Stat Priorities
Item level is by far the biggest upgrade, especially early on in the tier, as it increases your intellect. After that you can balance it out more by following this priority:
Raiding: Intellect > Mastery > Crit = Versatility >> Haste
Mastery will be your biggest gain in raiding. If you play the Echo build, Crit will have slightly more value than Versatility.
Mythic+: Intellect >= Haste = Crit > Versatility > Mastery.
If you feel like you’re lacking healing in mythic+, especially early on in the season you can opt in for more mastery as this increases your throughput. The stat priority above is for the biggest gain in damage in keys.
Mastery does nothing for your damage so it loses its value in Mythic+. Every other stat increases both your damage and healing so a variety of stats is good to go with. Versatility is a good stat for higher keys because it helps reduce your damage taken but you can’t really go wrong with any of them.
Races
Evoker is only available to the Dracthyr race.
Enchants
Enchant Weapon - Dreaming Devotion is the best weapon enchant for raiding while Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion is the best weapon enchant for mythic plus. If you play both you can stick with Sophic Devotion as it works in both settings.
You want to default to leech enchants on both bracers and cloak. On progress encounters where you’re in danger of getting one shot you would want to default to avoidance. Avoidance will make it safer to take big hits, while leech will help you get topped faster and provide a bit of extra throughput.
The ideal chest enchant is Waking Stats followed by Reserve of Intellect. You can consider staying away from the extra mana and prefer the full stats increase as it won’t often make a big difference.
Ring enchants will be dependent on the content you do and on the rest of your gear. They are good for balancing out your stats. As a rule of thumb you’d want Mastery for raiding and in Mythic+ you can use ring enchants to fill in gaps of your stats.
Your boot enchant of choice will be Watcher’s Loam boot enchant, Plainsrunner Breeze isn’t an awful option as more movement speed can always be good in helping you get around and avoid mechanics but as evokers have a ton of mobility and stamina is always helpful, you’d ideally just go with Watcher’s Loam.
For your belt you only have one option which is: Shadowed Belt Clasp, this enchant increases your stamina by 106.
Gems
As for gems, you have your standard secondary stat gems, but also gems that increase your primary and secondary. You can only use one primary stat gem, and they’re a big upgrade so make sure you use one. The best choice for this is Skillful Illimited Diamond, which increases your Primary stat by +75 and your Mastery by +66. Primary stat gems are a crafted item so you will have to ask a crafter for help.
After that you can use secondary stat gems, you would ideally want to go with secondary stat gems that give you 2 secondary stats. If you use gems with 1 stat you get less stats which makes you lose out.
The best way to go about this is to gem for the content you are doing. If you are raiding, mastery gems are great, an example being Sensei’s Neltharite which provides an additional +70 mastery and +33 critical strike. In m+ you can use gems to balance your stats more, leaning towards stats other than mastery like crit and versatility.
Consumables
Health Potion: Dreamwalker’s Healing Potion
Mana Potion:
- Instant Mana Potion: Aerated Mana Potion
- Sleeping Mana Potion: Potion of Frozen Focus
Sleeping potions will give you more mana than an instant mana potion if fully channeled but they might be hard to use and fully channel in a high movement encounter.
Flask: Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage and Phial of Tepid Versatility are both good options. The latter gives you a bit more survivability. Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is a good option to gain a bit of throughput but this will risk your personal safety due to the damage it does to yourself.
Food: Feasts are your best option but for your personal food you can also go with Deviously Deviled Eggs. This personal food will give you intellect.
Rune: For raiding you’ll want to use the Hissing Rune (Mastery). For m+ you’ll want to use Howling Rune (Haste).