Preservation Evoker Healing Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Season 1

In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Evoker in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities most optimally.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.

Preservation Evoker is a very strong healer in Mythic+ thanks to its very high damage output. That being said, healing on it can be more difficult than others, and it will require some practice and learning to get the hang of it fully.

Please note that our talents here are specifically focused on Mythic+. If you are interested in more generic talents or other forms of content, please refer back to our page dedicated to talents.

Regardless of if you are just doing your weekly +10 key or pushing high level content, your build will focus on Chronowarden. The main difference between recommended builds will often come down to sacrificing more healing in favor of damage or opting for niche utility necessary to live and complete the highest level keys.

For a more general overview of Talents for Preservation Evoker, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

3.

Best Mythic+ Talent Builds for Preservation Evoker

Default Chronowarden Mythic+ Talent Build Flameshaper Mythic+ Talent Build

3.1.

Default Chronowarden Mythic+ Talent Build

Healing Mythic+ in Midnight will feel different with the removal of Spiritbloom, forcing you to be more reliant on other tools. Leaping Flames will continue to be a very valuable way to deal additional healing in emergencies, but more importantly Emerald Blossom has gained significant value.

This ability has been buffed significantly in Midnight, and it has become a powerful tool to deal with heavy damage. You will often find yourself with an overabundance of Echos, which means that you can afford to spend Essence on Emerald Blossom instead, even if it may not hit full targets. Being flexible with your approach and not hesitating to use Emerald Blossom can help you get through difficult situations.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

FAQHow Should I Use Stasis?

Choosing the best spells for Stasis is largely situational. Dream Breath, Temporal Anomaly, Merithra's Blessing, Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom are all powerful choices you will want to be deciding between. We will recommend the following Stasis combo:

• Temporal Anomaly — Activate Stasis and cast Temporal Anomaly as your first ability.
• Verdant Embrace — Cast Verdant Embrace with your second ability, ideally on the target most in need of healing.
• Dream Breath — With your final spell you can cast Dream Breath at Rank 1 for extra passive healing, or even max rank if you are desperate for large AoE healing. If you do not have Dream Breath off cooldown you can instead cast Emerald Blossom.

With this combo, you are able to output a quick amount of AoE healing by consuming Echos generated by Temporal Anomaly on Verdant Embrace. With your final spell, Dream Breath is a great choice, but if you do not have it off cooldown and quickly need to reactivate Stasis you can instead cast Emerald Blossom.

If you are in a very dire single-target healing situation, you can change your combo to include Merithra's Blessing on a player in danger. Merithra's Blessing can even serve as a replacement for Verdant Embrace in the combo order. In the end, you just want to ensure that you have a strong ability to combine with Temporal Anomaly to heal the party efficiently.

3.2.

Flameshaper Mythic+ Talent Build

Flameshaper has become a viable choice in Mythic+ largely due to two new talents: Legacy of the Lifebinder and Lifecinders. Legacy of the Lifebinder allows you to have 2 charges of Dream Breath. Due to the removal of Spiritbloom, you may often find yourself having large gaps in your healing ability. Having two charges of Dream Breath can really help to fix this. Lifecinders will allow you to place Obsidian Scales on a player, providing them a large amount of damage reduction which can be very valuable in Mythic+ settings.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

FAQHow Should I Use Stasis?

Choosing the best spells for Stasis is largely situational. Dream Breath, Temporal Anomaly, Merithra's Blessing, Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom are all powerful choices you will want to be deciding between. We will recommend the following Stasis combo:

• Temporal Anomaly — Activate Stasis and cast Temporal Anomaly as your first ability.
• Verdant Embrace — Cast Verdant Embrace with your second ability, ideally on the target most in need of healing.
• Dream Breath — With your final spell you can cast Dream Breath at Rank 1 for extra passive healing, or even max rank if you are desperate for large AoE healing. If you do not have Dream Breath off cooldown you can instead cast Emerald Blossom.

With this combo, you are able to output a quick amount of AoE healing by consuming Echos generated by Temporal Anomaly on Verdant Embrace. With your final spell, Dream Breath is a great choice, but if you do not have it off cooldown and quickly need to reactivate Stasis you can instead cast Emerald Blossom.

If you are in a very dire single-target healing situation, you can change your combo to include Merithra's Blessing on a player in danger. Merithra's Blessing can even serve as a replacement for Verdant Embrace in the combo order. In the end, you just want to ensure that you have a strong ability to combine with Temporal Anomaly to heal the party efficiently.

For in-depth trinket analysis, you should visit QuestionablyEpic which will provide you with a tool to compare every trinket you have, as well as rankings of the best overall trinkets.

5-man healing can be quite challenging, especially for a newcomer to the class. To gain a good understanding of how the class plays to begin with, it is advised you visit the rotation page to start before focusing on how the class plays in Mythic+.

You can read our Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page for more details.

