Preservation Evoker Healing Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities - The War Within (Season 1) (2025)

The buttons below can be used to select between curated Raiding andMythic+ loadouts. You can also use the switches below to add or removeindividual talents you may also be using:

Raid - EchoRaid - Emerald BlossomMythic+

Talent Selections, etc.
Resonating Sphere	Nozdormu's Teachings	Energy Loop
Dream Flight	Stasis	Cycle of Life
Spark of Insight	Ouroboros	Life-Giver's Flame
Grace Period	Lifespark	Titan's Gift

Preservation Evoker ExplainedRaid - EchoRaid - Emerald BlossomRaid - FlameshaperMythic+

Preservation Evoker has two very distinct ways to play. One focuses on spendingessence on Echo; the other focuses on spending essence on Emerald Blossom.Deciding which of these abilities you will want to cast largely depends on the talents youtake. Echo builds head towards Time Lord, giving them extra healing output from Echocasts, whereas Emerald Blossom builds select Fluttering Seedlings, Field of Dreams,and Cycle of Life to amplify their output from each Emerald Blossom cast.

While in Mythic+ Echo builds remain the way to go, the best raid build oftenchanges patch to patch, but overall, both remain competitive. Being able to play both uniquebuilds is a valuable skill, as there is a good chance you may need to use both throughout a raiding tier.

Your goal is to generate as many Echos as possible through both spendingessence and casting Temporal Anomaly with Resonating Sphere.Once you have your Echos out, you will then consume them with one of the fourfollowing spells: Spiritbloom, Dream Breath, Verdant Embraceand Reversion. Here is how you can decide which spell to use:

• Verdant Embrace offers you very high burst potential, and overall the highestHPS output assuming that you are playing into the Lifebind effect. BecauseLifebind shares healing that you deal to yourself with any players having the buff,you will want to follow each Verdant Embrace cast with a Spiritbloomcast on yourself, that way you transfer additional healing to all allies with Lifebind. Outside of this you can perform powerful combos every 3 minuteswith Emerald Communion.
• Spiritbloom will offer you a nice amount of burst healing as well asadditional HoT healing through Reverberations. In general this will fallbehind Verdant Embrace and Lifebind combos but it can be mucheasier to pull off and is decent at healing longer duration damage windows.
• Dream Breath is a fairly strong choice thanks to Double-time but oftenfalls behind Spiritbloom and Lifebind. That being said, it can be efficientto use when facing very heavy rot damage where the burst healing from the other spells maynot be as useful. Keep in mind it will be more difficult to pull off since Verdant Embracewill consume the Echos when you attempt to proc Call of Ysera before casting Dream Breath.
• Reversion is a fairly weak Echo choice thatwill also require you to talent into Grace Period. Even without highcritical strike, it is relatively easy for the duration to be extended to themax, and it also gives you Grace Period value and extra Essence Bursts.

The overall rotation for an Echo build will look like this:

1. Keep Stasis on cooldown as much as possible and avoidputting weak spells (think Echo) within the Stasis. More info about Stasis can be found below.
2. Aim to have 4 stacks of Temporal Compression before each empower cast. Thiscan be done through casting any bronze spell (most of the time Echo or Chrono Flame).
3. Use Tip the Scales as often as possible and ideally right as you are aboutto do large healing to get max effectiveness from Temporal Burst.
4. Cast Temporal Anomaly as mana allows to generate Echosthrough Resonating Sphere.
5. Do not overcap on Essence or waste Essence Burst procs (Cast Echoas much as possible).
6. Consume active Echos with Verdant Embrace to deal withheavy burst damage and when your raid is low health.
7. Cast Spiritbloom on yourself and before the Lifebind bufffalls off. This will allow you to deal a massive amount of extra healing to yourraid following a Verdant Embrace cast. Generally you will use Rank 2/3 toensure that the cast finishes before Lifebind falls off.
8. Generate stacks of Temporal Compression and cast Dream Breath at Rank 1before you lose the Call of Ysera buff triggered by casting Verdant Embrace.
9. When facing heavy rot damage and in a situation where Spiritbloom or Lifebind will overheal; you can instead consume Echos with Dream Breath. You would then follow a rotation of using Verdant Embrace,followed by getting Echos out, then consuming with Dream Breath.
10. Cast Fire Breath at max rank to trigger Leaping Flames,follow this cast by using Living Flame to generate Essence Burst.
11. Cast Living Flame to generate Essence Burst procs and Temporal Compressionstacks when you have nothing else to do or don't want to consume Echos yet. These living flamesshould be cast on an enemy in order to save mana and not consume the Echos.

