Arcane Mage Leveling Guide from 1 to 90 — Midnight Season 1

Arcane Mage, is very strong at outdoor content due to having basically infinite mana due to the downtime while doing outdoor content. Due to this, it can effectively 1 shot most outdoor enemies by simply staying at 4 Arcane Charges all the time. Due to this, simply questing is a very effective way of leveling. It also has access to Invisibility every now and then, allowing you to skip past enemies to speed up quests!

Having said that, Arcane is also very strong at dungeon content, doing incredible DPS, especially starting around level 40 when you start getting most of the kit unlocked. If you have some friends (especially a tank or healer) to queue up with, spamming dungeons is very efficient. If you are playing solo, the queue time for dungeons as a DPS makes it impractical.

If this is your first character, or you simply want to find out more about leveling in WoW in general, we got you covered!

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

When using Heirloom items, I generally recommend one Discerning Eye of the Beast trinket for the sustain it provides to avoid having to eat/drink in-between enemies, but the other trinket slot should usually be any on-use trinket that provides you with stat bonuses obtained from dungeons or questing, or simply equip a second Discerning Eye of the Beast to avoid having to think about replacing trinkets.

For the other Heirlooms, I recommend using the items with Mastery and Crit where possible, but you really cannot go wrong with any stat as they are all very close in value.

For more info on Heirlooms, find out more in our dedicated guide!

Below, you can see the suggested levelling talent build and the order in which to pick the talents while levelling. The below build is incredible for both dungeons and outdoor content.

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

Note: If following the leveling path provided, you will unlock Orb Mastery at level 57. When this happens, your rotation changes quite a bit. If you are not following the leveling tree exactly and unlock Orb Mastery at a higher level, make sure to keep the leveling slider to level 56 or lower until you unlock Orb Mastery.

Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attack ability: Frostbolt.

1. Make sure you keep Arcane Intellect up at all times. Keep in mind, if you die, you have to re-cast it. Otherwise just cast it once per hour.
2. Cast Time Warp when you are about to go into a big pull or boss fight. Keep in mind, you can only gain the benefit once every 10 minutes, even though the cooldown is 5 minutes.
3. Use Fire Blast on cooldown.
4. Cast Arcane Orb when you do not have 4 Arcane Charges.
5. Cast Arcane Orb when you get Clearcasting and you do not have 20 stacks of Arcane Salvo.
6. Cast Arcane Surge whenever it is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges. Make sure Touch of the Magi is ready before using Arcane Surge.
7. If Touch of the Magi is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges, Cast Arcane Barrage, immediately followed by Touch of the Magi. Ensure you cast Touch of the Magi before Arcane Barrage lands.
8. Use Arcane Missiles when you get Clearcasting.
9. Cast Arcane Barrage whenever you have 4 Arcane Charges and 20 Arcane Salvo stacks, or if enemies are low and Arcane Barrage will finish them off.
10. Cast Arcane Pulse as your filler on 2 targets or more.
11. Cast Arcane Blast as your filler.

In this section we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

1. Chrono Shift is a huge mobility increase and helps a lot with kiting enemies in the open world.
2. Temporal Shield is arguably the best defensive tool in the game, as it is off the global cooldown, and has a relatively short cooldown, allowing you to avoid damage against most enemies you face.
3. Master of Escape and Mass Invisibility are both spells that you can pick to help you skip more mobs when going through crowded areas.

In this section I highlight some consumables that can be useful when leveling in Midnight. These will focus primarily on speed. Both your movement speed, and of course your actual DPS.

• Enchant Boots - Scout's March — Boots Speed Enchant. Requires level 70.
• Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity — Cloak Speed Enchant. Requires level 70.
• Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed — Bracers Speed Enchant. Requires level 70.

• Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle — Provides a large amount of speed. Requires level 75.
• Fried Bonefish or Bear Tartare — Older speed buffs, which might be useful if they are much cheaper or you happen to have them leftover from previous expansions. Most of these require level 55.