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I teamed up with Toegrinder to teach you everything you need to know about Kyrian Arcane Mage in Shadowlands. Fire got nerfed? No problem. This Arcane Mage 9.1 guide goes over the best rotation, covenants, conduits, legendaries, talents, and more.
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Shoutout to Theamara and the Arcane Dream Discord as well for being the brains behind this build!
What is in this guide?
00:00 – Intro (Best Spec for 9.1)
01:21 – Fire Nerfs / Spec Swap
02:00 – Arcane vs Frost
03:14 – Why Kyrian?
03:35 – Traditional Arcane Basics
04:03 – Kyrian Harmony Basics
05:09 – Best 9.1 Soulbinds and Conduits
05:56 – Best 9.1 Talents
08:26 – Best 9.1 Legendaries
08:50 – Arcane Bombardment Rotation
10:11 – Best 9.1 Covenant
10:24 – Best Trinkets
10:56 – Best Stats (and how to sim yourself)
11:53 – Domination Sockets and Gems
12:55 – Rotation Intro
14:40 – Opener Cooldowns
17:09 – Rune of Power
19:14 – Rotation for dummies
20:24 – Mini Burn Basics
21:49 – AOE and Mythic+
23:31 – Advanced
27:53 – Outro
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The best stats for Kyrian Harmony Arcane Mages are Mastery, Crit, then Verse and Haste. Other stats will vary a bit so I suggest you sim your character on raidbots.
Best legendary is Arcane Harmony. Arcane Bombardment is also good.
Bloodymallet stats:
https://bloodmallet.com/chart/mage/arcane/secondary_distributions/castingpatchwerk
Toegrinder’s Mage Sims:
https://cteer458.github.io/mage-sims/
Rune of Power tracker Weak Aura:
https://wago.io/Jpy8YUrpx
MiniBars Link:
https://wago.io/0Egod-7PW
HUD Link (broken into parts):
https://wago.io/1bO1kYFe7
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 Hardcast Arcane Blast:
#showtooltip Arcane Blast
/cancelaura Presence of Mind
/cast Arcane Blast
UI:
https://preheat.live/UI
(Follow instructions in README file. Note- Arcane UI for 9.1 isn’t available yet, will come soon. Weak aura hud is available)
Dorovon Castbar
https://wago.io/u6uoy2SpQ
Bloodymallet Trinkets:
https://bloodmallet.com/chart/mage/arcane/trinkets/castingpatchwerk
9.1 Soulbinds with Conduits
https://ptr.wowhead.com/soulbind-calc/kyrian/pelagos/mage/AwCW7pYBFSL8BhMFJKIGFSPpBiUlKAYiFSTjBjUk8AY
9.1 Talents
https://www.wowhead.com/talent-calc/mage/arcane/m8Bz
Written guide via Toegrinder:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZXWSUsaTo6GlKWo_FPKNjxD0PYcL-IeLUDX1bhNoUo/edit#
My macros are showing up as hastags so I’m going to add my own:
#Arcane #Shadowlands #Kyrian #Harmony
Reminder to thank your mage theorycrafters in the Altered Time discord for all the work that do! Guides like this wouldn’t be possible without our fantastic Mage theorycrafters.
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Man… screw it. i'm rolling Rogue
I’ve found that you can fit a AB into your totm aoe window …AE.AE.Barrage.Orb.AB.Barrage
still a little confused on the rotation maybe im just overthinking it by alot but do you plan on putting out another video on the rotation kinda of like a more in depth guide? ill eventually get the rotation down im just used to being fire and pressing a couple buttons lol
Thanks to you and the theorycrafters for doing the thinking for my smooth brain. I'm excited to try this. I'm still a tad confused on why we use Frostbolt/Fireblast though. Is it just to offset Radiant Spark to make the TotM window more forgiving?
I've been looking it up and still don't understand why you would cast a frost bolt if you can't seem to fit in 5 arcane blasts in your touch window. Is it because frost does about the same damage as an arcane blast but travels faster?? Apologies, I'm old and can't read.
below 2 arcane charge arcane explosion deal more damage than arcane blast and is instant, so i recommand playing almost mele for that and reducing the travel time of arcane barage
i want to try armony and bombardment together so badly x) this will shread so hard when we get to equip 2 legendaries
how does frostbolt help touch of the magi last longer?
This could be the bait to return to wow after got triggered trying to do legendaries
i feel like you are always looking at me lol every time i glance at your direction you glare at me menacingly
Great video. Could you make a more in depth video on the rotation part? Bit confusing
frost?
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your guides, man. They’re absolutely fantastic!
