Preservation Evoker Midnight Gearing Guide

In Midnight Season One, Evoker has one shared tier set for Flameshaper and Chronowarden. The set is strong for both Hero Talent paths, but the way each one benefits from it is different.

Midnight Season 1 Pres Evoker Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Verdant Embrace healing increased by 20% and cooldown reduced by 2 sec.
• (4) Set Bonus: Verdant Embrace grows an Emerald Blossom on your target at 100% effectiveness.

Tier Set Discussion

Flameshaper benefits heavily from the reduced Verdant Embrace cooldown and the Emerald Blossom of the four-piece bonus. More Verdant Embrace casts mean more Emerald Blossom procs, and since both abilities trigger Consume Flame, this results in stronger spot healing and significantly more AoE healing.

Chronowarden, on the other hand, gains most of its value from the two-piece bonus. Because the spec already revolves around Verdant Embrace through talents like Reverberations, the 20% healing increase is a direct and impactful throughput gain. The four-piece bonus has no meaningful interactions.

Regarding the talent tree, the four-piece interacts cleanly with Twin Echoes, as the automatic Emerald Blossom procs enable double Echo casts. The Emerald Blossom cast from the four-piece set bonus does not trigger Merithra's Blessing.

You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character on QE Live, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Preservation Evoker, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The current recommended trinkets are a mix of raid and dungeon trinkets:

1. Locus-Walker's Ribbon: Mastery trinket with an Intellect proc that ramps up the longer you stay in combat. Very strong in sustained fights, which makes it especially good in the raid.
2. Gaze Of The Alnseer: Mastery trinket with a proc that allows you to ramp up a stacking intellect buff.
3. Vaelgor's Final Stare: On-use trinket that grants a large amount of Mastery, decaying over 15 seconds. It is especially strong in raid when playing Stasis, since the timing lines up very well with it.
4. Litany Of Lightblind Wrath: On-use trinket, that provides a very large shield to injured group members. Needs you to use damage spells.
5. Emerald Coach's Whistle: Intellect trinket that lets you “coach” an ally. Your helpful spells can grant both you and that target a Mastery buff.
6. Radiant Sunstone: On-use trinket that heals an ally and causes your spells to also heal them for a short duration. Useful for planned healing moments, but generally weaker than passive proc trinkets for overall throughput.

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.

Your best first craft is a two-handed weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt, since that is your biggest early power gain.

Your long-term goal for both M+ and raiding is the Root Warden’s Regalia set:

• World Tender's Barkclasp
• World Tender's Rootslippers

Start with a weapon craft using Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt, since that gives you the biggest power gain early on. You can then craft your first Root Warden’s Regalia piece and keep using the weapon embellishment. Once you are ready to craft the second set piece and activate the set bonus, that is when you drop the weapon embellishment and fully swap to the set.