Preservation Evoker Healing Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — 12.1

Echo is the most core ability of Preservation Evoker. When cast on an ally, players will gain the Echo buff. Anytime you have an Echo buff active, the next healing spell you cast will also be cast on any player with an Echo at that moment. This does not apply to major cooldowns such as Rewind, but any core ability can Echo.

Below we will break down the ways that you can use Echo:

• Reversion
  Reversion continues to be one of the most common and strongest methods of consuming Echo. While it provides a consistent source of healing, it also benefits from many different talents. Specifically: Golden Hour will also applying to any target who received Reversion from Echo, adding even more power to this ability. In Mythic+ and Raiding it has also become a staple due to Grace Period, allowing you get the extra healing bonus on many different targets.
• Merithra's Blessing
  In Midnight, Merithra's Blessing is the new Apex Hero Talent. This ability is procd from Dream Breath and Essence abilities. It offers quite a large amount of burst healing that is entirely controllable since you can reliably proc it through Dream Breath. In Midnight, this will be one of if not your strongest choice for consuming Echos in both Raid and Mythic+.
• Verdant Embrace
  Without Lifebind, Verdant Embrace has lost a bit of its power. With buffs to its healing, it remains a solid choice for burst healing, especially in Mythic+. In raid it will often fall behind Merithra's Blessing due to Merithra's also providing the Reversion benefits to the player, giving you both styles of healing at once. But that being said, when you are in need of the burst healing and do not have access to Merithras at a given moment, it can be powerful.
• Dream Breath
  Dream Breath has typically fallen behind Reversion due to the extra effects granted by Reversion and that continues to be the case. Where it gains most of its value is in Mythic+ settings where you already have Reversion on a ton of players, so by using Echo on Dream Breath, you are just applying even more HoT effects on your group, making it easier to manage constant damage.
• Emerald Blossom
  In Midnight, Emerald Blossom no longer consumes echo.This means that you can continue to cast Emerald Blossom without interrupting any ramps you are doing. Many builds will make frequent use of this ability in both Mythic+ and Raid now that you no longer have to worry about it consuming your Echos.
• Living Flame
  You should only every consume Echo with Living Flame during truly desperate single-target healing moments. This should never be done in raid and is primarily a Mythic+ situation where you do not have access at that moment to stronger spells.

While spending Essence on Echo is great, most of your Echos will come through Temporal Anomaly It is incredibly important that regardless of build you are pressing this ability as much as possible for not only the Echoes but the shields as well.

In addition to Mana, Preservation Evoker has Essence as an additional resource that will need to be managed. As is the case with any Healer, you will want to avoid wasting Essence as much as possible, but sometimes it is unavoidable when you are facing downtime where not much is happening. There are three different abilities that you can consume Essence on:

• Echo
  Costing 2 Essence, Echo will be your primary way of spending Essence. It is the foundation of Preservation Evoker gameplay, allowing you to execute large ramps or output a ton of healing at once.
• Emerald Blossom
  Costing 3 Essence, Emerald Blossom provides a solid amount of healing to a player and anyone else within the radius of its effect. In Midnight, this ability no longer directly competes with Echo when you are running the Twin Echoes talent. Allowing you to cast Emerald Blossom and not miss out on potential Echo buffs. Additionally, Emerald Blossom will no longer consume active Echos..
• Disintegrate
  Disintegrate is your way of dealing damage through Essence. By itself this ability is quite weak, but when combined with the Energy Loop talent, it becomes a nice way to deal damage, spend extra Essence, and generate Mana. In most raid builds, you won't take this talent meaning that you almost never press Disintegrate, but in Mythic+ it is a staple.

Now that these abilities have been discussed, it is important to discuss Essence Burst and how they are generated. Below we will discuss the main things that you will want to keep in mind:

• Living Flame and Reversion
  Both Living Flame and Reversion have a chance to generate a Essence Burst when cast. Typically you will find yourself using Living Flame for damage in downtime as it will refund some of the mana cost when used offensively, also giving you the opportunity to generate Essence Bursts during downtime. Reversion is one of our most commonly used abilities, meaning that you are constantly feeding into a cycle of spending Essence, generating Essence Burst, and then consuming to continue the process.
• Leaping Flames
  When talented into Leaping Flames, your Fire Breath will cause your next Living Flame to cast on multiple targets (increasing based on the rank at which you cast Fire Breath). Casting a max rank Fire Breath followed by Living Flame is a sure-fire way to generate 1-2 Essence Burst.
• Inner Flame
  While not taken in every build, the Inner Flame talent is triggered by casting either Stasis or Dream Flight. Once triggered, for a short duration you will generate increased Essence Bursts.

When spending Essence Burst, there are multiple factors that you want to consider. Emerald Blossom and Disintegrate have a 3-Essence cost compared to Echos 2 cost. This makes it more efficient to consume Essence Bursts with either Emerald Blossom or Disintegrate.

That being said, we are often not casting Disintegrate in raid, making our choice a bit easier. Echo will help us to get out additional Echoes needed to execute a large ramp in a quick fashion, but again costs must be considered. Emerald Blossom has a very high mana cost, furthering the effectiveness of casting it with an Essence Burst proc.

Not to mention, when you are using Twin Echoes, which is common in most builds, you are effectively getting both Echo and Emerald Blossom at once, making it the correct choice in most situations. Of course if you are aiming to execute a quick ramp it can be faster to just cast Echo, but you will again want to be flexible in your approach and how you decide to consume your Essence Bursts.

