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Everything you need to know about Arcane Mage in Shadowlands. This Arcane Mage 9.0 guide goes over the best rotation, covenants, conduits, legendaries, talents, and more.
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What is in this guide?
00:00 – Intro
00:34 – Arcane the melee ranged spec
02:14 – Covenants
04:25 – Legendaries
06:36 – Talents
09:40 – How to play arcane mage
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The best stats for Arcane Mages are Mastery, Crit, then Haste. Other stats will vary a bit so I suggest you sim your character on raidbots.
Bloodymallet stats:
https://bloodmallet.com/chart/mage/arcane/secondary_distributions/castingpatchwerk
Arcane AoE:
It’s mentioned in the video but since I’m witing it here too.
Arcane Explosion AoE rotation is 3 or more targets. With Bombardment, do the AoE rotation at 2 targets as soon as one is in execute. Arcane AoE rotation is just Arcane Explosion to get arcane charges, then spending with Arcane Barrage.
Arcane Echo Talent:
If you run this talent (pure single target) then replace the arcane blasts on the opener with Arcane missiles (without clearcast) during touch of the magi. With this talent it’s worthwhile to cast arcane explosion before the pull to fish for clearcasting.
Toegrinder’s Mage Sims:
https://cteer458.github.io/mage-sims/
Rune of Power tracker Weak Aura:
https://wago.io/Jpy8YUrpx
Arcane Power Macro:
#showtooltip Arcane Power
/cast Berserking(Racial)
/use 14
/castsequence reset=30 Arcane Power, Arcane Blast
PoM Macro:
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [channeling:Arcane Missiles]
/castsequence reset=30 Presence of Mind, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast
Macro to not interupt Missiles:
#showtooltip Arcane Blast
/cancelaura Ice block
/stopmacro [channeling:Arcane Missiles]
/cast Arcane Blast
Put the “stopmacro” line in any other macros you want and it will make you never cut a missiles short again.
More here:
https://pastebin.com/6wrAdLwX
UI:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1POjD_V85fZ9aIuII5coZ2A9JtKqSNdpk/view?usp=sharing
(Follow instructions in README file.)
My macros are showing up as hastags so I’m going to add my own:
#Arcane #Shadowlands
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I thought you were fire mage main only based on your name
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Couldnt hear anything past those beautiful blue eyes.
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🔥 FIRE: https://youtu.be/2gWOzIzxoy4
❄ FROST: https://youtu.be/gdKqlIydwTw
🔮 ARCANE: https://youtu.be/0XA9Izhpg6U
Was just waiting for you to post this !
Thanks a lot
As always Great job man ! Tysm for that and have a good progress 🙂
Great content! Keep it up man
Hi guys when we will get these barrage legendary?
Het! Thank you for the guide! What is the sword you using in video?
Hi Preheat, can you update a Fire mage guide? I'm playing Fire mage and i love it. Is it worth to play?
I feel like Arcane is being slept on. I been digging it. Thanks for the guide!
Shouldn't we be replacing arcane blast with arcane missiles while arcane echo is active?
thanks for this!!!!!
preheat! what should be our first legendary, im playing frost now, but i wanna try arcane too, should i get the first legendary, timewarp? should i stick with frost legendary, arcane legendary D:
Could you show the stat breakdowns for arcane mage like you did in the other guides?
Night Fae Arcane Mage ftw. I already have disciple of the grove. the time warp ring and plan on the bombardment next. i love using my cool-downs, then barrage, arcane orb, another barrage, shifting power, another orb and finally another barrage. After this I can use cool downs again 😀
This is great. Everybody sleeping on Arcane. It´s the best 🙂
Noob with a arcane video…. nice
Later in the xpac is it going to be worse? I worry that I won’t be good in higher keys while playing arcane
Great video man. Arcane has been awesome to play. Any chance you think arcane actually gets a spot over fire in high m+?
Something you skipped. When do we usd our nightfae ability?
What is that sword mog and apperance ?
thanks!
Hey master mage! I suck at aiming my frost orbs for frost, would you consider doing a small tutorial on that (and maybe other more nuanced mage spells?) some time? I'd love to see it!
Opener was wrong, fishing for CC with hard cast rune then entering burn with Totm+AP is higher dps. Also burn with Echo is spam AM into totm with or without CC until totm falls off.
Hey man, nice video as usual!
Quick question, is arcane advisable to play in Castle Nathria (due to amount of movement in fights and things like that)?
Thanks for the guide, great stuff again
Thank you, i needed this! 🙂 I love Arcane! <3
For frost in Nathria, do you recommend the single target legendary or aoe?? I can’t decide which one to craft
And the stats? Krit + Mastery ?
Guys What are stats for mage arcane in pve and pvp ? Thx !
Interesting mention of siphon storm. You’re the first streamer I’ve watched that’s really suggested it. I see so many people mention Arcane Harmony for single target scenarios. I noticed you didn’t mention it. Thoughts? Also, for SS, would you precast it as NF to have a high stat buff In your opening rotation like font did, or just take advantage of it when you shift to conserve phase? Great guide!
I have played Frost Mage for well over a decade. It saddens me to change to Arcane but I am going to try it out. Came here to see how to play Arcane. Thanks for the info, I really appreciate the time you put in to explain how to play this spec. Also, have you noticed how squishy mages are this expansion?
Arcane is noob friendly? I disagree
Frost is super easy with ice Lance build
Arcane is super complicated and fire is intermediary