Arcane Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.2)

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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BiS Gear for Arcane Mage

Overall BiS list Raid BiS List Mythic+ BiS List

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The War Within Season 3 Overall BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage in The War Within Season 3 from all sources, including Raiding, Mythic+, Delves, The Great Vault, and Crafted.

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 will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Voidglass Sovereign's Blade (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Off-Hand	Vagabond's Torch (720) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Haste + Versatility	Crafted — Inscription
Helm	Augur's Ephemeral Wide-Brim (723)	Forgeweaver Araz/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Bloodstained Memento (723)	Great Vault
Shoulder	Augur's Ephemeral Orbs of Power (723)	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike (730)	Main Story — Socketed with Pure Precise Fiber
Chest	Augur's Ephemeral Habiliments (723)	Fractillus/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Consecrated Cuffs with Writhing Armor Banding and Haste + Versatility (720)	Crafted — Tailoring
Gloves	Codebreaker's Cunning Handwraps (723)	Great Vault
Belt	Singularity Cincture (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Augur's Ephemeral Trousers (723)	Loom’ithar/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Interloper's Silken Striders (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Radiant Necromancer's Band (723)	Great Vault
Ring #2	Signet of Collapsing Stars (723)	Great Vault
Trinket #1	Araz's Ritual Forge (723)	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Azhiccaran Parapodia (723)	Great Vault

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The War Within Season 3 Raid BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage in The War Within Season 3 from the Manaforge Omega Raid.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Manaforge Omega. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is what you send to your Raid Leader/Loot Council when they ask you what your BiS gear is from the Raid.

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 will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Voidglass Spire (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Augur's Ephemeral Wide-Brim (723)	Forgeweaver Araz/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Chrysalis of Sundered Souls (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Augur's Ephemeral Orbs of Power (723)	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike (730)	Main Story — Socketed with Pure Precise Fiber
Chest	Augur's Ephemeral Habiliments (723)	Fractillus/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Conjoined Glass Bracers (723)	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Gloves	Bloodwrath's Gnarled Claws (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Singularity Cincture (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Augur's Ephemeral Trousers (723)	Loom’ithar/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Interloper's Silken Striders (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Omega (723)	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Band of the Shattered Soul (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #1	Araz's Ritual Forge (723)	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Diamantine Voidcore (723)	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega

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The War Within Season 3 Mythic+ BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage from The War Within Season 3 Mythic+.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Mythic+. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear by farming Mythic+ dungeons.

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 will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Note that tier pieces are still included. Although technically not farmable in Mythic+, they do appear in the Mythic+ Great Vault (723) options and can be upgraded from Mythic+ pieces with Matrix Catalyst. Due to how important they are to building your character, and still obtainable if you only do Mythic+, I included them here.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Staff of Fractured Spacetime (723)	Great Vault (723) or Tazavesh: So'Leah's Gambit (701)
Helm	Augur's Ephemeral Wide-Brim (723)	Forgeweaver Araz/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Bloodstained Memento (723)	Great Vault (723) or Priory of the Sacred Flame (701)
Shoulder	Augur's Ephemeral Orbs of Power (723)	The Soul Hunters/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike (730)	Main Story — Socketed with Pure Precise Fiber
Chest	Augur's Ephemeral Habiliments (723)	Fractillus/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Ancient Oracle's Caress (723)	Great Vault (723) or Eco-Dome Al'dani (701)
Gloves	Codebreaker's Cunning Handwraps (723)	Great Vault (723) or Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Belt	Burrower's Cinch (723)	Great Vault (723) or Ara-Kara, City of Echoes (701)
Legs	Augur's Ephemeral Trousers (723)	Loom’ithar/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Codebreaker's Cunning Sandals (723)	Great Vault (723) or Tazavesh: So'Leah's Gambit (701)
Ring #1	Radiant Necromancer's Band (723)	Great Vault (723) or Priory of the Sacred Flame (701)
Ring #2	Signet of Collapsing Stars (723)	Great Vault (723) or Tazavesh, the Veiled Market (701)
Trinket #1	Azhiccaran Parapodia (723)	Great Vault (723) or Eco-Dome Al'dani (701)
Trinket #2	Signet of the Priory (723)	Great Vault (723) or Priory of the Sacred Flame(701)

