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Arcane Mage Leveling Guide

11.0.5 - The War Within

Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog

Welcome to the Arcane Mage leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!

Talents

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Arcane mage
Sunfury Level 70
Sunfury Arcane Mage leveling talents

Spec Tree

  • Arcane Surge
    • This is your major cooldown as an Arcane Mage. Granting you massive spell power and mana regeneration.
  • Touch of the Magi
    • This is a short cooldown that accumulates 20% of your damage to the target for 12 seconds. Thus, making it one of the most important spells to play around in your rotation.
  • Magi's Spark
    • In most cases this talent is completely passive, just remember in AoE situations you need to cast Arcane Blast at least once during your Touch of the Magi window.
  • Aether Attunement
    • This talent allows every third cast of Arcane Missiles to deal increased damage and cleave onto other targets. This is your only Arcane Missiles that is fully channeled (more about clipping in deep dive).

Class Tree

  • Shifting Power
    • This spell is a channel used after your cooldowns to reduce all your spells by 12 seconds.
  • Spellsteal
    • There are a lot of magic mechanics you can Spellsteal to gain their benefit.
  • Time Anomaly
    • Be ready to react to the procs acquired get from this talent, they can impact the rotation differently depending on when they proc.
  • Mass Barrier
    • Make sure to use Mass Barrier to give your teammates Prismatic Barrier!
  • Shimmer
    • This talent node is the main reason Mages in general have such high mobility. Being castable while casting and off the GCD, it is essential you manage your Shimmer well to achieve 100% uptime on DPS during any encounter.

Hero Talents

  • Sunfury performs better than Spellslinger while leveling simply because it does more burst damage.
  • Merely a Setback gives you extra defensives after casting your Prismatic Barrier.
  • Arcane Soul is a very powerful buff as it allows you to spam cast Arcane Barrage.
  • Mobs should die quickly after reaching execute due to Arcane Bombardment.

Leveling Talent Points

  • Talent point allocation
    • 1. Level 71
    • 2. Level 72
    • 3. Level 73
    • 4. Level 74
    • 5. Level 75
    • 6. Level 76
    • 7. Level 77
    • 8. Level 78
    • 9. Level 79
    • 10. Level 80
Milestones: 0 / 10
1. Level 71
  • Choose Sunfury as your Hero Talent.
  • Pick Invocation: Arcane Phoenix.
2. Level 72
  • Pick Lessons in Debilitation.
3. Level 73
  • Pick Codex of the Sunstriders.
4. Level 74
  • Pick Memory of Al'ar.
5. Level 75
  • Pick Mana Cascade.
6. Level 76
  • Pick Burden of Power.
7. Level 77
  • Pick Glorious Incandescence.
8. Level 78
  • Pick Rondurmancy.
9. Level 79
  • Pick Merely a Setback.
10. Level 80
  • Pick Sunfury Execution.

Rotation

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Arcane Mage

Single-Target

  • The goal of the opener is to enter the Touch of the Magi window as fast as possible.
Arcane Mage Single-Target leveling opener
  • Cast Shifting Power after your cooldowns expires.
  • Cast Arcane Orb when you have less than 2 Arcane Charges.
  • Cast Arcane Blast with Nether Precision.
  • Cast Arcane Missiles with Clearcasting.
  • Cast Arcane Blast.
  • Cast Arcane Barrage if you are out of mana.

AoE

  • In general, after using Arcane Surge, try to build and spend as many Arcane Barrages as you can.
Arcane Mage AoE leveling opener
  • Cast Shifting Power after your cooldowns expires.
  • Cast Arcane Orb when you have less than 2 Arcane Charges.
  • Cast Arcane Missiles with Clearcasting.
  • Cast Arcane Barrage at 4 Arcane Charges.
  • Cast Arcane Explosion if you have less than 1 Arcane Charge.
  • Cast Arcane Blast.
  • Cast Arcane Barrage if you are out of mana.

Shopping List

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Arcane Mage
  • Consumables
    • 1. Phial
    • 2. Food
    • 3. DPS Potion
    • 4. Heal Potion
    • 5. Weapon Rune
    • 6. Augment Rune
  • Utility
    • 7. Goblin Glider Kit
    • 8. Gunshoes
    • 9. Mount Equipment
  • Experience Gains
    • 10. Banner of Cooperation
    • 11. Standard of Unity
    • 12. Battle Standard of Coordination
Milestones: 0 / 12
1. Phial
  • 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
2. Food
  • 40x Fried Bonefish
3. DPS Potion
  • 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
4. Heal Potion
  • 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
5. Weapon Rune
  • 4x Howling Rune
6. Augment Rune
  • Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
    or
  • 10x Draconic Augment Rune
7. Goblin Glider Kit
  • 20x Goblin Glider Kit
    • Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
8. Gunshoes
  • 20x Gunshoes
    • Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
    • Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
9. Mount Equipment
  • Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
10. Banner of Cooperation

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
11. Standard of Unity

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
12. Battle Standard of Coordination

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination

Credits

Written by: Hopeful

Reviewed by: Soda

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