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

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

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

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

Ability	Top-player CPM
Emerald Blossom	12.2
Echo	9.0
Dream Breath	5.5
Merithra's Blessing	4.7
Temporal Anomaly	4.0
Fire Breath	3.7
Living Flame	2.0
HoverOff-GCD	0.9
Glide	0.8
Naturalize	0.6
Obsidian ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
Stasis (Release)Off-GCD	0.6
Tip the ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
Stasis (Store)Off-GCD	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

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	12.2
2	Echo	9.0
3	Dream Breath	6.0
4	Fire Breath	5.3
5	Living Flame	4.9
Z	Merithra's Blessing	4.7
X	Temporal Anomaly	4.0
C	HoverOff-GCD	1.3
V	Glide	1.3
R	Naturalize	0.6
F	Obsidian ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
T	Stasis (Release)Off-GCD	0.6
G	Tip the ScalesOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+1	Stasis (Store)Off-GCD	0.6
—	DisintegratePassiveFires right after spell 1265980	7.8