Preservation Evoker Guide for Mythic+ [Dragonflight 10.0.2]

[@Nytsua520]

For Bursting weeks, if your group is doing a large pull then you can stasis Dispels ahead of time (if there's nothing to dispel then it won't go on cooldown, but still will be saved in stasis). Then when you're at high stacks you can release the 3 dispels and cast a 4th manually. This works almost as well as a Priest's Mass Dispel. Deep Breath/Dream Flight also has the potential to avoid certain boss mechanics as you can't be affected by crowd control during the flight, though it doesn't look like it will be relevant in Season 1 of Dragonflight M+.

[@normy6801]

Every time I do that, I really think I’m so good at this game.

[@paxtonjolly7975]

Its almost always just better to stasis dream breath and spiritbloom. Its a cool tech that you can stasis dispels, but its just a waste of a MASSIVE healing cd.

[@Nytsua520]

@@paxtonjolly7975 Well, in either of these two cases you’re committing stasis to respond to high bursting stacks. You can store healing spells to heal as the damage is going out or store dispels to prevent a larger portion of the damage instead. And of course you could mix dispels and heals depending on others’ personals. Stasis is a very flexible and powerful spell,

[@xvx4848]

I feel like this will likely be fixed in the near future. Definitely not intended.

[@AppHangout]

@@xvx4848 mass dispel is still better, so hopefully they keep this as-is.

[@Darchon101]

Just a small note regarding Statis. If it times out for whatever reason, it also casts the spells stored so nothing is lost per se if you delay it.

[@zak4tt4ck]

did not know this, thx

[@alcsportkid]

Thanks!

[@jfklmk13447]

Oh I actually didn' know this and always forced my Stasis, cheers!

[@gothempress]

So better fae transfusion. Love it!

[@dojjin1334]

You can also prep Stasis. So you can cast it and use your damage abilities and then go into healing. So that way you don't panic, if you use it accidentally.

[@shred403]

Rip rsham. Long live preservation Evoker !

[@zebacca]

This is a fantastic guide. Short and to the point with a lot of depth! Please do other healers like this - specifically, Resto Sham and Disc Priest.

[@RastjackA]

well.. its not... you have 0 clue.

[@kiirbstomp]

@@RastjackA typical wow player

[@RastjackA]

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[@mayasalo8853]

This was so helpful and clear! Would love to see other guides on the other healers. I especially found the square boxes on the talents very readable and understandable.

[@hedgeymcgee3079]

Nice production value with the headings. You’re always helpful with your info. Detailed enough without being too meta

[@zomgpeoplestolemname]

You don't have to press stasis if you just want to let it ride. Even if you don't press it, it will go off at the end of the duration.

[@Wendygram]

I almost entirely agree with your talent build info, although as I move over +20s on fortified week, I find myself totally in love with ouroboros. Saving echo a little bit, and yeeting out Emerald Blossoms on the tank every now and then. Then as the need a little top up, I just echo into reversion and keep DPSing. Its also come in handy for spot healing on DPS targetted by a non-interruptible or so, as the initial echo heal goes big.

[@MeatballMoovies]

I love the new style effects added to your videos... Super slick! Thanks for the advice 🙏

[@vigilantea6822]

Temporal Anomaly was working pretty nice for me the the raid today. Still experimenting a lot with the spec. The class in general is amazing so far and love that there are so many different playstyles.

[@Tazytots]

"Sandy Balls", as I call it. Probably one of the most reliable burst heals you can get out of Evoker in Mythic dungeons. I'm almost scared not to run it.

[@ThePhilff]

I've never healed before, I've been a tank first and dps for best part of my wow life since TBC. This expansion I've been playing an Evoker as my main DPS. I've found getting into +10 and above keys almost impossible as DPS. So I have been forcing myself to learn to heal to help my guilds raid group with utility flex and mainly to become more attractive for groups looking to do high keys. This video has been so helpful, I imported your VuhDO profile but that addon is SO complicated I don't know what half of it even does! Really like your informative style to the video, would love to see some more in-depth information on how you use VuhDO etc..

