Quick Guide

Explanation

Preservation relies heavily on the empower spells and Verdant Embrace to do most of it's healing. Spiritbloom and Dream Breath can be your main sources of healing but their cooldowns force you to stagger them so you always have something to cover damage and also rewards you from planning ahead so you can line up their cooldowns with the specific damage event from bosses and trash packs.

Echoing Verdant Embrace either via Temporal Anomaly or manual Echoes is your most spammable aoe healing as Evoker Preservation 11.1 Class Set 4pc will apply full-power Insurance! to all targets regardless of the strength of the Echo.

The worse thing that can happen is for you to need to do healing but also having none of your short cds ready and zero essence banked up. To avoid this you want to juggle between casting the empowers, Echoing Verdant Embrace and Echoing Reversion for spot healing. The idea is to always be using some short cooldown but never to send a lot of them at the same time or you run the risk of having nothing else ready when you need it.

DPS rotation

1. Use Fire Breath on cooldown
2. Use Deep Breath only on aoe
3. Spam Chrono Flame

Explanation

This is pretty straight forward. Disintegrate does worse damage than Chrono Flame when you aren't specced into it and even if you do pick the talents for it it's still a very tiny dps gain making it not worth it. Same case for Azure Strike being worse than Chrono Flame even in a 2 target scenario.

Cooldown Usage

• Stasis is your main cooldown. It's very short so you should be using it a lot to cover any scenario where you need extra healing and your empowers aren't enough. You always want to store Dream Breath, Spiritbloom and Temporal Anomaly but the order doesn't matter. In desperate situations you can store less valuable spells in order to squeeze more emergency healing very fast but that usually indicates a planning failure
• Emerald Communion should be paired with a Lifebind applied with manually casted Echoes. On low damage scenarios Temporal Anomaly Echoes can be enough but the real power of Emerald Communion as a cooldown shines when you have a full party of manual Echo Lifebinds. This is a very good cooldown on movement having phases as you can move during the channel via either Hover or Dreamwalker and also healing via Lifebind ignores range.
• Tip the Scales is another very powerful cooldown that a lot of the time you will pair with Stasis to help you store a max rank Spiritbloom. The extra haste from Temporal Burst after it's also very good to recover after falling behind in healing. Using Tip the Scales on Fire Breath is not recommended.
• Rewind is more of an emergency button. It's main use is helping you in scenarios where you would have wanted to Stasis or Emerald Communion but you didn't had the opportunity to properly set up beforehand. Don't be afraid to use Rewind to heal a single person if it's necessary, it is very strong on tanks that usually are taking very high damage all the time

Breakdown

Mastery is your best stat for healing in all situations but doesn't increase your damage, after that the stats are pretty equal in value and each have their own benefits and drawbacks. Critical Strike has extra interactions with Reversion and Dream Breath that increase its value. Versatility grants an extra defensive benefit and Haste makes gameplay a bit more fluid.

At the end of the day your secondary stat breakdown really doesn't matter a whole lot and won't make much of a difference so you can really pick whatever you want as long as you remember that Mastery is the best stat for healing outright, and everything else does it's own thing.

Choosing Gear

You should always prioritize item level upgrades due to the intellect and stamina gain, as this is more important than choosing between specific secondary stats, but to help you know what pieces or items you should pick you simply sim yourself on QELive on the dungeon setting.

Explanation

Flameshaper uses Engulf as an additional flex option to respond to damage, the main way to use it is via Lifebind and proccing Consume Flame at the same time, but it can also be a strong single-target heal as long as you get time to properly set up heal over time effects on the target beforehand. Engulf also reduces the cooldown of Dream Breath and Fire Breath every time you use it so your uptime on these other spells will be much higher.

Echoing Verdant Embrace either via Temporal Anomaly or manual Echoes is your most spammable aoe healing as Evoker Preservation 11.1 Class Set 4pc will apply full-power Insurance! to all targets regardless of the strength of the Echo. This lends itself nicely into Lifebind Engulf for very powerful burst healing.

The worse thing that can happen is for you to need to do healing but also having none of your short cds ready and zero essence banked up. To avoid this you want to juggle between casting the empowers, Echoing Verdant Embrace and Echoing Reversion for spot healing. The idea is to always be using some short cooldown but never to send a lot of them at the same time or you run the risk of having nothing else ready when you need it.

Remember that while Echoing Engulf does replicate the healing, it doesn't cause another Consume Flame nor doubles the effect from Flame Siphon.

DPS rotation

1. Use Fire Breath on cooldown
2. Use Deep Breath only on aoe
3. Spam Living Flame

Explanation

This is pretty straight forward. Disintegrate does worse damage than Living Flame when you aren't specced into both Natural Convergence and Energy Loop, and even if you do pick them up it's still a very tiny dps gain making it not worth it. Do note that compared to season 1 Flameshaper Disintegrate got worse because you can't grab Enkindle anymore. Azure Strike isn't relevant when talking about damage, it's only used for utility as a slow.

