Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

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Arcane Mage Spell Summary

If you are new to Arcane, it is recommended you read this before proceeding!In this section, we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used forwithin the specialization, and how they interact with important cooldowns. Ifyou have played this spec before or have already achieved a level of comfortplaying this spec in a practical environment, it is recommended you skip thissection and move on to the rest of the guide.

Keep in mind, some spells might be much easier to use via macros or aremore easily used in combination with other spells. Visit the macro page below toget a good idea of such macros.

Arcane Mage Macros Page

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Unlocking Abilities

Note that this page simply lists all the different abilities, assumingyou are at max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated MageLeveling page, which has detailed information on when you unlock all of theseabilities.

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Main Resources of Arcane Mage

Mana and Arcane Charges are your primary resources, andinteract with each other in a fashion unique to Arcane.

Arcane Charges are generated by Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (1) Arcane Blast andArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2) Arcane Explosion, and by some talented spells. They go to a maximumof 4 and increase the Mana cost of Arcane Blast by 100% per stack.They also increase the damage of Arcane Blast and Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (3) Arcane Barrage by apercentage dictated by your current Mastery value.

Mana is the main resource of Arcane Mages. With the above information inmind, managing your Mana can be a challenging task. On one hand, casting spellswhile at 4 Arcane Charges allows you to do maximum damage. Theconsequence of this is that you will quickly chew through your Mana bar,leaving you with no option but to stand there and wait for your Mana to slowlyregenerate. This relationship between Mana and Arcane Chargesforms the central theme of the Arcane specialization and will be discussed atlength later in the guide.

4.

Baseline Abilities for Arcane Mage

These abilities are available no matter what talents you chose and form thebread and butter of this specialization.

