Dragonflight Preview: Get to Know the Dracthyr Evoker

Dragonflight Posted 2022/07/21 at 2:30 PM by Archimtiros

Your awakening was unprecedented, but the time has come to claim your place in the world of Azeroth. The Dragon Isles are waiting for you to discover your purpose and awaken your wing mates in your new adventures. You will not be so easily contained.Forbidden ReachDracthyr Evoker Quick Facts

Class: Evoker

Two Forms: Dracthyr and Visage

Armor Type: Mail

Weapon Types: Intellect Daggers, Fist Weapons, Axes, Maces, Swords, Staves

Specializations: Devastation (DPS) and Preservation (Healing)

Alignment: Horde or Alliance (chosen at character creation)

Starting Level: 58

Creating Your Dracthyr EvokerDragonflightdracthyrThe Color of Magic

Blue Spells: Focused and overwhelming power

Red Spells: Fast explosive power

Green Spells: Nurture and heal

Bronze Magic: Bend and manipulate time

Becoming EmpoweredEmpoweredEmpoweredFire BreathFire BreathFire BreathEmbracing your Draconic NatureWing BuffetTail Sweep

Wing Buffet: With a powerful flap of your wings, knock away your enemies in front of you.

Glide

Soar: Muster your strength and launch into the air.

Living Flame (Red): Send a flickering flame toward your target, dealing Fire damage to an enemy or healing an ally.

In EssenceEssenceEssenceDisintegrate

Disintegrate (Blue): Tear into the enemy with a blast of blue magic, inflicting Spellfrost damage, and slowing their movement speed.

Comment by nurvzyReally getting jazzed about this new class! Heal/DPS range is my favorite to play and these look like they're going to be fun!

One small question, it mentions they were raised to harness all five schools of magic, but in the description, it only lists Blue, Red, Green, and Bronze. I'm wondering where the Black magic is. I'm assuming the class tree? Is it the defensive abilities?Comment by 910590I need the dressing room so bad, but I know it's a lot of work. Thank you WowheadComment by LeucienWeavrReally getting jazzed about this new class! Heal/DPS range is my favorite to play and these look like they're going to be fun!

One small question, it mentions they were raised to harness all five schools of magic, but in the description, it only lists Blue, Red, Green, and Bronze. I'm wondering where the Black magic is. I'm assuming the class tree? Is it the defensive abilities?Comment by AbsiSecretly hoping blizz decides to change black into a tanking spec.Comment by kruka92The race and class are cool, but there is one fundamentally massive issue - the 25 yard range on almost all spells. Sure, in most PvE settings you can get away with it, even if it is a pretty big hindrance and makes the gameplay feel incredibly odd and is often more annoying than it would otherwise be with the usual 40 yards.
But when it comes to PvP...oh boy, they are getting screwed hard. Not only are you always out of reach of other casters/hunters with their 40 yard range, trying to chase them down and looking like an idiot in the process, but 25 yards means you are also mere steps away from any melee class, who already have immense utility and damage, allowing them to just train wreck you with a full arsenal. All the while evoker utility is easily negated without even having a dedicated stun, poly or other incap, in other words, they have no reliable CCs which is what PvP is based on. Their one CC, the sleep walk, is also counter-intuitive, as a caster you want to get as much distance as possible, not reduce it.

The long, frontal line 30 sec root is completely useless, everyone can just break out of roots, not to mention druids.

There is no benefit in 25 yards, all it does is make the gameplay frustrating as hell, especially given how absurdly squishy evokers are. Not to mention the class is a hard caster, there is no way you will ever use empowered spells in PvP...ever, it's physically impossible without being completely shut down.Comment by Underated270The race and class are cool, but there is one fundamentally massive issue - the 25 yard range on almost all spells. Sure, in most PvE settings you can get away with it, even if it is a pretty big hindrance and makes the gameplay feel incredibly odd and is often more annoying than it would otherwise be with the usual 40 yards.
But when it comes to PvP...oh boy, they are getting screwed hard. Not only are you always out of reach of other casters/hunters with their 40 yard range, trying to chase them down and looking like an idiot in the process, but 25 yards means you are also mere steps away from any melee class, who already have immense utility and damage, allowing them to just train wreck you with a full arsenal. All the while evoker utility is easily negated without even having a dedicated stun, poly or other incap, in other words, they have no reliable CCs which is what PvP is based on. Their one CC, the sleep walk, is also counter-intuitive, as a caster you want to get as much distance as possible, not reduce it.

The long, frontal line 30 sec root is completely useless, everyone can just break out of roots, not to mention druids.

There is no benefit in 25 yards, all it does is make the gameplay frustrating as hell, especially given how absurdly squishy evokers are. Not to mention the class is a hard caster, there is no way you will ever use empowered spells in PvP...ever, it's physically impossible without being completely shut down.Comment by GobbersNow the question is…

Wowhead mods when do we get dracthyr in the dressing room? I know hundreds of people who haven’t got alpha would kill to make one.Comment by RhampantFyreThe race and class are cool, but there is one fundamentally massive issue - the 25 yard range on almost all spells. Sure, in most PvE settings you can get away with it, even if it is a pretty big hindrance and makes the gameplay feel incredibly odd and is often more annoying than it would otherwise be with the usual 40 yards.
But when it comes to PvP...oh boy, they are getting screwed hard. Not only are you always out of reach of other casters/hunters with their 40 yard range, trying to chase them down and looking like an idiot in the process, but 25 yards means you are also mere steps away from any melee class, who already have immense utility and damage, allowing them to just train wreck you with a full arsenal. All the while evoker utility is easily negated without even having a dedicated stun, poly or other incap, in other words, they have no reliable CCs which is what PvP is based on. Their one CC, the sleep walk, is also counter-intuitive, as a caster you want to get as much distance as possible, not reduce it.

