I'm not worried. Evoker is currently garbage at 1v1 PVP in the beta, everybody beats them, everybody has more tools than them for PVP. They're very similar to elemental shaman.
They have some kind of insta nuke gimmick like in the video below, but if they can't kill you with it, they're done.
They may be a threat in arena but I don't do arena PVP, so I don't give a shit.
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The length people go to dismiss content they suck at is crazy strong in this thread. Yes, we get it, you got owned too many times in PvP and your defensive mechanism kicked it so now you belittle pvpers and PvP content as sidegame/afterthought/whatever.
If you don't want to discuss evokers power in PvP then at least don't make a fool of yourself trying to use this thread as some sort of opportunity to attack PvP content. You guys are like those vegans who have to tell everyone that eating meet is bad even if nobody around cares about their opinion.
You have nothing to add to a PvP thread then go find a pve-everyoneisawinner-mode thread and see if you can actually contribute to a discussion there.
Evoker will be fine after all the bugs and rework before launch... Looks at sky to see if its raining frogs.
Pretty much, Evoker will be undesired and weak at launch though. If Blizzard is not crazy overtuning the class for launch, Evoker will be a very disappointing experience to play. Death Knight started strong and only got nerfed over time, this will be more like a Monk situation. Won't help with Evoker population though, the class has just too many downsides to be desirable to play.
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Yeah, because PvE'ers have never been known to QQ. >_>
You ask me, as a PvE'er, I think it's mostly PvE oriented design that's ruined the game. The rotations of the modern game are absurd and unnecessarily irritating. Far from providing freedom and opportunities for clever plays, they instead simply set up a very specific sequence of moves that, if not followed closely, tanks your DPS to oblivion. PvP'ers didn't ask for that, PvE'ers did.
From playing Evoker in beta for a while - even balancing aside, it's squishy AF and Empower is pretty shit too.
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Bruh I am literally playing Evoker on beta.
The fuck are you on? It's not parroting, it's how it is. You're made of fucking paper and Empowers feel completely dogshit to use.
They are passable if you set "Press and Tap", but it's still shit. They are long AF casts and the decision making does not really exist for key ones.
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Appart from a few voices, there's quite a consensus around evoker needing a lot of work.
They introduce 2 new "mechanics" : Short range and Empower spells which are both detrimental to the spec .... When some 15 year old mechanics feel more fluid than the shiny new class that is supposed to be the new toy of the xpac, there is a problem.
Each time i'm throwing an empower spell / deep breath i can go get a coffee because of how long the animation takes and how many gcd it induces, it feels like completly cutting the rotation to the point i'm nervous when it's getting off cooldown.
That clunkiness is somehow supposed to be compensated by hover WHICH ALSO INDUCE AN ANIMATION AND A GCD. Man when i spend half of my essences on a spell and something comes under my feet and my choice is :
1- i move instantly and lose my 3 essences
or
2- I use hover, it still stop my 3 essences cast AND it induce an animation and a GCD
it feels bad ... Escepcially when my main in an ele shaman and when this situation happens, i just press spiritwalker grace and *magic* i'm just casting while moving without interupting anything.
Also the range, ... yesterday i had to make a bug report because a quest was asking me to pull bird on the sky and they're too far away. Literally EVERY Class can but the new class .... I can not wait to see raid testing with 25yards...
This class is a disastr waiting to happen. it NEEDS a lot of work...