Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents & Hero Talents for Preservation Evokers in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Preservation Evoker PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Preservation Evokers in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Preservation Evoker PvP Talents in The War Within.

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Hero Talents: Chronowarden
Class Talents
Spec Talents
PvP Talents

The War Within expands our arsenal of talent options, which include our new talent hero talent trees, Chronowarden and Flameshaper. With Flameshaper being a bit lackluster in the current meta, we will only expand on the recommend talent choices for Chronowarden.

Hero Talents: Chronowarden

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For for preferred Preservation loadout, we have Chronowarden. This Hero tree is comprised with a variety of useful talents that not only buff our healing, but we receive way more stat modifiers and cooldown reduction, mainly after using Tip the Scales.

In terms of our healing, our hallmark talent, Chrono Flames, now makes our Living Flame deal more direct damage depending on how much damage you dealt to the target 5 seconds beforehand. Additionally, Living Flame is now a Bronze spell, meaning we can make our cast time way faster with Temporal Compression.

However, let’s delve deeper and fully understand the effectiveness of some talents in this Hero tree that are most significant to our rotation.

Temporal Burst makes our Haste, movement speed, and cooldown reduction on our spells dramatically higher after using Tip the Scales. You’ll be commonly using this ability with Fire Breath to purge off magic buffs and HoT effects, or Spiritbloom for some immediate burst healing.
Reverberations give Spiritbloom a HoT effect, which heals for a partial amount of its direct healing and only applies on targets affected by Spiritbloom. In combination with Primacy, we now prioritize Spiritbloom a bit higher than Dream Breath during our rotation.
Threads of Fate incentivizes us to use an empowered spell immediately after using Tip the Scales, as we can buff the damage and healing from a nearby ally.
Warp replaces Hover to immediately teleport you to your destination instead of pushing your character forward, and in combination with Temporality we receive some solid damage reduction the moment we use it, which rapidly dwindles in effectiveness after a few seconds.
Lastly, we receive Afterimage, which sends up to 3 Chrono Flames depending on how many are hit by your empowered spell.

Evoker Class Talents

In the Evoker Class talent tree, most of your talent choices will be mandatory when advancing onto each tier. Some of most noteworthy mandatory talents are:

Tip the Scales, mainly to fully empower your Fire Breath or Spiritbloom, and to make use out of Temporal Burst in our Chronowarden tree for more Haste, cooldown reduction, and movement speed.
Oppressing Roar to increase the duration your opponent is affected by Crowd Control by 50% while this debuff is active on any affected target.
Rescue to make use of Twin Guardian as it provides you and the ally you gripped with a hefty shield, saving your ally and yourself during crucial moments.

There will then be a few points which can be moved around depending on the composition that you are facing.

For your flexible class talents, Time Spiral and Inherent Resistance can be more swapped around with other talents offered to us. This is dependent on your matchup and current composition played.

Instinctive Arcana against Fury/Arms Warriors, Feral Druids, and Windwalker Monks, as a majority of their damage is physical and provides us with no benefit out of our magic damage reduction from Inherent Resistance.
Overawe if you want more uptime with Oppressing Roar. This can be a potential pick if you are playing with a Windwalker Monk or a Subtlety Rogue to make more of your setups more impactful during a match.

Another flexible change worth noting is the selection between Spatial Paradox and Time Spiral.

Spatial Paradox makes our range way farther for 10 seconds after it has been used, and allows us to cast while moving. This can serve itself as an amazing quality of life improvement if your teammates are constantly pushing in aggressively, reducing the chance that you may not heal your teammates or attack your primary kill target.
Time Spiral can be super helpful with mobility, as it can reset the cooldown of your primary mobility spell. This is great for a variety of specializations to increase their uptime on targets, as well as to avoid incoming damage. For Warlocks specifically, this talent can help with their survivability immensely as it resets their Demonic Circle: Teleport.

Preservation Spec Talents

For our spec talents, most of these will be mandatory as you advance onto each tier. Some of the most noteworthy talents are:

Lifebind tethers you with an ally, making your healing affect the other at reduced effectiveness.
Lifespark gives you a chance for your Reversion healing to proc an instant cast Living Flame that deals 50% more damage or healing, depending on the target you use Living Flame on. This synergizes fairly well with Chrono Flames for more direct healing or damage.
Stasis, which is an extremely versatile spell and can be utilized in many different ways. We best explain how to use this ability in our Preservation course guides.
Time Dilation mitigates half of the damage taken and the damage is now dealt over the span of 8 seconds. This makes our hot maintenance way more effective during bursty windows.

However, if you feel comfortable with Preservation Evoker and want to make the most out of Essence Burst with Temporal Compression, we highly advise playing these talents listed below, as they provide you with more Essence Bursts and are now stronger when used.

Keep in mind, as this change involves removing a talent point from Renewing Breath and Life-Giver’s Flame.

Spark of Insight requires you to cast 4 Bronze spells, followed by an empowered spell, for an Essence Burst.
Titan’s Gift makes our Essence Burst more powerful as the essence ability we consume with it is 25% stronger.

Preservation Evoker PvP Talents

As for our default loadout, although there tends to be some slight variation in what people choose to play, we recommend running Scouring Flame, Obsidian Mettle, and Nullifying Shroud as your default PvP talent loadout.

Scouring Flame is great against Restoration Druids, Discipline Priests, or any class that relies on dispellable magic effects, as you can purge them off with Fire Breath depending on your Fire Breath‘s empower level.
Obsidian Mettle enhances your Obsidian Scales with an Aura Mastery effect attached to it, providing you with an immunity to interrupts, silences, and pushback effects while active.
Nullifying Shroud immunes up to 3 Crowd Control effects that would have otherwise been applied to your character, depending on the amount of stacks you have. Be mindful as this can be purged, making it important to Line of Sight at times where your opponent can potentially purge your stacks.

Finally, you can swap to/from Scouring Flame or Obsidian Mettle depending on the matchup or which optional talent you choose from:

Time Stop freezes the affected target as well as any effects that were applied. Against setup teams that deal a lot of single target damage, this is best substituted with Obsidian Mettle, as you aren’t reliant on long empowerment casts. To make use of this, you can either apply it on yourself to break up Crowd Control chains or immune incoming Crowd Control the moment your Nullifying Shroud stacks expire, or on the enemy’s kill target when your opponents use offensive cooldowns that deal heavy on-demand burst damage.
Unburdened Flight makes your mobility a lot stronger, and is best against melee cleaves that are constantly training you. This makes you immune to snare effects when Hover is active. You’ll most likely want to substitute Scouring Flame out for this talent, since Obsidian Mettle will strengthen your survivability.