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Comment by 9250

This effect does not stack with the priest talent power infusion, though you can cast the two consecutively for some hefty sustained damage.

Comment by 54839

Do you think I should Respec. and get this talent? I mean I like my Ice Barrier too..this is how my talents look-
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/mage/talents.html?0050552010200100000000000000000000000000000000505320310235012201050

Comment by 62570

It's indeed a must-have talent, for both PvP and PvE specced mages.
in combination with Presence of Mind this produces a hell of burst damage.
I managed to crit for over 5k with a +damage of 750(which is not that much). That's an overall of 7k+ damage including the dot(if u got the talent) thus almost one-shotting an average geared player.
One of my prefered PvP-mage spec for max. burst damage:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/mage/talents.html?2030502302212140300120005523201200013103000000000000000000000000000

Comment by Hadrial

Speeds macro is a little weak, I think the trink slots in a macro are
/use 13 or 14

all good 3 Minute Mages use 2 damage trinkets

Comment by 231753

This and other arcane spells are seeing quite some changes in 3.0.9

AP is being changed to a 1 minute cooldown and the increase in mana cost / damage is being reduced to 10%. Arcane flows will reduce this cooldown by 30% (to 42 seconds) for 2 talent points.

To reduce the burst damage (a serious issue in pvp) further, PoM won't be usable with arcane power. However if the glyph remains unchanged, the new arcane power can be active around 43% of the time which makes it slightly better for all current raid content.

Comment by 243284

As of 3.0.9, the Arcane power tolltip now says that damage is increased by 20%, and mana cost increased by 20%.

This spell also has a shared CD now with PoM, as said above.

Once AP is used, a 15 second CD will be set on PoM.

(For some reason, it says "increases dmg by 10%" in the patch note file under the WoW directory, but it says 20% on the web site. If you ask me, I'd go with the web site.)

Comment by KnightProwler

Silly question, possibly, but...

does Arcane Power actually buff your buffs?

In other words: If I were to pop a trinket, mana gem, and then arcane power, does the extra spell power from the trinket and the mana gem also get a 20% boost?

I would imagine so, but crunching the numbers and testing it out myself just seems utterly dull.

Comment by Elysianfield

It's a percent damage modifier. Nearly all % damage modifiers in game stack multiplicatively and are almost always (I'd say always but there's probably some exception somewhere) applied after base damage due to spell power effects have been calculated.
Eg.
(base damage + (%spellpower coefficient)*(spell power + temporary effects)) *(%damage modifiers).
Assuming values of:
base damage = 1000
coefficient = 1
spell power = 1000
damage modifier = 20% or 1.2

if temporary effects = 0; total damage = 2400
if temporary effects = 500; total damage = 3000
which results in an actual increase of 25% over your base damage or a 600 dmg boost.

So yes, it "buffs your buffs" in the sense that you'll do more total damage if you used arcane power at the same time as your other cooldowns than if you spread your cooldowns apart. NOTE, however, that in the more general case, separating only results in a dps loss if you're stacking effects that work multiplicatively. For example, if you have two cooldowns that increase your spell power, using one and then the other will result in the same total damage done as using them simultaneously. If you have a cooldown that increases your crit chance and a cooldown that increases your spell power, however, using them separately results in a slight damage loss (assuming that they have the same cooldown time). This is because when you activiate abilities that affect different effects, you change the relative values of the effects themselves. This may seem counter intuitive at first but I don't really feel like writing out a few problems to prove this.

But anyways, you seem to be misunderstanding what this talent does. It does not actually boost your spell power, and so it does not actually boost the spell power from your trinket and your mana gem. What it does do is boost your spell damage done. This is an important distinction because a X% boost to your spell power wouldn't result in the same X% boost to your damage done since a significant amount of your damage comes from the base damage values.

Comment by Jrubzjeknf

Best macro'd with Glubtok's 'ARCANE POWER!' speech file:

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\GlubtokBoth\\VO_DM_GlubtokBoth_Spell03.wav")

Comment by 956216

Anyone have the ID of the buff!

Comment by 1072822

ARCANE POWER!................................TOO...MUCH...POWER!

