Preservation Evoker PvP Rotation and Playstyle — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

The main role of a Preservation Evoker, besides keeping your team alive, is always to keep your team offensive and deal damage when your team is using their burst cooldowns. You also want to use your mobility to help avoid crowd control.

To keep your team offensive, you will push in with your team to try to get Sleep Walk on the enemy healer. After this, you will focus on dealing damage with spells like Living Flame, Deep Breath, and Disintegrate.

Taking advantage of your mobility is crucial. Preservation Evokers can be hard to catch, but once they are stunned, you will quickly have to trade cooldowns to stay alive. Use spells like Hover and Deep Breath to move around the map and reposition near a pillar. If a teammate is in trouble and needs to get away from the enemy team, use Rescue to save them.

Preservation Evokers have a new mechanic to their healing: Empower Level. This makes it so the longer you channel a spell, the stronger the initial damage/healing is. Using the talent Tip the Scales makes it so your next empowered spell will be instant at its max empower level. Here are the 3 spells you can empower and how to use them:

• Fire Breath deals damage and puts a DoT on the target. The longer you channel it, the more initial damage it will deal. However, it will weaken the DoT. Ideally, you will channel this to rank 3 because the DoT is normally dispelled and will not deal much damage. Use Tip the Scales with this if you want to deal a large amount of damage to enemies that are grouped up. Note: This spell is normally used with Tip the Scales because of the PvP talent Scouring Flame. This will purge nearly all beneficial magic buffs that the enemy team has.
• Dream Breath heals are teammates in front of you and puts a HoT on them. Like Fire Breath, the longer you channel this spell, the weaker the HoT. Ideally, you will want to use Echo on your teammate right before you use this spell so that you get the HoT twice.

Note about empowered spells: you have a talent called Flow State that makes it so you move faster, recharge essences faster, and have a faster cast speed after using an empowered spell. Keep this in mind when you use these powerful spells.

This section will tell you what spells to use in different situations.

Use this to heal sustained damage throughout the fight (damage done when the other team does not have burst cooldowns available).

1. Echo is your primary heal that you want to use before any other healing spell. This will double the healing of the next healing spell you use on your target.
2. Maintain Reversion on your teammates so you get the 10% healing buff from Grace Period.
3. Use Echo.
4. Use Verdant Embrace for an instant heal and to move around the map. This will also help with the spread healing from the talent Lifebind. This makes healing received from either you or your target go to the other.
5. Use Echo.
6. Channel Dream Breath. It is okay only to get a rank 1 with this spell because it will put two strong HoTs on your teammates.
7. Use Time Dilation if your teammate is still taking damage. This causes half of the damage they take to be spread out.
8. Living Flame is a filler healing spell you should use if your other healing spells are on cooldown. It is also the Fire school, so you can use this to heal if you get kicked on a green spell. This spell can also proc Essence Burst that makes your next Essence spell free. You can use this proc on Disintegrate to deal damage or Echo.
9. Emerald Blossom if you need the instant heal and to apply a free Echo from Twin Echoes.
10. Use Rescue to apply Twin Guardian if you get kicked at any point during your healing rotations or need to reposition around the map.

Because Preservation Evokers have so many different ways to keep their teammates alive, below are various healing spells you can use to keep your team alive:

1. Use Echo on your teammates taking damage. From here, you can do any of the following:
   • Use Verdant Embrace and Echo then Dream Breath. This heal can be used for either single target or spread healing. With Echo active on the target, Dream Breath will put 2 HoTs on the targets it heals. The reason you want to use Verdant Embrace before Dream Breath is because of the Lifebind talent making it so whoever you heal with Verdant Embrace will heal you or your target for a part of the healing done.
   • Time Dilation is a one-minute cooldown and should be the first cooldown you use if someone is taking heavy damage. With a 70% stagger from damage taken, most teams should not be able to kill through it. Rotate it with the next healing cooldowns on the list, and you will be able to keep your team alive for a very long time.
   • Use Emerald Communion. This cooldown by itself is incredible when you have Echo on all of your teammates. As long as you are at full health, this will heal all your teammates, even if you are stunned, feared, or silenced. You can also use this while moving if you are using the Dreamwalker talent.
   • Emerald Blossom if you need the instant heal and to apply a free Echo from Twin Echoes.
   • Rewind is another powerful team-wide cooldown that heals all the damage your team just took in the last 5 seconds. Use this after a team uses their primary burst cooldowns to recover instantly.
   • Use Living Flame/ Chrono Flame, if you are playing Chronowarden, as a filler to get Essence Burst.

Stasis is one of the most unique healing cooldowns in the game. This will cause you next three spells to be duplicated and stored. You can then reactivate Stasis any time within 30 seconds to quickly use them. There are many ways to use this spell, but most of the time you will want to use it to maximize healing output. To do that, do the following:

• Use Echo on the enemy team's primary kill target.
• Use Stasis.
• Use Verdant Embrace.
• Use Echo.
• Use Dream Breath.
• Reactivate Stasis.

Dealing damage in arena is crucial. Preservation Evokers are perfect for keeping their team aggressive to land a kill. You can use multiple damage spells, and the rotation is simple.

1. Use Fire Breath off cooldown. This deals damage and puts a DoT on the target. The longer you channel and do damage, the weaker the DoT is. Ideally, you will channel this to rank 3 and make the DoT weak because it is dispellable. Note: If you are playing against classes with many magical buffs that you want to purge with Scouring Flame, you will want to pair this with Tip the Scales.
2. Deep Breath deals a large amount of damage to the team and stuns anyone it hits with the Terror of the Skies talent. However, it is also great for avoiding crowd control when the enemy team is pushing towards you. For example, you will want to use this to avoid a Priest's Psychic Scream when they run towards you.
3. Azure Strike does not deal the most damage, but it is instant and is perfect for slowing enemies and killing Shaman totems.
4. Disintegrate is a channeled damage spell that deals a moderate amount of damage. This is normally used when you get an Essence Burst proc.
5. Living Flame is your filler damage spell that deals a decent amount of damage from range. Use this if your other damage spells are on cooldown.
6. Landslide is an instant spell that roots all enemies it hits. Although the root is dispellable, it is perfect for helping you or your teammate get away from the enemy team.
7. Sleep Walk is your primary crowd control spell that will sleep the target for 5 seconds. Be careful when using this, as it is in the green school for casting. You cannot use most of your healing spells if you get kicked on green.
8. Use Rescue to apply Twin Guardian if you get kicked at any point during your healing rotations or need to reposition around the map.

• Obsidian Scales is one of your primary defensives. This reduces the damage you take by 30%. If you use the Obsidian Mettle PvP talent, it will also make you immune to interrupts, silences, and pushbacks. This will heal 100% of any damage you take while it is up over 8 seconds. It is important to use this right before you start taking damage and not after, or the heal will not be strong.
• Deep Breath deals a large amount of damage to the team and can be used to do damage. However, it is great for avoiding crowd control when the enemy team is pushing toward you. For example, you will want to use this to avoid a Priest's Psychic Scream when they run towards you.
• Preservation Evoker's mobility is an incredibly important defensive. Here are some spells that you should master to help keep your team alive:
  • Hover launches you forward and increases your movement speed. It also makes you immune to slows with the PvP Talent Unburdened Flight.
  • Rescue swoops you to an ally and allows you to bring them to a location. Use this to help your teammate reposition and get away from the enemy team.
  • Wing Buffet/ Tail Swipe are the Dracthyr racials that will help you get away from the enemy team targetting you.
• Cauterizing Flame removes all bleeds, points, curses, and diseases from a teammate. This is a crucial spell when you play against specializations like Feral Druids, Assassination, Rogues, or Warlocks.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.