Arcane Mage Rotation Guide - Midnight Pre-Patch

來自 Porom 已更新： 2026/01/29

Arcane Mage Rotation in The War Within

Mana Management - This is something many newer players struggle with, however it is important you remember going out of mana is perfectly fine, especially after your miniburn. Simply use 秘法彈幕 to clear your 秘法充能s and continue with the rotation. Mana problems can be tilting, but we are a cooldown spec first and our main cooldowns give us all the mana we need for our cooldown windows. Just remember to breathe when you run out of mana; Barrage and move on!

Don't sit on cooldowns - Our cooldowns are short, it is almost always better to squeeze in as many as you can over the course of a fight or dungeon. That said, don't be afraid to volunteer to hold cooldowns for a specific problem in an encounter, as one of the strengths of short cooldowns is to provide targeted damage when you need it most without losing many uses. But as I said above with regards to mana management, your cooldowns are what give you mana to play with and also make that mana worth more, make sure you're using them as much as possible to fuel the arcane engine!

Arcane Charges - 秘法充能s are generated by 秘法衝擊, 魔爆術, 秘法光球, 魔導師之觸, and lastly when talented into 高壓電. The only way to clear them is 秘法彈幕 and doing so makes Barrage hit a lot harder and cleave when talented. Arcane Charges increase the mana cost of Arcane Blast and its damage. This creates a loop where you want to use Barrage to reduce the mana spend at times so you can ensure a successful Miniburn. Take your time and build muscle memory for the relationship your spells have with Arcane Charge generation. In AOE the opposite is often true where you usually want to get 4 Arcane Charges and then Barrage.

Arcane Salvo - 秘法齊射 is now essentially our fourth resource along with Mana Management, our cooldowns, and Arcane Charges. This resource is fairly straight-forward, usually using 秘法彈幕 at max stacks or in conjunction with a way to quickly refund Salvo stacks or Arcane Charges. There are a lot of ways that Salvo interacts with each hero talent and our spells and abilities and as such you should definitely spend the time to read those talents and understand the interactions as they will be relevant later on. Remember you can use the search function in the talent system to identify the talents that actually interact with Salvo!

Hero Talent Choices 秘法靈魂The current recommendations in are:

Situation

Hero Talent

Link

Single Target

Mythic+

Best Arcane Mage RotationEasy Mode

秘法奔騰

魔導師之觸

秘法彈幕 when you have max 秘法齊射 stacks; 20 for ]Spellslinger, 25 for ]Sunfury

秘法彈幕 if you have 節能施法 or 秘法光球 in AOE

秘法飛彈 if you have 節能施法

秘法光球 if you have less than 2 秘法充能s

秘法衝擊

秘法彈幕 if you run out of mana

Best Arcane Mage Rotation秘法裂片秘法光球節能施法秘法飛彈光球精通 OptionsPriorityMouseover the icon for additional notes.

Cast 秘法彈幕 with 4x 秘法充能s if you have 20 stacks of 秘法齊射.

Cast 秘法衝擊.

Cast 秘法彈幕 if you don't have enough mana for 秘法衝擊.

秘法光球秘法飛彈 OptionsPriorityMouseover the icon for additional notes.

Cast 秘法彈幕 if 秘法靈魂 is active.

Cast 秘法飛彈 if you have 節能施法 and 秘法奔騰 is about to end.

Cast 秘法彈幕 with 4x 秘法充能s if you have just cast 魔導師之觸 or it is about to end.

Cast 秘法彈幕 with 4x 秘法充能s if you have 25 stacks of 秘法齊射.

Cast 秘法飛彈 whenever you have 節能施法.

Cast 秘法光球 whenever you have less than 2x 秘法充能s.

Cast 秘法衝擊.

Cast 秘法彈幕 if you don't have enough mana for 秘法衝擊.

Best Arcane Mage Opener魔導師之觸秘法奔騰秘法靈魂 Please select a Hero Talent option to generate an Opener sequenceOpener Sequence

Use any potions, items, or trinkets that will buff you for more than 15 seconds.

Cast 秘法奔騰.

Use any potions, items, or trinkets that will buff you for less than 15 seconds.

If you do not have 20 秘法齊射 stacks, cast 秘法飛彈 and then 魔導師之觸

If you have 20 秘法齊射 stacks, cast 秘法彈幕 and then 魔導師之觸 while it is in the air.

45-seconds later, when 魔導師之觸s cooldown finishes, repeat step 5.

