Arcane Mage DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

Last updated on Jan 15, 2024 at 15:00 by Dutchmagoz 69 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Arcane Mage for each boss of the following raid: Crucible of Storms. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.

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Disclaimer

This page will be a talent cheatsheet and Arcane Mage-specific tips page for Crucible of Storms. For an actual strategy on the encounters, you should check the raid guide.

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Arcane Mage in Crucible of Storms

Both of the encounters favour multi-dotting classes. Since Arcane Mage lacks any type of multi-dotting ability when enemies are spread out, Arcane Mage will look weaker on logs than it might actually be in practice.

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Talent Cheatsheet

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The Restless Cabal

Depending on what your group is struggling with, you can opt into more cleave DPS by swapping to Resonance Icon Resonance and/or Nether Tempest Icon Nether Tempest.

4.1.

Tips

The job of an Arcane Mage on this fight is to focus on quickly killing priority targets and boss DPS.

Use Shimmer Icon Shimmer to quickly get far away from the group when Crushing Doubt Icon Crushing Doubt is about to expire, and then use Displacement Icon Displacement to go back.

If your group's strategy allows getting multiple stacks of Promises of Power Icon Promises of Power, you should make sure you line up your cooldowns like Rune of Power Icon Rune of Power and Arcane Power Icon Arcane Power when you have 9 stacks of this buff (or any other high amount of stacks that your strategy allows).

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Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void

If needed, you can spec into Resonance Icon Resonance, Reverberate Icon Reverberate, and Arcane Orb Icon Arcane Orb to assist in killing the Swarming Voidspawns in Phase 3, depending on strategy used for the boss. This is however not the strength of an Arcane Mage on this fight, so you should only opt to go this route if your group really needs the additional add DPS.

5.1.

Tips

Shimmer Icon Shimmer can be used to evade Piercing Gaze of N'Zoth Icon Piercing Gaze of N'Zoth.

During Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy Icon Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy, try to avoid Arcane Barrage Icon Arcane Barrage to reduce damage done to raid members.

Avoid using cooldowns while you have the 50% reduced damage done debuff from Storm of Annihilation Icon Storm of Annihilation.

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Changelog

  • 13 Jan. 2020: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.3 and no changes are necessary.
  • 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
  • 12 May 2019: Added more tips.
  • 15 Apr. 2019: Guide added.
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