Comment by Thottbot

is it realy worth it to exchange mana for dmg? or does it just mean faster killing

Comment by Thottbot

The damage per mana remains the same. The damage per second increases. Good trade.

Comment by Thottbot

fun to use spamming exploisive and in instances fights
only 5 minutes timer so u can use lots before boss fights

Comment by Thottbot

Alright, how about we give it you in the form of a PoM Pyroblast you 'hunter' spammer.

Comment by Thottbot

Dispel Type Magic

Priest just dispels this ;)

Comment by Thottbot

polymorph - arcane power - pyroblast - pom firebolt - fireblast - cone of cold - ice nova - blink - frostbolt(pala/warr/rogue/shaman)else Amissiles (with 100% avoid interruption cast)

dont really thrust its gonna be that simple. there is counters for everything though

spec 31/20/0

be ready with counterspell on healing

Comment by Thottbot

you know for a lvl 40 talent this shouldnt be dispeleable..

Comment by Thottbot

Is this better then ice block, i cant choose weather to go down the arcane tree, or frost...your opinon plz

Comment by Thottbot

does Arcane Power stack with +dmg gear and trinkets like ZHC? or does it just add 35% dmg to the redgular dmg of the spell (stack with crit?)

Comment by Thottbot

Not in 1.11

Comment by Thottbot

As a level 60 mage(specced 31 Arcane/20 Fire)you can do over 5k damage using Presence of Mind, Talisman of Empheral Power, ZHC, Arcane Power, and then Pyroblast. (You have to have good gear)

Comment by Thottbot

/lol at your target, Polymorph -> Arcane Power -> fireball -> Presence of Mind -> Pyroblast -> Fire blast -> Run away and wait for the DoT to kill ^^

Comment by Thottbot

im a troll mage who's got this talent, and i'd like to make a macro that would fire this and the troll racial berserking 1 right after the other so that i would get massive dps for a few secs.
i can't seem to do it though, can anyone help?

Comment by Thottbot

gotta love dispel magic.

Comment by Thottbot

increases the mana per damage and also damage.. when facng more that 1 enemy u will get oom after first one is dead.. though DAMN good in 1 on 1

Comment by Thottbot

AP lasts for 15 @#$%ing seconds, anyone can avoid a mage for 15 sec or put him out of commission til it's over, it can even be dispelled/purged. Even if you're not blinded/feared/seduced etc, The Visual effects is like slapping a huge sign on you that says "DANGER, DANGER, DANGER!" 3 seconds later you will be mashing Release spirit.

Comment by Thottbot

Almost all classes can @#$% a mage useing AP
Rogues: Vanish / Blind
Mage: Cs>Sheep>Detect Magic/ Ice block
Warlock: Fear if they can.. but warlock has alot of hp anyway
Priest: Sheild / fear
Shaman : Grouding totem > earthchock, / heal
Paladin: Devine Sheild / Repetance
Hunter : Scatter shot> Fd > ice trap
and so on and on
and mostly fire mages are noobs when they lose their ap and pom, they start to cast fireball or something so they can be killed easy....
best pvp frost mage is 21/0/30, i dont know about fire......

hope it helps

60 Ud Mage Burning Leagion

Comment by Thottbot

You forgot that palas got this stun too, think it's called Seal of Justice. Only 3sec but hey, it fend of the Arcane Power aswell.

Comment by Thottbot

Arcane power + instant pyro=? xD

Comment by Thottbot

i dunno about you..with my 70 mage i always poly..then pyro..while you have them polyed why use 3 sec..use extra 3 sec for 6sec and get the dmg while you can...then PoM...pyro again..fire blast IF they arent dead/duel lost yet...

was so amazed..went to frost at 60 to get to 70 with protection spells (ice block etc) and i was outside Ironforge...watching a 70 mage and 70 paladin duel..blah blah sheep...AP..PoM.pyro..lets just say in 6 seconds..the paladin lost the duel..btw, pally had 9k health..guess he was healadin..but 9k dmg..in 6sec..

Comment by Thottbot

Yes if you like aggro.

