Preservation Evoker Healing Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)

Preservation Evokers specialize in stacked environments where they can make full use of their extremely strong AoE heals. With abilities like Dream Breath and Emerald Blossom, they can thrive when their party and raid members are within their small area. Preservation Evoker also brings many forms of utility through a party-wide damage reduction in Zephyr, raid buffs in Time Spiral and Blessing of the Bronze, and even their version of Time Warp through Fury of the Aspects.

Strengths

• Extremely strong stacked healing through Dream Breath and Emerald Blossom.
• Powerful party and raid cooldowns such as Dream Flight, Rewind, and Zephyr.
• High mobility through Hover which allows you to cast some spells while moving, Verdant Embrace which causes you to jump to an ally, and Rescue that allows you to pick up an ally and fly with them to your cursor location.
• Fairly high damage output thanks to Fire Breath as well as many talent options to further increase the damage output such as Scarlet Adaptation and Lifeforce Mender.
• Strong defensives thanks to Obsidian Scales and the ability to have two charges due to Obsidian Bulwark.

Weaknesses

• 30-yard range on most spells, making it difficult to heal spread allies.
• Weak single-target healing.
• No strong emergency buttons to press in dire situations outside of Rewind.
• Empowered spells ( Dream Breath, Spiritbloom, Fire Breath) have long cast times, making it hard to always get the casts off safely.

If you want to play a Preservation Evoker, but currently do not have one at max level, you can check out our leveling guide for tips on your journey.

Having a great interface is not only important once you reach the max level, but it is also even more important to be successful as a healer. To prevent feeling overwhelmed by reaching the max level and adding a lot of addons at once, we recommend starting with some basic addons while leveling. This will allow you to get comfortable with them, and then it will become a bit easier to add more once you do hit the max level.

Preservation Evoker, like any healer, is all about using your abilities strategically. Rather than a fixed rotation, you will be using your flexible spell kit to adapt and overcome whatever the game throws at you.

Preservation Evoker has two main types of abilities. The first of these are empowered abilities that gain benefits as you channel the ability for longer. Dream Breath and Spiritbloom are your two empowered heals, while Fire Breath is your empowered DPS ability. These abilities you want to cast as frequently as possible, as they are quite powerful when used correctly. The other form of ability uses Essence. Essence is a unique resource to the Evoker class and can be spent on either Emerald Blossom or Echo for healing, and Disintegrate for damage. Which ability you decide to spend your Essence on will be situational and dependent on what type of content you are doing.

If you are an absolute beginner to the spec but would like to learn the basic fundamentals of the class, we recommend looking through the Spell Summary page first, as well as the Easy Mode page linked below.

If you are familiar with Evoker and how it plays, you can jump right into our Talent and Rotation pages.

If you are interested in finding out what gear will put your Preservation Evoker in the best possible position to perform well, we would recommend looking at our gear page. Here you can find information on the best items available for Preservation Evoker.

To be successful, you will want to make sure you have the correct consumables, gems, enchants, and more. On top of this, you will want to check our stats page to help you make the correct decision when choosing what consumables to use.