Preservation Evoker PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.1.0)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Preservation Evoker and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Preservation Evoker PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Preservation Evokers
While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Talents Summary
Evoker Tree Talent Highlights
Obsidian Bulwark gives you an additional charge of your primary defensive,
Obsidian Scales. Preservation Evokers can be quite easy to kill, so having an additional charge will help with your survivability.
Tip the Scales makes your next empowered cast instantly at its maximum empower level. This is one of your best cooldowns, as you can instantly do large amounts of healing with
Dream Breath or contribute to a kill with an instant
Fire Breath.
Time Spiral is unique, as it allows you and your teammates to use a mobility spell even if it is on cooldown. For example, if you are playing with a Windwalker, they can use their
Roll even if it is on cooldown. For Evokers, this will allow you to use
Hover.
Preservation Evoker Tree Talent Highlights
Call of Ysera gives you some flexibility with your spells. After using
Verdant Embrace, the healing from your next
Dream Breath or
Living Flame is increased.
Golden Hour makes
Reversion instantly heal your target for a portion of the damage dealt to them. This is already a strong HoT, and this talent makes it even better.
Stasis is an important spell that gives Preservation Evoker an interesting way to use their spells. This will reactivate the last 3 helpful spells you used while it is active.
Time Dilation/
Delay Harm. In combination with Delay Harm, Time Dilation makes it so an ally will take 70% of the damage they should be dealt and turns it into a DoT on them. This is a potent spell when the enemy team is using burst cooldowns.
PvP Talents for Preservation Evoker
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents; each has uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Nullifying Shroud prevents the next 3 crowd control effects on you.
This lasts for 30 seconds but has a cast time. This is great for when you
are playing into a composition with a lot of crowd control (Mage/Lock, RMP),
but there is a cast time, so teams will know when to avoid crowd-controlling
you.
Scouring Flame can be used if your team's strategy is to be
aggressive. This makes it so
Fire Breath burns away 1 beneficial
Magical effect on all targets hit by it. This can be great versus teams
that rely on healing over time (HoTs) spells.
Situational PvP Talents
Obsidian Mettle make it so when
Obsidian Scales is
active, you are immune to interrupt, silence, and pushback effects. This
is an excellent talent versus teams that are targeting you.
Dreamwalker's Embrace makes your
Verdant Embrace tether
you to your target. This connection will increase the movement speed of
your teammate and slow/damage any enemy that gets hit by it. Use this PvP
talent against nearly all teams, especially if you are playing with melee
partners.
Unburdened Flight is a crucial PvP talent to have. This makes it,
so your
Hover makes you immune to movement reduction effects. This
is important because you have a short range on your healing spells and
need to use your mobility to avoid damage and crowd control.
Dream Projection summons a copy of yourself that flies through
your allies and heals them. After it expires, it will detonate and dispel
all nearby allies and put a large HoT on them. This is great versus teams
with multiple DoTs. You will still receive the backlash affect from dispelling certain DoTs, such as damage from
Unstable Affliction or fear from
Vampiric Touch.
Changelog
- 24 Mar. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- 03 Mar. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
- Updated recommended talents.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 18 Nov. 2024: Updated recommended talents.
- Updated recommended PvP talents.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 12 Sep. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 26 Jul. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Aug. 2023: Updated Talent Calculator.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 06 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Talent Tree.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Page created.
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