every 40 sec.
• Passively cleave down the add waves and interrupt the Stonevault Geomancers.

Sentinel Talondras

• Use Cauterizing Flame to dispel Earthen Shards whenever needed.
• Rotate defensive cooldowns for Crushing Stomp.

Emberon

• Manage your Hover stacks so you can keep casting while dodging the Unstable Embers.

Chrono-Lord Deios

• Use Deep Breath to remove Time Sink when you can not survive it.
• Rotate defensive cooldowns for Wing Buffet.

Trash Tips

• Bromach area
  • Both Chain Lightning and Spiked Carapace need to be stopped in this area, utilize Tail Swipe, Wing Buffet and Quell.
  • Use Cauterizing Flame to dispel Chomp from your tank.
• Emberon area
  • Use defensive cooldowns for the Runic Protectors Earthquake.
  • Stop the Earthen Weavers Hail of Stone.
• Chrono-Lord Deios area
  • Interrupt Earthen Warders Curse of Stone or you can dispel it with Cauterizing Flame if it goes through.
  • Line of sight Ebonstone Golems Thunderous Clap whenever you can.

Pre Dungeon Start

• Buff your group with Blessing of the Bronze.
• Buff your healer with Source of Magic.

Authors Note:

This list is focused on getting a good balance of DPS optimization and high Versatility for survivability. Available Leech and especially Avoidance pieces are very beneficial for High Mythic+ and should be prioritized.

Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.

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