Preservation Evoker PvP Guide — The War Within (11.2)
This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to play Preservation Evoker in a PvP environment. The guide will cover everything from talent choices, PvP talents, gameplay and rotation, and useful racial bonuses. It is most applicable to Arena content, but most talents and racial bonuses will work in Rated Battlegrounds and skirmishes.
Preservation Evoker in the Current Meta
Evokers are the newest class being introduced in Dragonflight and Preservation is the healing specialization. In PvP, they are fun, challenging, and extremely mobile. The playstyle of Preservation is a combination of Restoration Druid and Mistweaver Monk. Keep your primary HoTs up on targets taking damage and use your mobility to avoid crowd control.
Preservation Evoker Strengths and Weaknesses
Great mobility
Strong damage output that helps contribute to kills
Multiple instant healing spells to keep teammates alive
If mobility is not used properly, easy to crowd control
Struggles against teams with spammable crowd control
30 yard range on spells makes it an easy target to crowd control
Notable 11.2 Changes to Preservation Evoker
- New Talent:
Unshakable – Your empower spells are 10% more effective. While charging a healing empower spell, you cannot be knocked back.
- New Talent:
Tempo Charged –
Temporal Compression increases the healing or damage of your next empower spell by 5% per stack.
Just in Time has been redesigned – Now reduces
Time Dilation's cooldown by 10 seconds and grants an additional charge.
Delay Harm has been redesigned – 15% of damage taken from
Time Dilation’s damage over time is absorbed.
- All healing reduced by 4%.
Emerald Blossom healing increased by 25%.
Dream Breath healing reduced by 20%.
Dream Flight healing increased by 150%. Healing no longer increased by 100% outside of raid and the healing amount now diminishes beyond 5 targets.
Reversion now has 2 charges.
- Fixed an issue that prevented
Lifebind from transferring
Emerald Communion healing when the Evoker has a healing absorb.
Stasis is now a choice talent with Temporal Artificer.
- The following talents have been removed:
Erasure
Punctuality
Nullifying Shroud has been redesigned –
Verdant Embrace wreathes you in arcane energy, preventing the next full loss of control effect against you. Lasts 4 seconds.
Changelog
- 27 Aug. 2025 (talents): Updated recommended talents.
- 13 Aug. 2025 (gear): Updated recommended gear.
- Updated Gear for Reshii Wraps
- 04 Aug. 2025 (races): Reviewed for Patch 11.2.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 11.2.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (playstyle): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated sustained healing section.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (comps): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated best 3v3 team compositions.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (blitz): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated recommended talents.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (gear): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated recommended gear.
- Updated tier sets section.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (talents): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated recommended talents.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (this page): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated notable changes.
- 04 Aug. 2025 (this page): Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated notable changes.
- 30 Jun. 2025 (blitz): Updated recommended talents.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (races): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (blitz): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (gear): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 15 Jun. 2025 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (races): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (blitz): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (gear): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 21 Apr. 2025 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 28 Mar. 2025 (gear): Updated recommended gear.
- 24 Mar. 2025 (talents): Updated recommended talents.
- 03 Mar. 2025 (gear): Updated recommended gear for Season 2 of The War Within.
- 03 Mar. 2025 (talents): Updated recommended talents.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (races): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (playstyle): Updated all healing rotations.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (blitz): Updated for Patch 11.1.
- Updated recommended talents.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (gear): Reviewed for Patch 11.1.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (talents): Updated for Patch 11.1.
- Updated recommended talents.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (this page): Updated for Patch 11.1.
- Updated with newest changes for 11.1.
- 24 Feb. 2025 (this page): Updated for Patch 11.1.
- Updated with newest changes for 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (races): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (blitz): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (gear): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed healing rotations.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (comps): Updated recommended team compositions.
- Updated best 2v2 team compositions.
- Updated best 3v3 team compositions.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (blitz): Updated Recommended Talents.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (gear): Updated Recommended enchants.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (talents): Updated recommended talents.
- Updated recommended PvP talents.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (this page): Updated Weaknesses.
- 18 Nov. 2024 (this page): Updated Weaknesses.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (races): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (blitz): Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (gear): Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Gear.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (talents): Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Added Notable Changes for 11.0.5.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Added Notable Changes for 11.0.5.
- 28 Sep. 2024 (gear): Updated Recommended Gear.
- 16 Sep. 2024 (gear): Updated Recommended Gear.
- Updated Recommended Embellishments.
- Updated Recommended Enchants.
- 15 Sep. 2024 (blitz): Updated Recommended Talents.
- 12 Sep. 2024 (talents): Updated Recommended Talents.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (races): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (blitz): Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (gear): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (talents): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 29 Aug. 2024 (blitz): Page added.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (races): Reviewed for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (gear): Updated for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (talents): Updated for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for The War Within.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for The War Within.
- 26 Jul. 2024 (talents): Updated Recommended Talents.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (races): Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (playstyle): Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (comps): Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (gear): Updated Recommended Gear.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (talents): Updated Recommended Talents.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (this page): Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (this page): Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024 (races): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (macros): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (comps): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (gear): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (talents): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (this page): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 07 May 2024 (this page): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (gear): Updated Recommended Gear for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 22 Apr. 2024 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (gear): Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (talents): Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 15 Jan. 2024 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (gear): Updated for Patch 10.2.
- Updated Recommended Gear.
- Updated Tier Set bonuses.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (talents): Updated for Patch 10.2.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 06 Nov. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (gear): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
- 04 Sep. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Aug. 2023 (talents): Updated Talent Calculator.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (comps): Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Best 3v3 Team Compositions.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (gear): Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Recommended Gear.
- Added Embellishment section.
- Updated Gems and Enchants section.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (talents): Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 06 May 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 06 May 2023 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 06 May 2023 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 06 May 2023 (comps): Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated Best 2v2 Team Compositions.
- Updated Best 3v3 Team Compositions.
- 06 May 2023 (gear): Updated for Patch 10.1
- Updated Recommended Gear.
- Updated Tier Sets.
- 06 May 2023 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 06 May 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 06 May 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (comps): Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Best 2v2 Team Compositions.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (gear): Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Recommended Gear.
- Added Trinkets to Recommended Gear.
- Added Tier-Set section.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (talents): Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Talent Tree.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 21 Mar. 2023 (this page): Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (macros): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (playstyle): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (comps): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (gear): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (talents): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2023 (this page): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022 (races): Page created.
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- 11 Dec. 2022 (comps): Page created.
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- 11 Dec. 2022 (this page): Page Created.
- 11 Dec. 2022 (this page): Page Created.
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