Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2, this section covers the latest and best Devastation Evoker Talent Builds for Raid and Mythic+ Dungeons, including easy-to-use talent calculators and import codes to copy-and-paste directly in-game!
What’s New in 10.2
While Patch 10.2 and Season 3 brought a couple of changes to Devastation’s gearing and stat priority, talent builds remain more or less unchanged from Patch 10.1 and Season 2.
In terms of choices, Firestorm simply remains too frustrating to use in practice, and investment in the bottom left-hand of the tree is not compelling enough to justify the loss in Priority Target value from the right side of the tree, including the standout Arcane Vigor and the versatile Iridescence.
While I always encourage players to experiment with different talents to better understand their class, as it stands I recommend the below talent setup for essentially all Devastation PvE content, with 27 required talent points in Yellow, and the remaining 3 talent points placed either in the Blue Single Target talents, or the Green AoE-oriented talents. For two-target cleave, the one point in Honed Aggression can be moved to Eternity’s Span. As usual, Imposing Presence can of course be swapped for Inner Radiance when a shorter interrupt cooldown is not needed.
10.2 Single Target Build (Raid Single)
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At the end of the day, this general setup makes great use of the changes to the capstone section of the tree, leveraging versatile throughput talents without sacrificing single target damage needed to perform effectively on bosses in both raid and mythic plus. While some difficult choices do have to be made when considering the best talents for mythic plus, Devastation brings plenty of AoE damage to the table with Pyre alone, and especially when enhanced by Volatility and Iridescence.