[@sanji2158]

I just want to highlight that Emerald Communion is incredibly strong when combined with Lifebind! with around 25% haste you can get 6 ticks of it, which is 42k of my total 70k hp without rush of vitality talented, on every echoed member. even in a raid with temporal anomaly+resonating sphere, it is possible to prep up to 10-11 lifebinds and pretty much hit them all with a lay on hands amount of healing. and this is just counting the echoed healing through lifebind

[@ummidontkn0w]

you already hit 100k but i subscribed anyway. thanks for the content!

[@SkyKros]

homie you got my sub @ the 2 min mark when you woke me on level 1 dream breath for that hot - respect .. i have owned wow all of 5 days lol

[@Swift_LN]

I've been fooling around with an Emerald Blossom build with varying success. To really make it work you need the stacking essence spark, power nexus, stasis, both the emerald blossom nodes and the EB keystone in the center. What this does is give your EBs a 60% each time it goes off to recast itself on a new target. Technically it can go indefinitely and I've been getting 3 recasts very regularly. This is important because it can proc your keystone with a single cast which is even more passive aoe healing. Then you want to make sure that your stasis has 3 Blossoms in it, so always use it when you have 2 essence spark stacks and you cast 3 blossoms in rapid succession then cast stasis. With all this in action, you can have something like 6 emerald blossoms on the screen at one time, all jumping around and recasting themselves. Visually it is extremely appealing and worth playing just for that fact alone. Gameplay wise it requires a bit too much of you. You can't really use echos and you have to make sure your stasis only stores blossoms. The aoe healing is insane though and will work even when people are spread out because blossoms will seek them out when recasting themselves. It is heavily RNG dependant though, you need a good stream of both essence spark procs and blossom procs, which is why it will never be a good build for high key level.

[@CelestianGC]

The Stasis portion really helped me. I've had a really hard time making good use of it (even spec'd out of it to just get something else I use more). Feeling a little better with it now.

[@vin4541]

Looks like you hit that 100k followers grats!

[@ed4544]

Great Content creator went from meh healer that might time a 15 in bfa to KSM all 4 seasons in SL. You really teach the importance of constantly rotating cds and not holding onto them.

[@panajotov]

Excellent video as always, Growl. Thank you good sir, and good luck in DF!

[@fast_cats]

Extremely late reply but re: Stasis + Cauterizing interaction. I did read recently that some strats have developed where you use Stasis, then Cauterizing on someone who doesn't need it (so it doesn't incur the cooldown) and then you can activate Stasis to get use of more or less a free Cauterizing Flames + another one right away with the actual ability if you need it. This would require good timing and knowing approximately when you need them in advance every time, but it's an interesting thought. Really enjoyed this guide, I haven't fiddled much with Evoker yet but wanted to get some more knowledge in my noggin before I made the leap. :)

[@niekcornelissen5417]

Greetings Grom, this is friend! Great vid as always, I'm hoping to see more Preservation content coming up!

[@punker2534]

Great guide mate, the graphics when speaking about talents is a good idea!

[@Claedicus]

Yessss! Finally growl! He has delivered!

[@cvinny82]

Very informative and pertinent info. Thanks for putting this together for us.

[@WildAndWonderful]

Thanks for the tips, definitely helped me step my heals up a bit. Wasn't doing too bad before, but doing even better now!

[@PHKRolle]

Thank you thank you for all the help… epic, helpful video 🙌🏼💪

[@bbb229]

Damn, this sounds so complicated in comparison to WotLK and Cata times when I played. Im getting old I guess. Props to the people playing this healer.

[@rasborg1]

The 2% party health regen from Visage form is something to remember. But only when in visage

[@vallin5649]

Thank you brotha for a very nice guide. I have played holy pala and resto druid in the past but wanted to try something new in DF. Keep up the good work! You definitely got a sub from me!

