Preservation Evoker Healing Stat Priority — The War Within (11.0.7)

The stat priority for a Preservation Evoker varies based on your spell selection or fight duration, your proximity to your healing targets, and your talents. We will give the general stat priority and then explain how each of these can change it for you. Having said that, our secondary stats are so close in value, and Intellect is so strong at current gear levels that an item-level upgrade will usually be worth equipping. You should use the information on this page to help you decide if one similar item-level piece of gear is superior to another.

Preservation Evoker's Mastery: Life-Binder increases your healing done when your max health percentage is higher than whoever you are attempting to heal. While this stat is quite good by itself, it is important to remember that it provides no damage increase, which can hurt its value in content where damage output is important. Every other secondary stat increases your damage even if it is only slightly above 0, Mastery does not.

The most important interaction between stats and talents comes through Reversion. Whenever this heal critically strikes, it is duration will be extended. For this reason, crit does gain some value, especially when playing with builds that rely heavily on Reversion.

The stat priority for raiding is as follows:

1. Intellect;
2. Mastery;
3. Critical Strike;
4. Haste;
5. Versatility.

Within Mythic+, your stat priority shifts slightly, but the overall stats are extremely close in value. Despite Mastery being extremely strong, the focus in Mythic+ is often on dealing damage, which Mastery provides very little help with. If you want to maximize your overall healing, Mastery is the best stat still, but with damage in mind, it becomes our worst.

1. Intellect;
2. Critical Strike;
3. Haste;
4. Versatility;
5. Mastery.

If you are interested in min-maxing your stats to gain the highest amount of HPS is possible, you can visit QuestionablyEpic, a website dedicated to healer theorycrafting. This website will compare your stats based on gear and logs to tell you which items in your bags you should equip to make your character as strong as possible.

Although tertiary stats such as Speed, Leech, or Avoidance only appear as a bonus on gear at random, the Leech stat is so valuable for healers that it deserves to be mentioned. Any Leech on your gear is free healing that allows you to focus on other people rather than healing yourself. Its value will vary a bit based on how much damage you are taking in an encounter, but it is typically at least as valuable as your other secondary stats and often more valuable. You should keep this in mind when comparing lower item level gear with Leech to higher item level replacements without it.

The gems, enchants, and consumables you will use are directly derived from your stat priority, and you can find our advice on this topic on our dedicated page.

Intellect is your primary stat. You should look for this stat in all of your upgrades. It provides you with Spell Power, which increases the power of your heals.

Critical Strike increases your chance to critically hit with all spells and abilities. Crits deal double damage by default, but several effects can increase your crit damage, and make crits even stronger.

Haste lowers your global cooldown and your cast time.

Mastery ( Mastery: Life-Binder) causes the healing you do to be increased as long as your target's health percentage is lower than your own. The actual increase depends on the amount of Mastery you have.

Versatility increases all your damage and healing done, and decreases all damage taken.