Preservation Evoker Leveling Guide from 10 to 80 — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

Preservation Evoker is an extremely fast leveling class largely due to the very high mobility it has compared to other classes. Not to mention, you also can heal dungeons for a faster queue time.

At lower levels, you will often have the easiest time leveling up by playing Preservation and queueing for dungeons due to the nearly instant queue time. Even if you find yourself uncomfortable healing, early leveling dungeons aren't too difficult, so they are a good opportunity to learn! At higher levels where questing becomes faster and, in some cases, mandatory (expansion campaign), you will want to spec into Devastation Evoker as it will offer you the most overall DPS, giving you the fastest possible questing experience.

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

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Preservation Evokers have most of their core abilities available to them once they begin leveling.

1. Use Deep Breath on cooldown for large AoE damage.
2. Use Fire Breath on cooldown.
3. Use Disintegrate whenever you have the Essence for it.
4. Cast Living Flame when you have no Essence and Fire Breath is on cooldown.

Once you complete the starting zone for Evoker, you will be able to queue for dungeons. If you are interested in an in-depth rotation breakdown, you can check out our rotation page. Otherwise, we have a summary of how to use some of the healing spells available to Preservation Evoker:

1. Cast Echo to apply the buff to allies and spend Essence.
2. Use Reversion on cooldown.
3. Cast Verdant Embrace for a quick single-target heal.
4. Use Spiritbloom to heal single-target damage.
5. Cast Dream Breath to heal your party as long as they are within the radius.
6. Cast Rewind during massive party-wide damage.
7. Use Stasis to store healing and recast it whenever your party takes large damage.
8. Use your DPS rotation (detailed above) if no healing is required.

Until you get access to more abilities, you may find yourself heavily relying on Living Flame for healing. Once you gain access to more spells you can start to add them to your rotation and cast less Living Flames.

While leveling, Echo can realistically be consumed with any abilities, but your best choices will be similar to that of Mythic+. Using it on Reversion will give you strong passive healing, Verdant Embrace will give you more burst healing, and Dream Breath gives you some extra healing over time as well. You should experiment with all of them and just get used to pressing different kinds of abilities while leveling. The more you experiment, the more you learn, and the better you will become once you reach max level.

To prevent cluttering the guide with a lot of the same information, we recommend you take a look at our dedicated spell page, which will provide you with more in-depth information on Preservation Evoker spells.

Here, you will find information on the best PvP talents for both leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

1. Dream Projection is a powerful cooldown that will place a large HoT on yourself and allies.
2. Unburdened Flight is useful for kiting enemies and running away to prevent being staggered.
3. Swoop Up can be useful in moving you and one of your party members around.

Preservation Evoker PvP talents do not provide much benefit to speed up the leveling process. Their sole use is for utility purposes, and overall, these talents will not greatly improve or hinder your leveling speed.