Preservation Evoker Healing Guide — The War Within (11.2.7)

Last updated on Nov 30, 2025 at 19:45 by Mytholxgy 27 comments
General Information

Welcome to our Preservation Evoker guide for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.2.7). Here, you will learn how to heal as a Preservation Evoker in both raids and Mythic+ dungeons. We cover everything from the basics all the way to min-maxing techniques to optimize your output.

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Preservation Evoker Overview

Preservation Evokers specialize in stacked environments where they can make full use of their extremely strong AoE heals. With abilities like Dream Breath Icon Dream Breath and Emerald Blossom Icon Emerald Blossom, they can thrive when their party and raid members are within their small area. Preservation Evoker also brings many forms of utility through a party-wide damage reduction in Zephyr Icon Zephyr, raid buffs in Time Spiral Icon Time Spiral and Blessing of the Bronze Icon Blessing of the Bronze, and even their version of Time Warp Icon Time Warp through Fury of the Aspects Icon Fury of the Aspects.

Since being added in Dragonflight, Preservation Evoker has consistently been one of the top performing healers. The spec is often tuned very high to counter the limited range that can make it more difficult to play at times. Regardless of if you are playing Evoker in Raid or Mythic+, you can expect to be outputting a ton of healing every patch.


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Changes to Preservation Evoker in The War Within

Patch 11.2.7 Patch 11.2.5 Patch 11.2
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Patch 11.2.7 Changes to Preservation Evoker

Unfortunately Patch 11.2.7 has no changes for Paladin or our specialization itself. However, there are regular updates to the Class and Spec happening on the Midnight Beta almost every week, and with the Midnight launch on the horizon, you may want to familiarize yourself with the upcoming changes to better prepare you for the pre-patch and upcoming expansion. You can view these changes and how they might impact you on our dedicated page for Midnight linked below:

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Patch 11.2.5 Changes to Preservation Evoker

With this patch there are no class changes, just the release of Turbo Boost. This will provide you with the opportunity to upgrade your gear to higher item levels while also purchasing some items off a vendor. Please visit our dedicated page to learn more:

Legion: Remix also makes a return, but unfortunately Evokers did not exist back during the Legion expansion. As such, you won't be able to play your Evoker in this temporary event, but you can pick up a few other classes if you'd like!

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Changes in Patch 11.2

Heading into Patch 11.2, Preservation Evoker has received significant changes to the talent tree that will also impact the spec from a rotation perspective. With these changes comes talent builds that will look very different from previous patches. It is recommended that you visit the talent and rotation page to fully understand how the class will look.

The new tier set bonuses in Patch 11.2 revolve around each specs respective hero talents. The Flameshaper tier set bonuses will focus on Engulf Icon Engulf and Essence Burst Icon Essence Burst whereas the Chronowarden set will focus on Tip the Scales Icon Tip the Scales. Regardless of your talent build, each set will impact your class rotationally.

Additionally, Reshii Wraps Icon Reshii Wraps was added in Patch 11.2 and will be BiS for every class. That being said, it will not alter your gameplay in anyway.

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Leveling a Preservation Evoker

If you want to play a Preservation Evoker, but currently do not have one at max level, you can check out our leveling guide for tips on your journey.

Having a great interface is not only important once you reach the max level, but it is also even more important to be successful as a healer. To prevent feeling overwhelmed by reaching the max level and adding a lot of addons at once, we recommend starting with some basic addons while leveling. This will allow you to get comfortable with them, and then it will become a bit easier to add more once you do hit the max level.

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Basics of Preservation Evoker Gameplay

Preservation Evoker, like any healer, is all about using your abilities strategically. Rather than a fixed rotation, you will be using your flexible spell kit to adapt and overcome whatever the game throws at you.

Preservation Evoker has two main types of abilities. The first of these are empowered abilities that gain benefits as you channel the ability for longer. Dream Breath Icon Dream Breath and Spiritbloom Icon Spiritbloom are your two empowered heals, while Fire Breath Icon Fire Breath is your empowered DPS ability. These abilities you want to cast as frequently as possible, as they are quite powerful when used correctly. The other form of ability uses Essence. Essence is a unique resource to the Evoker class and can be spent on either Emerald Blossom Icon Emerald Blossom or Echo Icon Echo for healing, and Disintegrate Icon Disintegrate for damage. Which ability you decide to spend your Essence on will be situational and dependent on what type of content you are doing.

If you are an absolute beginner to the spec but would like to learn the basic fundamentals of the class, we recommend looking through the Spell Summary page first, as well as the Easy Mode page linked below.

If you are familiar with Evoker and how it plays, you can jump right into our Talent and Rotation pages.

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How to Gear Up a Preservation Evoker

If you are interested in finding out what gear will put your Preservation Evoker in the best possible position to perform well, we would recommend looking at our gear page. Here you can find information on the best items available for Preservation Evoker.

To be successful, you will want to make sure you have the correct consumables, gems, enchants, and more. On top of this, you will want to check our stats page to help you make the correct decision when choosing what consumables to use.

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Changelog

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