Not Plate, Devoker is a mail armor class.
You lack basic knowledge on this topic. I don’t see any reason whatsoever for you defending poor developer decisions and wrong balance direction changes.
Monk currently has offensive CD stacking, so they can outdps the Envoker defensive toolkit.
Also Monk is completely unkiteable - always has been.
To add to this Ferals. Also can out dps and outlive and outkide all of the above.
Those are only a couple of mele casses.
When it comes to Demo/affliciton locks or arcane mages which can just out damage while out ranging the Devoker and outlive any form of pressure.
As I stated, currently the class feels like a gimped 25 yard hunter.
The slow is irrelevant vs everyone outside probably DKs, which have high passive pet damage, do it does not matter that much.
The only advanced mechanic this class has is the empower spells.
One of which is used with Tim the Scales for max empowered level instacast to maximise the direct damage and the other used at the minimal level to hit a single target.
Yet even on minimal empower level, you still have to channel for an entire caster global. On a “mobility” class.
There is no rotation outside of having those 2 empowered spells on cooldown.
Hover is also absurdly undertuned. The speedbuff is not enough, duration is not enough. There should be at least 1 additional mechanic tied to hover to make it a real boy.
Most classes can CAST into DK AMS. Devoker can’t even channel Desintegrate to pressure AMS. Again, you lack basic class mechanics knowledge.
Beta Devastation was played with end-season gear and pre-nerfed burst.
When you can setup a kill attempt once every 2 minutes, then most people would consider the spec playable.
To compare this, Legion/BFA/Shadowlands Fire mage had baked in mechanics to reduce the Combustion cooldown, where 99.9% of the kills and damage comes from. Yet again, I do not understand why this basic knowledge has to be pointed out to re-confirm the wide opinion that the Envoker spec is still in early beta stages.
Don’t take offence, but you are not bringing value to the thread or general Envoker conversation. To be honest, if you don’t main one, you should stick to other classes forum posts.
Evoker doesn’t have a defensive toolkit. Doesn’t have enough mobility. Doesn’t have high damage pressure ouside of a single 2min cd. Doesn’t have self sustain. Doesn’t have range.