AbilityAbbreviationDescription/Effect
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (4) Arcane BlastABThis is your main filler and nuke and generates 1Arcane Charge when cast. This spell has a low Mana cost when youhave no Arcane Charges, but can make your Mana bar disappear inonly a handful of casts at 4 Arcane Charges. It has no travel time,which makes it great for instantly applying damage or finishing off animportant add.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (5) Arcane BarrageAbarrAlthough technically a talent, Arcane Barrage is the very firstnode and required to pick. It is an instant-cast spell that clears your ArcaneCharges and makes your Arcane Blast cheaper to cast again. This ability is usedas a reset button to help you maintain a stable Mana pool. You can generatecharges with Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (6) Arcane Blast and Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (7) Arcane Explosion. Arcane Barrageitself hits relatively hard when used at 4 Arcane Charges, especially onmultiple targets.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (8) Arcane MissilesAMAlthough technically a talent, Arcane Missiles is the second nodeand required to pick. It is a channeled spell that deals more damage thenArcane Blast. It can be cast at any time, but in practice is only used incombination with the Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (9) Clearcasting proc, which makes it cost noMana channel 20% faster and cause an additional missile to fire. Any Mana youspend on damaging abilities (and Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (10) Spellsteal) has a chance to procClearcasting. Arcane Missiles has relatively slow travel, which means youshould avoid casting it on any target that is about to die, as it may not reachin time.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (11) Arcane ExplosionAEArcane Explosion is an instant cast spell which is your primary AoEability that generates 1 Arcane Charge if you hit any amount of targets withit. Unlike Arcane Blast, the Mana cost and damage of Arcane Explosion does notgo up with the number of Arcane Charges. Unlike practically all other ArcaneMage spells, Arcane Explosion, requires you to be near the targets you wantto hit, potentially putting you closer to danger.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (12) ClearcastingCCThe only rotational proc Arcane has. This procallows you to cast Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (13) Arcane Missiles and Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (14) Arcane Explosion forfree, and makes Arcane Missiles channel 20% faster. It can proc from anythingthat costs Mana.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (15) InvisibilityInvisInvisibility is a utility spell that makes you invisible over 3seconds. It can be very useful to skip certain enemies in a dungeon or openworld content. Additionally, it also completely drops your aggro over 3seconds, which can be useful when you are at risk of getting aggro onenemies.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (16) Blink-Blink is an instant cast spell that immediately travels you 20yards forward, breaking any stuns and roots you might be affected by. Thisiconic Mage spell is a very strong mobility spell that helps with gettingaround the battlefield.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (17) CounterspellCSCounterspell is an instant-cast spell that is not on the globalcooldown, which, when cast, will interrupt your target's spell cast and alsolocking them out of casting any spells of the same school as the interruptedspell for 6 seconds. If you cast this on a target that is not casting, it willhave no effect.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (18) Time WarpTW/BLTime Warp is an instant cast spell that is not on the global cooldown,which increases Haste by 30% for 40 seconds for all party andraid members within 100 yards. This ability debuffs everyone with a debuff thatprevents the possibility of benefiting from Time Warp, Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (19) Heroism, andArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (20) Bloodlust for the next 10 minutes.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (21) Arcane IntellectAIArcane Intellect buffs the entire raid, giving them more Intellect.Mages are the only class that gives this buff, so most raids will want at least1 Mage to ensure the raid has this buff.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (22) PolymorphPolyPolymorph, one of the most iconic Mage spells in the game, turnsyour target into a critter that cannot do anything while at the same timehealing them. This spell does no damage. Instead, it heals your target, so itis not used in any DPS rotations. However, it is a very useful spell used veryactively in PvP and sometimes in PvE content to reduce the number of enemiesyou are fighting at the same time. There are different collectibles tochange the appearance of your Polymorphed target, but as a baseline, your targetturns into a sheep.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (23) Cone of ColdCone/CoCCone of Cold is an instant-cast spell that slows enemies in front ofyou. It is generally not used as a damage spell but purely as a controlspell.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (24) Conjure RefreshmentTable/FoodConjure Refreshment is a utility spell that generates food for you.If you are in a group, instead of directly creating food, it instead creates atable that you and your party or raid members can click to gain food instead.This food will regenerate health and mana out of combat while eating it, but itdoes not provide any combat buffs like some other types of food.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (25) Slow Fall-Slow Fall is an instant-cast spell that, as the name suggests, makesyou fall more slowly, avoiding any fall damage. You can also use this on otherplayers to reduce their falling speed and fall damage. This is primarily usedto save yourself from dying when falling from high places and in some nichePvP situations.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (26) Fire BlastFB/IBFire Blast (often abbreviated IB due to its old name, "Inferno Blast")is an instant-cast spell that does a tiny bit of damage.It is generally not used as part of any DPS rotation, but it has some nicheuses, like tagging enemies quickly or stopping an enemy in PvP from eatingfood.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (27) Frost Nova-Frost Nova is an instant-cast spell that does a bit of damage totargets around you, freezing them in the process. This freeze effect stops themfrom moving but not from using any spells or abilities. The freeze effect canalso break from damage, both yours or anyone else's damage. This spell isusually not used in a DPS rotation, but it is often used for its crowd controleffects in PvP or open-world content.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (28) Frostbolt-Frostbolt is a spell that does a bit of damage and slows thetarget. It is generally not used in a DPS rotation. There are other ways toslow enemies that do not require casting that are often preferred, but it issometimes used in niche situations in PvP.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (29) Portal-Portal is a spell that opens up a portal to a specific destination.There are multiple variants of this spell that open up Portals to most of thebig cities in World of Warcraft. Anyone in your party or raid group can takethis portal to quickly travel around the world.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (30) TeleportTPTeleport is a lot like Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (31) Portal, except instead of openingup a portal for you and your allies to use, it immediately teleports you to thedesignated city.

To learn how to use these abilities together in your rotation, read therotation part of our guide below.

Arcane Mage Rotation Page

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Class Tree Active Abilities for Arcane Mage

In this section, we will go over all the active abilities in the Mage generaltalent tree. Active abilities are abilities you can press yourself.