11.2 Introduced a new Artifact Cloak, the Reshii Wraps. This item is obtained through the main story and upgraded through various activities. It starts out at 694 item level, but when fully upgraded reaches 730 item level. It is the only cloak you can obtain in The War Within Season 3. For a full explanation on how to obtain it, what it does, how to upgrade it, and more, check our Reshii Wraps page.

The cloak provides a passive damage proc and one special Fiber socket, which allows you to pick a single secondary stat.

As Arcane, you will want to socket it with Pure Precise Fiber (or the cheaper Precise Fiber).

Disclaimer: Just like any other gear, your best trinkets heavily depend on the gear you already have, and which level of content you are doing. We strongly recommend you simulate your own character to ensure you equip what is best for yourself, instead of the general recommendations below.

There are various trinkets that are good for Arcane in The War Within Season 3. Below we list the most important options:

• Araz's Ritual Forge — Very strong on-use trinket, granting you an incredibly large amount of Intellect for 30 seconds. Best on-use trinket for Arcane, and most important trinket to get to improve your burst damage, and thus overall damage. Use this immediately after you cast Arcane Surge.
• Azhiccaran Parapodia — A strong passive trinket that is simply equip and forget.

Additionally, if you are unable to obtain those best trinkets above, or want more flexibility, there are various other options:

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood — A strong passive trinket. Slightly weaker than the best options above, but a strong alternative.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj — A strong passive trinket. Slightly weaker than the best options above, but a strong alternative.
• Funhouse Lens — A strong passive trinket. Slightly weaker than the best options above, but a strong alternative.
• Diamantine Voidcore — A strong passive trinket. Especially good for Arcane, since you naturally go below 25% mana, due to Arcane's mana management. Slightly worse than the best options listed above.
• Signet of the Priory — A strong on-use trinket. Slightly worse than Araz's Ritual Forge, but still a very good option. Use immediately after you cast Arcane Surge.

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.

The best crafted Embellishments are Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension + Writhing Armor Banding.

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension can only go on a weapon or off-hand, and due to crafted items being slightly lower item level, we want to avoid crafting a weapon. Due to this, off-hand is our best option for the Darkmoon Embellishment. The best stats to craft heavily depend on your current gear. In the best-in-slot setup we craft with Haste + Versatility, but this is highly specific to that set of gear, as all stats are incredibly close.

Writhing Armor Banding can go on any armor piece, so there is a lot more freedom. However, due to the lower item level of crafted pieces, we want to craft this on an item slot with lower stats, like Bracers or Belt. For the best-in-slot setup we craft it on Consecrated Cuffs, again with Haste + Versatility, but you can craft it with any stats of your choosing.

However, based on your current gear, the best option for you might be different. Especially the secondary stats are highly situational, as they shift around constantly for Arcane based on your gear.

Keep in mind you can craft lower item level items that do not cost a Spark, and apply an embellishment to those. For example, you can craft Bracers or Belt with Writhing Armor Banding without needing a Spark, so you can craft this to get the benefit of the Embellishment without having to wait for an additional spark.

