Introduction
Hey, I am Dana, I’m a multi class healer mostly playing Preservation Evoker, Mistweaver Monk and Priest. I am an analyst for Method and GM of the 2-day (strictly 6 hour) guild Drama on Tarren Mill. The guild has seen a steady incline in ranks, since being created in the first tier of Dragonflight, finishing our last tier around wr300.
Preservation Evoker has been my favorite healer since its release in Dragonflight. The proactive ramps and the hard hitting mini cd playstyle are something I really enjoy and it feels incredibly unique to play compared to the other healing classes.
For more information and active theory crafting, the Evoker discord is a really helpful resource and a good platform for information, discussion, and questions.
Evoker Discord: https://discord.com/invite/evoker
A new expansion of Preservation
In the new expansion we received even more different options for playstyles with hero talents. Hero Talents refresh Preservation entirely by offering a variety of playstyles to explore. You can choose to go with Chronowarden, a set of Hero talents that enhance “Dragonflight's greatest hits”, or you can go with its currently favoured alternative: Flameshaper. A hero talent that focuses on setting up ramps similar to the style of Discipline Priests.
What has changed
11.2 Preservation Changes
Preservation in 11.2 got a mini rework with some changes to the talent tree and also some buffs and nerfs to our spec. New Talents:
- 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.
Redesigned Talents:
- 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.
Developers’ notes: Preservation doesn’t have access to a damage reduction external ability outside of Renewing Blaze as Flameshaper, which hurts their potential in content like Mythic+. This opens up the possibility for them to save their tank from massive damage.
- Temporal Artificer reduces Rewind cooldown by 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
Developers’ notes: Stasis’ power has made it feel required to take, which forces players into the bottom right capstone branch. By moving it further up in the tree, we reduce the opportunity cost of picking Stasis. At the same time, we’re offering an easy-to-play talent that competes with Stasis so you don’t feel required to use Stasis if you don’t want to.
- Stasis is now a choice with Temporal Artificer.
Balance changes:
- Reversion now has 2 charges.
- Emerald Blossom healing increased by 25%.
- Temporal Anomaly absorption increased by 100%. Absorption beyond 5 targets now diminishes more sharply.
- Dream Flight healing increased by 150%. Healing no longer increased by 100% outside of raid and the healing amount now diminishes beyond 5 targets.
- Dream Breath nerfed by 20%.
- All Healing reduced by 4% (Excludes Temporal Anomaly, Rewind, Golden Hour).
The following talents have been removed:
- Erasure
- Punctuality
11.1.7 Preservation Changes
For 11.1.7 there are no significant class changes for Preservation Evoker. There is however the addition of the new D.I.S.C belt. To learn more about unlocking the DISC belt, you can read Method's DISC Belt Guide. For Preservation Evoker specific recommendations you can head to the gearing section in this guide.
11.1.5 Preservation Changes
For 11.1.5 there are no significant class changes for Preservation Evoker. However, there is a lot of other new patch content being added to the game that you can check out in our 11.1.5 articles.