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Arcane Mage rotation guide & helper

Play Arcane Mage like a skilled player: the current priority, cooldowns that line up, AoE when it pays and kicks on the casts that matter.

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Guide

How Arcane plays.

Build Arcane Blast stacks, then spend them on Arcane Missiles. Missile Barrage makes your next Arcane Missiles fast and free, so it goes out right away, and Arcane Wrath goes out on cooldown. Lines for spells you don't have yet are skipped, so the same list works from level 1 (Fireball) up.

One target

  1. Arcane Missiles when Missile Barrage is up.
  2. Arcane Wrath on cooldown, with Presence of Mind when you have it.
  3. One Frostbolt on a fresh mob that isn't on you yet.
  4. Arcane Blast up to 2 stacks (4 on mobs that live 30 seconds or more), and on a free Clearcasting.
  5. Fire Blast when the mob is below 30% health or while you move.
  6. Arcane Missiles at full stacks.
  7. The wand when the mob is below 10% health or your mana is below 15%.

Packs

  • Arcane Explosion with 3 or more mobs near you, at 40% mana.
  • Cone of Cold with 2 or more mobs in melee.
  • Flamestrike is a switch, off by default - it lands at your mouse.

Cooldowns

  • Arcane Power on mobs living 15 seconds or more, at 40% mana or more (it costs 30% more mana).
  • Evocation below 10% mana on a mob that lives 12 seconds or more.
  • With the Heating Up talent (the level 60 Arcane Fire build): Pyroblast at 3 Heating Up stacks, Fire Blast on cooldown and Scorch at full stacks.

Good to know

  • Frost Nova goes out when a mob reaches you.
  • Arcane Intellect and your armor are kept up for you.
  • Blink, Ice Block and conjuring stay yours.
What it does for you

Built for Arcane.

01

Cooldowns that line up

Your Arcane cooldowns go when the priority says so, not when a timer runs out.

02

AoE when it pays

Area spells only once enough enemies are around you. You pick the number.

03

Kicks and stuns

Interrupts on the casts that matter, and no wasted casts on mobs that are immune.

04

The right spell rank

Highest, smart or a fixed rank for every spell, so you never waste mana.

05

Immunity learning

It learns which mobs shrug off your spells and stops casting them there.

06

You stay in control

Every spell, threshold and line of the priority is yours to change. One switch turns it off.

In the rotation

Arcane spells it uses.

Lines for spells you don't have are skipped, so it follows your talents.

Frost NovaEvocationArcane PowerPresence of MindPyroblastFire BlastArcane MissilesArcane ExplosionFlamestrikeArcane WrathFrostboltArcane BlastCone of ColdScorchFireball
Tuning

Tune Arcane your way.

A few of the settings you can change in game, shown with their default.

  • x
  • x
  • x - on by default
  • x
  • x
  • One Frostbolt on a fresh mob that is not on you yet, before Arcane Blast (leveling; never with Heating Up / in raids) - on by default
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