Mage DPS Pre-Raid Gear
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items from Pre-Raid content for your Mage DPS in WoW Classic. For more gearing advice, please refer to our Mage DPS Gearing and Best in Slot guide.
Mage Pre-Raid Best in Slot (BiS) List
This is the pre-raid gear we recommend for each phase. The first 4 phases emphasize frost damage gear, as the main 40-man raids in those phases are played as Frost Mage. The Phase 5 and 6 Pre-Raid BiS will include Fire damage gear, as Mages will spec into Fire for those 40-man raids.
The 6 phases are as follows:
- Molten Core + Onyxia's Lair
- Honor System, World Bosses, Warsong + Alterac Valley Battlegrounds
- Blackwing Lair, Darkmoon Faire
- Zul'Gurub, Arathi Battleground, Nightmare Dragons
- AQ40, updated Rank 14 rewards
- Naxxramas, Scourge Invasion
You will be looking for gear with a lot of (Frost/Fire) Spell damage, Spell Hit, Spell Crit and Intellect, with Stamina being a secondary concern.
This list contains gear from: Dungeons, PvP (up to rank 14), reputation gear, crafting, world drops outside of World bosses, Raid BoEs and quests. While we are only listing the Horde versions of the PvP set and PvP reputation gear, equivalent versions can be found on the Alliance side, with the same requirements, cost and stats.
Pre-raid Best in Slot
Mage Phase 6 Best in Slot (BiS) List
Mage Phase 5 Best in Slot (BiS) List
Mage Phase 4 Best in Slot (BiS) List
Mage Phase 3 Best in Slot (BiS) List
Mage Phase 2 Best in Slot (BiS) List
Mage Phase 1 Best in Slot (BiS) List
You can find more Mage BiS lists in our dedicated gear hub below.
Changelog
- 12 Feb. 2025: Some fixes with PVP gear.
- 10 Dec. 2024: Corrected Arcane Crystal Pendant available phase.
- 10 Mar. 2024: Clarified source for Dark Whisper Blade.
- 06 Dec. 2020: Added Staff of Balzaphon.
- 18 Sep. 2020: Added Tome of the Lost to off-hands.
- 30 Aug. 2020: Corrected Spritecaster Cape drop location.
- 26 Jul. 2020: Updated with Phase 5 gear.
- 20 May 2020: Added Sandworm Skin Gloves.
- 15 May 2020: Added Silithus Twilight boss summonings gear.
- 28 Apr. 2020: Added Eye of the Beast quest source for Alliance players.
- 23 Apr. 2020: Added Zulian Ceremonial Staff.
- 14 Apr. 2020: Added the Bloodvine Set.
- 11 Mar. 2020: Updated with Arathi Basin gear.
- 28 Feb. 2020: Added Flarecore Leggings.
- 11 Feb. 2020: Guide added.

This guide has been written by Wrdlbrmpft aka Arcanaenus, playing Mage since 2008. He is usually found in the Mage Discord, where you may also ask him questions his guides do not answer.
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