Arcane Mage Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will learn the best Gems to use for your Arcane Mage in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, as well as the best leveling talents and rotation, whether you are leveling in the open world, or through raids and dungeons.
If you were looking for our normal Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Arcane Mage, please check out our Leveling page.
Remix: Mists of Pandaria Guide for Arcane Mage
Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Arcane Mage! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Arcane Mage in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.
This page is focused only on Arcane Mage in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Talents for Arcane Mage
Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Arcane Mage in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.
Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Arcane Mage, please check our dedicated Leveling page.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Build for Arcane Mage
Dungeon / AoE Open-World Build
This build is intended for speed-leveling and sacrifices single-target damage to maximize your ability to make huge pulls and AoE damage. This works very well in dungeons with big pulls, or in outdoor content where you pull large groups of enemies.
Dungeon AoE / Open-World Build
This build is aimed primarily at Raiding content, or doing Dungeons at a relatively slow pace where bosses take a decent amount of time to kill. For dungeons where you do large trash pack pulls, or pull trash on top of bosses, we suggest going the AoE build.
Best Gems for Arcane Mage in MoP Remix
Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.
- Meta Gem:
Lifestorm for Raids /
Oblivion Sphere for dungeons or outdoor content
- Cogwheel Gem: Mostly personal preference, but
Blink is always good, whereas
Soulshape is very good for outdoor travel
- Prismatic Gems:
You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem slots, and there is no single best stat to stack. Getting a lot of Haste and Versatility is a strong option, and try to avoid Critical Strike and Mastery.
- Tinker Gems:
Windweaver
Brilliance
Sunstrider's Flourish
Enkindle
Hailstorm
Incendiary Terror
Lightning Rod
Meteor Storm
Slay
Explosive Barrage
Brittle — Mainly for dungeons.
Wildfire
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Leveling Rotation for Arcane Mage
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.
Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attack
ability: Frostbolt.
- Use
Fire Blast on cooldown.
- Use
Presence of Mind when you have to move to allow you to cast
Arcane Blast on the move.
- Cast
Arcane Orb when you do not have 4 Arcane Charges.
- Cast
Evocation whenever it is ready to activate
Siphon Storm. Use this shortly before activating
Touch of the Magi and
Arcane Surge.
- Cast
Radiant Spark whenever it is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges.
- 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.
- Cast
Arcane Surge whenever it is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges and the target is affected by
Touch of the Magi.
- Cast
Arcane Surge whenever it is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges.
- Use
Arcane Missiles when you get
Clearcasting.
- Cast
Evocation when you are out of mana.
- Cast
Arcane Barrage to finish off a target, or when running low on mana. Only cast it when you have 4 Arcane Charges.
- Cast
Arcane Barrage whenever you have 4 Arcane Charges, and there are 3+ targets to hit with it. Additionally, whenever you are close to running out of Mana, cast Arcane Barrage. Only cast it with 4 Arcane Charges.
- Cast
Arcane Explosion when there are 3 or more targets.
- Cast
Arcane Blast as your filler on single target.
Changelog
- 14 May 2024: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz is a Mythic raider in one of the top raiding guilds, Turtles and the owner of the Mage Discord server, Altered Time, where he is involved in all things Mage, and you can reach out to him directly for feedback or questions about the guide.
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