Preservation Evoker Raid Guide

• Chrono Flame‍
  • Makes your Living Flame turn into Chrono Flame which is a Bronze spell, which will give you stacks towards Temporal Compression, and will repeat 15% of the damage or healing you dealt to the target in the last 5 seconds.
• ‍Warp transforms your normal ‍Hover into a Blink
  • This currently only works when you are on or close to solid ground, if you are too high up in the air it functions like a normal Hover. Be cautious, as this has a small delay.
• Temporal Burst
  • Turns ‍your Tip the Scales into a strong cooldown, increasing Haste, Movement Speed, and Cooldown recovery rate by 30%, decreasing by 1% every second during the 30s duration of ‍Temporal Burst.
• Reverberations
  • This makes your Spiritbloom apply an additional HoT for 30% of its healing over 8 seconds, and Primacy gives you 3% Haste for each rank you empowered it with, up to 9%.
• Temporality
  • If timed correctly Temporality can be very strong as a minor defensive cooldown whenever you are out of everything else.
• Threads of Fate 
  • Causes your empowered spells to provide a chance to echo their damage and healing by 15% of the amount again.
• Double-time
  • Dream Breath and Fire Breath duration is extended by 2 sec, up to 12 sec, when they Crit.
• Instability Matrix
  • Your empowered spell gets reduced by up to 6 sec when you cast it.
• Golden Opportunity
  • When you cast Echo it has a 20% chance of causing your next one to be 100% stronger.
• Afterimage
  • Each time you cast an empowered spell, up to 3 targets that you hit additionally get a Chrono Flame‍ cast onto them.

When to use this Spec

This is the Chronowarden loadout going into any encounter. You have to adjust the class talent tree based on the utility needed for the encounter. To make your life easier, boss-specific talent loadouts are available in the Nerub-ar Palace section.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

• Rewind
  • Heal 33% of the damage taken in the last 5 seconds.
• Time Dilation
  • Your external cooldown staggers 50% of the damage taken over the next 8 seconds.
• Emerald Communion
  • Heals you and recovers some mana, any overhealing heals an injured ally instead.
  • When paired together with Lifebind this is a very powerful cooldown.
• Call of Ysera
  • Verdant Embrace increases the healing of your next Dream Breath by 40% or your next Living Flame by 100%.
• Resonating Sphere
  • Temporal Anomaly applies Echo at 30% effectiveness.
• Stasis
  • Duplicate and store your next 3 healing spells.
• Lifebind
  • Verdant Embrace applies Lifebind which lasts for 5 seconds, this causes your healing on either target to heal the other for 40% of the amount.
• Dream Flight
  • Take a deep breath and fly over your allies to heal them and give them a hot for 15 seconds.

Class Tree

• Zephyr
  • Reduce damage taken from AoE effects by 20% for all allies within 20 yards for 8 seconds, also increase movement speed by 30%.
• Tip the Scales
  • Makes your next Empowered spell cast instantly at maximum rank.
• Cauterizing Flame
  • Unique dispel that removes bleeds, in addition to poisons, curses, and diseases.
• Oppressing Roar
  • A frontal cone that increases CC duration by 50% on enemies hit.
  • If talented into Overawe the cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds and this ability also dispels one Enrage effect from enemies hit.
• Spatial Paradox
  • Gives you and a friendly healer a cast while moving effect, and 100% increased range for most spells, and lasts 10 seconds.

Hero Talents

• Temporality
  • If timed correctly Temporality can be very strong as a minor defensive cooldown whenever you are out of everything else.
• Double-time
  • Dream Breath and Fire Breath duration is extended by 2 sec, up to 12 sec, when they Crit.
• Instability Matrix
  • Your empowered spell gets reduced by up to 6 sec when you cast them.

Priority List

For Healing

1. Cast max rank Fire Breath to gain Leaping Flames.
2. Cast rank 1 Dream Breath whenever you have Call of Ysera.
3. Cast Temporal Anomaly to apply Echo.
4. Cast Echo so you don't overcap on Essence.
5. Cast Reversion before any Echo runs out.
6. Cast max rank Spiritbloom on cooldown.
7. Cast Verdant Embrace to gain Call of Ysera.
8. Cast Living Flame to gain Essence Burst for free Echo casts.

For Damage

1. Cast Fire Breath on cooldown.
2. Cast Living Flame.

Cooldowns

Dream Flight

• Fly over your allies and apply a HoT as well as direct healing, during this time you are immune to any movement and loss of control effects, you can use this for movement around a encounter, break roots, or simply as a decent healing cooldown, be careful to not fly into frontals or other boss mechanics that can get you killed!

Verdant Embrace

• Verdant Embrace essentially becomes a healing cooldown due to Lifebind. Setting this up in combination with Echo is very powerful when used together with Emerald Communion, Spiritbloom or instant Living Flame casts with Lifespark procs.

