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The video offers an extensive guide on playing as an Evoker healer in Mythic Plus dungeons within the Dragonflight expansion. It begins by introducing the Evoker as a versatile healer with strong burst AoE healing and useful utility, primarily using spells like Living Flame, Echo, Spirit Bloom, and Dream Breath. The importance of optimizing gear, prioritizing stats like crit and haste, and selecting the right trinkets is emphasized, along with recommendations for specific talents and their strategic uses.
Throughout the guide, various talent synergies are highlighted, such as the combination of Scarlet Adaptation, Leaping Flames, and Golden Hour for significant DPS and healing boosts. Effective healing strategies involve using abilities like Wing Buffet, Emerald Communion, and major cooldowns like Tip the Scales and Rewind during critical moments.
For DPS rotations, the video suggests a cycle involving Flame Breath, Living Flame, Azure Strike, and Disintegrate based on the situation. Utility abilities like Deep Breaths, Cauterize, Hover, and Oppressive Roar are also covered for added efficiency. The importance of mastering interrupts and leveraging tier set bonuses for instant casts and enhanced damage is also discussed.
The guide concludes with advice on continuous practice, potential future content on advanced Evoker gameplay, and a promise for additional guides on consumables and enchantments. The creator encourages viewer engagement through comments and subscriptions for more detailed future updates.
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In this part of the video, Growl introduces viewers to playing as an Evoker healer in Mythic Plus dungeons for the Dragonflight expansion. He describes Evoker as a new and fun healer class with powerful burst AoE healing and useful situational utility. Growl explains that the main single-target heal is Living Flame, which can also be used for DPS on enemies. He highlights the importance of pairing Living Flame with other abilities like Echo, which duplicates healing spells. The main AoE heal is Spirit Bloom, an empowered spell that heals more allies the longer it’s charged. Empowered spells allow flexibility in casting time, providing partial benefits if interrupted. Growl introduces Dream Breath, another AoE heal with variable upfront and over-time healing based on its empowered level. He then shifts focus to character setup and talents, emphasizing the importance of high item levels and recommending a stat priority of crit, haste, versatility, and mastery.
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In this segment, the video discusses optimizing healer stats and gear for gameplay. It emphasizes finding a comfortable level of haste without depleting mana quickly and prioritizing versatility over mastery, as mastery doesn’t enhance damage. The segment suggests trinkets such as “Brood Keeper’s Promise” for passive healing and survivability, and “Eye of Scovald” or “Furious Rage Feather” for DPS. It mentions useful gear like an Evoker-specific staff and ring that boost damage in Mythic plus but don’t aid in healing.
The video also covers building a talent tree, recommending a balanced setup with defensive utility for dungeons. Key points include choosing nodes that offer faster Essence regeneration and slight damage buffs, and considering flexibility in node choices based on dungeon needs. Specific talent adjustments for different dungeon scenarios and experimenting with extra points in the talent tree are advised.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses and evaluates various talents and strategies for optimizing DPS and healing in gameplay. They describe how Scarlet Adaptation and Leaping Flames work together to create significant DPS bursts by storing healing as damage and causing Living Flames to cleave multiple targets. The talent Golden Hour is highlighted for its ability to heal based on recent damage taken, especially useful when combined with Echo for tanks or high-damage targets. Lifebind and Call of Ysera are also explained; Lifebind transfers healing over time when used with Verdant Embrace, and synergizes with Echo for massive group heals. The speaker recommends using Reversion frequently for single-target healing and using Verdant Embrace or Echo for direct healing needs. Spirit Bloom is suggested as an emergency heal due to its substantial healing capabilities, but with caution due to its cooldown. The discussion emphasizes the strategic combination of talents for both DPS and healing effectiveness.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on healing strategies for Evokers, emphasizing how to manage different situations effectively. Key actions include using Wing Buffet to protect the tank and standing next to them with Emerald Communion for single-target healing. For AOE healing, Dream Breath should be used frequently with one Empower level for a decent heal over time, boosted further with VE. It’s important to fully empower Spirit Bloom for a major AOE heal when necessary and utilize Emerald Blossom in stacked AOE fights, especially with melee-heavy groups. Essences are crucial and should be spent primarily on Echo for targeted heals or Emerald Blossoms for stacked damage situations. Major cooldowns like Tip the Scales should be used with Spirit Bloom for instant AOE healing or Dream Breath if needed. Rewind is highlighted for its ability to mitigate damage taken by the party, ideally used early during heavy damage spikes. Stasis is noted as a powerful and versatile cooldown, capable of replicating and storing the next three spells for up to 30 seconds, useful for chaining big AOE heals like Dream Breath and Spirit Bloom.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains essential techniques for effective group healing and DPS (damage per second) rotation in a game. Key points include:
1. **Healing Combo:** Empower a dream breath for an AOE heal and a hot (heal over time) effect, followed by pressing the same button within 30 seconds for a repeat combo.
2. **DPS Rotation:** Charge and release flame breath, then use living flame until flame breath is available again. Adjustments include using Azure strike for multi-targets and disintegrate to conserve Mana and increase efficiency.
3. **Utility Abilities:**
– **Deep Breaths:** Used for extra DPS with a stun component.
– **Cauterize:** Effective against status effects like diseases and poisons.
– **Hover:** Provides mobility and allows casting certain spells while moving.
– **Oppressive Roar:** Increases stun duration and can combo with team stuns, also removes enrage effect.
The speaker emphasizes practicing these skills for better performance and highlights a few significant abilities without covering every single one.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the creator discusses additional tips not covered earlier, emphasizing the importance of using the tier set reversion for instant cast and increased damage on Living Flame, which encourages spamming reversion and Echo reversion. They also highlight the utility of interrupts and Bloodlust in dungeons, especially in PUGs, and recommend mastering a Focus Target interrupt macro to balance healing and interrupting effectively. Additionally, the creator mentions they will produce a separate guide video on consumables and enchantments for healers. The segment concludes with a promise for a more advanced guide on Evoker gameplay in high Mythic+ keys if there’s enough interest. Viewers are encouraged to ask questions in the comments and to subscribe for future content.