AbilityAbbreviationDescription/Effect
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (32) Prismatic BarrierBarrierPrismatic Barrier is an instant-cast spell that provides you ashield that absorbs damage before your health pool. Additionally, while theshield is up, it also reduces the Magic damage you take by 15% and reduces theduration of harmful Magic effects by 25%. This is an incredibly strongdefensive tool, and proper usage of this will increase your survivabilitygreatly.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (33) Ice BlockBlock/IBMakes you completely immune to all damage, and removed (almost) all debuffsfrom you. You are unable to do anything while in an Ice Block, but you can cancelit by pressing it a second time.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (34) Spellsteal-Spellsteal is a utility spell that steals one beneficial effectfrom your target and applies it to yourself for a maximum of 2 minutes. Thereare many powerful effects in all types of content that can be stolen with thisspell, which can greatly boost your damage or survivability.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (35) Remove Curse-Remove Curse can be used to remove Curses from your raid orparty.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (36) Mirror ImageMIMirror Image spawns 3 copies nearby which will attack your enemies.While you have at least one copy alive, you will take 20% less damage. Anydirect damage will you take will cause one of the copies to be removed. Thesecopies can not be controlled, but they do have a health bar and can die.Although the copies do some damage, it is primarily a defensive ability, as thedamage they do is very low. The copies will also take aggro before you, whichallows you to survive significantly longer in solo content.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (37) Alter TimeATAlter Time can be used as both a defensive and a mobility tool. Tenseconds after casting this ability, or after pressing it a second time, youwill be returned to your location and health from when you cast it. One commonusage is to activate it right before a big hit and then re-activating it afterthe big hit to immediately heal back to full health.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (38) Mass Polymorph-Mass Polymorph is an AoE version of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (39) Polymorph, hitting allenemies within 10 yards. Due to the requirement to be within 10 yards ofenemies to hit them, it loses significant value as it requires you to get incombat with the enemies before being able to Polymorph them. It can howeverstill be used as a mass interrupt or for other niche situations.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (40) Slow-Slow is an instant cast spell that slows your target by 50%. It canbe active on multiple enemies at the same time. It is a very effective tool forkiting enemies.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (41) Ring of FrostRing/RoFRing of Frost allows you to spawn a relatively big Ring of Frost in atargeted location that will incapacitate enemies for 10 seconds. Only enemiesin the actual outer section of the circle, get incapacitated. Any damage willbreak the incapacitation effect.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (42) Ice Nova-Ice Nova is an instant cast spell that freezes your target andtargets around it for 2 seconds. Although it does do some damage, it isgenerally not used for the damage aspect, as the damage is not high enough tomake it worth casting just for damage. Unlike the freeze fromArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (43) Frost Nova, the freeze from Ice Nova will not break from damage.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (44) Shimmer-Shimmer replaces Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (45) Blink when picked. Shimmer is an instantcast spell that has 2 charges and immediately moves you forward 20 yards. Itdoes not apply a global cooldown and can be cast while casting other spells.Shimmer is one of the best mobility spells in the entire game. Unlike Blink, itwill not break root or stun effects, but you can still cast it while rooted.Due to being usable while casting, Shimmer lets you get around the battlefieldwithout giving up any DPS.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (46) Ice FloesIFIce Floes while placed in the same node as Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (47) Shimmer, doesnot replace Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (48) Blink when picked. It has 3 stacks, and just like Shimmer,it does not apply a global cooldown and can be cast while casting other spells.When you cast Ice Floes, your next spell will be able to be cast while moving.It is a very strong spell, but because it competes with Shimmer, it is not pickedas often as it would be on its node. Generally, people will pick betweenShimmer and Ice Floes depending on personal preference. If you re-cast IceFloes in the last 0.5 seconds of an existing cast when you already have IceFloes active, it will not consume a charge. This allows you to get 5 castswhile on the move if you do it perfectly.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (49) Blast WaveBWBlast Wave is an instant cast spell that does a bit of damage, butmore importantly, it knocks all enemies close to you away from you and slows themby 70%. It is generally not used as a DPS ability but used only for its crowdcontrol effects. The knockback will also interrupt enemies that arecasting.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (50) Greater InvisibilityGIGreater Invisibility is a very strong defensive ability. This canhelp your healers out in a lot of situations when high damage is incoming. Italso removes some debuffs and often stops any type of targeted ability fromhitting you. It replaces Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (51) Invisibility.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (52) Dragon's BreathDBDragon's Breath is another short-range instant cast crowd controlspell. It will disorient all enemies in front of you for 4 seconds when cast,canceled by damage. It is often used as a way to interrupt targets in front ofyou, or to give you time to cast something else while the enemies aredisoriented.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (53) Shifting PowerSPShifting Power is a channeled AoE ability. While channeling, it willdo decent damage to enemies around you while also decreasing the cooldown ofall your spells by 12 seconds. The cooldown reduction is very significant foryour shorter cooldown spells, but not very significant for your longer cooldownspells.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (54) Displacement-Displacement is another instant-cast mobility spell that teleportsyou back to the location you last used Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (55) Blink (or Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (56) Shimmer, iftalented) from.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (57) Mass Barrier-Applies Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (58) Blazing Barrier to yourself and your 4 closest allies.Keep in mind this does not apply the cooldown on your own Barrier, soeven without any allies, it still provides defensive value.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (59) Mass Invisibility-Makes you and all your party or raid members invisible for 12 seconds.The invisibility breaks when any ability or item is used and does not work ifapplied when already in combat. Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (60) Incantation of Swiftness does not applyto the invisibility gained from Mass Invisibility.