Additional information on Lifebind and how to use it effectively can be found further downthe page.

When it comes to Stasis usage, it is important to keep in mindthat the order in which you store spells will be the order in which they are cast whenyou end up reactivating Stasis. For that reason, you will generally wantto use Temporal Anomaly at the end of your Stasis in order to nothave the Echos instantly consumed by a spell you did not want.Prior to casting the Temporal Anomaly, you can use powerful abilities suchas Spiritbloom and Dream Breath. It is also worth consideringthat every other use of Stasis will line up with the cooldown of Emerald Communion.This means that you can get extra Echos out for a large Lifebindcombo by having a Temporal Anomaly at the end of your Stasis.

This build focuses on casting Emerald Blossom as much as possibleand generating a ton of Essence Bursts in order to save mana and increaseyour overall output. While an Echo build will occasionally cast Emerald Blossom thanksto Ouroboros, this build will never make use of Echo. You will simplyspend every bit of essence you generate on Emerald Blossom.

1. Keep Stasis on cooldown as much as possible and avoidputting weak spells (think Echo) within the Stasis. More info about Stasis can be found below.
2. NEVER cap on essence or waste an Essence Burst proc. Always press Emerald Blossomwhenever you are close to capping or have a proc, regardless of what else is happening.
3. Aim to have 4 stacks of Temporal Compression before each empower cast. Thiscan be done by casting any bronze spell (mainly Chrono Flame).
4. Use Tip the Scales as often as possible and ideally right as you are aboutto do large healing to get max effectiveness from Temporal Burst.
5. Use Verdant Embrace before casting Dream Breath in orderto get the bonus healing increase from Call of Ysera. You will only be castingthis at Rank 1 the majority of the time.
6. Cast Fire Breath at max rank to trigger Leaping Flames,follow this cast by using Living Flame to generate Essence Bursts.
7. Cast Emerald Blossom when possible.
8. Cast Temporal Anomaly as mana allows to generate Echosthrough Resonating Sphere.
9. After casting Temporal Anomaly, you will want to follow with a Living Flame; this will allow you to generate Essence Burst procs reliably.
10. Cast Living Flame to generate Essence Burst procs when you havenothing else to do.

To really minmax the Emerald Blossom rotation, you will ideallywant to rotate between casting Emerald Blossom and Living Flame.By doing this, you will be able to make full use of Ancient Flame, reducingthe cast time of Living Flame by 40%, allowing you to generate quicker Essence Bursts.When facing heavy damage, it may be better to just fully spend essence as soon as youget it rather than rotating between the two casts.

In addition to the rotation listed above, there are a few mechanics you will want to keepin mind in order to maximize your performance, the most important of which involves pooling(not spending) your essence for heavy damage windows. If your raid group is healthy andnothing is happening; there is no real reason to press Emerald Blossom. In thesesituations, you can break the rule of never wasting essence or a proc and instead focuson generating Essence Bursts so that when the damage does come out, you can pressmultiple Emerald Blossoms back to back to back, which will give you a ton of healingwhile also feeding into the next mechanic that will be discussed: Cycle of Life.

In most cases, you won't need to overly concern yourself with Cycle of Life,but you should be thinking about it when you plan on using cooldowns. You are able to havemultiple procs of this ability out at once, each feeding into the next one. The healingdone by Rewind and Dream Flight also transfers into active Cycle of Lifes.This means that before pressing a major cooldown, you will want to pool your essenceso that you can quickly cast multiple Emerald Blossoms as damage hits, givingyou anywhere from 1-3 Cycle of Lifes, followed by your healing cooldown. When you areable to pull this off properly, it can result in millions of extra healing.

