Preservation Evoker Healing Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

Welcome to our Rotation page for Preservation Evokers. On thispage,you will find everything you need to know about playing the spec in Raiding andMythic+ scenarios.

If the rotations below seem overwhelming to you, you might benefit fromvisitingour Easy Mode page, which outlines a close-to-optimal rotation in simpler terms.

Healing as an Evoker will take a lot of practice no matter whichtype of contentyou find yourself doing. While other classes have powerful abilities that canhelp you the moment a situation turns dire, Evoker lacks these, makingit reallysuffer when things get tough. The key to this class is to stay ahead of thesemoments by having a plan for every major damage event that your party or raidwill encounter. This will allow you to save your few emergency abilities, such as Verdant Embrace and Rewind for the moments you did notanticipate.

Evoker has a lack of strong single-target spells as well asemergency buttons,making it difficult to actively keep individual targets alive during moments ofdanger. You must rotate through your cooldown abilities as muchas possible to help ease this pain and make active use of Time Dilationon anyone in significant danger to help make the situation more manageable.

When casting Dream Breath, you would naturally assume that a higherempower means more healing, but this is not the case. This ability always doesthe same amount of total healing, regardless of empower level. What changesdepending on the empower level is how much of that healing is upfront vs. howmuch comes in the form of a HoT. Higher upfront healing can result in more overhealing,meaning that you will benefit more from the high-duration HoT provided by Rank 1.Rank 2 is a nice balance between upfront healing and the HoT effect that couldbe good situationally.

Your goal is to generate as many Echos as possible through both spendingessence and casting Temporal Anomaly with Resonating Sphere.Once you have your Echos out, you will then consume them with one of the fourfollowing spells: Spiritbloom, Dream Breath, Verdant Embraceand Reversion. Here is how you can decide which spell to use:

• Reversion is the best options for consuming Echos once you haveaccess to the Preservation Evoker 2pc. You will be primarily doing this unlessyou are setting up for a large Emerald Communion and Lifebind combo.Even without high critical strike, it is relatively easy for the duration to beextended to the max, and it also gives you Grace Period value and extra Essence Bursts.
• Verdant Embrace is going to be the next most common way to consume Echos. While it may offer slightly less burst healing than Spiritbloom,it will proc Lifebind, which at the very worst can put it on par and, whensignificantly playing into it, makes it the best choice for echo consumption.Not to mention the potential to combine with Emerald Communion with as manyechos as possible for a massive raid cooldown.
• Spiritbloom is a strong choice for quick burst and single-targethealing. When you know raid damage is coming and you aren't going to use Verdant Embrace,you can prep many Echos and then time your Spiritbloom to landright as the damage hits. However, it is more difficult to pull off and generallywill find behind in total output once the Preservation Evoker 2pc is acquired.
• Dream Breath is a fairly weak choice and only really usable when the raid istaking passive damage. Even then, it remains weaker than Reversion and also muchmore difficult to pull off since Verdant Embrace will consume the Echos whenyou attempt to proc Call of Ysera before casting Dream Breath.

In general your priority list should look like the following:

• Do not overcap on Essence or waste Essence Burst procs (Cast Echoas much as possible).
• Cast Temporal Anomaly as mana allows to generate Echosthrough Resonating Sphere, consume these Echos with Reversionin order to gain Grace Period and generate Essence Burst.
• Use Verdant Embrace before casting Dream Breath in orderto get the bonus healing increase from Call of Ysera.
• Cast Dream Breath as frequently as possible and only empower it toRank 1 (sometimes Rank 2).
• Cast Spiritbloom, Fire Breath and of course Dream Breathas much as possible to proc the tier set bonus.
• Cast Living Flame to generate Essence Burst procs.

It is important to consider that Call of Ysera has a 15-second long duration.Even when using Verdant Embrace for Echo, you should have plently of timeto still cast Dream Breath. When you are also attempting to play into the Verdant Embraceand Lifebind interaction, there are a few things you should do to maximize your healingoutput. Generally, casting a few Living Flames on yourself will be the most consistentway to get good value out of Lifebind. However, you can also choose to simply cast Spiritbloomon yourself at Rank 3/4 to transfer all of the healing to your Lifebind targets. If you aren'tdirectly trying to maximize your Lifebind window then it will fall behind to Spiritbloomor Reversion, but with a bit of effort it is extremely powerful. For more informationon how this interaction works, you can scroll further down the page to our "Using Lifebind" section.

