Best Arcane Mage Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

An important thing this guide doesn't address is the inclusion of Azerite traits and Essences in BFA.
-
As an Arcane Mage main, I've found a ton of fun/beneficial tricks, both for World content and instanced Dungeons/Raids. In this regard, I'd suggest taking "Amplification", "Incanter's Flow", and "Time Anomaly" as your traits. This allows you to maximize your DPS while cutting down on stationary tactics, since many Dungeon/Raid bosses in BFA demand mobility. It also allows you to quickly blast through PvE mobs without needing the sort of "build-up" rotation that Frost/Fire demand.
-
From my experience, try building your Arcane Mage around the "Arcane Missiles" skill. With the right Azerite gear, you can have up to +30% chance of proccing "Clearcasting" via "Arcane Pummeling", meaning more free spells with exponential damage increases.
-
Couple those traits with the Essence "Memory of Lucid Dreams" (a lesser "Evocation" essentially, if focal) and the actual "Evocation" skill, and you'll have tons of mana to spend.

评论来自 sccoaire

The talents do not match what I have in game. I suppose there have been updates since but I'm confused and don't know really know what I should use, hence why I came here originally. For example, level 90 has a talent "Touch of the magi", which is missing from this guide's list of talents. Arcane Orb and Supernova are located on different tiers. Would be great if this guide could be updated!

评论来自 liektoks

With the Dragonflight pre-patch talents, why don't we want to pick up Radiant Spark nor Harmonic Echo in this instance?

Edit: nevermind, I was using these spells in Orgrimmar where they are legacy locked - you can still use Radiant Spark/covenant abilities in Shadowlands still
Edit 2: Just tried this on necro with radiant spark, harmonic echo, and shifting power (arcane infinity and unity lego) at 301 ilvl for 2 mins for a sustained 22k dps. whereas on kyrian, i could only sustain 16k with the above talents that have been posted (B4DAHVkVsxxZrVqBmAzlSR2f7LQgWikIJFg0OQiIiIhEgWChkAAAAAAAAAAAAQSSSIhkkA; not mine but what was posted here) and rotation. definitely worth a look

edit 3: use the above talents listed by Malon, holy moly i just tried it and it absolutely wrecks everybody oh my goodness

评论来自 Nevada

Folks you have to remember these talents and Talent Trees are for Dragonflight, and no where else. I suggest, for now, you build your own custom Talent Trees based on your current area of play until Dragonflight comes out.

评论来自 Fitzban

THANK YOU POROM

评论来自 Spilledstars

I went to look at the "Raid Key" tab and I see offered colors for the legend.

While I lovvvvvvvvve (heart heart) the idea of seeing the colors-on-the-tree which things mean what
I am not seeing any of those colors on that tree.

I see colored powers being not-all-of-them, so it's some help to see what you consider crucial on the class tree.

Thanks for the efforts so far, if it's somehow wowhead doesn't like Safari I don't know what can be done :(

评论来自 Jared1295

what happened to the harmony single target build?

评论来自 SwiftShadowfax

What a crazy time we've come to where Presence of Mind is considered a weak talent. :(

评论来自 Alustriel

Yeah, not my cup of tea. I really have no use for doing the highest dps in class because I just don't like how Blizzard has wrecked the Arcane spec. I'll take spell slinger over sun fury simply because I don't like the effects. I role play, and never do group content. Your suggestions are good for those players who do raids and dungeons, but your advice means little when there is no synergy required. It would be nice to just see a simple AoE/cleave build that can be helpful against the world elites but so far, level 75, and still using DF gear crafted, weekly quest drops (Zaralek caverns, time rifts, suffision camp etc. that have been converted by the Catalyst) and the bullion buys, I don't have any issues. Heck, I just steadily cast the instant Arcane Barrage as I hardly ever proc clear casting for arcane missiles, takes forever to kill stuff but like I said, Blizzard wrecked this mage spec. Put Arcane Missiles back to a mana spender, lose the clear casting from it or return it to being a free cast or whatever.

Thanks for your efforts though, they are nice ideas and good for as I said, group play.

评论来自 Bloodshift

This is the BS i hate by these "elite players" that make these builds, when they don't even mention a completely viable spec in spellslinger because the sims show its lower damage, not mentioning how many people will fail at the rotation and not get that kind of damage out of it.

评论来自 joakes112

What happened to the sunfury import codes?

评论来自 Alustriel

I see some members are inquiring about Spellslinger builds. I thought I would share mine as it does work out quite well in delves and world content.

Here is the talent code to import into your toon's talent loadout:

C4DAjd9IgsSkCmGQ8vOmZtyV7MwMmNzMzwMLwMzMMmGjxAAAAAAYgAgAmZW2WWmZiFAAAAAA2AYZGMzMGDDzMzMjZmZmZmhxA

First, I'd like to mention that because I choose to solo WoW, (life's schedules play a significant part of player's game time, so doing things your way when you want is always a preferred method of earning peace of mind). I don't ever get to do group content for top end mythic gear, thus delves are my end game so this talent and gear setup works best for me. I have also leveled Brann as best I can looking for every Mislaid Curiosity I can find in each delve I do, he is currently level 58 at the typing of this post.

