Evoker Preservation Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Tip the ScalesOff-GCD 2 Fire Breath 3 Living Flame 4 Emerald Blossom 5 Twin Flame 6 Verdant Embrace 7 Verdant Embrace 8 Emerald Blossom 9 Stasis (Store)Off-GCD 10 Dream Breath 11 Dream Breath 12 Temporal Anomaly 13 Twin Flame

1 Emerald Blossom 2 Emerald Blossom 3 Tip the ScalesOff-GCD 4 Fire Breath 5 Echo 6 Echo 7 Echo 8 Stasis (Store)Off-GCD 9 Dream Breath 10 Dream Breath 11 Temporal Anomaly 12 Emerald Blossom 13 Fire Breath 14 Echo 15 Echo

1 Tip the ScalesOff-GCD 2 Fire Breath 3 Emerald Blossom 4 Living Flame 5 Emerald Blossom 6 Echo 7 Echo 8 Merithra's Blessing 9 Emerald Blossom 10 Living Flame 11 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 12 Fire Breath 13 Emerald Blossom 14 Stasis (Store)Off-GCD 15 Dream Breath

#showtooltip Fire Breath
/cast Tip the Scales
/cast Fire Breath

Ability	Top-player CPM
Emerald Blossom	11.3
Echo	10.1
Dream Breath	5.5
Merithra's Blessing	4.7
Temporal Anomaly	4.0
Fire Breath	3.7
Living Flame	1.9
HoverOff-GCD	1.0
Stasis (Store)Off-GCD	0.7
Naturalize	0.6
Tip the ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
Obsidian ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
Stasis (Release)Off-GCD	0.6
Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Time DilationOff-GCD 2 HoverOff-GCD 3 Stasis (Store)Off-GCD 4 Dream Breath 5 Temporal Anomaly 6 Glide 7 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 8 Glide 9 Glide 10 Merithra's Blessing 11 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 12 Tip the ScalesOff-GCD 13 Fire Breath 14 Obsidian ScalesOff-GCD 15 Emerald Blossom

1 Fire Breath 2 Time Spiral 3 HoverOff-GCD 4 Living Flame 5 Reversion 6 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 7 Stasis (Store)Off-GCD 8 Dream Breath 9 HoverOff-GCD 10 Temporal Anomaly 11 Verdant Embrace 12 Verdant Embrace 13 Emerald Blossom 14 Emerald Blossom

1 Echo 2 HoverOff-GCD 3 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 4 Echo 5 Stasis (Store)Off-GCD 6 Dream Breath 7 Temporal Anomaly 8 Tip the ScalesOff-GCD 9 Fire Breath 10 Twin Flame 11 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 12 Merithra's Blessing 13 Emerald Blossom

#showtooltip Dream Breath
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Stasis (Store)
/cast Dream Breath

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 98%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 90% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 8%	Rune of Self-Mending 60% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 38%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Critical Power 54% Rune of Masterful Cunning 44% Rune of Burning Haste 3%	Rune of Critical Power 45% Rune of Masterful Cunning 35% Rune of Burning Haste 18%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%	Rune of Overload 100%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Emerald Blossom

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Rescue

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Verdant Embrace

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Cauterizing Flame

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Living Flame

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Emerald Blossom	11.3
2	Echo	10.1
3	Dream Breath	6.0
4	Fire Breath	5.2
5	Living Flame	4.9
Z	Merithra's Blessing	4.7
X	Temporal Anomaly	4.0
C	HoverOff-GCD	1.2
V	Glide	1.2
R	Stasis (Store)Off-GCD	0.7
F	Naturalize	0.6
T	Tip the ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
G	Obsidian ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+1	Stasis (Release)Off-GCD	0.6
Shift+2	Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
—	DisintegratePassiveFires right after spell 1265980	8.6