Arcane Mage Raid Guide

Remove Curse

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover] Remove Curse

Polymorph

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover] Polymorph

Alter Time cancelaura -- must have macro for whenever your Alter Time can put you back to lower hp than you currently have.

#showtooltip
/cancelaura Alter Time

Touch of the Magi sequence -- casts Arcane Barrage right before your Touch of the Magi.

#showtooltip Touch of the Magi
/castsequence reset=10 Arcane Barrage, Touch of the Magi, Touch of the Magi

Presence of Mind sequence -- casts Arcane Blast right after your Presence of Mind. Useful since Presence of Mind is off GCD.

#showtooltip Presence of Mind
/castsequence [nomod:alt] reset=10/alt Presence of Mind, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast

• MRT -- Notes, Raid cooldowns, and more
  • Helpful addon for Raiders, especially for Raid leaders and officers.
• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• BigWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
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  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.

• Mage
  • Mass Barrier mana cost reduced to 8% base mana (was 12%).
  • Polymorph health regeneration reduced by 50%.
  • Polymorph now breaks based on a small damage threshold instead of any damage.
  • Time Anomaly procs now ignore mana costs.
  • Mirror Images now have their Frostbolt missiles hidden for allies in raids and dungeons.
  • Hero Talents
    • Frostfire
      • Developers' notes: Our updates for Frostfire Mage are focused on reducing the incentive to track auras and to make the talents more connected and conducive with each other.
      • Excess Fire now triggers when you cast Meteor or Comet Storm (was reach max stacks of Fire Mastery).
      • Excess Fire may now stack up to 2 times.
      • Frostfire Burst damage increased by 70%.
      • Excess Frost now triggers when you consume Excess Fire (was reach max stacks of Frost Mastery) and may stack up to twice. Excess Frost now casts Ice Nova at 200% effectiveness (was 125%).
      • The cooldown reduction of Excess Frost has been reduced to 3 seconds (was 5 seconds).
      • The talent locations of Excess Frost, Excess Fire, Isothermic Core, Imbued Warding, and Meltdown have changed.
      • Frostfire Bolt will now appropriately consume Overflowing Energy when it critically strikes.
      • Frostfire Empowerment is now tracked on the personal resource display.
    • Sunfury
      • Consuming Glorious Incandescence while at or around max range will now appropriately summon Meteorites.
  • Arcane
    • New Talent: Aether Fragment – Intuition’s damage bonus increased by 20%.
    • New Talent: Intuition – Casting a damaging spell has a 5% chance to make your next Arcane Barrage deal 50% increased damage and generate 4 Arcane Charges.
    • New Talent: Arcane Rebound – When Arcane Barrage hits more than 2 targets, it explodes, dealing light Arcane damage to all enemies within 10 yards of the primary target.
    • Resonance has been updated – Now increases Arcane Barrage damage by 15% per target it hits beyond the first.
    • Leydrinker has been updated:
      • Now triggers from consuming Clearcasting (was consuming Nether Precision).
      • Chance to trigger increased to 40% (was 25%).
      • Echo damage increased to 70% (was 60%).
      • Leydrinker’s visuals have been updated.
      • Developers' notes: Our goal with these changes is to increase the likelihood that you'll have Nether Precision available when Leydrinker procs.
    • Enlightened has been updated – Arcane damage dealt is increased based on your current mana, up to 6% at full mana. Mana regen is increased based on your current mana, up to 20% when out of mana.
    • Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus updated – Now increases Arcane Missiles and Arcane Orb damage by 15%.
      • Developers' notes: With Intuition’s inclusion into the Arcane talent tree, the Season 1 tier bonus needs to be replaced.
    • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 45%.
    • Arcane Explosion damage increased by 35%.
    • High Voltage bad luck protection chance increased to 15% (was 10%).
    • Arcane Surge is now tracked on the personal resource display.
    • Arcane Echo’s impact visual is now caster only.
    • Concentration has been removed.
    • Sunfury
      • Burden of Power has been updated – Now benefits Arcane Barrage.
        • Developers' notes: To alleviate having to swap to Arcane Blast in AOE, we’re letting Burden of Power work on Arcane Barrage to help things continue to flow across all target counts.
      • Burden of Power is now tracked on the personal resource display.
      • Arcane Soul has been updated – Additionally causes each cast of Arcane Barrage during Arcane Soul to increase Arcane Barrage’s damage by 15%.
      • Fixed an issue that caused the Arcane Phoenix to occasionally cast the player’s version of Meteorite.