6.

Class Tree Passive abilities for Arcane Mage

In this section, we will go over all the passive abilities in the Magegeneral talent tree. Passive abilities are abilities you cannot pressyourself, but instead apply some effect to other abilities.

AbilityAbbreviationDescription/Effect
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (61) Overflowing Energy-Overflowing Energy boosts the damage of your critical strikes by10%. Additionally, it will increase your chance to critically strike by 2%every time you fail to crit, stacking up to 5 times (10%). Whenever you crit,the bonus chance resets to 0%.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (62) Incanter's FlowIFIncanter's Flow increases your damage by 4-20%, cycling every 10seconds.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (63) Winter's Protection-Winter's Protection reduces the cooldown of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (64) Ice Block by 20seconds.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (65) Tempest Barrier-Tempest Barrier gives you an absorb shield worth 3% (per talentpoint, max 2 points) of your maximum health any time you use Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (66) Blink, orArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (67) Shimmer if talented. This is a strong defensive passive, especiallycombined with Shimmer. Keep in mind, the absorb does not stack if you castShimmer twice within quick succession.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (68) Incantation of Swiftness-Incantation of Swiftness gives you 40% (per talent point, max 2points) increased movement speed after casting Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (69) Invisibility orArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (70) Greater Invisibility for 6 seconds.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (71) Arcane Warding-Arcane Warding reduces all magic damage you take by 2%. (per talentpoint, max 2 points)
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (72) Cryo-Freeze-Cryo Freeze heals you for 40/80% of your maximum health while insideArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (73) Ice Block. This also works when combined with Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (74) Ice Cold, causingyou to heal significantly even when not stuck in an Ice Block.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (75) Reduplication-Reduplication reduces your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (76) Mirror Image's cooldown by 10seconds whenever one dissipates due to direct damage. This means whenever youtake direct damage, and one of your Mirror Images disappears due to it, not whena Mirror Image dies due to being attacked.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (77) Reabsorption-Reabsorption heals you for 5% of your maximum health whenever oneof your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (78) Mirror Image's dissipates due to direct damage. This means,whenever you take direct damage and one of your Mirror Images disappears due toit, not when a Mirror Image dies due to being attacked itself.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (79) Quick Witted-Quick Witted reduces your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (80) Counterspell cooldown when yousuccessfully interrupt an enemy with Counterspell.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (81) Master of Time-Master of Time reduces the cooldown of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (82) Alter Time by 10seconds. Additionally, whenever Alter Time expires or you press it a secondtime, it also resets the cooldown of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (83) Blink (or returns one stack ofArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (84) Shimmer, if talented).
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (85) Diverted Energy-Diverted Energy causes your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (86) Prismatic Barrier to also healyou for 10% of the damage it absorbs.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (87) Mass Slow-Mass Slow makes it so that your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (88) Slow applies to all enemieswithin 5 yards of your target. Keep in mind 5 yards is quite small, so itgenerally will not hit too many targets.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (89) Improved Frost Nova-Improved Frost Nova increases the duration of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (90) Frost Nova by 2seconds. Keep in mind this will not make it break slower from damage.