Arcane Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Arcane Mage. This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

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Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage

Pre-Season BiS List

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Midnight Pre-Season BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list provides you with a list of items you can obtain before Season 1 of Midnight launches that will allow you to go into the Season as strong as possible.

Before Season 1 starts, you can acquire gear from Midnight Dungeons, Delves, Crafting, or other Open World content. This list is primarily focused on gear from Dungeons, as these are most farmable and do not require pure luck of finding the right world item or Delve item.

Keep in mind that items can be upgraded after obtaining them. For more information on this, check out the Gear Upgrade System system.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I might list a few "BiS" items per slot for this reason, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next, as some items might be bigger upgrades for you than an item listed as best-in-slot on this list, due to the rest of your items being different.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapons	Fang of Contagion (Main-Hand) Luminescent Sprout (Off-hand) Corespark Multitool (Staff)	Voidscar Arena The Blinding Vale Nexus-Point Xenas
Head	Worldroot Canopy	The Blinding Vale
Neck	Thalassian Phoenix Torque with Prismatic Focusing Iris	Crafted — Jewelcrafting
Shoulder	Poisoner's Pauldrons	Voidscar Arena
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier	Crafted — Tailoring
Chest	Hoarded Harvest Wrap	Den of Nalorakk
Wrist	Martyr's Bindings with Devouring Banding (Versatility/Mastery)	Crafted — Tailoring
Hands	Counterfeit Clutches	Murder Row
Waist	Lightblossom Cinch	The Blinding Vale
Legs	Commander's Faded Breeches	Windrunner Spire
Feet	Tempestuous Sandals	Murder Row
Rings	Omission of Light Occlusion of Void Signet of Snarling Servitude	Nexus-Point Xenas Nexus-Point Xenas Murder Row
Strong Trinkets	Darkmoon Deck: Hunt Vessel of Tortured Souls Lightspire Core (if moving into light) Emberwing Feather Heart of Wind	Crafted - Does not require sparks at 220 item level Maisara Caverns The Blinding Vale Windrunner Spire Windrunner Spire

Disclaimer: What to craft is highly dependent on your own personal goals, what content you are doing, and what items you have looted so far. We strongly suggest you run your own simulations on raidbots by using droptimizer to figure out your personal best crafting options.

During the Pre-Season, you can craft and equip as many items as you want at 204 item level. This is very useful if you are missing a higher item level piece for some slots. When Season 1 begins, you can upgrade these items into stronger variants, using Crests and Sparks.

For an overview on crafting and upgrading crafted items, check out our Profession overview.

You can equip as many crafted items as you want, but you can only equip two items with an Embellishment on them. These can be two of the same Embellishment (doubling their damage or stat amounts, but not their proc rates), or two different ones, gaining both effects.

Disclaimer: Not all Embellishments are fully implemented yet in sims, and theorycrafting on them is still on-going. Expect this section to change multiple times during pre-season and early season 1!

Prismatic Focusing Iris + Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier are your best Embellishments.

1. Prismatic Focusing Iris on one of the following items:
   • Masterwork Sin'dorei Band: after the pre-season ends, ring will be the ideal slot. However, due to the set rings from Nexus-Point Xenas being very strong during pre-season, it is not the best option in pre-season itself. I generally recommend just crafting it on ring to avoid having to re-craft later.
   • If you do not mind recrafting, craft it on Thalassian Phoenix Torque. You will have to re-craft it during Season 1 onto another slot.
2. Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier on Adherent's Silken Shroud. Alternatively, you can craft on your weakest item, but then you will have to recraft it during Season 1.
3. Craft Darkmoon Deck: Hunt.
4. Craft any pieces which are an item level upgrade for any slot which you are currently lacking.

The easiest way, and also the method we suggest, to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best. See below for a guide on how to sim yourself.