• Mage
  • Arcane Intellect now costs 1% base mana (was 4%).
  • Alter Time’s visuals have been updated.
  • Shifting Power's icon has been updated. 
  • Ice Floes now allows you to cast Portal and Teleport spells while moving.
• Spellslinger
  • New Talent: Signature Spell – Arcane: When Magi’s Spark explodes, you conjure 6 Arcane Splinters. Frost: Consuming Winter’s Chill with Glacial Spike conjures 2 additional Frost Splinters.
  • Splintering Orbs can now generate a maximum of 6 Splinters (was 4 Splinters).
  • Volatile Magic now correctly benefits from damage bonuses.
  • Gravity Lapse cooldown increased to 40 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Sunfury
  • Gravity Lapse target cap increased to 8 targets (was 5) and Gravity Lapse now stuns instead of rooting.
  • Gravity Lapse now roots instead of stunning in PvP only.
  • Gravity Lapse’s visual effects have been updated.
  • Meteorites are now summoned instantly.
  • Spellfire Spheres are now anchored relative to your chest’s position.
• Arcane
  • New Talent: Aethervision – Consuming Nether Precision with Arcane Blast increases the damage of your next Arcane Barrage by 10% and causes it to generate 2 Arcane Charges. Stacks up to 2 times.
  • Time Loop has been updated – Now also increases the duration of Arcane Debilitation by 2 seconds and its chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 15%).
  • Leydrinker has been updated – No longer affects Arcane Barrage and casting Touch of the Magi now grants Leydrinker. Leydrinker's chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 20%).
  • Charged Orb has been updated – Now also increases the damage of Arcane Orb by 15%.
  • Consortium’s Bauble has been updated – Now increases Arcane Blast’s damage by 8% and reduces its mana cost by 5%. Consortium Bauble’s position in the tree has changed.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Arcane Debilitation to contribute twice its damage increase.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to double dip the last stack of Nether Precision with a spell-queued Arcane Barrage.
  • Arcane Missiles no longer consumes Ice Floes if you have Slipstream talented.
  • Some talents have changed positions.
  • Resonant Orbs has been removed.
  • Spellslinger
    • Arcane Splinter damage increased by 26%.
    • Spellfrost Teachings chance to trigger reduced to 2%.
    • Splinterstorm now has a 5% chance to generate Clearcasting.
    • Unerring Proficiency damage bonus increased to 20% (was 16%).
    • Spellfrost Teachings now properly increases your Arcane Orb damage by 10% for 10 seconds.
    • Fixed an issue where Splinterstorm damage was not equal to Splinter damage.
  • Sunfury
    • Glorious Incandescence has been updated – Now causes Arcane Barrage to deal 30% increased damage in addition to its previous effects. 
    • Memory of Al’ar's Arcane Soul extension amount increased to 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
    • Ignite the Future now also increases the maximum stacks of Mana Cascade to 15.
    • Burden of Power no longer affects Arcane Barrage.
    • Fixed an issue that was causing Mana Cascade to grant 0.5% Haste per stack to Arcane instead of 1%.
    • Arcane Soul’s overlay has been updated.

