As predicted, with nerfs to Aug and no buffs to Deva and Preservation, Evoker is now the least played class in every bracket. ( atleast from what I saw, maybe other websites tell other storys ).
Aug was pretty overtuned against some matchups and devastation had 1-2 strong comps before the mastery nerfs. Preservation sees success on higher levels of play, but is horrible to play for casuals like myself.
I feel like Aug can stay dead, because its hard to balance. But maaaaaybe some more range for the other two speccs and shift damage around for the devastation rotation.
if evoker could be any race it would instantly be my favourite wizard spec. i just cant get into the dragons though. they look so out of place. it reminds me of when they first made pandaren - they just stood out like a sore thumb for a variety of reasons.
half the game is collecting transmog. half of the rewards are transmog based. half of the fun of RPGs is customising your character to be a turbo badass or whatever. Dragon canât do any of that. I would unironically prefer to just play as a permanent noggenfogger skeleton than play as a dragon.
Iâve always been saying it since beta , evoker defensives are bad if youâre playing dps, it just is. Its a slightly better feint, and to no surpriseârogueâs rarely use feint unless its outlaw and even then thats mostly if not only in 2v2.
Your other defensive is a purgable hot.
its one of the few casters in retail which has 0 means of reacting during a stun without trinket too which is odd, but oh well. Theyâre middle of the road when it comes to wizards too, as Iâd argue they have potential to be more mobile than a mage if they use honor talents but still lack the defensive capability of a caster to live.
Donât think anyone at blizzard knows how to tune or buff evoker and their masteries they were released with doesnât help the situation as they are forced into this dumb ooga booga stack one stat, for the most part.
If the evoker class didnt have a visage form and had more work done to the actual race youâre meant to play, then yeah. I think it would be pretty cool, and a big change from being an elf, sadly its afflicted with having a garbo elf visage.
Just play mage if you want to simulate a humanoid evoker, and also is only week 1 into the season, youâll get its full potential with the right stats and set tier.
But I agree that perhaps, blizzard could be creative with itâs glyphs enabling you to play in visage form, and most importantly, allow you to select any Azerothian race.
Personally I enjoy playing as a flying lizard but I often pondered how cool would it be to become a Tauren or a goblin in visage form.
Thatâs my overall opinion regarding this topic, and donât see why this could not be implemented.
They are ugly. Theres a tendency in this game for the worst looking races to be the least played ones. Always been like that. Dragon animations and the overall look is hideous. It also has clunky gameplay, locking you into animations etc. Just feels bad to play.
An unfortunate victim of modern political correctness.
They could have made âbuffâ intimidating classic dragon-like humanoids, however this would have been too patriarchal.
So they made the most gender-neutral, skinny and soft-looking âdragonâ they could and the result is this wretched creature we play today.
Itâs a shame because dracthyr and evoker could have been a huge hit. Instead, they are the ugliest and most universally hated race, and the clunkiest class respectively
and in battleground they are between #1#2 healers due to Golden Hours and Time dilatation and dispell bleed + immunity to 3 CC help a lot
When we got in 10.1.7 only 550k hps i was able with Golden Hour to heal 321k per reverse ( that mean x2 since you combine with echo) and reversion is like 7.5 seconds itâs the only healer where the healing scale with the number of damage taken
my Dev evoker does constantly 100k dps in SS
i dunno what you are smoking, i pump dps
Dev is possibly the most easy/brain dead dps spec ive ever played
(i also play shammy, DK, hunter)
in 10.2 we prio Fire breath over Eternity surge now, just azure strike after each Disintegrate to min max a Essence burst proc and pump Disintegrate
the rotation is so simple
as for defensives you can use [@target player] or nearest ally macros to use verdant embrace or rescue
and renewing blaze is so broken it should be used as soon as you are focused, you never die
fyi
dev evokers stack haste now⌠not mastery . thank me later
80-90% of the ppl who refuse to play it will tell you its just trash looking artificially inserted NA political propaganda that just feels awful to play in a role playing game. The mechanics are kinda good, because its a modern designed class, but damn I just wont ever play it, because it looks like walking, I mean flying trash.
