Evoker - Condi D/D Toad - MetaBattle

Evoker basics

Evokers gain access to a new skill slot, this is where you select your familiar. Here we chose Toad for extra CC and improved sustain.
Using skills gives you charges - at maximum charges you get to use the base special ability of your familiar - 钙化之触.
- Trait procs count for building charges too! Including the on-dodge abilities of 秘法遁逸.
Calcify itself is building charges of a different kind. After every 3rd use of Calcify, you gain access to an empowered version of the skill: 震地冲击.
While your familiar cannot be targeted, it is an entity present in combat. It means that the Toad itself is executing the F5 skills, you only command it to do so. If you command it to Calcify while Seismic Impact (SI) is active, Calcify will override and cancel SI! The Toad can't multitask.

General

You can build charges for 钙化之触 even out of combat. Do this before the gates open.
元素唤醒 drastically reduces the CD of 大地协调. You can swap back from any attunement. Your Earth weapon skills can't really keep up with this, but that is often secondary - what matters is reaping the benefits of the defensive trait procs, more on that later.
Your elite 元素队列 is a one button burst combo that almost always finds good value. It unleashes the empowered version of every familar's attack, all at once at the target location. It's good for bursting multiple targets, CCing them, or even healing up:
- Hare will do 闪电突袭 for burst damage.
- The Toad will CC targets and limit their movements by locking them inside a stone circle.
- Otter will heal and create a water field you can blast for even more healing.
- Fox adds some extra damage.
The build doesn't really have ranged options, so the Earth ring produced at the center of is often your best tool for stopping enemies from fleeing, or locking them in place while you close the gap in general.
is both defensive and offensive - the instant CC can be used to pressure enemies or interrupt their attacks.

Defense

The build has excellent strike damage mitigation.
Swapping to Earth gives us:
- and
- which reduces incoming strike damage
- Further mitigation from
- Barrier from (if you swap in melee range of an enemy)
Attuning to Earth for the passive benefits before quickly swapping out without even using a single weapon skill is completely fine to do, especially if you're CC'd with no stunbreak available and you're forced to tank damage.
If you're getting pressured a lot, every second attunement you enter should be . You can also do this if you're new to the build and want to play it safe, but this does tend to slow your damage down a bit. If you're trying to pressure a target and aren't feeling threatened, take risks.
gives you damage reduction for 1 second on entering Earth and 1 second upon leaving Earth.
It's often overlooked but destroys projectiles. It's one of the lowest CD anti-projectile skills in the game, and a great tool against ranged enemies that you should use as often as possible, sometimes even outside melee range for defensive value.
Almost every attunement has an evade frame, these can all be used to evade attacks even while d:
- on Fire
- on Air
- on Earth
Water is your second best attunement for sustain, and your best one when it comes to condition cleansing.
, and all have good healing values.
- You can gain a to transmute both from skill 3 and 4.
While Earth is your strongest attunement to swap to for mitigation, Air and Water also have options, namely (the stun can give you some breathing room) and (provides damage mitigation). Both of these are instant and can be used while stunned.

Condition removal

Condi cleansing is weaker than your defense against strike damage, but far from bad. You will however have to resort to bigger CDs to deal with conditions.
provides a bit of constant condi removal.
is your mass cleanse, feel free to use it for condi removal even if you don't need the healing.
- It's very important that this skill is secured. The long cast time makes it easy to interrupt, and you can crumble under condition pressure if that happens. Swapping to Earth for or using one of your utility skills that grant this boon is highly recommended.
- With a little luck you can also line this up with a proc from (if taken), significantly reducing the cast time.
is your backup in case none of the other options are available, or if you don't need a mass cleanse.
is for emergencies. Use it if you need immediate, instant cleansing and no other options would suffice. Otherwise keep it ready as a stunbreak.

Doing Damage

Most of the damage comes from Fire, followed by Earth, Air, and finally Water.
Everything on Fire hits hard, and you can use them in almost any order. The only thing to keep in mind is that should only be used on targets, but skills 2-4 all apply burning so that shouldn't be hard to achieve.
applies burning both on initial cast and on crossing the ring. It's beneficial to fight at the edge of the ring, where the odds of enemies crossing it are higher.
Earth has 3 combo tools that benefit from being used inside , granting you either or .
's and 's CC are both great at setting up hard hitting skills, like . You can even go skill 3 ⇒ 4 ⇒ 5 - CC sets up Churning Earth, immob sets up the CC.
The immob of is great at securing more important CCs like or .
- when traited with can fill a similar role.
is a very important part of the build. If enemies don't have an answer to it, the ring can trap them for you to pressure while the Toad CCs them.
provides a very high uptime of without much effort, it just happens passively as you're using and other CCs.
Consider using before bursts if you're going for the kill if you aren't feeling threatened and can afford to sacrifice a defensive utility. The lets you ignore conditions like and . Combined with the from traits, you should be unstoppable (unless the enemy has boon removal).