Normal Temporal Anomaly casts will be consumed with Reversion as thiswill give you 5 chances at proccing Essence Burst, giving you more total echos toplay with, not to mention that it will provide allies with the Grace Period buff.When you are attempting to have a lot of Echos out at one moment for a Emerald Communionor a very spikey damage window, then it makes sense to not consume the Echosafter the Temporal Anomaly cast with reversion and instead use them on anotherability.

The key to the Emerald Blossom build is generating as much Essence Burstsas possible. It is important that you are making an effort to cast Living Flameas well as Fire Breath in order to help generate more procs. This willnot only increase your overall output but also help your mana costs.

• Use Verdant Embrace before casting Dream Breath in orderto get the bonus healing increase from Call of Ysera.
• Cast Dream Breath as frequently as possible and only empower it toRank 1 (sometimes Rank 2).
• Cast Fire Breath on cooldown to proc Leaping Flames.
• Use Spiritbloom on cooldown.
• Use Emerald Blossom as damage demands it and prioritize casting iton clumps of allies to prevent it from healing only one ally.
• Cast Temporal Anomaly as mana permits, consume the Echos with Reversion.
• DPS with Living Flame to generate Essence Bursts that you canthen spend on Emerald Blossom.

When using Fire Breath, we want to cast it at max rank in order togenerate the max possible Living Flames from Leaping Flames.It does not matter if you then consume the Living Flames for damage or healing; weonly care about having extra chances to generate Essence Bursts. It is alsoimportant that you are rotating casts of Emerald Blossom and Living Flame.By rotating casts, you will be able to make use of the Ancient Flame talent,giving you quicker casts of Living Flame.

To really minmax the Emerald Blossom rotation, you will ideallywant to rotate between casting Emerald Blossom and Living Flame.By doing this, you will be able to make full use of Ancient Flame, reducingthe cast time of Living Flame by 40%, allowing you to generate quicker Essence Bursts.When facing heavy damage, it may be better to just fully spend essence as soon as youget it rather than rotating between the two casts.

Cycle of Life will transfer ALL healing. This includes both Rewindand Dream Flight. For that reason, you will want to make sure that you havean active Cycle of Life buff before casting either of your cooldowns, thatway you can transfer the healing your cooldowns do to the entire group.

Choosing to consume the Temporal Anomaly Echos with Reversionwill not only give you multiple chances to proc Essence Burst, but willalso allow you to gain the Grace Period healing bonus.

5-man healing can be quite difficult as an Evoker. In general, you should betrying to heal through the hardest moments by rotating casts of Dream Breathand Spiritbloom at max rank. Between these two cooldowns, you will wantto ensure your allies have Reversion on them so they are constantly beinghealed. Given there is no rotation you can follow in M+, it is important thatyou understand how you can fully use your abilities to their max effectivenessin Mythic+. Your overall priority will look somewhat like this:

• Cast Echo to prepare for damage.
• Keep Reversion on your party members when damage is going out.
• Cast Dream Breath at either Rank 1 (small passive healing) or maxrank (large burst healing) depending on what the situation demands.
• Cast Spiritbloom at max rank during difficult moments.
• Use Verdant Embrace to deal with single-target damage.

In order to further understand the Mythic+ rotation, you should also understandthe three main ways that you will be consuming Echo:

• Reversion -- This will be your most used ability to consume Echo.Keeping the passive healing on your will make every pack more manageable, as wellas providing the Grace Period buff.
• Verdant Embrace -- Using this ability to consume your Echowill allow you to do quick burst healing, as well as give you and everyone withthe echo buff Lifebind, which then gives you the option to press Emerald Communionduring very dangerous moments, making your group nearly invincible.
• Dream Breath -- Out of all your options for consuming echo, this willbe one of the least frequent choices. When facing heavy tank damage, it can bebeneficial to apply 2x Reversions and 2x Dream Breath, just toensure that the tanks have as much healing as possible.

For more information on how the class changes both rotationally and talentwise in Mythic+, please visit our dedicated page below:

Dealing with damage as a Preservation Evoker is extremely simple. The only major changecomes from Energy Loop and Disintegrate. With these two talents,you will be casting Disintegrate; without these two abilities, you will not be.Assuming you are taking these talents, your rotation will look like:

• Cast Fire Breath on cooldown and at max rank.
• Consume the Leaping Flames buff by casting Living Flame.
• Cast Azure Strike on 3+ targets.
• Spend Essence on Disintegrate.
• Cast Living Flame.

