Devastation Evoker Battleground Blitz Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)

The main role of a Devastation Evoker in battleground blitz is to use relentless single-target damage on enemies to quickly force kills and crowd control healers with Sleep Walk. To keep your team offensive, you will use Fury of the Aspects when your team has cooldowns and follow this up with maximizing your damage output. If teams try to setup kills on you, use Obsidian Scales to reduce damage on you and Hover to get away from the fight.

In addition to damage and crowd controlling, you will also be slowing every enemy you can with Azure Strike, Landslide, and Disintegrate. This is a crucial part of the Evoker toolkit for battleground blitz. If you are able to slow enemies when they are on their way to a base and your team passes them, your team will likely get the base.

Here is the talent build you will be using to maximize your damage output:

• Nullifying Shroud
• Unburdened Flight
• Obsidian Mettle

There are the best 3 PvP talents to play in battleground blitz as a Devastation Evoker. Nullifying Shroud makes you immune to the next 3 crowd-control effects against you. This is important for when you are in a team fight and need do not want your damage interrupted. Unburdened Flight makes it so Hover makes you immune to movement speed reduction effects. Finally, because there are so many interrupts to deal with in battleground blitz, Obsidian Mettle is a mandatory choice if you want to maximize your damage output.

For an in-depth guide to Devastation Evoker talents, read here:

In Battleground Blitz, without the Arena Dampening effect, healers, when left alone, are able to sustain against many players with relative ease. The way to counter the high throughput of healers in Battleground Blitz is with the effective use of crowd control.

Evoker has many tools in its kit to aid with this:

• Sleep Walk
• Landslide
• Deep Breath
• Azure Strike slows multiple enemies
• Disintegrate can slow multiple enemies with the Mass Disintegrate hero talent.

• Obsidian Scales is one of your primary defensives. This reduces the damage you take by 30%. If you use the Obsidian Mettle PvP talent, it will also make you immune to interrupts, silences, and pushbacks.
• Renewing Blaze is another defensive you will want to Rotate with your Obsidian Scales. This will heal 100% of any damage you take while it is up over 8 seconds. It is important to use this right before you start taking damage and not after or the heal will not be strong.
• Deep Breath deals a large amount of damage to the team and can be used to do damage. However, it is great for avoiding crowd control when the enemy team is pushing toward you. For example, you will want to use this to avoid a Rogue's Kidney Shot if they are trying to kill you.
• Devastation Evoker's mobility is an incredibly important defensive. Here are some spells that you should master to help keep your team alive:
  • Hover launches you forward and increases your movement speed. It also makes you immune to slows with the PvP Talent Unburdened Flight.
  • Wing Buffet/ Tail Swipe are the Dracthyr racials that will help you get away from the enemy team targetting you. If you take the Walloping Blow talent turns these two spells into slows as well.
• Cauterizing Flame removes all bleeds, points, curses, and diseases from a teammate. This is a crucial spell when you play against specializations like Feral Druids, Assassination, Rogues, or Warlocks.

1. Intellect;
2. Versatility;
3. Mastery;
4. Haste;
5. Critical Strike.

The stat priority for Devastation Evoker is the same in Battleground Blitz and Arena. If you want an in-depth explanation and suggestions on gear, read our gearing section here:

Due to Devastation Evoker having incredibly high single-target damage, your primary goal in capture the flag maps is to play offense and output as much damage as possible. This means that when an enemy player picks up your flag, you should be trying to kill that flag carrier. Quickly leave the team fight when this happens and setup kills on the enemy team's defense. Utilize tools like Azure Strike and Landslide to slow the flag carrier and Sleep Walk on the enemy healers. If you start to dip low on health, be sure to trade cooldowns, such as Obsidian Scales and Hover. Use Rescue to help teammates cross the map if they are being slowed. For an in-depth guide to Devastation Evoker damage rotations, read here:

On resource race maps, your primary goal is to go to wherever the team fight is and overwhelm enemy players with your damage to secure a node. On these maps there are not many ways for Devastation Evoker to make plays or solo sit a base. This means you need to focus on winning the crucial team fights that will be frequently happening over the course of the game. Here is an example of what your burst rotation should look like to ensure quick kills on enemy players:

1. Use Landslide to root enemy players.
2. Use Eternity Surge to gain the Iridescence buff.
3. Use Deep Breath to stun enemies in your path.
4. Use Dragonrage.
5. Use Shattering Star so enemy players take increased damage from you.
6. Use Tip the Scales.
7. Use Fire Breath.
8. Use Disintegrate and Living Flame as filler spells.
9. Use Living Flame when you get a Burnout proc.
10. Use Azure Strike
11. Use Disintegrate.
12. Use Azure Strike
13. Use Disintegrate.
14. Use Azure Strike
15. Use Disintegrate.

This rotation will surely guarantee an early kill in the team fight. This results in the enemy team falling behind quickly and your team taking the node.For more information on Devastation Evoker damage rotations, read here:

Similar to resource race maps, your goal is to maximize your damage output and slow enemies who might be trying to help if they are falling behind. The goal on this map, unlike normal Rated Battlegrounds, is to team fight at one node and try to cap both bases. This results in long 7v7 team fights, and the winner will more than likely pull ahead quickly. Trade your defensives when you get low ( Obsidian Scales, Rescue, etc.) and get value out of Dragonrage/ Sleep Walk on enemy players.

Note: Capping the flag will make the inactive bases active, and both teams will have to recap the nodes. Use this tactic if your team is falling behind on points or lost the team fight.

Ranged DPS specializations will always be the best orb carriers on Temple of Kotmogu, so you should be one of the first players to get an Orb if there is one available. The most important part about this map is to win the initial team fight and quickly gain momentum by grabbing 3 orbs and standing in the middle of the map. When the enemy team starts to resurrect, leave middle and kite around the center. Here are some tips for this map:

• Players take more damage the longer they hold the orb. This means that, eventually, the Orb carriers will die. Ideally, your team will only hold 2-3 orbs at a time so that you do not easily wipe when you have high stacks.
• Make sure you die on the correct side of the map! You and your team will resurrect depending on where you died. If you die on purple side, you will resurrect on blue side and vise versa. Ensuring you and your team resurrect together is crucial, this will allow you to regroup faster and quickly wipe the enemy team that will be weak.