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (91) Rigid Ice-Rigid Ice allows the freeze from Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (92) Frost Nova to withstand 80%more damage before breaking. Although this sounds like a lot, Frost Nova breaksquickly from damage, and if you are actively damaging a frozen enemy, they willstill break long before the full duration of the Freeze is over. This talent ismostly useful to avoid damage over time effects or incidental damage frombreaking your Freeze.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (93) Tome of Rhonin-Increases your Critical Strike chance by 2%.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (94) Tome of Antonidas-Increases your Haste by 2%.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (95) Volatile DetonationVDReduces the cooldown of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (96) Blast Wave by 5seconds, and greatly increases the distance of its knockback.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (97) Energized Barriers-Causes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (98) Prismatic Barrier to have a 10%chance when struck by a melee attack to give you a Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (99) Clearcastingproc. Additionally, casting Prismatic Barrier will remove all snareeffects.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (100) Frigid Winds-Increases the snare effects of all your snares by anadditional 5/10%. This works for all snares, not just Frost spells.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (101) Flow of Time-Reduces the cooldown of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (102) Blink (orArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (103) Shimmer, if talented) by 1 second. (per talent point, max 2 points)
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (104) Temporal Velocity-Increases your movement speed by 5% (per talentpoint, max 2 points) after you Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (105) Blink (or Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (106) Shimmer, if talented)for 2 seconds, and 20% (per talent point, max 2 points) for 5 seconds afterreturning from Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (107) Alter Time.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (108) Ice Ward-Gives Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (109) Frost Nova a second charge.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (110) Time Manipulation-Reduces the cooldown of your crowd controlabilities by 1 second any time you cast Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (111) Arcane Missiles whileArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (112) Clearcasting is active.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (113) Accumulative Shielding-Causes your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (114) Prismatic Barrier torecharge its cooldown 10% faster while the shield is active.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (115) Freezing Cold-Causes your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (116) Cone of Cold to freeze enemies for5 seconds instead of slowing them. Additionally, whenever anyof your roots expire or are dispelled, the enemies will be slowed by 80%,decaying over 3 seconds.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (117) Time AnomalyTAGives you a chance to randomly procArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (118) Arcane Surge for 6 seconds, Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (119) Clearcasting, orArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (120) Time Warp for 6 seconds. The Arcane Surge proc will not do the damageportion, only the increases in mana regeneration and spell damage. The Time Warpproc can happen even while you have Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (121) Temporal Displacement.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (122) Temporal Warp-While you have Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (123) Temporal Displacement orsimilar effects, you can cast Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (124) Time Warp, and its normal effects willstill apply to you. Time Warp will not go on cooldown the first time you cast it,so you can cast it twice. Keep in mind, Temporal Warp abbreviating Temporal Warpto "TW" is usually confusing, as this already refers to Time Warp.

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Spec Tree Active Abilities for Arcane Mage

In this section, we will go over all the active abilities in the Arcanetalent tree. Active abilities are abilities you can press yourself.

Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (125) Arcane Barrage and Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (126) Arcane Missiles are technically talents,but they are the first 2 nodes and required to pick, so they are describedunder the base abilities section.