Cooldown Usage

• Stasis is your main cooldown. It's very short so you should be using it a lot to cover any scenario where you need extra healing and your empowers aren't enough. You almost always want to store Dream Breath, Spiritbloom and Temporal Anomaly but the order doesn't matter. In desperate situations you can store less valuable spells in order to squeeze more emergency healing very fast but that usually indicates a planning failure. Storing Engulfs is also a viable option but requires careful planning as it very easily risks doing a ton of overhealing.
• Emerald Communion should be paired with a Lifebind applied with manually casted Echoes. On low damage scenarios Temporal Anomaly Echoes can be enough but the real power of Emerald Communion as a cooldown shines when you have a full party of manual Echo Lifebinds. This is a very good cooldown on movement having phases as you can move during the channel via either Hover or Dreamwalker and also healing via Lifebind ignores range.
• Tip the Scales is another very powerful cooldown that a lot of the time you will pair with Stasis to help you store a max rank Spiritbloom or use as emergency recovery. Using Tip the Scales on Fire Breath is not recommended.
• Rewind is more of an emergency button. It's main use is helping you in scenarios where you would have wanted to Stasis or Emerald Communion but you didn't had the opportunity to properly set up beforehand. Don't be afraid to use Rewind to heal a single person if it's necessary, it is very strong on tanks that usually are taking very high damage all the time
• Lifecinders is a big gain from playing Flameshaper, you should aim to use it on a vulnerable target every time a good situation presents itself. It's a very good tank healing option and can mitigate a lot of dangerous mechanics if used well.

Breakdown

Mastery is your best stat for healing in all situations, after that the stats are pretty equal in value and each have their own benefits and drawbacks. Critical Strike has an extra interaction with Reversion that increases its value. Versatility grants an extra defensive benefit and finally Haste makes gameplay a bit more fluid.

At the end of the day your secondary stat breakdown really doesn't matter a whole lot and won't make much of a difference so you can really pick whatever you want as long as you remember that Mastery is the best stat for healing outright, and everything else does it's own thing.

Choosing Gear

You should always prioritize item level upgrades due to the intellect and stamina gain, as this is more important than choosing between specific secondary stats, but to help you know what pieces or items you should pick you simply sim yourself on QELive on the dungeon setting.

Cooldown Usage

• Every Emerald Communion should be paired with a Stasis. Use the Stasis to help you ramp for a bigger Lifebind by storing Temporal Anomaly → Echo → Temporal Anomaly. This way after the 2nd Temporal Anomaly is cast you can instantly release the Stasis and the Echoes from the first Temporal Anomaly will still be available, letting you Lifebind all 20 players.
• The extra Stasis between Emerald Communions is more flexible, your main goal is to put high value spells in it which are Dream Breath, Spiritbloom, and Temporal Anomaly.
• Dream Flight should be used in situations where the raid is fairly stacked so you can guarantee healing a majority of it and also when its safe for you to fly around the area without dying.
• Rewind should be assigned as recovery from a single raid-wide big damage event.
• Tip the Scales can be used to quickly cast a max rank Spiritbloom as an emergency heal or as a separate ramping tool: the extra haste and cooldown reduction from Temporal Burst vastly reduces the cooldown of Temporal Anomaly and your global cooldown, letting you very quickly get big Echo coverage in the raid without having to use Stasis

Breakdown

Mastery is your best stat for healing in all situations. Critical Strike pulls ahead after that because of special interactions with Reversion, Exhilarating Burst and Double-time. Versatility is simply a flat passive increase and Haste comes last because a big part of our healing (namely Spiritbloom, Emerald Communion, Stasis) do not scale up with haste at all.

Choosing Gear

You should always prioritize item level upgrades due to the intellect and stamina gain, as this is more important than choosing between specific secondary stats, but to help you know what pieces or items you should pick you simply sim yourself on QELive.

Cooldown Usage

• Stasis is the main cooldown of Flameshaper. Every time Stasis is up you want to store two Engulfs. Because of the 1min 30s cooldown of Stasis depending on your haste you can use either one or two Engulfs in between Stasises and need to pool the rest. for more specifics on how to release the Stasis, check the raid guide
• Emerald Communion should be paired with a Lifebind ramp. You can get up to 15 Echoes out in the raid by casting Temporal Anomaly, spreading manual Echoes while Temporal Anomaly comes off cooldown before using it again and then using Verdant Embrace.
• Dream Flight should be used in situations where the raid is fairly stacked so you can guarantee healing a majority of it and also when its safe for you to fly around the area without dying.
• Rewind should be assigned as recovery from a single raid-wide big damage event.

Breakdown

Reaching the haste breakpoint lets you cast an extra Engulf in between Stasis cooldowns, which is a significant increase in healing if you can make proper use of the extra cast, however if you can't reach it you should prioritize mastery over haste.

The specific breakpoint isn't a set number, as depending on the specific fight that you are doing and how much are you delaying your stasis you will need different amounts of Engulf cooldown to match everything together. At 15% it starts to become doable and at 20% you have ample room to work around it.

Mastery is your best overall healing stat, after that it's critical strike closely followed by haste once you're past the breakpoint, and finally versatility is the worst statistic.

Choosing Gear

You should always prioritize item level upgrades due to the intellect and stamina gain, as this is more important than choosing between specific secondary stats, but to help you know what pieces or items you should pick you simply sim yourself on QELive.