• Mage
  • Reabsorption now heals for 3% maximum health (was 5%).
  • Cryo-Freeze now causes Ice Block to heal for 25/50% of maximum health over its duration (was 40/80%).
  • Mass Barrier now has a cooldown of 3 minutes (was 2 minutes).
• Arcane
  • Clearcasting is now learned at level 10 (was level 11).
  • Mastery: Savant's Arcane Barrage damage bonus increased by 100%.
  • Mastery: Savant's Arcane Blast damage bonus increased by 50%.
  • Arcane Blast damage increased by 4%.
  • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 11%.
  • Arcane Barrage damage reduced by 60%.
  • Arcane Barrage damage increase per Arcane Charge increased to 90% (was 30%).
  • Arcane Familiar damage increased by 50%.
  • Arcane Orb damage reduced by 10%.
  • Arcane Echo damage increased by 25%.
  • Arcane Echo now has a 0.2 second cooldown between procs.
  • High Voltage base chance decreased to 10% (was 20%).
  • High Voltage proc chance increase per failure increased to 10% (was 5%).
  • Aether Attunement damage bonus decreased to 100% on primary target and 50% on secondary targets (was 150% and 100% respectively).
  • Concentration now procs 3 times per minute (was 2).
  • Magi's Spark now has a 2 second grace period after the initial Arcane Missiles proc where the caster will continue to echo Arcane Missiles damage.
  • Fixed an issue where Magi's Spark damage echo windows for Arcane Missiles and Arcane Barrage were shorter than Touch of the Magi's duration.
  • Fixed an issue that was allowing procs such as Orb Barrage and Energy Reconstitution to generate Clearcasting.
  • Fixed an issue preventing Energized Familiar from granting Mana.