AbilityAbbreviationDescription/Effect
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (127) Arcane OrbAOShoots an Arcane Orb forward (depending on how you arefacing), giving you one Arcane Charge when cast, and another for each targetstruck.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (128) Arcane SurgeAS/SurgeThis is Arcane's biggest DPS cooldown. It consumes all Mana,and deals very high damage based on the Mana consumed by your target and allenemies nearby your target. (reduced beyond 5 targets) Additionally, itincreases your Mana regeneration by 425% and Spell Damage by 35% for 15 secondsafter casting it. The 35% bonus damage is also applied to Arcane Surge damageitself. The increased Mana regeneration is enough to bring you back to full Manathroughout the buff, if you were to cast no other abilities.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (129) Arcane FamiliarAF (sometimes)Summons a Familiar that does a bit of damage to yourtarget, and increases your maximum Mana by 10% for 1 hour. The Familiar spawnedis not like a normal pet, as it cannot take damage, nor can it die.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (130) Presence of MindPoMCauses your next 2 Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (131) Arcane Blasts to beinstant cast. Presence of Mind is not affected by the global cooldown.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (132) Nether TempestNTAn instant cast spell that puts a damage-over-time(DoT) effect on your target for 12 seconds. The DoT damage will hit yourprimary target and enemies near your target. For every Arcane Charge activewhen casting Nether Tempest, it will do 60% more damage. Although it has nocooldown, it can only be applied to 1 target.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (133) Touch of the MagiToTMA relatively short cooldown spell that whenapplied to your target will accumulate 20% of the damage done to the target for10 seconds, after which it explodes for the total damage accumulated to theprimary target, and reduced damage to nearby targets. Additionally, it alsogenerates 4 Arcane Charges, allowing to immediately go into high burst windowswithout first needing to build up Arcane charges.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (134) SupernovaSNA 25-second crowd control ability that knocks yourtarget (if it is an enemy target) and surrounding enemies into the air. Thiscan be used both on enemy and friendly targets but will only knock up enemytargets, and does double damage to the primary target. Although this abilitydoes damage, the damage is very lackluster and is primarily used for its crowdcontrol effect.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (135) EvocationEvoNot a direct damage cooldown, strictly speaking,but it does restore 100% of your Mana bar. As noted, Mana is damage forArcane Mages, so this ability ends up having a high DPS value. Generally,Evocation will be used when you are out of Mana at the tail end of a burstwindow, but with certain talents, the exact usage of Evocation can change.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (136) Conjure Mana Gem-Generates a Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (137) Mana Gem which restores 25% ofyour maximum Mana and increases your damage by 5% for 12 seconds. The Mana Gemhas 3 usages before you need to create a new one.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (138) Radiant SparkRSDoes some initial damage and applies a DoT that doesdamage over 10 seconds. More importantly, it causes your direct damage spells todo10% increased damage, stacking every time you hit the target with a directspell, up to 40%. After reaching 4 stacks, the effect ends.

8.

Spec Tree Passive Abilities for Arcane Mage

In this section, we will go over all the passive abilities in the Arcanetalent tree. Passive abilities are abilities you cannot press yourself, butinstead apply some effect to other abilities.