Sample Timeline秘法靈魂靈感灰燼魔導師之觸秘法靈魂秘法奔騰秘法齊射日怒處決魔導師之觸秘法彈幕秘法彈幕Opener Sequence

Use any potions, racials, items, or trinkets that buff your stats so that they will last through 魔導師之觸. As examples; if its a 30-second effect, you can use it before 秘法奔騰; if its an 8-second effect you should use it when 魔導師之觸 has around 8 seconds remaining; and a 15-second effect would be best used 3 seconds before using 魔導師之觸.

Cast 秘法奔騰, this can be your prepull cast.

Cast 魔導師之觸 when 秘法奔騰 has 4-6 seconds remaining.

45-seconds later, when 魔導師之觸s cooldown finishes, use it!

Sample TimelinePre-Combat Check Single Button Rotation Assistant Losses for Arcane MageAssisted Highlight

Hero Talent

With CDs

Without CDs

~4% DPS loss

~8% DPS loss

One Button

Hero Talent

With CDs

Without CDs

~9% DPS loss

~12% DPS loss

Assisted Highlight

Hero Talent

With CDs

Without CDs

~7% DPS loss

~9% DPS loss

One Button

Hero Talent

With CDs

Without CDs

~16% DPS loss

~19% DPS loss

Arcane Mage Cooldowns Not Used by Rotation Assist

Defensives Abilities

Items such as potions and on use trinkets

Racial Abilities

Arcane Mage Major Cooldowns秘法奔騰魔導師之觸喚醒 Arcane Surge秘法奔騰秘法奔騰秘法奔騰裂片風暴秘法裂片大法師之怒秘法奔騰魔焰球體秘法靈魂靈感灰燼秘法靈魂魔導師之觸秘法鳳凰

Empowered Abilities

Single Target

AOE

Touch of the Magi 魔導師之觸秘法充能秘法彈幕大魔導師之觸秘法迴響節能施法艾格文秘技秘法裂片秘法彈幕日怒處決秘法奔騰 Evocation 喚醒秘法奔騰View ChangelogNavigation BarRelated GuidesTable of ContentsFeedbackDiscord server1461510秘法充能

There is an error in the advanced rotation notes. You are advising to cast rune after reaching 4 charges at 0:00, then touch at 0:15. 30 seconds later, at 0:45, it is stated that touch is ready again- this is not the case. The cooldown is 45s and it will have been 30s since you last used it.

I think what you meant to put here is that at 0:45 rune of power would be ready, at which point you should hold rune for 15 seconds waiting for touch to come off cd.

It may also be worth noting that you can save time generating 4 Arcane Charges by using an Arcane Orb at the start, and touching on Arcane Missile spam with Arcane Echo talented may not be a bad idea.

評論來自 Josayghtte

In your cooldown use section, you use arcane power 1min45 s after it was first used when the cd is 2minutes, your mana will never go down in aoe situation so there is no conserve phase there fyi, you do not talk about using mana gem in the opener or how the mastery/haste balance highly impacts the conserve and burn phase.

This guide is either not up to date or written by someone that does not play arcane. I think you should just remove this page, it is only confusing for new players and irritating for people that know the spec and simply want to get better at it.

評論來自 yusuf

Thank you very much for writing this guide, Malon. I learned a lot from it.

Should we only ever use 秘法強化 with 4 Arcane Charges?

If this is the case, then I would suggest including this condition in the 秘法強化 step(s) of the priority sequence or rotation, as even if the spell often comes after 魔導師之觸, for example, and it is self-evident, obvious, or assumed in such cases that it will be used with 4 Arcane Charges, the spells may not always line up that way — at least I'm not experienced enough to tell that they'd consistently line up. Thus, if we should always hit 4 Arcane Charges before popping 秘法強化, even if we have to use 秘法衝擊 for that, then, in my opinion, this should be emphasized.

評論來自 Elmuerte

Thanks for writing the guide. There are a couple of things about radiant spark that I do not understand.

1. The dot lasts for 10 sec. Do you have to cast the spells for the progressive damage buff within those 10 sec? For instance if it takes my 12 sec to cast 4 blasts due to movement is that fine, or do I lose out on the last one?

2. I think the damage buff starts at 10% and grows to 50% after the 4th spell?

3. The tooltip seems to say damage buff ends after the 4th spell, but the guide says to do a 5th blast/barrage. Does the 5th still have the big buff?

From watching the video, it seems that the buff builds as you cast spells and ends after the 5th spell, or 10 sec which ever comes first. Is that correct?

thanks

評論來自 Bestrafesein

As Kyrian Arcane Mage with harmony, after spark I use 3 Blast and then Barrage. I have no idea why there are 5 Blasts. Anyone can explain to me?

評論來自 Skellor

What "pause before this if using" means? how much pause? waiting for what? please, clarify

評論來自 supach

What is in "Solo Touch of the Magi" rotation in Kyrian guide?

