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Stat Priorities
Raid Stat Ranking
Raid Intellect > Mastery > Crit > Haste > Vers
Mastery is generally your strongest healing stat. It starts hitting diminishing returns at around 1,380 rating, but this is not a hard cap and does not automatically make Critical Strike better. Use QE Live to check which stat is best for your current gear.
Critical Strike is strong in raid because it makes your ramps heal for more and is usually more mana-efficient than Haste.
Mythic+ Stat Ranking
Healing focus: Intellect > Mastery > Critical Strike > Haste > Versatility
Damage focus: Intellect > Critical Strike > Haste > Mastery > Versatility
In Mythic+, around 20% Haste is a good comfort point for most players. It makes the spec feel smoother and lowers the cooldown of important spells like Temporal Anomaly, Verdant Embrace, and Reversion. However, this is not a hard breakpoint or cap you need to reach.
For a healing-focused setup, Mastery is your strongest secondary stat because Mythic+ healing is often about covering short, dangerous damage windows rather than constantly casting for maximum throughput with a lot of haste. After you have a comfortable amount of Haste and around 1380 Mastery rating, you can start putting more value into Critical Strike.
For exact gear choices, use QuestionablyEpic to compare items based on your character and logs. It evaluates your character using your gear and logs to help determine which items will give you the best overall healing performance.
Tertiary Stats
Stats like Leech and Avoidance are very strong for Preservation Evoker. Both help you stay healthier, which in turn keeps your Mastery bonus active more consistently. Because of this, gear with Leech or Avoidance is usually worth prioritizing over slightly higher item level pieces without tertiaries.
In raid, Leech is generally more valuable due your higher overall healing output, while in Mythic+, Avoidance is slightly favored, as it helps you stay healthier than the rest of the group during sudden group-wide damage moments.
Stat Outline
Every secondary stat interacts with Preservation Evoker’s spells and talents in different ways. Their value becomes clearer once you understand how and why they matter.
Mastery
Mastery provides the highest raw healing throughput per point. While it offers no DPS contribution, healer damage is tuned very low this expansion, making that tradeoff largely irrelevant.
Haste
Haste is one of the most impactful stats in Midnight and plays into nearly every part of Preservation’s gameplay. It reduces GCDs and cast times, increases HoT tick rate, and lowers the cooldown of some of your most important spells like Verdant Embrace, Reversion, and Temporal Anomaly.
Critical Strike
Critical Strike plays an important role in how Preservation Evoker functions. Reversion extends its own duration when it critically heals. Chronowarden gains extra value through Double-Time, extending Dream Breath and Fire Breath on critical strikes, while Flameshaper benefits from Titanic Precision, allowing Living Flame crits to trigger Essence Burst more often. With Exhilarating Burst, critical heals heal a lot more after gaining Essence Burst.
Versatility
Versatility increases your damage and healing done while also reducing damage taken, making it primarily a survivability-focused stat. However, it is also the least efficient secondary stat per point. In raid, this makes it a low priority, since incoming damage is rarely lethal for healers.
In Mythic+, Vers can still have some value, but its importance has dropped compared to previous expansions. With encounter design shifting away from one-shots and toward more sustained damage-over-time, Versatility is no longer as mandatory as it once was. Its main benefit now is helping you stay healthy, which improves Mastery uptime by keeping its bonus active.
Races
Evoker is only available to the Dracthyr race.
Enchants
Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex Of Leeching
Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending
Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul
Legs: Arcanoweave Spellthread
Boots: Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots
For your weapon, Enchant Weapon - Acuity Of The Ren'dorei and Enchant Weapon - Rite Of The Hash'ey are both recommended options.
For rings, compare Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery with Enchant Ring - Eyes Of The Eagle based on the stats your setup needs.
Use QE Live when you are deciding between different stat options.
Gems
In Midnight both rings and the neck always come with a socket, and additional sockets cannot be added to them. You can, however, add sockets to your
- Helm
- Bracers
- Belt
The item for this is called Miasmic Jewelbinder and can be purchased from the vendor next to the Great Vault in Silvermoon. This results in six total gem slots, or seven if you use Eye Of Midnight, which has two sockets.
Your neck can be fitted with a unique gem. Telluric Eversong Diamond is the default choice, as it helps you with your mana in longer encounters. If mana is not a concern, Indecipherable Eversong Diamond becomes the stronger alternative.
For your remaining sockets, Flawless Quick Amethyst and Flawless Masterful Garnet are usually the best option. Compare your options in QE Live when optimizing your current gear.
If you use Telluric Eversong Diamond, make sure to use all four different gem colors needed for its effect.
Consumables
Food: Hearty Royal Roast as your feast or Hearty Silvermoon Parade as your personal food.
Flasks: Flask Of The Magisters will be your best option. Flask Of The Blood Knights is an alternative in Mythic+ when you have enough healing and want more damage.
Potions: Lightfused Mana Potion for mana recovery, Potion Of Recklessness for more healing-throughput.
Health Potions: Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion. Place it somewhere you can press quickly when you need it.
Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil is the default, this increases your Crit and Haste.
Augment Rune: Void-Touched Augment Rune