In Midnight, you will gain access to Merithra's Blessing, the new Apex talent. This ability has 3 separate ranks that all increase its power. Below we will break down what each individual rank does:

• Rank 1 — Abilities that consume Essence have a chance to trigger Merithra's Blessing, causing your next Reversion to be transformed. On top of providing the standard Reversion effects, it will change icon and have a spiritbloom-like effect where healing will shoot out and bounce to players.
• Rank 2 — Reversion now reduces damage taken by 1% per point and also heals them by 1% per point instead. This is both a damage reduction and a heal with the damage reduction portion showing up in damage meters as an absorb.
• Rank 3 — Dream Breath's instant healing is increased by a significant amount and each cast will trigger Merithra's Blessing, allowing you to reliably proc the passive whenever you cast Dream Breath.

Merithra's Blessing is an extremely powerful ability massively enhancing the power of Reversion. Primarily due to Rank 2, you will want to make sure you have Reversion on as many players as possible, as often as possible. Due to Merithra's Blessing providing a large burst of healing in addition to all Reversion effects, you can double dip with Echo usage and this is primarily how you will be aiming to use Echo in Midnight.

Stasis is an extremely powerful cooldown in both Raiding and Mythic+. When activated, this cooldown will store the next 3 healing spells that you cast. Any damage spells or major cooldowns such as Rewind will not be stored. You have an infinite amount of time to store spells, but once 3 spells have been stored, you will have only 30 seconds to either reactivate the ability or they it will reactivate itself.

It is important to note that the order in which you stored the abilities is also the order in which they will be cast once you reactivate the ability. This is specifically relevant for Temporal Anomaly. If you were to cast Temporal Anomaly at the start of your Stasis, then the free Echoes would be instantly consumed by your next spell.

For that reason it is always best to end your Stasis with Temporal Anomaly, rather than casting it early and wasting the Echoes.

Below we will break down some common Stasis you may see:

• Flameshaper: Dream Breath, Dream Breath, Temporal Anomaly. Given that you are able to have two charges of Dream Breath through Legacy of the Lifebinder, you will want to have two charges pooled for each Stasis use, giving you powerful burst HoT coverage and a guaranteed Merithra's Blessing.
• Chronowarden: Dream Breath, Temporal Anomaly, Emerald Blossom. This combo gives you a guaranteed Merithra's Blessing proc and extra Echos to help jumpstart a new ramp.
• Mythic+ AoE burst: Dream Breath, Temporal Anomaly, Verdant Embrace. Utilizing this combo provides you with immediate group wide burst and a Merithra's Blessing proc that you can utilize after for more group healing.
• Pre-Pull Cheese: Temporal Anomaly, Temporal Anomaly and Temporal Anomaly. This can be useful if done right before pulling a boss, allowing you to quickly generate massive shields on your raid at the start of a fight. Keep in mind that you will want to only cast the first 2 Temporal Anomaly and wait until you are pulling to cast the 3rd so your Stasis doesn't expire early.

It is also important to note that Stasis will preserve the targets you originally casted the healing spell on. In other words, if I cast Emerald Blossom on my co-healer "Youtee" during my Stasis storing phase, when I reactivate Stasis the ability will again be cast on "Youtee".

Rewind should be used after an extremely heavy damage window. Its healing is determined by how much damage you have taken in the last 5 seconds, meaning the more that your raid or party took, the more it will heal. This cooldown is one of the few true emergency buttons that Preservation Evokers have; you should use it as best you can in truly dire situations.

One of the most common mistakes that players make is holding Rewind for too long. While it is an extremely powerful cooldown, you should still aim to use it anytime you are falling behind. Using it proactively when you begin struggling will prevent you from having to scramble to catchup later.

Dream Flight is a powerful cooldown but shares a choice node with Stasis, which makes it significantly less seen. It can be a viable choice for players who do not want to deal with the Stasis mechanics, but it will often be worse.

Dream Flight has two main mechanics you need to keep in mind. First, it will deal large healing on the initial cast while you are flying over players. This means that you should aim to use it in situations where you can get strong value from the initial healing portion.

Additionally, it will leave a long HoT on any players hit meaning that it can be good for extended damage windows. Ideally, you are casting this ability in situations where both areas of the healing are powerful, but this is not always achievable and you should still aim to use the ability as much as possible.

Tip the Scales gains most of its value through Chronowarden. While Flameshaper will still have access, the only benefit comes in being able to quickly get max rank empowers off.

As Chronowarden, you gain access to Temporal Burst which provides you with a large amount of haste, movement speed, and cooldown reduction that decreases every second over the duration. With most of the power being front-loaded, you want to ensure that you are using this ability right away during difficult movements to massively empower you. Because Chronoboon also reduces the duration by 30 seconds and the long duration of the buff itself, it is important that you are making frequent use of it.

Zephyr causes you and your 4 closet allies to take 20% reduced Area-of-Effect damage for 8 seconds. Given that this only targets your 4 closest allies, it will be easier to use in Mythic+ than raid. However, you will still want to make active use of it when you know that you are going to take a large AoE hit in the next few seconds. Not every damage event is considered AoE, so you must have a good understanding of what type of damage you will be taking to ensure you do not waste the effects of the ability.