Preservation Evoker Midnight Gearing Guide

In Midnight Season 2, Preservation has one shared tier set for both Flameshaper and Chronowarden. It is strong for both Hero Talents, although Flameshaper has more direct interactions with its effects.

Midnight Season 2 Pres Evoker Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set-Bonus: Spending Essence Burst casts a Living Flame at 100% effectiveness at your target or a nearby injured ally.
• (4) Set-Bonus: Green spells heal for 5% more, and Verdant Embrace has a 100% chance to grant Essence Burst.

Tier Set Discussion

The 2-set rewards generating and spending Essence Burst as often as possible, because it fires an instant Living Flame each time. Because of this, Emerald Blossom becomes the preferred Essence spender in season two, because spamming it instead of Echo is more useful, while also providing great immediate healing and synergy with the preferred Hero Talent: Flameshaper.

Flameshaper has a strong synergy with the tier-set. Conduit Of Flame gives more Critical Strike and Titanic Precision allows those critical strikes with Living Flame to generate more Essence Bursts. This leads to a loop, where your Living Flames generate Essence Burst procs and spending those procs fires Living Flames, leading to even more Essence Burst procs. The 4-set also fits naturally with Flameshaper’s heavier use of Dream Breath, Verdant Embrace and Emerald Blossom.

Chronowarden mainly benefits from the 2-set because the Living Flame procs become Chrono Flames, making them significantly stronger. The 4-set improves Verdant Embrace and thus Reverberations, but it’s a rather weak interaction.

The set also makes several talents in your spec tree more attractive. Enkindled, Call Of Ysera and Lifeforce Mender all make the Living Flames sent out by the 2-set stronger and Titan's Gift improves the Essence spells used to consume your procs. Apart from that, Inner Flame becomes a more attractive talent to pick up, because it can create a strong window of additional Essence Burst generation. Wings Of Liberty also becomes more interesting, as it gives you another Verdant Embrace charge, in case you want more control over when you want to reliably generate those Essence Burst procs.

For Flameshaper, all of these Living Flame interactions increase the value of Critical Strike, especially because of its interactions with Conduit Of Flame, Titanic Precision and Exhilarating Burst.

These lists are still preliminary and may change as more simulations, testing and reliable information become available, although they give you a solid idea of which items are strong for Preservation Evoker and which content to target.

For the most accurate result, you should still sim your own character on QE Live, as the best item can vary depending on your current gear.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Rather than listing every viable trinket, this section focuses on the strongest options you should realistically aim for.

Best-In-Slot Trinkets: Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel + Gebbo's Bottomless Bag

Trinket rankings can change quickly with tuning and may also depend on item level. Use QELive to compare your available options.

I generally prefer pairing one active trinket with one passive trinket. This gives you an extra healing cooldown for dangerous moments without adding too many additional buttons to manage.

• Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel is currently the strongest option. Its party-wide absorb gives you another healing cooldown.
• Gebbo's Bottomless Bag is the best passive trinket to pair with Soulcoiler.
• Wavecaller's Seastone is a strong passive alternative. It gradually builds up Intellect before cycling back down again.
• Lightspire Core is one of the best dungeon trinkets and a good option while working toward the raid trinkets.
• Freightrunner's Flask is another strong Mythic+ option and pairs well with Lightspire Core for a dungeon-only setup.
• Stormbound Emblem Of Dazar is a decent alternative, but falls behind the stronger options and requires a two-second channel.

The Mythic+ trinket pool is currently somewhat undertuned compared to the raid options. Lightspire Core and Freightrunner's Flask are still good stepping stones, but your long-term goal should be Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel paired with Gebbo's Bottomless Bag.

Crafted gear comes with the benefit of being big item level upgrades but also embellishments. You only get two embellishment slots, so your goal is to pick something that stays valuable and doesn’t lock you into awkward tradeoffs. Crafted Gear also has the benefit of letting you choose the exact secondary stats you want.

Your best first craft is an Aln'hara Lantern off-hand with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt, especially if you plan to bonus-roll Jan'thrazet, The Soul Fang as your main-hand weapon.

Your long-term goal for both M+ and raiding is to get two Items with Arcanoweave Lining.

After crafting your off-hand, you can work toward Farstrider's Plated Bracers and Farstrider's Razor Talons with Arcanoweave Lining. If you are not planning to target Jan’thrazet, you can skip the off-hand and start with the two Arcanoweave Lining items instead.

Crafted Gear Priority:

• Aln'hara Lantern with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Farstrider's Plated Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining
• Farstrider's Razor Talons with Arcanoweave Lining

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the second week of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Your best early-season strategy is to bonus-roll Heroic Ula’tek until you obtain Jan’thrazet and Awoken Dreadfang Cuirass. Aqirbane Reliquary is another valuable item you can receive from the same loot pool.

After that, Mythic Nek’zali is your next best target for Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel. Spending Voidcores on Mythic+ is generally less valuable early in the season, but The Blinding Vale (Lightspire Core) and Voidscar Arena (Sickening Signet Of Atroxus) are good alternatives if you do not have access to the raid targets.

My Recommendation

Early in the season, I recommend prioritizing the high-value target items listed above. Since a raid bonus roll now only costs 1 Nebulous Voidcore, and rolling on Heroic can still reward the Mythic-level version of an item, there is no longer a reason to generally prioritize Mythic+ over raid.

If you join late in the season and have a lot of bonus rolls available, or if you already have all of the important target items listed above, you can use the following system to find the most lucrative dungeons or raid bosses to spend your remaining rolls on.

Look at each dungeon’s loot table and ask how many items in that dungeon are actually meaningful upgrades for you. The more useful items a dungeon has for your character, the better that dungeon is as a bonus roll target. It can be helpful to also check if your other loot specs (Devastation/Augmentation) have less undesirable Items in their loot table.

A good, practical way to think about it is:

• count how many drops in the dungeon you would be happy to get
• compare that to the total number of items in the dungeon loot pool
• prioritize the dungeons with the best ratio

You can also weigh certain items more heavily. A weapon or a trinket is worth more than a cloak upgrade, so a dungeon or raidboss with one huge target piece can still be worth rolling even if the ratio looks a bit worse.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

The Omnium Folio consists of five rows of runes. One new row unlocks each week through a weekly quest, and you can freely swap between unlocked rune choices outside of combat.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Preservation Evoker:

• Row 1: Rune Of Void-Touched Orbs - is the safest and most consistent option. Rune Of Unleashed Fire can also perform well when enemies are stacked and you have good uptime, but it is more positioning-dependent and less reliable in movement-heavy situations.
• Row 2: Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell - is the best option for Mythic+ and raiding, as it helps protect from large incoming hits.
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Flex - Pick the secondary stat that best matches the stat priority you are aiming for. See the Stat Priorities section for more information.
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload (Mythic+) and Rune Of Echoes (Raid) Rune of Overload is the more reliable option, especially in Mythic+. Rune of Echoes can be stronger in longer encounters where the delayed repeat effect has enough uptime to fully pay off (raid).

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.