Arcane Mage The War Within 11.2 Guide

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Arcane mage is a spec heavily reliant on its cooldowns, doing very large burst within a small window with arcane surge and touch of the magi followed by a filler rotation until your cooldowns come back up

Arcane Mage Patch 11.2 Changes

Going into 11.2, Blizzard has changed their design philosophy for how tier sets function, now having a separate tier set interaction for each hero talent, giving a more distinct playstyle for each hero talent which we will look in further depth later on. Arcane Mage has received a few changes that will be noticeable to our talents,gear and rotation such as:

• Arcane Orb has had its travel time increased to 30 yards/second, a nice quality of life for our charge generation.
• Time Anomaly has been removed, meaning we now always take Inspired Intellect, which has had its value changed from 3% to 6% additional intellect
• Prodigious Savant now gives us 15%/30% additional value to Arcane Blast and Arcane Barrage per arcane charge, this makes mastery a much more appealing stat for arcane again.
• Tying into the prodigious savant changes we also have had our base mastery buffed, giving 10% increased mana bonus,30% increased Arcane Blast damage, 40% increased Arcane Barrage damage and 10% to general arcane damage
• Intuition has been increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds, giving a slightly larger window to spend the proc.
• Resonance has been nerfed from 15% per target to 12%, a slight decrease to our cleave and funnel but still really strong

Along with mages 11.2 changes, there has also been a bunch of new content added to the game.

The War Within Changes

While we’re now at the final patch of the The War Within expansion , Arcane and Mage in general have changed a lot from previous expansions

I'm going to note the most important changes that affect mage if you are coming back to the class:

• One of the main features for classes in The War Within is a new addition called hero talents, defining a specific playstyle and theme for a class and spec. For arcane mage these are sunfury and spellslinger which will be covered more in later sections.
• Time Warp is now only a single use, we no longer have the option for double lust.
• Arcane familiar is baked into Arcane Intellect.
• Supernova and Dragon’s Breath are now on a choice node with one another.
• Ice Nova and Ring of Frost share the same choice node.
• Barrier Diffusion - whenever one of your barriers is removed, reduce its cooldown by 4 seconds (works very well with mass barrier).
• Radiant spark is being removed and replaced with Magi’s Spark which is entirely passive
• Nether Tempest has been removed.
• Siphon storm is now baked into Evocation.
• Mana gem has been removed.
• Arcane missiles can now only be cast with a clearcasting proc.