Devastation Evoker Class Guide Updated for 10.1 Rework - Clipping Got Clipped

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Our Devastation Evoker Guide is updated for Season 2 and a lot has changed! Patch 10.1 brings new talents, reworks to existing talents, and a mostly redesigned capstone tier of our spec tree. Our new 4p tier set Legacy of Obsidian Secrets is also looking to be very strong and encourages us to space our empower spells out outside of Dragonrage.

Patch 10.1 Devastion Evoker Guide Clipping Got (mostly) ClippedClipping, or cutting Disintegrate short (generally after 3 ticks) in Dragonrage in order to gain additional uptime on the cooldown, was incentivized in the old talent design for Devastation. This was mainly due to cooldown reduction being tied to casting the spell.

With the new Causality there is less of a reason to cut Disintegrate short, since we instead want the ticks for cooldown reduction. It is still worthwhile to cut Disintegrate short in Dragonrage when cooldowns are available (such as Fire Breath, Shattering Star, and Eternity Surge) or we are capped on Burnout procs.

We no longer clip Disintegrate with Azure Strike, unless the Dragonrage buff is fading, and we only do this in the last 1-2 GCDs of the buff. This means that clipping is now the exception, not the rule. The result is that the rotation is much more intuitive, with us wanting to let most of our Disintegrates finish unless we have something better to cast.Chaining, or the act of recasting Disintegrate between the penultimate and last tick to move it into the next channel, is still fine to do but it isn't required if you rather let all your channels fully finish.

Chaining is easier, because the window to recast is much bigger than trying to time your next channel down to the millisecond. There are still some minor optimizations you can make by