Lifebind is an extremely powerful tool in the Evoker kit. Wheneveryou cast Verdant Embrace on an ally, you both will gain the Lifebindbuff. When you have a lot of Echos out, every player with an Echo willalso get a Lifebind buff. There are two main ways to abuse this for massive healing.The very first involves Emerald Communion. This cooldown causes you to healfor 20% of your health per tick, but it also transfers healing to every playerwe had Lifebind on. This means that every 3 minutes we should aimto get as many Echos out as possible, cast Verdant Embraceand then cast Emerald Communion. This will provide you with a massiveamount of healing over the 5-second window and should be treated as a majorraid cooldown as long as you can execute it properly. Outside of this, Lifebindserves as a large part of our rotational healing. In order to maximize the healingit does during a fight you will obviously want to cast Verdant Embrace rightafter large damage spikes (with as many Echos out as possible), followedby one of two abilities: Living Flame or Spiritbloom. Whenpossible, you can cast Spiritbloom on yourself at Rank 3/4 for quickhealing that fits within the Lifebind duration, followed by a Living Flamecast. Given the long cast time of Spiritbloom, you should always ensure the castfinishes before your Lifebind ends, otherwise it is ok to cast it at a lower rankjust to ensure it fits within the window. When Spiritbloom is on cooldown, you cansimply spam heal yourself with Living Flame until the Lifebind buff falls off.Both will result in very powerful healing as long as you are able to get Echosout beforehand.

Essence Burst should be used on the best Essence-spending abilityfor your content type and your build. In situations where absolutely no onecould benefit from healing, you can instead choose to use Essence Burst on Disintegrate. This will increase your damage output by a small margin.That being said, in many raiding situations, you will want to sit on yourEssence Burst buff for when damage is coming out.

One of the largest differences between a strong healer and a weaker one ishowcooldowns are used and managed. Preservation Evoker has many optionsavailablethrough both the spec tree and class tree.

• Dream Flight is a powerful cooldown located in the spec tree. Withonlya two-minute cooldown, you will want to be making use of this ability frequentlyand you will want to hit as many allies as possible with it. You should aim touse this as soon as damage comes out and, ideally, when the HoT effect will havegood value.
• Stasis is a very strong ability, allowing you to essentially storethree heals for later use. Only on a 1:30 cooldown, this ability should be usedoften, especially when you consider that once you collect 3 heals, they willstaywith you for the next 30 seconds. You should prioritize powerful heals in yourstasis such as Dream Breath, Spiritbloom, and Temporal Anomaly.If you need to get three spells into it quickly, it is also acceptable to use a Emerald Blossom in the stasis just to fill it up quickly, allowing youto return to casting weaker healing spells without them taking up space in yourstasis.
• Rewind should be used after an extremely heavy damage window. Itshealing is determined by how much damage you have taken in the last 5 seconds,meaning the more that your raid or party took, the more it will heal. Thiscooldown is one of the few true emergency buttons thatPreservation Evokers have;you should use it as best you can in truly dire situations.
• Tip the Scales is the other emergency button forPreservation Evokers.In most cases, you should save this cooldown for when your party takes damagethat you did not anticipate. Once this happens, you can easily press this buttonfollowed by Spiritbloom or Dream Breath to get a quick butpowerfulheal off to save your party members or raid's life.
• Zephyr causes you and your 4 closet allies to take 20% reducedArea-of-Effect damage for 8 seconds. Given that this only targets your 4 closestallies, it will be easier to use in Mythic+ than raid, but you will still wantto make active use of it when you know that you are going to take a large AoEhit in the next few seconds. Not every damage event is considered AoE, so youmust have a good understanding of what type of damage you will betaking to ensure you do not waste the effects of the ability.
• Emerald Communion is a great way to regenerate mana, and for thatreason, you will want to cast it as much as possible. There are somethings you can do with Lifebind, but they require you to talent intosome choices that you may not normally. If you do end up talenting into thoseoptions, then you will want to pair this cooldown with the full combinationevery time you can to maximize your healing. Otherwise, using it on cooldown tomaximize your mana return will be your best decision.

Where Evoker struggles in consistent healing, it makes up for incooldowns.Every ability listed, as well as Spiritbloom and Dream Breathare very powerful in helping you manage difficult and dangerous situations.The biggest mistake you can ever make on Evoker is not rotatingthrough thesecooldowns appropriately and trying to save them for too long. Use them as youfeel the need to help ease some of the weaknesses in Evoker's healingkit.