UPDATE 10/12: After extensive testing in-game, it appears that the passive 5% buff to empower abilities part of the 2p is
not working at all. The six second 5% buff is working as described.
The 4p has been hotfixed to no longer override the duration of your
Furie sanguinaire, but procs will not allow the buff to go above 40 seconds. This means that procs early in
Furie sanguinaire would be partially wasted.
Ensemble de classe d’évocateur Dévastation (2 pièces)The Evoker 2p tier is just a flat 5% buff to crit chance on
Afflux d’éternité and
Souffle de feu, and a 5% buff for 6 seconds after casting them. This seems to also affect
Afflux d’éternité from
Scintillement, and the procs also increase your crit. Even though this is tame, the crit chance on
Afflux d’éternité is really nice especially in cleave thanks to
Œil de l’infini and
Tranche d’éternité.
At the time I am writing this, the flat 5% buff to crit chance on
Afflux d’éternité and
Souffle de feu, is not functioning.
Ensemble de classe d’évocateur Dévastation (2 pièces)The Evoker 4p tier bonus is a chance for a short 6 seconds of the
Furie sanguinaire effect, but unfortunately it
overrides the duration of your actual Furie sanguinaire instead of extending it when it procs while under the effects of Furie sanguinaire. is capped at 40 seconds, which means that early procs are partially wasted.
Scintillement procs do not interact with the 4p, which means that with a 30 second cooldown on
Afflux d’éternité and a 20 second cooldown on
Souffle de feu you will get about 1.25 procs per min. Put another way, you get around 37.5 seconds of
Furie sanguinaire every 5 mins with average RNG. You have no way to control if this procs, since it is a 25% chance.
Preservation Evoker currently has one of the weaker healer tier set bonuses and we'll be pushing for changes or tuning before release.
Build Changes
Réversion is an awkward spell to pick for a tier set that isn't supposed to be influenced by build because if you play into an
Arbre d’émeraude type raid build then you have so few
Réversions out that the bonus isn't very valuable. It also scales very hard with the crit you have on gear, which is unusual for crit bonuses and is caused by
Réversions unique extension mechanic on crits. There can be a lot of power in the bonus, but only if you build, gear and play in a very specific way. If you don't then it can be very poor.
The 4pc also has some build requirements, though they're much easier to grab. You'll want
Flammes bondissantes so that you can cleave your high power
Flamme vivantes, and
Adaptation écarlate since the 20% power increase occurs after the stored healing is added which means you get +20%
Adaptation écarlate value too.
Looking at the Numbers
The 2pc has quite high potential uptime, however in practice it ends up lower since most fights emphasize layering your empowered spells rather than spacing them out. Fortunately Empowered casts are so long that you end up with quite good uptime anyway. Expect it to be active about 50% of the time, peaking around 70% if you're able to hit your Empowers on cooldown (this isn't very realistic).
The 4pc procs randomly so long as you have a
Réversion out and you can expect 2.25 x haste procs per minute. This is a pretty nice quality of life bonus and it's nice that it can be used flexibly between damage and healing. Sadly it doesn't really pack much actual power. If we're not able to take advantage of
Flammes bondissantes then we're looking at ~120 or so HPS (this is a sub 1% healing increase). It's tough to guarantee
Flammes bondissantes will line up with it unless we hold
Souffle de feu for a proc (not recommended) but it adds a little value - especially in Mythic+. Our 4pc needs
significant buffs in order to be competitive.
Playstyle & Set Issues
You won't need to make too many playstyle changes when you pick up the set. You'll want to maintain a
Réversion or two at all times, but the 4pc proc rate doesn't scale with the number you have out so you should maximize procs as long as you have a couple active. You'll also want to make sure you're doing the fundamentals correctly like casting Empowered spells frequently.
Ensemble de classe d’évocateur Préservation (2 pièces)Ensemble de classe d’évocateur Préservation (4 pièces)The instant
Flamme vivante casts are notably very good from a quality of life perspective, but doesn't carry enough power budget to succeed as a set bonus. It could be supplemented by a flat bonus to our common healing spells - similar to the Paladin 4pc.
Quickfire Questions
- How long does the 4pc proc last? 15 seconds.
- Do I get more procs the more Réversions I have out? No it's a roughly fixed number. You'll just need 1-2 out to maximize procs.
- Does the 2 set bonus also apply to Echoed Réversion? Yep!
- Does Flamme vivante apply the 20% bonus to all Flamme vivante targets? It does!
- Am I able to get infinite Réversion out yet? Not yet, but you can definitely get them up to 30 seconds or so with the set and a decent base amount of crit chance.
The Evoker set bonuses are a bit weak. They're build dependent, numerically weak and compare poorly to most of the other healer tier sets. They could use a bit of work before release.