Finally, you will want to consider what spells to place inside of your Stasis.The general goal is to avoid ever having weak spells within the Stasis, such as Echo, Living Flame, etc. Powerful spells such as Temporal Anomaly, Emerald Blossomand any of your empowers. When playing this build, you can also simply opt into casting 3x Emerald Blossom to guarantee a Cycle of Life proc. Keep in mind that when you reactivate Stasis, the spells will be cast in the order you stored them, meaning if you want to include Temporal Anomaly into your Stasis, you should do so at the end of yourStasis so the Echos won't be consumed by a spell that won'tgenerate Essence Bursts.

1. Keep Stasis on cooldown as much as possible and avoidputting weak spells (think Echo) within the Stasis. More info about Stasis can be found below.
2. Aim to have 4 stacks of Temporal Compression before each empower cast. Thiscan be done by casting any bronze spell. It is very important you do this before casting Dream Breath.
3. Use Verdant Embrace before casting Dream Breath in orderto get the bonus healing increase from Call of Ysera. You will only be castingthis at Rank 1 the majority of the time.
4. Use Engulf on an ally who has a non- Echo version of the Dream BreathHoT. If the raid is still in need of healing you can repeat this.
5. Cast Renewing Blaze when possible and on an ally during heavy damage tomaximize Lifecinders healing. Use as much as possible.
6. Cast Spiritbloom when heavy damage is occurring, and you do not have Engulf available.
7. During downtime, aim to get Echos out and consume them ideally with Dream Breathor with Verdant Embrace to trigger Lifebind.
8. Cast Fire Breath at max rank to trigger Leaping Flames,follow this cast by using Living Flame to generate Essence Bursts.
9. After casting Temporal Anomaly, you will want to follow with a Living Flame; this will allow you to generate Essence Burst procs reliably.
10. Cast Living Flame to generate Essence Burst procs when you havenothing else to do.

The Flameshaper build focuses on maximizing Consume Flame healing through Dream Breath and Engulf. The key interaction to keep in mind is that the healingdone by Consume Flame is increased by the healing your Dream Breath does. With thatin mind, it is extremely important that you are playing into and maximizing all potential interactions.

Call of Ysera is the first obvious interaction and simply requires you to ensure you are pressing Verdant Embrace before each cast of Dream Breath. This will provide a significant bonus to yourDream Breath Healing, but keep in mind that it will not apply to Dream Breaths applied by Echo.

Evoker Preservation Season 1 4pc is the other key interaction. Each stack of Temporal Compression increases the healing of your next Empower ability. In order to againmaximize our overall Dream Breath healing, it is important that we are only casting itwith 4 stacks of Temporal Compression. You will want to make sure that you are trackingthe stacks of this buff and also ensuring that you are building to max stacks during downtime.Similar to Call of Ysera, this effect will not apply to Dream Breaths that areapplied by Echo.

These two buffs play a very large role in the build, not only from the healing increases theyprovide but also from the fact that Echo Dream Breaths do not gain the same effects.Because of that, it is extremely vital that you never use Engulf on Dream Breaths thathave been applied via Echo. Doing so would result in a massive healing loss and completelykill off any viability that the build has. Thankfully, Dream Breath casts have different Spell IDsthan Echo Dream Breaths. This means you can easily track both on your raid frame to helpyou differentiate between the two and ensure you are casting correctly.

With all this in mind, you will simply be using Engulf as high damage is occurringto create a large burst of healing. If the damage is so high that one Engulf is not enoughto cover it, you can choose to also use your second charge of Engulf. For the heaviest damage,you will want to prepare a Stasis and ensure that you have anywhere from 1-2 Engulfcasts within it. Keep in mind that once Stasis is reactivated, it will recast abilities on thesame target you cast them on originally to store them in Stasis. This means you should be castingthe Engulfs you aim to store on targets who you can also ensure will have an original Dream Breathbuff on them. Your extra Stasis cast beyond the Engulfs does not matter much; generally,any filler spell can be appropriate, Temporal Anomaly is never a bad choice in orderto conserve mana.