Comment by Thottbot

70 fire/arcane mage with nice spellfire gear ;). As the above posters all said rules with PoM Pyro - it is also a very nice thing to use in arenas. While my priest frind ran out and got owned by hunter + lock i just used AP + PoM + Pyro to kill lock with a little 9.4k crit, then got the hunter with fire blast, blink and a blast wave. Do i need to say more? MAGES FTW

Comment by Thottbot

Once again ALLLLLLLLL non-mage people come to mage skill page and begin firing at skills saying that's worthless and what's not.. Well, guess what? There's hardly one skill that is useless in this game (speaking about skills here, forget the talent pages)

FIRST when you want to know if the skill worth getting or not, you give it a PvE test.. Well, at least that's what normal people do all the time... If you deside that the skill is weak based on PvP testing, I really recommend you leave the game and go play something like Tricksteronline.com

SECOND, who said that the other skills in the game doesn't have millions of ways to counter them? Really, Xaras, I mean... Who gives a damn how other jobs can counter the skill? just about EVERY skill in the game has a counter-play, I challenge you to give me something that no other job can counter, or even the same job for that matter...

and please PLEASE, people, forget everything about PvP when it comes to judging a skill's power, you might want to add for it being good in PvP, but don't give it negative judgment just because it's useless in PvP...

Comment by Thottbot

This is absolutely awesome with a clearcast. Bonus damage but 130% of 0 mana is still 0 mana. Arcane talents FTW!

Comment by Thottbot

40/21/0

polymorph
arcane power

pyroblast
presence of mind
pyroblast
blink
blast wave
fire blast
arcane explosion

gg

Comment by Allakhazam

It pwns .. I gave 2700 (with Berzerk from AB) on an epic-warrior, and me - no Epix .......
and ofc Ignite afterwards

Comment by Allakhazam

really.. it suck's just a huge waste of mana

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok so here's the deal. This is a good talent but only use it when you have on presence of mind. Also if in a BG get berserker buff. The point of it is to use Presence of Mind, then Arcane Power and if possible get Arcane Energy. This will make it and instant cast, improve damage by 30%, and if you use Arcane Energy and/or Berserker buff, you will get +160 and/or 30% more damage. It really isn't a mana waster to if you have those other few buffs =)

Hoopergigby Alliance on Ursin.

Comment by Bravery2021

If you are heavy arcane spec, this is the macro for you!

#showtooltip
/targetenemy
/castsequence reset=target Polymorph, Slow, Arcane Blast, Vengeance of the Illidari, Presence of Mind, Arcane Blast, Arcane Barrage, Arcane Missiles

Torment the Weak adds bonus damage to slow targets, and if you cast Arcane Blast (instead of Fireball) you'll get 15% bonus damage. Mage is unable to re-arrange Arcane Power because it shares a 15s cooldown with PoM. Ending the macro with an Arcane Missiles is good because you might get a Missile Barrage proc. 😏

p.s. - replace Vengeance of the Illidari with your trinket

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Arcane Power

Arcane Power

Instant	1.5 min cooldown

When activated, you deal 20% more spell damage and damaging spells cost 10% more mana to cast. This effect lasts 15 sec.

Buff

Arcane Power	Magic

[Increased damage and mana cost for your damaging spells.][Increased damage and reduced mana cost for your damaging spells.]
15 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

15 seconds

School

Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1.5 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Damage Done % (All)
Value: 20%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

Blizzard	Cone of Cold	Frost Nova
Arcane Explosion	Flamestrike	Fire Blast
Ice Lance	Frostfire Bolt	Frost Nova
Frostbolt	Fireball	Scorch
Pyroblast	Arcane Blast	Dragon's Breath
Arcane Barrage	Super Rocket Launch	Fireball
Flamestrike

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost (14)
Value: 10%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

Blizzard	Cone of Cold	Frost Nova
Arcane Explosion	Flamestrike	Fire Blast
Ice Lance	Frostfire Bolt	Frost Nova
Living Bomb	Frostbolt	Fireball
Scorch	Arcane Missiles	Pyroblast
Arcane Blast	Dragon's Breath	Arcane Barrage
Super Rocket Launch	Fireball	Flamestrike

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Global Cooldown (21)
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Blink		Mirror Image		Incanter's Ward

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Aura Points On Client
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Arcane Power

Buff

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