The long, frontal line 30 sec root is completely useless, everyone can just break out of roots, not to mention druids.

There is no benefit in 25 yards, all it does is make the gameplay frustrating as hell, especially given how absurdly squishy evokers are. Not to mention the class is a hard caster, there is no way you will ever use empowered spells in PvP...ever, it's physically impossible without being completely shut down.Tail SwipeTail SwipeWing BuffetWing BuffetComment by OpenMindedDudeWowhead mods! Unite and channel your power towards the dressing room! *clap clap*

(No worries, am just kidding xD)Comment by EridianThe race and class are cool, but there is one fundamentally massive issue - the 25 yard range on almost all spells. Sure, in most PvE settings you can get away with it, even if it is a pretty big hindrance and makes the gameplay feel incredibly odd and is often more annoying than it would otherwise be with the usual 40 yards.
But when it comes to PvP...oh boy, they are getting screwed hard. Not only are you always out of reach of other casters/hunters with their 40 yard range, trying to chase them down and looking like an idiot in the process, but 25 yards means you are also mere steps away from any melee class, who already have immense utility and damage, allowing them to just train wreck you with a full arsenal. All the while evoker utility is easily negated without even having a dedicated stun, poly or other incap, in other words, they have no reliable CCs which is what PvP is based on. Their one CC, the sleep walk, is also counter-intuitive, as a caster you want to get as much distance as possible, not reduce it.

The long, frontal line 30 sec root is completely useless, everyone can just break out of roots, not to mention druids.

There is no benefit in 25 yards, all it does is make the gameplay frustrating as hell, especially given how absurdly squishy evokers are. Not to mention the class is a hard caster, there is no way you will ever use empowered spells in PvP...ever, it's physically impossible without being completely shut down.Tail SwipeTail SwipeWing BuffetWing BuffetComment by LautnerI've only ever played melee classes.

Time for something new. : )

I'll be one of a million playing these Evokers, don't care.Comment by NazevrothI'd absolutely love to get to know my Dracthyr if they happened to be in the dressing roomComment by kruka92I do want to point out 25 yards is further than melee range by a decent amount. They’re a weird mix of melee-esk power while having some range benefit. It would be worse if they were melee only. I know it’s this sort of uncanny valley for abilities, but I think the overall it’s not too bad.Also, where you mention that 25 isn’t that far from melee and they can easily close the gap, the distance between 25 and 40 is shorter. They should be able to keep up with ranged, even if they do have to occasionally reposition or play catch-up to reach them from time to time.
As for the lack of cc, I haven’t looked much into evoker talents but I do know that there are other classes that have limited cc as well. While it can be said they suck because of the lack of cc, they bring more utility to the table than a lot of other classes, as well as some unusual abilities that people are still working out. So before we get too upset here, let’s try to calmly get through alpha and beta and see where things go, how the class changes over different builds, and how strong they appear overall rather than focusing on 2 things that appear bad now.Comment by SyjinxReally getting jazzed about this new class! Heal/DPS range is my favorite to play and these look like they're going to be fun!

One small question, it mentions they were raised to harness all five schools of magic, but in the description, it only lists Blue, Red, Green, and Bronze. I'm wondering where the Black magic is. I'm assuming the class tree? Is it the defensive abilities?Comment by 1248528This is just the tip of the iceberg and there is more to explore during testing. We look forward to reading your feedback and we will see you in the Dragon Isles.
I hate this BS when Blizzard only gives streamers and youtubers invites for testing.Comment by kruka92Also Dracthyr have access to two racial abilities that function as CC: Tail Swipe (Spell #368970) & Wing Buffet (Spell #357214)
Sleepwalk is pretty filthythey have a good interrupt, can glide and cast on the run with some abilities, very quick and fast pacedcan turn the fault line attack thing into a stunan freeze enemies in time or themselves or an ally and pause all harmful effects.They have a very good kit from observations.Comment by hashtagfredAlso Dracthyr have access to two racial abilities that function as CC: Tail Swipe (Spell #368970) & Wing Buffet (Spell #357214)
Sleepwalk is pretty filthythey have a good interrupt, can glide and cast on the run with some abilities, very quick and fast pacedcan turn the fault line attack thing into a stunan freeze enemies in time or themselves or an ally and pause all harmful effects.They have a very good kit from observations.Comment by PyrrhaIf 25 yards with several abilities that allow for casting while moving isn’t remotely viable, I don’t know how melee would be considered viable at all, considering several have poor movement and lack of ranged CC, I think jumping to conclusions that they will be completely unusable in pvp without people even having the opportunity to try it for real is a mistake. I also wouldn’t be surprised if empowered abilities were not interruptible, outside of a cc. Even if there DPS ends up in weird spot, I think the healers will really excel.Comment by Sitrider**slow chant** dressing room dressing room dressing room!...if possible please thank you <3Comment by SilverDragon234I'm wondering if a third talent specialization would be based on the white dragonflight