• Mage
  • All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • New Talent: Barrier Diffusion – Whenever one of your Barriers is removed, reduce its cooldown by 4 seconds. Located in Dragon's Breath previous location.
  • New Talent: Inspired Intellect – Arcane Intellect grants you an additional 3% Intellect. Choice node with Time Anomaly.
  • Time Anomaly has been updated – Now grants Brain Freeze instead of Fingers of Frost.
  • Supernova added to Mage class tree (was Arcane tree) and now has a 45 second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
  • Mass Polymorph now polymorphs targets for 15 seconds (was 60 seconds).
  • Mass Slow has been removed.
• Arcane
  • New Talent: Energized Familiar – During Arcane Surge, your Arcane Familiar fires 4 bolts instead of 1. Damage from your Arcane Familiar has a small chance to grant you up to 2% of your maximum mana.
  • New Talent: Eureka – When a spell consumes Clearcasting, its damage is increased by 25%.
  • New Talent: Time Loop – When you apply a stack of Arcane Debilitation, you have a 10% chance to apply another stack of Arcane Debilitation. This effect can trigger off of itself.
  • New Talent: Arcane Debilitation – Damaging a target with Arcane Missiles increases the damage they take from Arcane Missiles, Arcane Barrage, and Arcane Blast by 1%.
  • New Talent: Aether Attunement – Every 3 times you consume Clearcasting, gain Aether Attunement. Aether Attunement: Your next Arcane Missiles deals 150% increased damage to your primary target and fires at up to 4 nearby enemies dealing 100% increased damage.
  • New Talent: Leysight – Nether Precision damage bonus increased to 30%.
  • New Talent: Leydrinker – Consuming Nether Precision has a 20% chance to make your next Arcane Blast or Arcane Barrage echo, repeating its damage at 60% effectiveness to the primary target and up to four nearby enemies.
  • New Talent: Improved Touch of the Magi – Your Touch of the Magi now accumulates 25% of the damage you deal.
  • New Talent: Magi's Spark – Your Touch of the Magi now also conjures a spark, increasing the damage your target receives from your next Arcane Barrage, Arcane Blast, and Arcane Missiles by 25%. Upon receiving damage from all three spells, the spark explodes, dealing Arcane damage to all nearby enemies.
  • New Talent: Nether Munitions – When your Touch of the Magi detonates, it increases the damage all affected targets take from you by 8% for 12 seconds.
  • New Talent: Surging Urge – Arcane Surge damage increased by 5% per Arcane Charge.
  • New Talent: Consortium’s Bauble – Reduces Arcane Blast’s mana cost by 3% and increases its damage by 3%.
  • New Talent: Resonant Orbs – Arcane Orb damage increased by 10%.
  • New Talent: Dematerialize – Spells empowered by Nether Precision cause their target to suffer an additional 8% of the damage dealt over 6 seconds.
  • New Talent: Energy Reconstitution – Damage from Dematerialize has a small chance to conjure an Arcane Explosion at 50% effectiveness at its target’s location. Arcane Explosions conjured this way do not generate Arcane Charges.
  • New Talent: Big Brained – Gaining Clearcasting increases your Intellect by 1% for 8 seconds. Multiple instances may overlap.
  • New Talent: Static Cloud – Each time you cast Arcane Explosion, its damage is increases by 25%. Bonus resets upon reaching 100% damage.
  • New Talent: High Voltage – Damage from Arcane Missiles has a 20% chance to grant you 1 Arcane Charge. Chance is increased by 5% every time your Arcane Missiles fails to grant an Arcane Charge.
  • Arcane Missiles has been redesigned – Can now only be cast when you have Clearcasting. The wording of talents that are associated with Arcane Missiles have been updated to reflect this change.
  • Nether Precision has been redesigned – Consuming Clearcasting increases the damage of your next 2 Arcane Blasts by 20% or your next 2 Arcane Barrages by 20%.
  • Arcane Familiar has been redesigned – Casting Arcane Intelligence also summons you a Familiar that attacks your enemies and increases your maximum mana by 10% for 1 hour. Now passive.
  • Illuminated Thoughts has been redesigned – Clearcasting has a 5% increased chance to trigger and spells that consume Clearcasting deal 5% more damage.
  • Concentration has been redesigned – Casting Arcane Blast has a small chance to make your next cast of Arcane Blast free.
  • Evocation has been updated – Increases your mana regeneration by 1500% for 2.8 seconds and grants Clearcasting. While channeling Evocation, your Intellect is increased by 2% every 0.5 seconds. Lasts 20 seconds.
  • Improved Prismatic Barrier is now learned automatically when specializing in Arcane (was a talent).
  • Mana Adept is now learned automatically when specializing in Arcane (was a talent).
  • Arcane Orb is now learned at level 45 (was a talent).
  • Arcane Orb damage reduced by 15%.
  • Arcane Blast damage increased by 8%.
  • Arcane Barrage damage reduced by 10%.
  • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 25%.
  • Clearcasting's chance to trigger is no longer tied to mana spent, and now has a 8% chance of triggering when casting any damaging spell.
  • Clearcasting now utilizes bad luck protection instead of true randomness.
  • You can no longer trigger Clearcasting by casting damaging spells while out of combat.
  • Arcane Surge is now guaranteed to generate Clearcasting.
  • Arcane Blast now has a 5% increased chance to generate Clearcasting.
  • Supernova moved to Mage class tree and now has a 45 second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
  • Mastery: Savant now properly increases the damage dealt by Arcane Surge.
  • Dragonflight Season 4 class set bonuses have been updated to the Dragonflight Season 1 class set bonuses:
    • 2 Set Bonus – For each Arcane Charge, Arcane Blast critical strike chance is increased by 3% and Arcane Explosion critical strike chance is increased by 3%.
    • 4 Set Bonus – When Arcane Blast or Arcane Explosion critically strikes at least one target, the critical strike chance of your next Arcane Barrage is increased by 10%, stacking up to 4 times.
    • Developer's note: In The War Within pre-patch we had several season 4 class sets that were made into spec talents. In order to prevent any oddities we are updating those select few class sets with earlier tier sets from Dragonflight to prevent any overlap or potential bugs.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Foresight
    • Nether Tempest
    • Reverberate
    • Mana Gem
    • Radiant Spark
    • Harmonic Echo
    • Cascading Power
    • Rule of Threes
    • Chrono Shift
    • Crackling Energy
    • Siphon Storm
    • Improved Arcane Missiles

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