Evoker Class Overview, a New Hero Class in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight (2024)

Last updated on Jul 12, 2023 at 20:26by Sinzhu2 comments

The Evoker is a new hero class in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.This page covers information about this new class, itsspecializations, abilities, and mechanics.

The Evoker is a new hero class arriving in World of Warcraft:Dragonflight that uses the power of the five dragonflights to bothdevastate its foes and preserve the health of its allies while making use ofMail armor for defense. This class acts as a healer, ranged damage-dealer,or a unique support capable of buffing allied damage.

So long as you have purchased any version of the Dragonflight expansion,you are able to create an Evoker. However, you may only have oneEvoker created per realm.

You can purchase Dragonflight using the link below if you have not alreadydone so.

In the Dragonflight expansion, the Evoker class is unique in thatonly one, also new race can play it: the Dracthyr. This is becauseall of an Evoker's abilities revolve around making use of the powers unique toeach of the five dragonflights, and the Dracthyr are part-dragon themselves! Whatis also fairly unique about the Dracthyr is that they are the only race apartfrom Pandaren that can join either the Alliance or the Horde.

You can learn more about the Dracthyr race, its customizations, andracial abilities in our separate overview below.

As the Evoker class is a hero class (much like a Death Knightor Demon Hunter),they do not start from Level 1 like a traditional class would. Instead, anewly-made Evoker will begin at Level 58 andplay through their own unique starting experience within the Dragon Isles to learnall about the abilities they have access to.

The Evoker class can choose between three specializations, with the optionfirst being given while progressing through their intro experience in TheForbidden Reach:

• Devastation — A ranged DPS specialization that mainly focuses on themagic of the red and blue dragonflights to harm foes from a distance with avariety of concentrated spells and powerful breath attacks. If you ever wantedto unleash your inner Onyxia, this specialization may be foryou!
• Preservation — A healer specialization that largely utilizes themagic of the green and bronze dragonflights to heal allies with breaths andeven rewind time on wounds themselves!
• Augmentation — By reclaiming theirmissing powers of the black dragonflight in Patch 10.1.5, this specializationacts as a unique support role that uses many abilities to buff the damage ofits allies, among other helpful effects.

Learn more about how to play as any Evoker specialization inour full guides to them below.

Having command of the powers of all five dragonflights, the Evoker can performa potent variety of prismatic spells that shift into the flight whose magic ismost useful, such as the red-flight-themed Pyre ability. They can also Glide like a Demon Hunter and even go one step further by soaring overthe battlefield while bathing their enemies in flame. An Evoker can also createa Wing Buffet to damage and knockback enemies or make use of theirclaws for damage when fighting up close with Azure Strike.

Another unique aspect of the Evoker's toolkit are special EmpoweredAbilities. These skills can have their keybind held down to increase theirpower the longer the button is pressed, until you choose to release it. You canalso choose to toggle this hold and release behavior through the in-gameaccessibility options.

Due to being released during the Dragonflight Pre-Patch,Evokers do have access to the Covenants, Soulbinds,and even the Legendary Powers that were available throughout the Shadowlandsexpansion. However, do not expect them to have powers and abilities on the samescale of the other classes due to only interacting with Shadowlandssystems for a short time before Dragonflight began!

Evokers only have one Covenant ability, regardless ofwhich Covenant they choose to join. This ability is Boon of the Covenants,which restores a large amount of health and grants you 10% Versatility for 12seconds, all on a 2-minute cooldown. In addition, this ability passively givesyou an additional 4% damage and healing done at all times!

Although Evokers have been given a full suite of Conduits to usein Soulbinds, do not expect them to have effects that are as robust as the restof the classes. Instead, these Conduits will offer more basic utility, such asa flat increase to a given stat.

• Bronze Acceleration — Increases Haste
• Grandiose Boon — Improves the passive effect of Boon of the Covenants
• Intense Awakening — Increases Mastery
• Spark of Savagery — Increases Critical Strike

• Circle of Life — Increases Leech
• Inherent Resistance — Reduces magic damage taken
• Primal Fortitude — Increases maximum Health

• Graceful Stride — Increases movement speed
• Legacy of Coldarra — Increases the duration of Permeating Chill
• Natural Weapons — Reduces the cooldown of Wing Buffetand Tail Swipe

Although Evokers do not have a large variety of Legendary Powersthat other classes received throughout the Shadowlands expansion, theydo still have access to both the "generic" Powers and a unique form of Unitythat further empowers the passive damage and healing increase from Boon of the Covenants.If you have time and/or spare Gold, you may wish to pick up one ofthese generic powers and the Evoker version of Unity.

The Dracthyr Evoker race and class is just one of manynew features of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. You can learn moreabout some of the other exciting developments of the expansion in our dedicatedroundup below.