Glad to see this posted!

Loving all the changes they are implementing in 10.1. Can't wait for the ptr to test all these changes.

Your my favourite evoker, bruh. keep making these vids^^

Thank you for the great content and keeping the evoker dev dream alive. I hope to more pvp focused changes to dev evoker in the near future. Cuz boy don’t we need it lmfao

The Devastation Evoker changes in terms of Single Taget PVE(raid bosses) is quite a nerf to dragon rage duration putting it from 50+ sec down to a locked 32 sec (assuming you're able to still channel disintegrate majority of the time aside from when you empower aka just stand still and die to swirlies after your double hover use wears off but I guess that's more in line with how casters work according to my buddies, I'm used to being a melee so I guess it'll just translate to their current dps becoming much worse under movement fights as they have to stop channeling to move) Haste will also become very odd in a sense that it can be harmful for your class considering that you want to be channeling disintegrate for as long as possible to lower the cooldown of empower abilities in ST. Overall it's a nerf to ST (which it was already one of the worst classes for in PVE even with mythic staff, which I assume we'll also lose the ability to use else we'll be swapping it in before every ST fight and swap to high ilvl weapon after it's used the entire expansion, yes this works in raid combat and M+) However it's somewhat of a potential buff to PVE AOE with all the changes ofc. Feels tone deaf not to mention why would we have a hero/BL if it could hurt us to be under the effect of it, we might also be in a state where we need to save Dragon Rage until Hero/BL wears off because it could potentially have negative effects if we have too much haste and even if we do not get a negative effect from the haste we won't really get any significant bonuses from it. stat prio will likely also change to Mastery/crit in pve. I highly hope they move the DR duration so a 3rd usage of both empower spells is possible within the Dragon Rage window or reduce the cooldown of dragon rage by 30 sec or more & maybe figure out a way to make haste actually be beneficial again instead of a potential detriment (haste could make disintegrate just tick faster without lowering it's channel time and the talent that makes it channel 20% faster can just make it tick faster). Alternatively they could put effort into actually making the mastery good as in PVE you need the damage most of the time when bosses are low and in PVP you kinda need it when people are dropping low to which both you cannot really do any damage anymore cause target is low hp.

do you think the crit dmg nerf will impact the secondary stat prio? moving from mastery+crit to haste+mastery?

as a dev evoker, exact same screech when i saw the paragraph xD

Personally I'm really worried about some of the changes they're doing. 10.0.7 will bring us the Ancient Flame change and with Engulfing Blaze being nerfed from 40% to 25% in 10.1 I fear the survivability of the spec is going to be taking another hit. I mainly play BGs and world PvP so I know my view isn't important in the way that arena play is, but still. Evokers have some crazy self healing potential. I've been running with Ancient Flame, Engulfing Blaze and mostly Inner Radiance instead of shorter kick, just to have mad healing available to me. Come 10.1, Living Flame will heal roughly 10.7% less compared to now, the cast time on spam healing will be 54% slower and on top of all that we lost 25% crit effect so that's going to be yet another hit on self heals. All in all, the heal spam will be roughly 54% of the power it used to be, before thinking of crit in the mix. That's a HUGE nerf in total, and while self healing isn't as critical in arenas as it is for BGs and world PvP it still plays a role, right? Devastation isn't very strong defensively to begin with, self heals are all we got. Cutting out nearly half of the healing power seems like a very harsh nerf to the defensive side of the kit that was already on the weaker side. The other Devastation changes look awesome, though I'm also a bit bummed out on no way to skip Pyre. Engulfing Blaze still looks pretty mandatory, especially if we end up playing with Burnout. And I honestly don't ever want to think about playing without Burnout. Procs for damage, procs for healing, the talent is just incredible. Right now I'm also just having a lot of trouble with how to allocate points on the bottom side. Previously, there were a couple of build options but for the specific way I played I never felt like I was missing out on something I really wanted on the last third of the tree. Now with the Imminent Destruction rework there's not enough points to pick things. But oh well, I guess that just means the talents finally actually do their job, right? Honestly, I'm just hoping for something new defensively here. I don't mean a buff to the DR or a new DR or anything like that. I just want to be able to keep myself alive and the humongous self heal nerfs are going to hurt. To end on a positive note, Causality feels awesome. It feels really smooth to not have to rely on EB procs and instead you just spam your Essence into Disintegrate and it works.

Those 10.1 pvp changes for everyone is wild ngl some people arent gunna be happy 😂

Deep breath getting scary buffed again Dragonrage gonna give even more pressure in PVP I just really don't know what to think about Causality to be honest. Just thinking about it and I didn't test, but it feels like any form of haste (and natural convergence) is going to straight up nerf causality (I'm not even talking about all the kicks and such that could affect it more than they are now) And I don't think many people are willing to increase disintegrate's channeling duration (reduce dps) to maximize causality I guess that just means more reliance on hoarded power and more trade-offs to make Theorycrafting time and calculations needed lol FTF working with pyre only (At least that's what I understand from reading the patch note) is just straight up a big punch in the chest for PVP And living flame? I feel like there are still too many variables to make any conclusions other than "we can heal ourselves waaaaay less than we used to" with both 10.0.7 and 10.1 But yeah, really looking forward for that stupid deep breath lol

"Brand new expansion" Doesnt mention that a new spec has been datamined aswell :D

Literaly still a 3 button spec. The most basic playable class in any MMO in history.

The amount i play Devoker rn = 0 the amount i play after this = -1 awful changes taking away the cool mechanics they had ZZZZZZZZZZ

How could you be excited for these changes, do you only pvp? These are mega nerfs to anyone that was actually playing the spec properly

thak you for the videos, rly helpdfull and interesting but dragon its geeting ugly day after day haha