Hello Mefara
Preservation can certain seem daunting at first but soon as you get a feel for the flow of it I hope you’ll find it more enjoyable! Here are some things that might help out.
Verdant Embrace is one of your best ST heals (or group wide heals when you ensure everyone has echo on them). However it can also put you in a bad spot mechanic wise. So I usually echo my entire team and then just use a macro to use it on myself. This keeps you safe and keeps your health up to make best use of your mastery (increased healing if your health is higher than your target’s).
Macro example:
#showtooltip Verdant Embrace(Green)
/cast [@Draikia] Verdant Embrace(Green)
Cooldown wise:
Time Dilation- great for tanks soaking a mechanic or the “oh sh!t that person is about to die button” gives you time to get them topped up.
Rewind- Group/Raid wide damage- be sure to use it within 5 seconds after that big damage occurring. I like to plan it out ahead of time- like on X boss mechanic I plan to use rewind and nothing else to get the team through.
Emerald Communion- Can very much be used as a group wide / raid wide CD. Use temporal orb to get out as many echos as you can. Use verdant embrace then immediately use Emerald Communion- this will keep your party/raid very healthy for whatever mechanic you need to get through because of lifebind.
Zephyr- Nice little group wide 20% DR. Use it early and often.
Stasis- The most complex spell to wrap your mind around as a newer Pres evoker but one of the best skills in the game imo. I use this constantly- it should almost always be on CD as you prepare for the next big mechanic. For M+ i’ll usually put 1x Temporal Anomaly, 1x R1 Dream Breath, 1x max rank spirit bloom into this. Then before I use it i’ll send out another TA to get echo on everyone and then VE (giving both the lifebind increase & the buff to my next dream breath on everyone through Call of Ysera) this will almost certainly get you through the next big mechanic and top your group quickly.
During raid pre-pull i’ll store 2x TAs, on pull cast the 3rd TA. Then use these 3 orbs to coat the entire raid in echoes. Once that first big damage mechanic of the boss hits VE into Emerald Communion for one of the highest hps throughput cds in the game.
I go into more detail about healing in this previous post and while its a bit older most of the information is still accurate: The honeymoon is over, Evokers - #19 by Draikia-zuljin
TLDR:
Try this build: BwbB9HUZ/a8TRPCT7X7rHDONyhAlIRIClkkESjWSSSIBAAAAAEJtQCEISSSSSEJCA
Use VE on yourself, put out as many echos as possible and keep up a R1 Dream Breath on your party.
Hope this helps. If you ever have questions feel free to hit me up. I’m by no means an expert but i’ll do my best to assist ^^