Devastation Evoker Leveling Guide
Devastation Evoker Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:November 12, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Devastation Evoker leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
Talents
Devastation Evoker
Scalecommander Level 70 Questing
Scalecommander Level 70 Dungeons
Spec Tree
- Dragonrage
- Is your major cooldown every 2 minutes.
- Onyx Legacy
- Reduced cooldown on Deep Breath becomes more impactful as you level up and get additional points into your hero talent tree.
- Eternity's Span
- Huge for cleave damage with Scintillation procs and Mass Disintegrate.
Class Tree
- Terror of the Skies
- Adding a 3 second stun to Deep Breath is great for leveling.
- Walloping Blow
- When picked with Heavy Wingbeats they make Wing Buffet a much more reliable crowd control tool.
- Forger of Mountains
- Reduces the cooldown of Landslide and makes the root effect more resistant to breaking from damage, can be helpful especially when gathering pulls.
- Spatial Paradox
- Get extra range for pulling mobs, should be used as often as possible. Fire Breath is especially good to use as it covers a massive area with the increased range.
Talent Adjustments
Listing the major changes within Class and Spec tree compared to the questing build.
Spec Tree
- Added
- Big AoE damage increase.
- Volatility
- Big AoE damage increase.
- Removed
- Slight single-target loss.
- Power Nexus
- Engulfing Blaze
- Slight single-target loss.
Class Tree
- Added
- Group utility
- Rescue
- Twin Guardian
- Source of Magic
- Potent Mana
- Zephyr
- Group utility
- Removed
- Unnecessary utility for dungeons
- Forger of Mountains
- Ancient Flame
- Terror of the Skies
- Walloping Blow
- Unnecessary utility for dungeons
Hero Talents
- Scalecommander hero talent tree grants and improves two great leveling spells Mass Disintegrate and Deep Breath which makes it the better choice over Flameshaper.
- Onslaught
- This talent is perfect for leveling as you are entering and exiting combat often, this way you always have an instant Living Flame cast to use with your Leaping Flames from the initial Fire Breath of the pull.
- Bombardments
- Mass Disintegrate becomes even more potent as it applies this debuff on your target, further improved by Wingleader and Extended Battle.
- Deep Breath
- Granted more damage and mobility by:
- Melt Armor
- Maneuverability
- Slipstream
- Granted more damage and mobility by:
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Scalecommander as your Hero Spec.
- Pick Onslaught
- Pick Bombardments
- Pick Might of the Black Dragonflight
- Pick Melt Armor
- Pick Wingleader
- Pick Extended Battle
- Pick Maneuverability
- Pick Unrelenting Siege
- Pick Slipstream
- Pick Hardened Scales
Rotation
Devastation Evoker
Opener / Cooldowns
- Use Deep Breath and Dragonrage whenever they are ready, the spell sequence stays the same without them included.
- Most often you end up killing mobs with the combination of your Empower spells and the following Mass Disintegrates, as all of these deal multi-target damage you should ideally always be pulling at least a few mobs at a time.
Single-Target
- Cast Fire Breath and Eternity Surge as often as possible, mostly on rank 1 Empower level, Fire Breath might be used on higher rank more often if the mob doesn't live for long.
- Use your Essence always on Disintegrate.
- Cast Living Flame with Burnout procs.
- If the mob doesn't have much health Tip the Scales the first Fire Breath, otherwise use it on the next one when it becomes ready.
- Try not to overcap on Essence or waste Essence Burst procs.
AoE
- On multi-target situations you should cast your Empower spells at higher ranks according to the target amount.
- Fire Breath should be used at a maximum rank for bigger burst damage and Leaping Flames value.
- Eternity Surge hits 2/4/6/8 targets for Rank 1-4 Empower levels.
- Start using Pyre as your Essence spender on 4+ targets if they are stacked together and you don't have a Mass Disintegrate cast ready.
Shopping List
Devastation Evoker
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: fraggo
Reviewed by: Xerwo