1. One of the following 3:
   • Vagabond's Torch with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension is best-in-slot so will be used for the entire season. However it provides significantly less immediate DPS than crafting a weapon unless you loot a strong 1-handed weapon early on. If you do loot or expect to loot a 720+ weapon early on, you should craft Vagabond's Torch first with Haste + Versatility. (or whatever stats sim best for you)
   • Vagabond's Bounding Baton (double-check you pick the Intellect staff!) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Haste + Versatility is a very solid starter option that grants significant immediate power. Although not technically best-in-slot, it requires fewer Crests than a 1-hand + off-hand, so you save on crests and can upgrade other slots instead early on.
   • An Intellect main-hand weapon ( Scepter of Radiant Magics for example) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Haste + Mastery is another very good first option. Although also technically not best-in-slot, you will use a 720 weapon for a long time, and it grants an immense amount of immediate power. Craft with Haste + Versatility. Crafting this is preferable over a Staff if you can get a 720+ off-hand quickly, otherwise do either the staff or off-hand.
2. After either a weapon or off-hand with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension, craft Consecrated Cuffs with Writhing Armor Banding, with Haste + Versatility. Wrists is best in slot, but you can craft any other non tier slot which would be a large item level upgrade, if you need more immediate power.
3. Next, chase Item Level where needed. None of the crafted options aside from your first 2 will be best-in-slot, so just go for whichever slot gives you the biggest item level bump.
4. If you crafted an intellect weapon, after looting a 720+ weapon, drop the crafted weapon and switch to the Embellished off-hand option instead.
5. At this point, you are mostly done crafting. You can spend future Sparks on off-spec items, alternatively statted crafts for different situations, and so on.

The Tier Set is comprised of 5 items of the Augur's Ephemeral Plumage set. Wearing 2 and 4 pieces from the set gives you DPS bonuses, based on your spec and Hero Talents spec.

• Sunfury:
  • Mage Sunfury 11.2 Class Set 2pc — Spellfire Spheres spell damage bonus increased by 1.0%. Mana Cascade now grants an additional 0.5% Haste per stack.
  • Mage Sunfury 11.2 Class Set 4pc — Exceptional spells cast by your Phoenix adds an additional 0.5 sec to the duration of your next Arcane Soul. When your Phoenix expires, it empowers you even further, granting Lesser Time Warp, which grants Haste, and increased spell damage for 10 sec.
• Spellslinger:
  • Mage Spellslinger 11.2 Class Set 2pc — Arcane Blast damage increased by 12% and Arcane Blast grants 1 stack of Arcane Harmony. Direct Splinter damage has a 25% chance to grant a stack of Arcane Harmony.
  • Mage Spellslinger 11.2 Class Set 4pc — Splinter damage increased by 8%. Arcane Orb has a 100% chance to grant a stack of Arcane Harmony, up to 8 times. Upon reaching 20 stacks of Arcane Harmony, gain Intuition at 100% effectiveness.

The Tier Set Bonus is absolutely mandatory for competitive play, and you should prioritize obtaining it. You can use the Matrix Catalyst to convert regular items (from Mythic+, for example) into Tier Items.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses. Which 4 pieces you get is not that important, as all secondary stats are very close in value. For the best-in-slot setup, we skip Gloves, but this just happens to be the optimal setup combined with all other pieces. You can get any 4 pieces, and it will be very close in value. Check out the BiS List for more information.

The tier set bonuses impact the rotation slightly, especially as Spellslinger, mostly around Arcane Barrage since we can now guarantee Intuition procs with the 4-piece bonus, allowing us to treat having 20 stacks of Arcane Harmony as also having Intuition, and thus allowing us to use Arcane Barrage more freely. For more information on how the set bonuses impact the rotation, check out our rotation page.

Durable Information Securing Container is a belt introduced in patch 11.1.7 from Overcharged Delves. As of 11.2, it is now obtained via normal Delves.

If you already have it at 701 item level, it is generally going to remain best until you get a belt at 704+ (Hero track 4+) item level or higher, but it depends on your other gear and which belt you have. The best way to know is to sim your own character.

There are multiple socket options all very close in value, and which is best heavily depends on your gear and talents. Critical Chain is a great all-round option, however, it might be different for your own character. Make sure to sim your own character if you want to be 100% optimal.

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.