Time Dilation

• Time Dilation is your go-to external whenever an ally is in danger.

Stasis

• Stasis is a powerful cooldown in raids, offering significant utility. It can effectively supply Echo by allowing you to cast 2-3 Temporal Anomaly spells within it.
  • Do this pre-pull whenever there's a healing requirement early in the fight.
• This setup enables a raid-wide coverage of Echo, which can be used in combination with Reversion or to provide a raid-wide buff through Lifebind into Emerald Communion.
• Additionally, you can fill Stasis with Temporal Anomaly, Spiritbloom, and Dream Breath, ensuring effectiveness in any scenario.

Tip the Scales

• Tip the Scales is great for on-demand burst healing when used withDream Breath or Spiritbloom.

Rewind

• Rewind is the strongest cooldown Evoker has by far and can single-handedly salvage almost any dangerous situation. Due to its massive cooldown it's best to carefully plan when you want use it.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when soaking Gruesome Disgorge.
• Externals
  • Use Time Dilation as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when targeted by Decimate.
• Externals
  • Use Time Dilation as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Rotate your defensives when targeted by multiple Infested Spawn.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on people targeted by multiple Infested Spawn without their own defensive cooldown.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Ensure you have Obsidian Scales active when targeted with Experimental Dosage.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on people targeted with Experimental Dosage.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when affected by Queensbane.
• Externals
  • If an ally does not have any defensive cooldown of their own left use Time Dilation on them, otherwise keep it as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

Phase 1

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when Reckless Eruption and Venomous Rain overlap.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on Binding Webs targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.
• General
  • The people in danger in this phase are the ones playing Binding Webs. Ensure you keep them healthy so they can fully focus on the mechanic without having to worry about other things.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Poison Bolt as this mechanic easily kills your tank if ignored.

Intermission 1

• General
  • You can use Rescue to help you and an ally dodge.

Phase 2

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when Web Vortex happens.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on targets who accidentally received multiple stacks of Stinging Swarm.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.
• General
  • In phase 2, failing the dispel mechanic Stinging Swarm is the most common cause of a wipe. Ensure you keep these players healthy so they don't have to worry about anything but playing the mechanic.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Void Bolt, as this mechanic easily kills your tank if ignored.

Intermission 2

• General
  • You can use Rescue to help you and an ally dodge.
  • Whenever a raid member gets Impaled focus on spot healing them until they are freed.

Phase 3

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when Web Vortex happens.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on Binding Webs targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• Paradox
  • Communicate with your other healers when they want Spatial Paradox as it's potentially more beneficial for them to get it at a certain time.
• General
  • The People in danger in this phase are the people playing Binding Webs. Ensure you keep them healthy so they can fully focus on the mechanic without having to worry about other things.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Void Bolt as this mechanic easily kills your tank if ignored.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

Phase 1

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales any time you have more stacks then expected from Frothy Toxin, or if you are not healthy before Silken Tomb hits.
• Externals
  • Use your Renewing Blaze on the tank with Feast absorb if needed, and use Time Dilation targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• General
  • There are a lot of very dangerous one-shot mechanics in this phase, make sure to prioritize your own survival and play mechanics to survive, the healing requirement in phase 1 is not as high as you may think, so play to live rather than maximizing your output will make you progress this boss faster.
  • You can make use of Hover a lot on this fight to dodge and cast while moving, pre-emptively cast Hover in place, to gain movement speed to dodge lines while still casting.

Intermission

• General
  • Use double jump Glide to negate the Wrest grip mechanic, and use all your healing to top the raid before Wrest rather than after, play to win, not to maximize your output and letting people die.

Phase 2

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales when people are going through the Shadowgate for dispels and there is a Wrest grip at the same time.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on targets who walk through the Shadowgate to get a dispel, or if someone is very low health before Wrest.
• General
  • Here you can also use double jump Glide to easily negate the Wrest grip mechanic.
  • Try to time your healing for when people walk through the Shadowgate and you are about to dispel, you want your side of the raid to be healthy before you dispel as it does a lot of damage.

Phase 3

• Defensives
  • Use Obsidian Scales if you get Royal Condemnation.
• Externals
  • Use your Time Dilation on targets with Royal Condemnation.
• General
  • There is a lot of running in this phase, use Hover[/wow-spell in place to min-max your casting uptime, as you will have a lot of downtime where you can DPS the boss. Focus mainly on using personals and externals correctly on the 3 targets with [wow-spell id=438976]Royal Condemnation, if the 3 targets, and everyone else survives, there will not be a big issue in healing the raid up afterwards, even with plenty of adds up, this phase is also very heavily play-to-win based, not about actual hps throughput.

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