Preservation Evoker Leveling Guide from 10 to 90 — 12.0.5

Preservation Evoker is an extremely fast leveling class largely due to the very high mobility it has compared to other classes. Not to mention, you also can heal dungeons for a faster queue time.

At lower levels, you will often have the easiest time leveling up by playing Preservation and queueing for dungeons due to the nearly instant queue time. Even if you find yourself uncomfortable healing, early leveling dungeons are not too difficult, so they are a good opportunity to learn!

At higher levels where questing becomes faster and, in some cases, mandatory (such as the expansion campaign), you will want to spec into Devastation Evoker as it will offer you the most overall DPS, giving you the fastest possible questing experience.

Leveling Information

Beginner Leveling Guides

If this is your first character, or want to know more about the leveling process in Midnight, we've got you covered with these two guides!

Basic LevelingMidnight Leveling

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

When using Heirloom items to help increase leveling speed, you will generally want to use as many Haste pieces as possible, to help combat the very low secondary stats you are likely to have. This will increase the speed of your rotation and help to prevent things from feeling slow and clunky.

Itemization

Leveling Heirlooms

Learn how to use Heirloom gear to level your characters as fast as possible!

Heirlooms Guide

When leveling in Midnight, many of the consumables you used throughout the War Within will continue to be valuable. Make sure that you always have a flash active: Flask of Tempered Swiftness. As well as plenty of potions that can be helpful: Tempered Potion. At the end of the expansion many players will try to sell off their remaining stash of consumables so you can often find cheap ones to help you speed up your leveling!

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

Here, you will find information on the best PvP talents for both leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

1. Dream Projection is a powerful cooldown that will place a large HoT on yourself and allies.
2. Unburdened Flight is useful for kiting enemies and running away to prevent being staggered.
3. Swoop Up can be useful in moving you and one of your party members around.

Preservation Evoker PvP talents do not provide much benefit to speed up the leveling process. Their sole use is for utility purposes, and overall, these talents will not greatly improve or hinder your leveling speed.

To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

1. Cast Echo to apply the buff to allies and spend Essence.
2. Use Reversion on cooldown.
3. Cast Verdant Embrace for a quick single-target heal.
4. Cast Dream Breath to heal your party as long as they are within the radius.
5. Cast Rewind during massive party-wide damage.
6. Use Stasis to store healing and recast it whenever your party takes large damage.
7. Heal with Living Flame when you have no other abilities available.
8. Use your DPS rotation (detailed below) if no healing is required.

The DPS Rotation is fairly simple and should be used when no healing is needed, or you are questing.

1. Use Deep Breath on cooldown for large AoE damage.
2. Use Fire Breath on cooldown.
3. Use Disintegrate whenever you have the Essence for it.
4. Cast Living Flame when you have no Essence and Fire Breath is on cooldown.

Until you get access to more abilities, you may find yourself heavily relying on Living Flame for healing. Once you gain access to more spells you can start to add them to your rotation and cast less Living Flames.

While leveling, Echo can realistically be consumed with any abilities, but your best choices will be similar to that of Mythic+. Using it on Reversion will give you strong passive healing, Verdant Embrace will give you more burst healing, and Dream Breath gives you some extra healing over time as well. You should experiment with all of them and just get used to pressing different kinds of abilities while leveling. The more you experiment, the more you learn, and the better you will become once you reach max level.

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This guide has been written by Mytholxgy, a former RWF progression raider and analyst for Pieces and Liquid. He is also a Templar in the Paladin Class Discord, as well as one of the class experts in the Evoker Discord. You can reach him on Twitter and watch him stream occasionally on Twitch.