My gear is either delve earned pieces that are champion or hero track and crafted items with the Enchanted Runed Harbinger's Crest on them to get a 619 item level. I worked hard to finally get the Fateweaved Needle doing more than eight T8 delves a week, but used a crafted Scepter of Radiant Magics until the Fate Weaver dropped for me recently. This is paired with the crafted Vagabond's Torch again with the Enchanted Runed Harbinger's Crest, the embellishment Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and my favorite secondary stats of Critical Strike and Haste (Algari Missive of the Fireflash). I paired this with my crafted wrist Consecrated Cuffs again with the embellishment Writhing Armor Banding, Enchanted Runed Harbinger Crest and another Missive of the Fireflash. My body gear has been changed at the Catalyst to give me 4/5 of the Sparks of Violet Rebirth set. Rings and neck are hero or champion drops in delves and my two trinkets are both hero track: Candle Confidant and Imperfect Ascendancy Serum. I'll typically buff with Stuffed Cave Peppers, Arcane Brilliance and in delves, use Phial of Static Empowerment. What Porom has listed for gear enchants and gems I use, having added gem sockets to head, wrist and belt from the Nerubian Gemweaver you can buy with 6 Algari Token of Merit.

I use the DBM add-on with the delve module to warn me of boss special attacks to interrupt as some spells: Counterspell, Supernova and Blast Wave do interrupt casts, but Counterspell is the only one that definitely interrupts the majority of delve end-boss special cast attacks, DBM is great to tell you when to do such.

When attacking the elite (gold dragon mobs) I treat them the same as I would the end boss, here is the rotation:

Presence of Mind preps two instant Arcane Blast casts
Prismatic Barrier
Evocation
Imperfect Ascendancy Serum (end boss for sure, sometimes on elites, like the Deepwalker Guardian, Nerubian Lord or the Devouring Shade
Mirror Image (depends which boss, sometimes I save for part way through fight to take aggro off of my toon)
Arcane Surge You now have started the fight at this point.
Touch of The Magi

Typically Clearcasting procs here so I immediately use
Arcane Missiles followed by
Arcane Blast (until I have 4 Arcane Charges built up)
Arcane Barrage

after Touch of The Magi, it is a rinse and repeat of the Arcane Blast - Barrage - Missiles until Touch of the Magi is off its cooldown. Most fights are generally done before the 2 minute cooldown's on Evocation, Arcane Surge and the trinket Imperfect Ascendancy Serum are available again. The elites I mentioned above are usually toast before I get to use Touch of The Magi a second time as well.

You obviously have to shimmer around to avoid large area boss casts, as well as elite casts like the Jagged Barbs that the Deepwalker Guardians and Nerubian Lords do. I try to stay close to them so I walk just out of the ground cone's area. Blast Wave will interrupt the Nerubian Lord's cast, but not the Deepwalker Guardian's or ones cast by bosses that are the same mob type as the Deepwalker Guardian/Nerubian Lord. Using the Mirror Image helps takes aggro off of you when facing elites or if you pull too big of a group of trash mobs, The Nightfall Sanctum sometimes has groups of 5-6 mobs that are higher damage dealers, I look for the Inquisitors and poly them as a sheep, then single target the rest to draw them away and then AoE by dropping a Touch of The Magi when far enough away from the CC'd mob so it doesn't break the CC.

Hope this helps some of you interested in the Spell-slinger build.

评论来自 Kunoki

The talents for Arcane here are showing as empty on the site after the first 4-5 points. Please fix this

评论来自 Darkandr

Love this crab build.

评论来自 schwa

Would be nice to have Spellslinger options for M+ and raid... Raid council build mentions sepllslinger but I don't see the actual tree so it's confusing.

评论来自 FoxyOwl

At the top of the page, there are Arcane Mage Import Codes for each talent build. Open World is included at the top but there is not a talent build for it. I would appreciate all import codes having a talent build shown if possible. Thank you for the time you take making these guides.

评论来自 DanishMetalhead

Copying the spellsinger talents leaves 11 points to be spent.

Maybe fix it?

评论来自 NewtypeJuliet

Can anyone tell me why I can no longer Blink. I have removed a point from anything that even mentioned because it wasn't working and I STILL can't blink. I use that spell all the time. Does anyone have a way to resolve this?

评论来自 FrozenFool

Seems odd to not have slipstream in the delve build

评论来自 BetterThanNoOne

it sucks that wowhead won't show updates for both hero talents, and only gives guide updates for the current best of the two. instead of combating blizzard's poor balancing, wowhead is endorsing it.

评论来自 Dilph

Import codes do NOT import into game ? Very Lazy work

Best Arcane Mage Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

贡献