Introduction to the Arcane Mage
Arcane provides impressive AoE. Its powerful cleave makes it a strong candidate in dungeons and raid encounters with multiple targets. The Arcane Mage is perfectly suited to nuking down high priority targets. It also provides some of the strongest instant pressure and burst damage out of all classes.
As with other Mage specialisations, Arcane is exceptional at doing encounter specific jobs like soaking mechanics. Arcane excels at pure single-target fights, where it can keep up with almost every class.
Arcane is also the only Mage specialisation with access to Greater Invisibility, making it very strong to deal with heavy incoming damage.
Below you will find a beginners guide to the Arcane Mage, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Arcane Mage
Strengths
- High burst damage
- Strong AoE
- Exceptional mobility
Weaknesses
- Reliant on cooldowns for single-target damage
- Lacks on multi-target fights
- Gets punished hard by mechanics
Talents
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Rotation of the Arcane Mage
The basic rotation for the Arcane Mage is as follows:
- Cast
Charged Up if you have 1 or less Arcane Charge.
- Cast
Arcane Blast
- Place
Rune of Power.
- Cast
Arcane Power.
- Cast
Presence of Mind
- Use
Arcane Missiles when
Clearcasting procs.
- Cast
Arcane Blast.
- Cast
Evocation when out of Mana.
Cooldowns
Arcane Power is your main damaging cooldown.
Time Warp increases Haste by 30% for 40 seconds for all party and raid members within 100 yards.
Evocation restores 100% of your mana bar over a 6 second channelled time.
Stat Priority
- Critical Strike;
- Haste;
- Mastery;
- Versatility;
- Intellect.

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