評論來自 Auralyon

I'm a bit unsure about how exactly the 4 vs 5 AB casts with Harmonic Echo works, so I want to share my understanding of the mechanics and see if it tracks.

Normally we can queue the big Barr with the 5th AB, because since they both "release" simultaneously, they both benefit from the final stack of Radiant Spark. This lets us get a sort of 2 for 1 with the final charge, increasing damage in single target.
The Harmonic Echo effect causes a 25% aoe echo to spells that LAND while the debuff is active, so if we cast the 5th AB with a queued Barr, they will still both benefit from the Radiant Spark damage increase, but only the 5th AB will cause the echo, since the debuff is gone by the time the Barr lands. Because of this, in multi-target situations we want to sacrifice the extra AB cast to cause the Barr to activate the final echo, which results in higher aoe damage because the Barr hits much harder than the extra AB.

Is this a correct interpretation of the mechanics? If so, I have two follow-up questions:
1) Is the 0.1 second delay from 4th AB to Barr just to ensure the big Barr isn't queued with the 4th AB, which would cause it to only benefit from the 2nd strongest Radiant Spark buff?
2) I'm assuming the math works out such that (5th AB + echo of 5th AB) > (echo of big Barr) in single target, but (5th AB + aoe echo of 5th AB) < (aoe echo of big Barr) in multi-target, which results in still using the 5th AB in single target only?

評論來自 alpanhell

I don't have Conjure Mana Gem?

評論來自 Munno22

you say to spam Arcane Missiles until you have Arcane Harmony stacked, then don't have Arcane Harmony on any of your talent trees? come on

評論來自 davesignal

Scratching my head over recommending that you spam AM to 20 stacks of Arcane Harmony in the opener yet not taking Improved Arcane Missiles. I'm sure the math must bear you out on that for you to recommend that but it seems really counter intuitive.

評論來自 Auralyon

What's the point of the convoluted "/castsequence reset=10 Arcane Barrage, Touch of the Magi" macro? Why not just cast Touch before barrage? It's off the GCD so you can cast them simultaneously without the risk of having barrage land before touch applies, at the cost of losing minimal touch duration.

評論來自 glissonmike

Are all the rotation guides this ridiculously convoluted or do I just need to roll another class?

評論來自 headgamiesai25

thanks for the guide and all the work you have done to enlighten us. Though it would be great to explain to us the reason for using those abilities in that order

評論來自 IronicUserName

The segment of nonsensical letters is magical. I spent a moment trying to figure out what it says, and its really just that a failed link lmao.

評論來自 ChassePatate

Is it possible to provide a casual rotation with associated talent tree with like 4 to 5 spells? I'm sorry but this rotation, only 1% of the player base will try to do that so it's useless for everyone else.

評論來自 Ishtor

This needs a Simplified version.
I don't doubt that this is the mathematical optimum and that some players can pull it off but for most players, this is realistically unattainable, especially as an entrypoint.

Something like Surge -> Spark+Touch+Gem -> Burn -> preserve when CD's run out -> Burn leading up to Spark and Touch coming off CD -> Evocation -> Spark+Touch+Gem -> Burn -> preserve ->repeat can be done by most players with decent results and can teach you the funcamental class mechanics. The fully optimized rotation is something you can get into once you have a more profound understanding of the Class itself and the mechanics that prop it up.

評論來自 lovelywaz

Am I suppose to learn all the "thirty two" steps of rotation or is there a "in case of emergency, break the glass and push that one button" version too? 🤔

評論來自 Tsuuky

i appreciate the work... but this is not for begginers... as someone who never played this before... this guide is TL;DR.... sorry

評論來自 Aussilio

Devastated that the famously complex spec has been reduced to what it is now.

評論來自 lx1st

Why wait until have x3 stacks of clearcasting?

評論來自 staticxtras

sooo uhhh yeah no matter how many times i test it....Arcane Surge will not do anything if queued before TotM.....really dont understand this at all

評論來自 CryptidMythos

Since Blizz did away with the double dip on Nether Precision, does it change our optimal rotation?

評論來自 Pendji

"Always up to date". Aight.

評論來自 Tyneic

Any Insight on the Surge -> Evocation at ~10 seconds Surge remaining -> Touch at 2 seconds Surge remaining that is sometimes being played?

I assume it might be too confusing for a large number of people but I'd love to read about where it's better to play it this way, e.g. Nexus King Mythic intermission and why.

評論來自 nachoramitas

Amazing guide man, I just wanted to point out that the spellslinger opener timeline is bugged or not complete, besides that this really helped me a lot.

Arcane Mage Rotation Guide - Midnight Pre-Patch

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