Preservation Evoker Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (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.

To learn more about the Mythic+ Meta, check out our Mythic+ Tier List 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.

This Mythic+ build takes more damage, crowd control abilities, and some utility options in the class tree that will help it to excel. This build aims to give you a default talent tree that you can take into any key and be successful. Still, there is debate about potential swaps that can be made depending on the dungeon and affixes. For example, if you find yourself needing a lot of healing, you can sacrifice Life-Giver's Flame and Lifeforce Mender to get points to put into something like Spiritual Clarity. Working towards Renewing Breath is another choice you can make if you find it very difficult to keep your party alive, but you will generally have to sacrifice damage talents to do so.

Within the class tree, there are a few talent choices that can be swapped. Oppressing Roar is very strong when you need to dispel raging in a dungeon. Otherwise, you may want to select Protracted Talons. If you find that your group doesn't lack stuns, you could also opt to take Aerial Mastery instead of Terror of the Skies for more mobility. Inherent Resistance is also a viable choice, especially when doing higher keys where survivability becomes more important than output.

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.

Spiritbloom and Dream Breath are both powerful abilities on relatively short cooldowns that can be used to heal your party to full. Given that these abilities are both empowered ones, you must understand you do not need to channel these abilities to their max rank to get good value. Casting Spiritbloom only as long as allies you need to heal quickly will make this an exceptionally strong targeted heal. Using Dream Breath before 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.

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. 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 even just sticking with Reversion for stronger HoTs. The best decision of what to spend echoes on is mainly situational, but Reversion 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 in order 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. While you may be tempted to only cast high-value spells during this, it is perfectly acceptable only to cast one and then fill the stasis with 2 medium power abilities. Generally, you will want to aim to get Spiritbloom at the very minimum into your stasis window and then also try to aim for a Dream Breath cast. Your last ability or two can simply be Emerald Blossom. By doing this, when you reactivate the ability at a dangerous point, you will heal up your allies extremely quickly, faster than any of your other abilities. You want to use this as much as possible and plan for damage ahead of time to make challenging moments nonexistent.
• Rewind is the most reactive healing button that Preservation Evoker has. This ability causes your allies to heal for 50% 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 Spiritbloom or Dream Breath instantly and at max rank. This can be used similarly to rewind. When you do not expect damage or a mistake happens, using this to cast one of your extremely powerful channel abilities instantly can help you recover from very tough situations.
• 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 Evoker-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.

On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for Preservation Evoker that also apply to Mythic+.