Preservation Evoker does not have strong spammable heals that can be used when times get tough. Holy Priests can spam Heal, and Restoration Shamans can spam Chain Heal, but Evoker's only similar button is Living Flame, which is quite weak. To excel at Preservation in Mythic+, you must think of your many cooldowns and how you can rotate them for every damage event.

Dream Breath is your key empower ability that has two different ways it can be used. Casting Dream Breath at max rank will provide you with a nice HoT during downtime; otherwise empowering it to its max rank will give you high upfront healing. What rank you decide to empower to will depend on what type of healing you need: Upfront or as a HoT. That being said, most of the time you will be casting this at a low rank to maximize the HoT effect while relying on other abilities for burst healing.

Temporal Anomaly should be used frequently for not only the large shields it provides but Resonating Sphere as well. This will give you a lot of Echos that you can use with Reversion and Merithra's Blessing. This will provide you with the benefit of Grace Period much more consistently, as well as more overall passive healing on your party members.

By using TA on reversions, we also gain more flexibility on how we spend our Essence and echos, allowing the choice of potentially using echos with Verdant Embrace for quick burst healing or Dream Breath for additional HoT effects. The best decision of what to spend echoes on is mainly situational, but Reversion/ Merithra's Blessing is always a strong choice, thanks to Golden Hour.

Using Fire Breath not only for damage but also to activate Leaping Flames will allow you to gain a powerful Living Flame that you can cast on your allies to heal multiple of them at the same time. You can even sit on this buff for a short period to use it as soon as you need it.

While Evoker does not have fantastic consistent healing, they do have very powerful and unique cooldowns to make healing your party much easier. As it is with every cooldown, it is extremely important that you are actively using these cooldowns and not holding them for a very hard damage event that might never happen in reality.

Use your cooldowns frequently and rotate through them to make every damage window much easier to manage. The main difference maker between Evokers struggling to heal keystones and those excelling at it will come from planning cooldowns and actively making use of them to make healing as easy as possible.

• Stasis is extremely powerful. This ability allows you to save 3 Healing spells to then use later when you reactivate the ability. Typically you will want to store Temporal Anomaly followed by an ability that will quickly heal people such as Verdant Embrace or Dream Breath. As long as you have this combo, your third spell is much less important.
• Rewind is the most reactive healing button that Preservation Evoker has. This ability causes your allies to heal for a large percent of the damage they have taken in the last 5 seconds. You can use this ability as soon as your party gets hit by a hard mechanic or something goes wrong in the dungeon that you were not prepared for. Using this ability as much as possible for difficult moments will greatly reduce the overall amount of healing that you need to do during a dungeon.
• Tip the Scales will allow you to cast either Fire Breath or Dream Breath instantly and at max rank. Often you will use this on Fire Breath for quick damage and Leaping Flames, or on a Dream Breath when you did not anticipate incoming damage and quickly need to recover.
• Zephyr will allow you to reduce the damage taken from AoE effects by 20% for your entire party. While not every mechanic may fall into this damage reduction, using it for hard-hitting AoE moments will make tough situations much more manageable. Even if you are not sure what will do AoE damage, press the ability and keep it on cooldown to ensure that you are reducing your group's damage intake.
• Preservation Evoker is fairly squishy, and while you do not have great defensive options for this, never forget that Time Dilation can be used on yourself to help reduce your damage taken and keep you alive in moments that would otherwise kill you. While you should not solely use this ability on yourself, as it is equally useful in keeping your party and tank alive, it is an option to consider when times are tough, and you find yourself out of defensive cooldowns.

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Evoker Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.

This section has specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.

Season 1 of Midnight only has four significant Affixes that offer any kind of counterplay, called Xal'ataths Bargains. These rotate every week, with only one of them being active at a time. Many of the Mythic+ affixes, like Fortified or Tyrannical, simply add a passive effect to the keystone, with these four exceptions that are seasonally themed after Xal'atah:

• Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant: Three waves of orbs will spawn that need to be interrupted or disrupted. Tail Swipe and Wing Buffet can be very useful in dealing with this mechanic.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound: A Void Emissary add will spawn that needs to be focus-targeted and interrupted. Healers can typically not help with this affix beyond helping to deal a bit of extra damage to it.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar: Orbs will spawn around players and circle around them. You have 15 seconds to soak all of these to buff your group. While not required, healers can often be very good at running around and soaking whatever is unsoaked so DPS can stand still and maintain uptime. Of course you will not want to do this during difficult healing moments.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour: All party members will be affected by a healing absorb. This effect can be dispelled and you will want to make sure that you are dispelling players unable to clear it themselves as soon as possible in order to get 2 dispels off. This will allow you to only worry about clearing a few players debuffs. Cauterizing Flame can also be used to dispel one extra debuff.

If these affixes are not handled, they will buff enemy trash and bosses. However, when you are able to handle them they will provide your entire group with beneficial buffs, increasing your output or survivability.