Preservation Evoker Review of Chronowarden Hero Talents - Temporal Fun But Spell Hook Overload?
This past week, Blizzard revealed new Hero Talent Trees in a First Look at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Preservation guide writer, Voulk, offers an early review of the Chronowarden Hero Talents for Preservation applauding the exceptional temporal theming but cautioning about an overabundance of spell hooks.
First Look at Hero Talents in The War WithinHero Talents Overview
Chronowarden Evoker Hero Talent Tree
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In patch 10.2 Preservation has two key playstyles — an Echo-focused one and a Blossom-focused alternative. We also see a Reversion build pop up every now and then. The moment Chronowarden was announced it was clear that it was likely to be an Echo or Bronze-centric tree and the reality is a little more agnostic than expected — to the trees credit. Chronowarden is also an excellent thematic fit for the class.
Key Nodes
Let's look through some of the more interesting sections of the tree. We'll notice a few of the nodes are Dragonflight tier-set bonuses.
Chrono Flame & Afterimage
Living Flame is enhanced with Bronze magic, repeating 15% of the damage or healing you dealt to the target in the last 5 seconds, up to a fixed amount Afterimage
Empower spells send up to 3 Chrono Flames to your targets. Chrono Flames have a small chance to give you Essence Burst.
This isn't a perfect clone of our current 2pc bonus but it's very similar. It plays very well and it's an interesting bonus. It turns our empower spells into essence burst generators and also adds an extra direct heal portion based on the healing we dealt to the target in the last 5 seconds. Note that while our current 2pc sent out proper Living Flame casts, this new one only sends out
