Last updated on May 07, 2024 at 11:20by Mytholxgy23 comments
General Information
On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as aPreservation Evoker in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
1.
Introduction
If you are new to Preservation, this is a great place to start to get anunderstanding of how the spec works. On this page we will discuss whatabilities you have, what they are used for within the specialization, how theyinteract with each other and also with important cooldowns. If you alreadyhave experience with Preservation and are comfortable with it in the current expansion, it isrecommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.
For more information on how to use abilities listed on this page together incombat,please read our rotation page.
Preservation Evoker Rotation Page
2.
Main Resource of Preservation Evokers
Preservation Evokers have two resources, Essence and Mana. Nearlyevery spellwill cost some form of Mana, and you must manage your Manato not run out before the encounter is finished. Some spells also cost Essenceon top of their Mana cost. Essence regenerates over time and is capped at either5or 6 depending on if you take a talent to increase it. Three spells consumeEssence: Echo costs 2 Essence,
Emerald Blossomcosts3 Essence, and
Disintegrate costs 3 Essence. You must avoidwasting Essence by capping out unless you are saving that Essence for a specificmechanic that is about to occur.
3.
Unlocking Abilities
Note that this page simply lists all the different abilities, assuming youareat max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated PreservationEvokerLeveling page, which has detailed information on when you unlock all of theseabilities.
Evoker Leveling Page
4.
Baseline Abilities for Preservation Evokers
Awakened is the racial passive for Dracthyr. Thisincreases yourMastery by 2.5%.
Visage has a passive effect that increases out-of-combathealthregeneration for your party.
Living Flame is an ability that can be used both offensively anddefensively. It is Preservation's only real spammable ability.
Hover allows you to cast some abilities while moving. This does notinclude empowered abilities.
Azure Strike costs a small amount of Mana and allows you to damagetwo enemies at once.
Emerald Blossom is your AoE Essence-spending heal. It costs 3 Essenceand will heal a small number of allies within 10 yards.
Fire Breath is an empowered ability that deals upfront damageto enemies as well as leaving a DoT on enemies. The longer you channel thisability, the more upfront damage it deals, however it comes at the cost of ashorter DoT.
Disintegrate is your damage-dealing Essence-spending ability. Thiscosts3 Essence and deals damage over a channeled duration.
Blessing of the Bronze is the Evoker raid buff which causesyour alliesmovement speed ability to have their cooldown reduced by 15%.
5.
Class Tree Abilities for Preservation Evokers
5.1.
Rows 1-4
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | Dispel | Allows you to cleanse Poison effects. This ability is alsoenhanced by being a Preservation Evoker and allows you to also dispelMagiceffects. |
![]() | Root | Causes you to leap in the air and root enemies in a linefor 30 seconds. Damage can break this effect. |
![]() | OS/Defensive/Wall | Increases your Armor and reduces magic damage taken.This is one of the few defensive abilities available to Evoker. |
![]() | VE | Strong single-target heal, but it also causes you to leap to the allyyou use it on. It is also castable on yourself. |
![]() | Interrupt | Allows you to interrupt a cast. |
![]() | CF | Allows you to dispel a Bleed, Poison, Curse, or Disease effect. |
![]() | CF | Allows you to dispel a Bleed, Poison, Curse, or Disease effect. |
5.2.
Rows 5-7
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | TTS | Causes your next empower ability to cast instantly and at max rank. |
![]() | TTS | Causes your next empower ability to cast instantly and at max rank. |
![]() | Sleep | Disorients an enemy and causes them to move towards you. Damage has achance to break this effect. |
![]() | Source | Applies a buff to an ally healer, causing them to gain some mana anytimeyou cast an empowered ability. |
![]() | OR | Increases the duration of crowd control effects on enemies for the next10 seconds. |
5.3.
Rows 8-10
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | - | Allows you to deal a high amount of damage to an enemy but requires themto be shielded. |
![]() | - | Allows you to pick up any ally and move them to your cursor location. |
![]() | RB | Defense cooldown that allows you to heal back damage taken in the next 8seconds. |
![]() | - | 2-minute cooldown that allows your allies to cast their movement abilityonce again in the next 10 seconds. |
![]() | - | Causes you and your 4 closet allies to take 20% reduced area-of-effectdamage while also giving them 30% movement speed for 8 seconds. |
6.