[@seifelislembenrahmani7116]

congrats on the 100K

[@Haze_E1]

Hi growl this is friend thanks for helping our healers deal with the zug zug ape lifestyle of melee dps

[@props100]

Totally subscribed! Tyvm for such video and infromation. i Find it very clear

[@ericandrzejewski4362]

Just wanted to say thank you, I have been attempting to gear up and play an Preservation Evoker and you have shown me how wrong I was playing the class, time to get going and fix my mistakes, thanks again. Hope to see an advanced guide eventually

[@Kryptic712]

Cool thing with echo, it stacks reversions, either having two reversions in one person, or two seperate reversions. Echo verdant embrace works, and you can verdant embrace yourself

[@godefroisaint-martin183]

Thanks for the guide Growl, as always, a point :)

[@Night-640]

Thanks for the guide.

[@aandrenery]

100k is getting close, mate.

[@ChiefEigtball]

Excellent guide! Great video quality too, nice work!

[@Finn3h]

ty growl helped me patch up my VE usage helped a ton

[@Swift_LN]

One small thing, don't use stasis if you're going to cast fire breath, becuase a living flame can bounce to one of your allies and take up a stasis slot.

[@codmw3owner]

you're doing gods work brother

[@matthewalexander2780]

Unsure if this as been mentioned, but if you're running Anomaly and Lifebind, you can push out the anomaly and if you're running the meta melee classes, all of them will have Echo- then you VE and all members get the Lifebind talent. Just another way to pump heals if you need.

[@almostanonymous8768]

Atm the stat priority is Crit + Versa if you focus dmg (when having a group like Growl where barely healing is needed) and Mastery + Crit if you want to go for big heals.

[@panajotov]

Basically gear your Evoker as you would gear your rshaman.

[@kef0y33t_2]

i love EVOKER as a healer it is the best for me

[@jfklmk13447]

Great stuff mate! Cheers!

[@dca374]

Thanks, great guide!

[@ferdefillo]

Amazing guide! One question related to your UI/Nameplate. What is that exclamation symbol that show next to the nameplates?? Makes a sound as a warning for you to be careful! thank you

[@WoWcruids]

the moving while casting from hover works on emerald communion too

[@scottnguyen9477]

Can you please put a guide as you start a dungeon, what spells to cast etc...

[@Maurodax]

Awesome guide mate. Your guide for druids back in BFA helped me greatly and I hope the case is the same here, definetaly made me realize a few dumb mistakes I'm making that I will need to change. So thanks again and keep the great content coming!

[@jeremylewis2697]

thank you for the great video, I learned a lot

[@StormyHotwolf88]

Thank you for the guide. I haven't been successful learning any other healer than Shaman, but I was able to complete Bronze healer with the Evoker on the first try. I didn't copy your build, but made me consider why you picked some things you did. Healing is such an art. What are you using for an add-on in the middle of your screen?

[@rohafin]

thats an weakaura

[@michaelmacdonald9709]

thank you good sir

[@LunaNovaXIV]

Hello growl this is friends

[@s.t.5993]

Well congrats it’s 100k

[@Realillusionist]

Great video! Though I can see you talented Zephyr but didn't mention it? How useful is this abiliity?

[@Kuroofrost]

Thanks for such an awesome guide growl just a side question what is currently The best healer for m+ in your opinion for dragonflight?

[@toxalry]

Hi growl, this is friend.

[@Kikeron]

Nice vid, thanks! What is your M+ WA? Also, what about Mastery? It seems really good. It does not affect damage ok but isnt it really good for healing?

[@SoldierTrax]

I personally love temporal anomaly because the absorb value is kinda huge and the echoes are a great safety blanket, proccing golden hour constantly to deal with any unexpected burst damage. I haven't tested this interaction, so take it with a grain of salt, but i think golden hour is a proc independent of the value of reversion, which means that the reduced echoes still proc it at full effectiveness and i found golden hour regularly taking #2 on my healing breakdown, after Temporal Anomaly, mostly from the great tank healing from the 30% recent damage taken instant heal on demand. While the main drawback from Temporal Anomaly is the mana cost, it allows me to play a much more "essence free" playstyle which in turn with energy loop it allows me to recoup mana with disintegrate while giving me great single target dps. Temporal Anomaly doubles as a maintenance shield and just a ball of sheer throughput during moments of sustained damage, a great spell to add on to my stasis. I have not really experimented much yet with trying to abuse lifebind with echoes, and i need to investigate how that works with the reduced echoes from Anomaly, but sounds like a very interesting way to potentially turn anomaly -> verdant embrace -> emerald communion into a strong aoe combo. I don't have beta so i only played evoker on retail but it's so much fun to try to figure out all the ways you can play it and looking forward to grabbing some extra damage nodes in the base tree once we hit 70 cause i've kinda been needing the extra defensives from the bottom right so far haha

