Arcane Mage PvP Guide — Dragonflight Season 4

Arcane Mage is the most unique Mage specialization in PvP; unlike the other two specs that focus on consistent damage and crowd control, Arcane focuses heavily on using its utility and damage abilities to outsmart opponents. This is accomplished by using abilities like Spellsteal to disable your enemies while receiving Clearcasting to deal large amounts of damage. With the new expansion, Arcane has received significant changes to the toolkit as well as the way damage is dealt.

Strengths

• Great mobility
• Strong single-target damage
• Great control and utility
• Strong Survivability

Weaknesses

• Only one major casting school
• Predictable burst damage
• Although hard to kill, very weak after using Ice Block

• New Talent: Aethervision – Consuming Nether Precision with Arcane Blast increases the damage of your next Arcane Barrage by 10% and causes it to generate 2 Arcane Charges. Stacks up to 2 times.
• Time Loop has been updated – Now also increases the duration of Arcane Debilitation by 2 seconds and its chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 15%).
• Leydrinker has been updated – No longer affects Arcane Barrage and casting Touch of the Magi now grants Leydrinker. Leydrinker's chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 20%).
• Charged Orb has been updated – Now also increases the damage of Arcane Orb by 15%.
• Consortium's Bauble has been updated – Now increases Arcane Blast’s damage by 8% and reduces its mana cost by 5%.
• Resonant Orbs has been removed.

• New, Changed and Removed Mage Class Talents:
  • New Talent: Barrier Diffusion
  • New Talent: Inspired Intellect
  • Supernova added to Mage class tree and now has a 45-second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
  • Mass Slow has been removed.
• New, Changed and Removed Arcane Mage Talents:
  • New Talent: Energized Familiar.
  • New Talent: Eureka.
  • New Talent: Wizened Wit.
  • New Talent: Time Loop.
  • New Talent: Arcane Debilitation.
  • New Talent: Aether Attunement
  • New Talent: Leysight
  • New Talent: Leydrinker
  • The following talents have been removed: Foresight, Nether Tempest, Reverberate, Mana Gem, Radiant Spark, Harmonic Echo, Cascading Power, Supernova, and Rule of Threes.
• Arcane Blast damage increased by 10%.
• Arcane Barrage damage increased by 12%.
• Arcane Missiles damage increased by 10%.
• Arcane Missiles has been redesigned. Can now only be cast when you have Clearcasting.
• Evocation now grants one stack of Clearcasting.
• Arcane Orb is now baseline.
• Arcane Blast damage increased by 10%.
• Improved Arcane Missiles damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).
• Crackling Energy damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).