Class tree Passives for Preservation Evokers
6.1.
Rows 1-4
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | - | Causes any of your blue spells to slow your target's movement speed by50% for a short duration. |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Makes your Essence regenerate 5% faster per rank. |
![]() | - | Gives you an extra charge of ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes 20% of effective healing to be stored as damage that will be consumedto deal more damage up to a cap. |
![]() | - | Allows you to press ![]() |
![]() | - | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
![]() | - | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
6.2.
Rows 5-7
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Increases magic damage done by 2% per rank. |
![]() | AttD | Increases your healing done and received by 3% per rank. |
![]() | - | Increases your Stamina by 6%. |
![]() | - | Reduces your magic damage taken. |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes your next ![]() |
![]() | - | Increases your leech. |
![]() | - | Increases ![]() |
![]() | - | Gives you 10% increased movement speed when your health is above 75%. |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
6.3.
Rows 8-10
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes green spells to restore 5% more health per rank. |
![]() | - | Gives ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Gives you an extra charge of ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
![]() | - | Increases you to take 20% more healing when ![]() |
![]() | - | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
![]() | - | Causes ![]() |
7.
Spec Tree Abilities for Preservation Evokers
7.1.
Rows 1-4
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
---|---|---|
![]() | - | Single-target Essence-spending heal. This ability costs 2 Essence and leavesa buff on the target causing the next non-Echo heal to also heal any ally withan Echo buff. |
![]() | DB | One of three empower abilities available to Preservation. This ability healsin a cone in front of you and it does more healing the longer it is channeledfor. Its cooldown is also reduced the longer it is channeled. |
![]() | DB | Heal-over-time ability that has its duration increased whenever itcritically strikes. |
![]() | - | Will cause allies to be healed for 50% of their damage taken in the last5 seconds. You should aim to use this ability after your party/raid takesa significant amount of damage. |
![]() | SB | Single-target empower ability that increases in targets healed as it ischanneled. |
![]() | TD/External | External cooldown you can use on an ally which will cause 50% of the damagethey take to instead be dealt in the form of a DoT. |
7.2.
Rows 5-7
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
---|---|---|
![]() | EC | Defensive cooldown that gives both health and some Mana return. Any healingitdoes while you are above full health will heal allies instead. |
![]() | TA | Sends forward an orb that causes your allies to absorb damage. |
7.3.
Rows 8-10
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
---|---|---|
![]() | DF | Fly into the air and heal all allies in a line. This will also leave aheal-over-timeeffect on your allies. |
![]() | - | Causes your next 3 heals to be stored for 30 seconds. When you reuse thisabilityit will cause all 3 heals to trigger instantly on your allies. |
8.
Spec tree Passives for Preservation Evokers
8.1.
Rows 1-4
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
---|---|---|
![]() | TC | Each Bronze spell you cast to reduce the empower cast time by 5% per spellcast; this stacks up to 4. |
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8.2.
Rows 5-7
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
---|---|---|
![]() | - | Increases your Essence regeneration rates by 100% for 8 seconds afterpressing ![]() |
![]() | - | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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![]() | - | Allows you to move while casting ![]() |
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![]() | - | Gain 15% critical healing per rank for 10 seconds every time you gain an![]() |
![]() | - | Gives you a 30% chance for ![]() |
![]() | LfM | Both ![]() ![]() |
![]() | TL | ![]() |
![]() | FS | ![]() |
![]() | RS | Causes ![]() ![]() |
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![]() | CoY | Activates after casting ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Lb | Causes ![]() |
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8.3.
Rows 8-10
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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![]() | Spark | Causes ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Spark | Increases your maximum Essence to 6. |
![]() | - | Gives you a stacking buff increasing ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Font | Allows you to channel empower abilities to another level, basically gaininganextra level of power, cooldown reduction, or targets hit depending on whichability you cast. |
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![]() | - | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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![]() | ToN | Causes a copy of yourself to appear and heal an ally for 8 seconds wheneveryou or someone else falls below 20% HP. |
![]() | - | Increases healing of ![]() |
![]() | - | Increases your healing done to targets buffed with ![]() |
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![]() | - | Every 3rd ![]() |
9.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 15 Nov. 2022: Page added.
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