[@luckdrivenluu6429]

grats on 100k SUBS MY DUDE!!! FUCKING SICK

[@James-kv3ll]

It’s hard to beat time magic and breathing fire when it comes to level of coolness. Also, don’t know if you mentioned it but Azure Strike can be used in place of living flame during heavy movement you don’t have Hover active. Some damage is better than no damage.

[@dieterichschramm1023]

subscribing cause you sound like fred from scooby-doo

[@aelorgames2627]

I kind of like Spirit Bloom, that's the spell I always use with Tip of the Scales/ So I'm using the talent that reduces the CD of Spirit Bloom, so I got more of them. I also like the seedling talents, guess it's my way of playing :D . Also trying out Ouroboros.

[@megacodeheals722]

Great vid Growl. I find myself pretty much Echo+Rev Tank then Echo 1 player then Rev the other. Like always this rotation 99% of time. Is this wrong?

[@pyromania2667]

Something silly I've found out is that with Temporal Anomaly applying echo, you can extremely quickly get essence burst as Echo-Living Flame will have a chance to proc for every target healed. Combine this with the 40% reduced cast time on living flame after self casting or just generally tossing them out on enemies and it's fun, silly, Emerald Blossom build. Is it extremely high end M+ viable? Probably not because it's not consistent as a proc reliant build, but worth I figured it mentioning because I've found some success with it in the dungeons you can get people to coordinate (rip pugs, I guess) Combine it with stasis and you can easily be dropping Emerald Blossoms like crazy

[@MrCwhitt75]

New sub here. Quit Wow after Burning Crusade content. Just recently got back into it. Play evoker for a day, lvl 60 atm and completely lost! This shoukd help me out a bit. I need help on UI also.

[@yumytv]

Thanks friend! I'm stalling as long as possible to be sure my UI and class guide don't become out-of-date but they will be posted soon

[@nicolaiengstrm630]

gg onn 100.000 .D mate

[@blackadam6445]

Temporal anomaly is the quintessential bronze power idk what I’m looking at here 🤪

[@anqixue6032]

Super helpful!

[@kc-lz8gs]

I feel like temporal anomaly will be strong in M+, but I guess I will have to actually put it into play first. it's such a fun spell, but you're right it is clunky

[@AtoZ-mu1wm]

Great video! How is the addon/weakaura called, which shows you enemy cast bars on the right section of your screen? Thanks a lot

[@Defenestrationed]

Hey Growl - do you watch any other content creators for DPS / Tank content? I don't heal but the quality of your videos (and general vibe) keeps me coming back. I'm especially looking for a tank channel to look for M+ pull paths for the upcoming season.

[@philipdrew10]

Been playing evoker for a week and didnt even know that echo replicating heal thing lol

[@CUXOB2]

What is the point of Echo in single target. Hots/damage reductions do not stack in WoW, if you cast a hot twice on the same target one will instantly override the other.

[@russellpierce3987]

not taking temporal anomaly with the echo talent seems like a lot of wasted opportunity to me. being able to echo your entire party without using a single essence is fantastic. i usually counter it with a buffed dream breath, reversion on the tank to stack it on them + echo it, or into verdant embrace to lifebind and heal with emerald communion if that's necessary. lifebind is still 40% even with the weaker echo. it's a very position dependent skill but once you get good at letting it loose where you want it, i think it's very good value even with high mana cost

[@juanpabloalvarezyates5818]