AbilityAbbreviationDescription/Effect
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (139) Reverberate-Gives you a 50% chance to get an additional ArcaneCharge when Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (140) Arcane Explosion hits 3 or more targets.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (141) Concentrated Power-Makes your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (142) Arcane Missiles channel 20% faster, or Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (143) Arcane Explosionecho for 40% damage when you have Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (144) Clearcasting.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (145) Arcane Tempo-Increases your Haste by 2% for 12 seconds any time youconsume an Arcane Charge, stacking up to 5 times.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (146) Improved Arcane Missiles-Increases the damage of Arcane Missiles by10% per talent point, up to 2 points.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (147) Crackling Energy-Increases the damage of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (148) Arcane Explosionand Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (149) Arcane Blast by 10% per point, up to 2 points.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (150) Nether Precision-Increases the damage of your next 2Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (151) Arcane Blasts by 20%, after consuming Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (152) Clearcasting.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (153) Rule of ThreesRo3/RoTCauses your next Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (154) Arcane Blast orArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (155) Arcane Missiles to be free after getting your third Arcane Charge.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (156) Charged Orb-Gives Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (157) Arcane Orb an additional charge.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (158) ResonanceResoMakes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (159) Arcane Barrage do 15% more damage pertarget it hits. This starts at the first target, so even if thereare no additional targets, it still causes Arcane Barrage to do 15% more damage.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (160) Mana Adept-Makes your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (161) Arcane Barrage give you 2% maximumMana back per Arcane Charge consumed.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (162) Slipstream-Allows you to cast Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (163) Arcane Missiles while movingif it is empowered by Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (164) Clearcasting. Additionally, it also allowsyou to cast Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (165) Evocation while moving. If you have the Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (166) Ice Floesbuff active, it will not be consumed by Clearcasting Arcane Missiles norEvocation.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (167) Amplification-Makes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (168) Arcane Missiles empowered byArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (169) Clearcasting also fire 3 additional missiles in the sameduration.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (170) Foresight-Makes it so that after standing still for 10 seconds, youwill be able to cast any spell while moving for 4 seconds. If you have theArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (171) Ice Floes buff active, it will not be consumed until Foresightexpires.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (172) Arcing Cleave-Makes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (173) Arcane Barrage hit one additional targetfor 40% damage per Arcane Charge consumed.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (174) Improved Prismatic Barrier-Makes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (175) Prismatic Barrier an evenstronger defensive cooldown by further reducing magical damage taken by 5% andreducing the duration of harmful Magic effects by another 10%.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (176) Impetus-Causes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (177) Arcane Blast to have a 10% chance togenerate two Arcane Charges instead of one. If this effect procs while at 3 ormore Arcane Charges, it will give you 10% Arcane damage for 10 secondsinstead.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (178) Improved Clearcasting-Allows you to stack Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (179) Clearcastingup to 3 times. This allows you to store them for later, for example, to save oneof them for a period of high movement combined with Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (180) Slipstream or tokeep the Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (181) Nether Precision buff up.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (182) Chrono Shift-Adds a lot of kiting capability toArcane by increasing your movement speed by 50% and slowing your enemies by 50%for 5 seconds when you hit Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (183) Arcane Barrage. You will still get themovement speed buff even if you hit a target that cannot be slowed. (like aRaid boss)
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (184) EnlightenedENIncreases your Arcane Damage while above 70% Mana by6%, while increasing your Mana Regen while below 70% Mana by 20%.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (185) Arcane EchoEchoCauses your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (186) Touch of the Magi to also explode anddo AoE damage any time you hit your target affected by Touch of the Magi.(reduced beyond 8 targets) Multiple hits will trigger multiple explosions, sofor example, Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (187) Arcane Missiles will trigger a lot of explosions.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (188) Arcane BombardmentAbomb/BombardmentWill increase the damage ofArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (189) Arcane Barrage by a massive amount of 100% against targets below 35%heath.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (190) Illuminated Thoughts-increases the chance ofArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (191) Clearcasting to proc by 5% per talent point (max 2).
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (192) Siphon StormSSCauses Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (193) Evocation to also grant one ArcaneCharge, while also increasing your intellect by 2% per second channeled (so upto 14%), lasting 30 seconds.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (194) Prodigious Savant-Causes your Arcane charges to further increase the Mastery Effectivenessof Arcane Blast and Arcane Barrage by 20% per talent point (max 2).
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (195) Concentration-Causes Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (196) Arcane Blast to have a chance tocause your next Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (197) Clearcasting to not be consumed.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (198) Cascading Power-Makes it so that you get 2 Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (199) Clearcastingstacks when you consume a Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (200) Mana Gem.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (201) Orb Barrage-Makes your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (202) Clearcasting also reduce thecooldown of Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (203) Arcane Orb by 2 seconds. Additionally, after casting 15Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (204) Arcane Missiles, you will automatically fire Arcane Orb. Any ArcaneMissiles under the effect of Clearcasting will count as 2 casts.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (205) Harmonic Echo-Causes damage you deal to the target withArcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (206) Radiant Spark vulnerability to also do damage to your current targetand 4 additional nearby enemies for 20% of the damage dealt to the RadiantSpark target.
Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (207) Arcane HarmonyHarmonyCauses your Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (208) Arcane Missiles hits to give youa stacking buff that increases the damage of your next Arcane Mage DPS Spell List and Glossary - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (209) Arcane Barrageby 5%, stacking up to 20 times. (100% bonus damage)

For more information on when to pick the above-described talented abilities,and their relative strength, see our talent page.

Arcane Mage Talents Page

9.

Changelog

  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
  • 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6. and fixed some typos and updated some abbreviations.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for patch 10.2.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated all spells and talents for the Arcane Mage rework of 10.1.5
  • 01 May 2023: Updated some descriptions to be more clear and cleaned up some duplicate spells.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 30 Nov. 2022: Updated Temporal Warp description for changed time warp functionality.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.

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