For reference I have played holy paladin and restoration shaman at a 12+ level, and I have to say preservation feels so bad in keys. It feels like it’s entire toolkit is centered around raids where you have consistent DMG bursts which it’s toolkit can handle in spades. Yet with M+ with every single mob pack essentially being a pure burst DMG encounter, it’s toolkit seems to fall flat. Like I’ll spread my echos out via hard casting or using a temporal anomaly, and then use something like reversion, or verdant embrace, or what have you to respond. Yet I feel like I am severely lacking in being able to cover the common pig stood in bad healing given every single heal I have has a CD on it, aside from living flame which barely does any healing. Let alone emerald blossom, IDK I’m still a bit new with it, but I feel like a lot of other healers as refer more forgiving than pres is, and it feels like it’s toolkit is severely lacking for M+ from my experiences so far.
The other issue with being Preservation is you’re directly competing with Aug. You don’t want 2 Evokers, if you have the choice you’re choosing the Aug. Even prior to getting into a key, it sounds like a nightmare just to find a group.
I only run 5 man content as Prevoker, because I can’t figure out raid Prevoker worth my life. But I haven’t run M+ this expansion at all. In DF, I had no issues in the keys I ran up to 13s, iirc. But it helps to know when there is damage incoming to pre-cast Spiritbloom or Dream Breath. Using TA then Dream Breath is also nice. Multiple EBs when they proc helps, too.
My only issue is ranged that stand seven states away, on opposite ends. Creative Geometry gets thrown out the window then. LOL
Only issue I’ve had is spot healing/single target healing feels very weak.
You have so many tools to cover overall damage it’s not even funny. The record and replay ability is just broken.
lmao.
This is where I was running into issues as well, the predictable rot or AoE hits I could cover, it’s just the random missed interrupts, or tank literally fumbling their rotation to the point where golden hour was healing for several million was what was my pain points were. Like I remember a couple times they would be at 25% health, and I would echo into a reversion on them and golden hour would help them to 90% + health because of how much damage they were taking. The group I ran with was far from ideal, it was obvious they got carried to their scores, yet I definitely did not enjoy healing the M+ run as much as I’d do doing the raid runs I did tonight.
I imagine it’ll go better in the coming weeks as I get more gear, score, and play with better players, yet tonight was a mess through and though given I felt like I had no “oh poo” buttons out spot heal people with.
everything about drac/evoker makes it an absolutely awful addition to the game and probably the biggest stain on WoW.
Another complaint I had, that “Rewinds past damage” 4 min cd you have is worthless.
I don’t even know how it calculates it, but get this: It’s a HoT.
Over 5 seconds, nowhere does it say ANYTHING about it being over time. Even then I feel like it doesn’t do any noticeable changes.
Garbage unless I’m using it super wrong I guess.
lmao.
It seems to calculate based on the most recent hit, so say the group takes a 50% health hit. Then rewind would be OP for that given that would be a lot of health it would recover. It definitely isn’t a full proof button, but tis definitely a good tool that can give the group an emergency HoT from my experiences so far.
All in all though of things don’t feel better as I keep going, I may shelve my evoker. I wanted to play it as an alt option for my guild, yet if it’s this painful in keys I just don’t think I’ll want to keep going given it just feels so bad.
I got to 2,000 Io in 2 days with it, not really that bad.
Keep in mind, you’ve got 4 other weights party membders on your side, so their performance could very well make it hell to heal. I’ve had tanks who just straight up don’t use their mitigation/utility, since it does no damage.
lmao.
Nope, biggest stain is still shadow lands.
Naw, sorry kiddo. Shadowlands is objectively better than DF, worst race and class aside (dracthur, evoker).
I understand the bandwagon though. /headpat
Damn, you even sound like a Kyle. Insulting for no reason, saying shadow lands was better and hating on something.
On a human paladin character as well. Yeesh, be anymore of a stereotype. Ignoring you now.
standard plug ears, cover eyes, stomp feet behaviour from a bandwagoner.
The real reason is because of the area denial and range limitations.
You are often denied one of your most important heals because of crap you can’t touch around the room. Your only recourse is to echo it, which requires planning ahead.
Then there’s mechanics that actively encourage the dps to spread to the four corners of the room.
The final boss of Ara Kara, for example, is a nightmare to heal compared to any other healer. It’s so easy to get yourself or others killed just by trying to heal them.
Ara Kara makes me vomit sometimes.
I actively seek out evokers if I host a pug.
But mostly because I run with a guy then who is very anti-evoker and ESPECIALLY preservation evoker so I mostly am doing it to spite him. Otherwise I’m normally pugging into keys and don’t particularly care what specs are there.
NGL though most preservation evokers are very hit or miss. Helps that nearly every key I run I largely don’t need a healer thus don’t care about them in the first place. Still if I’m pugging a healer, there is an incredibly low chance I’m going to be too picky. You got a good gear and IO score? Let’s go because I got other things to do.
Oh my, you’re special.
I bet Restodruid is worse.
I let them die. I mark myself with a big green triangle so it is obvious where I am, we are in TWW now so everyone should know what a preservation evoker is and that we have a shorter range. If someone wants to stand outside of my range, and I am very mobile(!), they have made the choice not to get a heal from me. They can move in a tad when they want a heal.
nope biggest stain is still draenei.