This will be an unpopular opinion prolly if it will even be one QQ noone reads these BUT ima weite it anyway im a HUGE fan of growl or grom hehe but i think he is misunderstanding temporal anomaly!! I belive its the biggets talent for evoker! Growl and the top guys r used to hard healing (holy, shaman pally) i got ro 2.9 k io as disc all pug!! Was all about preplaning BUT evoker with TA gives u the pre planing of disc WITH all the reaction of a druid or shammie from shadowlands!!! Its insanly OP in my healing atm its doing 78% of my heals!! Its expencive tho having to drink after 7 or 8 pulls but still its so powerfull i wish u would look at it again with your uber lit teamates... looking for team btw QQ LOL

[@maproductions9269]

I wanted to use this an it says it is out of date! Do you have an updated version of this?

[@pepsipwns666]

Temporal Anomoly is so underrated, don't know why people never take it, such an easy way to get 5 man echos with reversion, or verdant embrace (therefore lifebinding everyone) into a buffed dream breath is insane healing. Not to mention its shielding people too.

[@la7era1u54]

I like using too. The only downside is he mana cost compared to our other spells if overused

[@driss5321]

Completly agree with u !

[@johnthebarbarian]

dorkiCheer great vid

[@theventhatiqtho8112]

Can you stasis a rewind? It's technically a "helpful" spell.

[@TJXD]

Ayo waffle hat cat the cat wit the waffle hat

[@AndreasRex]

Good vid, thanks I was wondering if the ouroboros talent gains stacks from every tick of dreambreath and if so, would it help the evokers low sustained single target healing? (the echo tooltip shown was outdatedby the way)

[@Wendygram]

It doesn't, It also doesn't give more Ouroboros stacks with more charges. I've been playing with it a lot in higher keys, and just poop out a few flowers (Emerald Blossoms) on the tank to get some stacks, and using the increased Echo with a Reversion to increase single target healing. I also find that the EB > Echo > Reversion rotation stored in a Stasis gives me sustained single target when the tank has overpulled or run out of CDs.

[@Okaayun]

is there a glitch with vuhdo? I cant Naturalize other players even if I click their frame

[@BorkMcGork]

can you provide the import/export string for the talent build in the description please? That'd be cool

[@joebot2127]

Can you use stasis for a damage rotation as well?

[@baltheosz.8142]

I keep looking for more information on builds that use temporal anomaly but nobody is putting out anything. It's one of my favorite and top performing spells as well as one of my favorites to combo with statis aoe since it lets me throw one orb to the melee crowd and one to ranged. Plus its a low cd good filler spell to use and if you know that some big aoe dmg is coming it can really create a good mitigation buffer on your melee fighters especially. I dont play with this new ages min-max playstyle where everyone is just a bot reaching for the top charts, so im not viewing the spell from that sort of players mindset.

[@djinn8175]

Problem: how do I cleanse poison ?? 8 second cooldown .. people are getting eaten up by poison before the 3rd cast

[@Roesch21]

Biggest complaint with Evokers is the class color. It looks like an out of range monk on my raid frames.

[@Xaolinho]

Finally

[@Essjaybee2934]

Thanks growl

[@davidkarlsson8536]

Hey yumi considering the resent mw monk buffs, do you think its more viable in m+ ?

[@robinjohnson4707]

do you ever use "time dialation" ?

[@titus4166]

Do you have a macro list for evoked healer?

[@brnf4il]

gameplays with the class pls

[@mohammadrezaaran8208]

banger

[@sirdiealott]

Is temporal anomaly just not that good at 70? I'm finding it amazing at 60 and it is my go to to get echo on the group, even if it is a lesser one, copying the next heal is usually big enough I'm happy with spending the mana. Add in the shield for burst damage and I can't believe I tried getting along without it in my initial build. I can't even imagine trying to heal shade of aran without it. If you have too many ranged in the group it can be a bummer, but with multiple melee it makes me a happy lizard to see echo on the group ready to be popped.

[@patrickmartinez7244]

what cpu you running?

[@AntisnakeYT]

can u make a mythic tier list for dps/healer on beta/release?

[@petervarga8571]

Do you guys have any suggestion for the spark of ingenuity? :) What to use it on?