In before it was cool 😏
Finally arcane will be viable again I missed my mage. I always hated the fire play style and I don’t like the rng of frost although I do find it fun but arcane is….*chef’s kiss* just right
But, but… I just fell in love with Fire Mage 🔥 🔥 🔥 😕
so kyrian will be better than Night Fae for pure m+?
Pre, do you think the range limitation will impact Kyrian next raid? You really need to be just outside of melee.
If you use Frost bolt after Radiant Spark, do you then only use 3 Arcane Blasts then Barrage on the 4th Arcane blast since the frost bolt is replacing one of the arcane blasts in the normal rotation?
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
would you squeeze in an arcane blast for the shatter effect after arcane orb on the aoe rotation?
why is the camera so close
Whose JIM?
With the whack-a-mole build, what happens inside the TotM window? I don't think that was ever said, or if it was I missed it.
Is there an easy place i can look at rotation order just like there was that image on the mage discord for fire rotation? It took me forever to get use to fire as is and now switching to kyrian arcane is just making me more nervous.
currently im rolling with 10% haste with my arcane, and sometimes, i have difficulties with fitting the barrage in time for TOTM, the frost bolt trick is gonna be helpful
Ah man been playing only arcane since Legion. This is my time.
I'm playing fire for the last 4 years, haven't touch arcane since then.. Looking your guide makes me feel that I wanna try it for 9.1 not because "it's op" but because i found it really interesting. My question is: Is it worth to leave a spec I love playing and switch to something that I'm gonna be totally new to it? (Can learn fast).. Also it's the covenant issue that I can't just practice this build by staying night fae. Is Arcane Infinite worth trying it ONLY if you are Kyrian? or can just practice the spec/legendary without having to switch covenant (for now)?
PS: Going for both High M+ and mythic progression on this season as well
Thanks for the great video yet again Preheat. I just switched to Kyrian arcane and while it's challenging since I've played fire for the past 2 expacs, I'm getting used to it thanks to the video.
Big shout out to Theamara, Brofessor Hemlock and Apmbillion. (Sorry if I missed others) They’re the first few content creators that does the theorycrafting on Arcane way back to 3 months ago and proved that arcane does work even in 9.0. Glad to see fire got nerf and arcane becomes the meta
Fire rip sadge
Fuck this I'm staying Fire
I am lost a bit. I think the opener goes RoP, AM to 18 stacks, RS, TotM , Arcane Power Macro (which has a ABlast in it) ….. But we are already at 4 AC stacks (due to totm) So should the macro have ABarrage instead of ABlast at the end? Then AO and ABlast to 5 stacks (or use POM) and que a ABarrage? Seems like que are generating too many AC than we can hold.
Theamara, THE GUY that actually made this build and got sims changed didnt get mentioned once? You shouldn't act like it's something you and Toe created 😒
Brofessor Hemlock has detailed vids on Kyrian Arcane.
Whats the macro you use?
It's sad how there was no mention of Theamara and the other guys that have been working on optimizing the rotations for the build throughout the whole tier.
Nice Preheat. Thx a lot for this very good and deep explanation.
Are you making a guide for Venthyr Arcane as well? It looks like it sims higher now.
Well, kyrian arcane mage it is then
sad arcane noises after the pelagos nerf… it was fun while it lasted
Do I use arcane missiles at all during AoE situations? Or is it just spam explosion to 4 charges and barrage after? Once the initial burn is done that is
1. Totm is coming of the cd, lets say 5 seconds left and u have 2 ab stacked. Are u continuing to build to 4 then barrage delaying totm use or u barrage with 2 stacks in order not to delay totm too much or u spam arcsne missiles and once totm is rdy u use it asap
Finally, I've been waiting for this, thank you!
Finally! Arcane :O
Do you think going Venthyr is a great decision for swapping to frost or arcane just in case? Is the dps way worse?
Chad necro lord arcana with perfect burst and synergy with EO vs virgin Kyrian. Metasheeps so metasheeps. Also its kind of fascinating situation. Arcane rotation is hard mode of mage's spec, with 20 sec of pre-burn fishing for CC proc, and then un-movable burn. So it will be funny to see rivers of tears when metasheeps, after receiving commands from their YT-bers overlords, will try at mass switch inro arcana. I mean the fire is obviously the most easy and mobile spec even with nerfs, while arcana is more punishing by raid mechanics. I wonder how many metasheeps would dare to revolt aginst YT meta, and stay fire or frost just for simplicity of it.
The question is.. Would this be as viable as Frost in m+..
The only thing that I don't really get, is what i should do when I don't have cd's. Do i just spam arcane missiles? But woon't that make me run out of mana