Preservation

Midnight 12.1 arena

Preservation Evoker PvP guide

How Preservation Evokers actually play arena: the PvP talents they take, what they press when they go, how they survive, what to kick on them, and the comps they play. Counted from real rated games, not written from memory.

Most taken PvP talent

Emerald Communion

Emerald Communion

100%

Main cooldown

Tip the Scales

Tip the Scales

73%

On the enemy healer

Sleep Walk

86%

Preservation Evoker PvP talents

How often each PvP talent is taken. Click one for what it does.

Commune with the Emerald Dream, restoring 20% health and 2% mana every 0.9 sec for 4.5 sec. Overhealing is transferred to an injured ally within 40 yds. Castable while stunned, disoriented, incapacitated, or silenced.

Verdant Embrace wreathes you in arcane energy, preventing the next full loss of control effect against you. Lasts 3 sec.

Fire Breath burns away 2 beneficial Magic effects from all targets.

While Obsidian Scales is active you gain immunity to interrupt, silence, and pushback effects.

Class and spec tree talents, with the build most players run and every cooldown adjusted for it: Preservation Evoker talents and kit.

What Preservation Evokers press when they go

The offensive cooldowns in their goes, and how often each one is in it.

Tip the Scales Tip the Scales
73%
Deep Breath
68%

Crowd control on the enemy healer during a go

  • Sleep Walk 86%
  • Terror of the Skies Terror of the Skies 10%

How Preservation Evokers survive a go

Dies in

6%

of rounds. Every spec: 25%

Dies first in

2%

of rounds. Every spec: 17%

What to kick on a Preservation Evoker

The casts worth an interrupt, ranked the way top players rank them, and how often each one is stopped this season.

  • High Sleep Walk stopped 8% of the time
  • High Dream Breath Dream Breath stopped 1% of the time
  • High Emerald Communion Emerald Communion Never stopped: most likely instant or not interruptible, so save the kick
  • Medium Fire Breath Fire Breath stopped 1% of the time
  • Medium Disintegrate stopped 5% of the time
  • Low Living Flame Living Flame stopped 4% of the time

Priorities from Skill Capped's Preservation Evoker guide for 12.1 (Midnight Season 2).

Preservation Evoker 3v3 arena comps

The teams Preservation Evokers play in most.

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Counted from rated arena games uploaded to MindCollector: every player in every game, not only the one who recorded it. Updated 19 Oct 2026.