Preservation Evoker Healing Stat Priority — 12.0.5

The stat priority for a Preservation Evoker will remain fairly consistent regardless of content choice. Mastery provides the largest increase to your healing while other stats offer a bit less of a healing boost but also increase your damage output. When optimizing your gear, you will generally be aiming for as much Mastery as possible while keeping a balanced amount of other secondaries.

Regardless if you are playing a Chronowarden or Flameshaper build, your stat priority will stay the same. The emphasis will continue to be on maximizing your Mastery.

Within Mythic+, your stat priority will not change, but you have a bit more choice as to how you want to allocate your stats. Mastery continues to offer the largest healing increase per point, but it does not offer any damage. If you find yourself in situations where you have more healing than you need and want to optimize your damage, you can choose to drop some Mastery in favor of Critical Strike or Haste.

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Understanding the impact of each stat is crucial if you aim to truly minmax your gear and performance. Below we will break down the impact that each stat has.

• Mastery — Preservation Evoker's Mastery: Life-Binder increases your healing done when your max health percentage is higher than whoever you are attempting to heal. While this stat is quite good by itself, it is important to remember that it provides no damage increase, which can hurt its value in content where damage output is important. Every other secondary stat increases your damage even if it is only slightly above 0, Mastery does not.
• Haste — Many spells in the game "scale with haste". What this means is that their cooldowns are decreased as you obtain more haste. For Preservation Evoker, this applies to Temporal Anomaly and Verdant Embrace most notably. The more haste you have, the lesser cooldown these abilities will have.

• Critical Strike — Gives you an increased chance for spells and attacks to deal additional healing or damage. Reversion will additionally have its duration extended when it crits. When playing Chronowarden, the hero talent Double Time will cause Dream Breath and Fire Breath to have their duration extended with crits.

  It is important to note that all abilities listed to this point have caps as to how far their duration can be extended to prevent infinite duration. Additionally, a large percentage of our healing cannot crit. Temporal Anomaly, for example, is unable to crit which hurts the overall value of the stat.

• Versatility — By far the least interesting stat, this increases healing and damage done by a small amount and decreases damage taken. Unfortunately, this stat does not compare to the alternative options. In very high Mythic+ dungeons you may see players running more amounts of it in order to live very high damage intakes that would otherwise 1-shot them, but most players will not experience this. Outside of that specific situation, you will typically avoid targeting gear with Versatility.

Every stat has a limit where they will begin to offer less increase per point gained, which are known as the points of diminishing return. Once you have reached these amounts, stats will become progressively less valuable and may fall behind other options. The current breakpoints are:

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Gearing and Enchants

Your stat priority extends to enchants, consumables, and gear. Take what you learned on this page and apply it to your gameplay with these two guides!

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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.