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Evocation

Evocation

Channeled	2 min cooldown

Requires Mage (Arcane)
Requires level 40

Gain 15% of your total mana instantly and another 45% of your total mana over 6 sec.

Improved Evocation (Level 92+)
Reduces the cooldown of Evocation by 30 sec.

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Spell Details

Duration

6 seconds

School

Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

2 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Mod Total Power Regen % (Mana)
Value: 15% every 2 seconds

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Comments

Comment by bangy

This is a great spell, and use it as much as you can.
You can often get most if not all your mana back in a couple of seconds - it's like having a new life.

Note you can use this in combat, so is very effective in long boss raids when you have no more mana, and there is still a lot of hp left in the enemy. Do not use this while being attacked, because it is channelled - you will lose the effect in a matter of about a second, wasting the 4 min cooldown.

Comment by Koper

In the expansion pack you can evo+invis, which is very useful. This loses combat, and gives you back all your mana.
Note that this will take about 15 seconds for full effect, however. You must not be attacked during this period.

Comment by Zachuhree

One thing I am disappointed about this spell is the fact that once you get considerable amount more of mana than a mages base mana at max level (60, or 70 soon) - Evocation will only fill up about half of the mana bar. I wish they would make a rank 2 of this spell - it's possible to see this in future expansion patches.

Comment by Wizkid

Massive props to blizzard for untalenting this spell :)

Comment by Yoishan

One BIG question.. Spellhaste.. Effects channeled spells in patch.. what will happen to this.. will it go faster.. but not since it needs the time (For the mana ticks) to go off... will it become useless... or has blizzard thought a head and made it either not effect evoc.. or made it speed up your regen?

Comment by frostymage

As of patch 2.3, Evocation, as shown by the new tooltip, restores 15% per 2 seconds for a total of 60%, 75% with ~~4/5~~ (taytck30692 is correct, it's the 2/5) T6 bonus.

For posterity, here was the previous tooltip:

While channeling this spell, your mana regeneration is active and increased by 1500%. Lasts 8 seconds.

Comment by diag

I read an intereting cast sequence about using evocation in combat,

0.0 sec /cast evocation
0.0 sec /equip xxx intellect/spirit staff
8.0 sec ...evocation ends...
8.0 sec /cast fireball
8.5 sec /equip yyy spell dmg staff
10. sec...1.5 sec gcd doesnt affect you...
11. sec ...fireball goes off based on your spell dmg staff...

Comment by t1gg3r

so can you get a better return on mana if you spec with spirit gear or not. Unclear in topic

Comment by toytoy

t1gg3r, you could before. but they changed it recently so now it's a set percentage. spirit no longer raises the mana regen.

Comment by firstartemis

People are also forgetting that you get an extra 2 mana regen procs because mana regen stops once you use mana. 8 secs plus waiting 2 secs, or cast a spell with with a 2 sec + cast.

Comment by Tankadin

switching weapons during the cast will interrupt the spell casting so it wouldn't work to negate the GCD on switching :(

Comment by Kalakagathosa

What's that? 5 minutes is too long to wait for your massive mana (and possible health) return channel? How about 4 minutes come next patch? Do we have a deal?
Oh, and Arcane Mages? How about I throw in a little something to sweeten the deal? I'll tweak that http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=44379 you already use and have it reduce Evocate's cooldown to 2 minutes. Just for you, because you're such a good customer!
(seriously, expect this to be that much sweeter the moment the patch hits it)

Comment by Appleyard

10% chance of Clearcasting + 80% mana regen while casting + Evocation on 2min Cooldown + Gems every 2minutes...

Mana > Energy.

Comment by Numsu

Get the 2 piece set bonus of the frostfire T3 set and cooldown reduce from arcane talents on evocation on patch 3.0.8 and you can use evocation every minute!

Comment by brucek2

While haste will shorten the time it takes to get all four ticks, it will not grant any additional ticks. Too bad!

Comment by binkenstein

Tooltip Clarification

Gain 15% of your total mana instantly and another 45% of your total mana over 6 sec

Comment by perculia

Ghostcrawler on 5.2 Evocation:

Recent datamining has shown Invocation being nerfed to reduce our natural mana regen by 100%, up from 50%.
It was that way briefly (and the PTR pull may have caught that change). Instead we are leaving at -50% mana regen, but we changed Evocation to generate 10% mana per tick for Arcane, but affected by Arcane Charges (25% per charge and consumes all charges).

The intent of this change is to try and spare you from having to do single GCDs of Evocation every 3 casts, which is probably worth it but not much fun. It's a net buff to Evocation total mana regen but a net nerf to frequent Evocation.

Thread: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7811342046

Comment by ghostiron

I wish this ability was "spam-clickable", I hate that it cancels if you click on it before the full cast ends, especially when used for healing yourself

Comment by Taraezor

AddOn and Macro authors note: The spell ID of Rune of Power is this spell ID - 12051 for in game testing which is actually the Evocation spell ID. So to be sure whether players have Rune of Power or Evocation, you really need to check the talents. To display a guaranteed Rune of Power icon you should display spell 116011 and for Evocation 56380 which is actually the .

Above post was relevant prior to Warlords.

Comment by irishlord

Gone as of Wod. Kind of mad because I spent gold on the glyph to make it heal .

Comment by Taraezor

For Warlords of Draenor, this is exclusively for Arcane Mages. You complete your burn phase by casting this at about 50%-60% mana burnt.

You would have commenced your burn phase at about no more than 15s of Evocation's CD remaining and with Arcane Charge having the maximum 4 charges, and Arcane Missiles! having the maximum of 3 charges.

If you get to 100% mana sooner than the allowed channel time then commence your Conserve phase, move, etc to cancel the channel.

(The exact amount of mana spent and the remaining CD are definitely NOT set in concrete and will vary for you. This is just a nice starting point)

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