wow Arcane Mage Buff Coming with Maintenance

[Starym 3,800]

 

Arcane mages are getting some love with next week's maintenance, with an 8% buff to all damage! You can check our or Arcane DPS guide to get prepared for next week in case you want to change things up a little.

Arcane Mage (source)

We’re working on a tuning adjustment for Arcane Mages. With realm maintenance next week, we plan to:

Classes

• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Damage of all abilities increased by 8%.

As always, this change is a work in progress. We’ll let you know if we change plans, and you’ll see the final adjustment in the final hotfixes notes.

Thank you!

[Whisla 76]

See this is one of those swing buffs where im like, ya ok sweet. Just flat kick *filtered* more dmg. Wish theyd do more balance checks like this more often

[CaperfinWoW 21]

It'll be interesting to see some diversification and new flavors of playing the mage.

[HugeMurloc 43]

I'm leveling a UD mage as frost and I'm bored. I was considering to switch to Arcane, i guess it's the right time

[Aegrotat 80]

2 hours ago, K1ngMrglMrgl said:

I'm leveling a UD mage as frost and I'm bored. I was considering to switch to Arcane, i guess it's the right time

The way arcane works in general actually lends itself rather well to leveling. You don't get as much CC and slows as frost of course but you can put out some real nice burst

[dartbodman 64]

That's great... and a fix to the extreme file access quest completion freezes?

[Migol 433]

Am I misremembering or did they already give arcane a flat 6% or such not too long ago?

[HugeMurloc 43]

17 hours ago, Aegrotat said:

The way arcane works in general actually lends itself rather well to leveling. You don't get as much CC and slows as frost of course but you can put out some real nice burst

To be honest, I'm having more fun leveling as Arcane, than frost. In the end of the day its more about the fun than the overall damage

[Tarazet 144]

On 9/28/2019 at 1:30 PM, Aegrotat said:

The way arcane works in general actually lends itself rather well to leveling. You don't get as much CC and slows as frost of course but you can put out some real nice burst

For sure, just carry your arcane charges from mob to mob and drink as needed for mana. But it doesn't do well when swamped by mobs. If you're leveling efficiently by pulling multiple packs Frost will do a lot better.

[Spanky 2]

Meh. Arcane Mage has languished over the last two xpacs and I finally gave up and started playing something else. 

[CaperfinWoW 21]

On 9/28/2019 at 4:30 PM, Aegrotat said:

The way arcane works in general actually lends itself rather well to leveling. You don't get as much CC and slows as frost of course but you can put out some real nice burst

I've heard something similar, seems arcane is op for leveling.

[NickNite1 0]

The issue with Arcane has never been about the damage.  Arcane is insane burst.  The issue is the mechanics.  I would stand for less burst if it meant my overall damage didn't suffer. If you don't execute the conserve phase of your rotation properly, your damage will tank.  Not to mention that any movement in a fight and Arcane's damage is dumpster level.  We need talent diversity.  Right now, there's really only one viable spec for ST, and one viable spec for AOE, and if you focus on one you will do garbage DPS in the other, there's no middle ground.  Sure, you can choose some AOE talents during an AOE fight and still focus on ST damage on the boss, but it will show on the meter.  I've been kicked from many raids because, while my iLvL is 434, my dps is on par with some classes at 415.