If you do decide to consume Echos with Verdant Embrace to trigger Lifebind,keep in mind that you will want to be playing into the Lifebind, meaning that you heal yourselfduring the duration. This can be done by simply using a Rank 1 Spiritbloom on yourselfduring the Lifebind window or even Living Flame on yourself. Any healing you can do to yourselfwill greatly increase how much the Lifebind does, and you will want to maximize it anytime you chooseto Lifebind. More information can be found below.

This Mythic+ build takes more damage, crowd control abilities, and someutility options in the class tree that will help it to excel. This build aimsto give you a default talent tree that you can take into any key and be successful.Still, there is debate about potential swaps that can be made depending on thedungeon and affixes. For example, if you find yourself needing a lot of healing,you can opt to talent into Renewing Breath for a bit extra output.Certain talents in the class tree can also be swapped out depending on the weeklyaffixes and dungeons you are doing.

1. Cast Echo to prepare for damage.
2. Keep Reversion on your party members when damage is going out to gainextra healing through Grace Period.
3. Cast Dream Breath at either Rank 1 (small passive healing) or maxrank (large burst healing), depending on what the situation demands.
4. Cast Spiritbloom at max rank during difficult moments.
5. Use Verdant Embrace to deal with single-target damage.
6. Make frequent use of Fire Breath for not only damage purposesbut to also generate extra Essence Bursts, proc Afterimage,and proc Life-Giver's Flame. All of these additional effects transformwhat is normally a damage cooldown into something that can be used to heal your party up quickly.
7. Cast Living Flame to generate extra Essence Burstsand to deal damage.
8. If you ever find your group extremely stacked and you are limitedon what abilities you have available, Emerald Blossom can be effective.

In order to further understand the Mythic+ rotation, you should also understandthe four main ways that you will be consuming Echo:

• Reversion -- This will be your most used ability to consume Echo.Keeping the passive healing on your will make every pack more manageable, as wellas providing the Grace Period buff. Thanks to Golden Hour, it canbe very powerful in terms of overall healing and also dealing with burst damage.
• Dream Breath -- Thanks to Double-time, this becomes a very powerfulway to heal in Mythic+ settings. The duration of Dream Breath lasts so long thatyou can nearly always have uptime on your party from the HoT, and when combined with Reversion gives you a ton of passive healing, giving you more opportunityto deal damage and focus on mechanics.
• Verdant Embrace -- Using this ability to consume your Echowill allow you to do quick burst healing, as well as give you and everyone withthe echo buff Lifebind, which then gives you the option to press Emerald Communionduring very dangerous moments, making your group nearly invincible.
• Spiritbloom -- Echoing Spiritbloom in Mythic+ settings can often be overkillas the healing it offers is so high compared to what is often needed. If you do findyourself facing very, very heavy damage or you simply have time to prep before the damagegoes out, then using Spiritbloom with Echo is guaranteed to top your party's health instantly.

As far as Stasis goes, the general rule of thumb in Mythic+ is always to haveat least 1 max rank empower. This can mean either a max rank Spiritbloom or a Dream Breath.This will allow you to reactivate it during emergencies and is guaranteed to heal yourparty for a very high amount. Generally, the preference will be Spiritbloom, but it is notalways possible, which is why a max-rank Dream Breath can also be acceptable. You can alwaysput both into your Stasis, but casting them back to back can put you a bit vulnerable toburst damage until they come off cooldown. Temporal Anomaly is another fine choiceto include, and Emerald Blossom can even be really good at offering burst healing andquickly filling your Stasis. Keep in mind that the Emerald Blossom will be recast on the playeryou initially cast it on, meaning that you should try to aim it at a player who is well-stackedwhen you do find yourself filling Stasis with a cast of it.