Hi, I’m a current Gladiator preservation evoker player and the following change needs to be reverted:
Nerf the healing but not the cooldown. Without Spiritbloom, our entire spec is built around Dream Breath, our only healing empowerment spell. A 20% increase to the cooldown of our main rotational ability leads to a nonlinear reduction in the flow of the spec (literally via Flow State). This leads to stale gameplay, which is not the stated intent of the change as the nerf has far-reaching implications beyond just Dream Breath’s healing breakdown.
Alternatively, bring back Spiritbloom, and rebalance the empower spells so you aren’t stuck into a design hole around Dream Breath.
Finally, giving Consume Flame the Disintegrate consumption of Fire Breath back would help narrow the gap between hero talent trees (Chronowarden is offensively superior via Chronal Dynamo), while returning the unique sustain vs. burst flavor to both specs. This was broken when you added Chronal Dynamo and removed offensive Consume Flame in 12.0.5 without notice – since you are rebalancing Consume Flame, it seems an apt time to correct this.