Arcane Mage DPS Vault of the Incarnates Raid Guide — Season 4

In this section, you will find information and guidance for each boss individually in Vault of the Incarnates as a Arcane Mage. These are not complete encounter guides but provide specific tips for any Arcane Mage on each boss.

We suggest using the single target with cleave talents on this boss.

Use Shimmer to quickly get out of Molten Cleave without interrupting any casts.

Keep an eye on your boss mod timer for Flamerift. When Flamerift is about to come up, ensure you have 4 Arcane charges ready so you can do a big AoE burn on them with Arcane Barrage → Arcane Orb → repeat. If your group is struggling to kill them, you can also use Touch of the Magi on them, but keep in mind that this is not optimal if the adds do not live the entire duration of Touch of the Magi.

You can use Shimmer (or Blink) to quickly get through the flame walls from Primal Flame and continue DPSing without having to move through when an add has been killed.

We currently have no Mythic specific tips for Terros.

For more information, please refer to our Eranog guide.

We suggest using the single target talents for this boss.

You can use Ice Cold + Greater Invisibility to solo soak Rock Blast, if needed.

Keep an eye on your boss mod timer for Resonating Annihilation, to ensure you do not use all your DPS cooldowns right before it goes out as you are very likely to have to move when it goes out. If it does spawn in the area, you are in, use Shimmer/ Blink or cast while moving via Ice Floes/ Slipstream to get out of the zone. You have quite a lot of time, so make sure you do this without giving up DPS.

We currently have no Mythic-specific tips for Terros. These are expected to follow during the first week of Mythic being out.

For more information, please refer to our Terros guide.

We suggest the standard AoE talents for this boss.

Use Ice Cold to solo soak Meteor Axes when available.

Ensure you use your cooldowns while all 4 bosses are stacked up, so all your cleave abilities hit all targets. Since there are 4 bosses, you should use the AoE rotation on this fight as long as all 4 are stacked. (So, Arcane Explosion instead of Arcane Blast)

Make sure you activate Ice Floes before moving into a pool of fire to cleanse your Primal Blizzard stacks to ensure you do not stop casting while moving in and out of it, or time your stack clears with Slipstream movement.

We currently have no Mythic-specific tips for Primal Council. These are expected to follow during the first week of Mythic being out.

We suggest the single target with cleave talents for this boss.

When the boss starts casting Gossamer Burst, you can activate Alter Time, then let yourself get dragged close to the edge and then re-activate Alter Time to be far away again, followed by immediately Ice Floes into a web patch.

Try to make your Arcane Orb go through the little spiderlings that sometimes spawn when possible to ensure 4 Arcane Charges from it.

We currently have no Mythic-specific tips for Sennarth. These are expected to follow during the first week of Mythic being out.

For more information, please refer to our Sennarth guide.

We suggest the single target with cleave talents for this boss.

When you get Conductive Mark, activate Alter Time when at full health and re-activate when the damage from the mark brings you low.

Right at the start of Cyclone you can activate Alter Time to snapshot your position and re-active it when you get close to the boss. You can also use Shimmer/ Ice Floes to keep DPS up while moving against the pull.

We currently have no Mythic-specific tips for Dathea. These are expected to follow during the first week of Mythic being out.

For more information, please refer to our Dathea guide.

We suggest the standard single target talents for this fight.

When you get Biting Chill, activate Alter Time when at full health and re-activate when the damage from the debuff brings you low.

Keep an eye on the energy bar of the boss, and when the boss is close to being full energy, save your cooldowns for the intermission phase. You should channel Evocation while the boss is flying to the middle and start your burn rotation on the adds when they are grouped up.

We currently have no Mythic-specific tips for Kurog Grimtotem. These are expected to follow during the first week of Mythic being out.

For more information, please refer to our Kurog Grimtotem guide.

Your talents on this fight will depend a lot on your group's strategy. A lot of tactics involve having the boss and adds completely separate from each other. If this is the case, your talents will depend on whether you are assigned to fight adds or the boss. If you are assigned to swap between both, or focus the adds, we suggest the single target with the cleave talents. However, if you are assigned to boss-only damage, you should go the pure single-target build.

As described above, a lot of groups assign a large group of players to focus entirely on boss damage, while others entirely on add damage. If you are assigned entirely to adds, make sure you position yourself so that your Arcane Orb hits multiple targets, ensure that your Touch of the Magi explosion hits multiple targets, and that you only apply Radiant Spark (and Touch of the Magi) on high health targets to ensure your target does not die before either buff expires.

When the boss casts Icy Shroud, cast Prismatic Barrier to get rid of it via Energized Barriers.

We currently have no Mythic specific tips for Broodkeeper Diurna.

For more information, please refer to our Broodkeeper Diurna guide.

You will want to use the standard single target with cleave talents, with the following changes: swap into Ring of Frost + Blast Wave to help deal with the Spark adds, especially on Mythic difficulty. You can replace any other utility talents for these talents.

If you get targeted with Static Charge, you should activate Alter Time before Shimmering away from the group, and then re-activating Alter Time after putting down the debuff.

Your Rune of Power and cooldowns in general will line up with Hurricane Wing quite often on this fight. When this happens, ensure you are already close to a Static Field, to ensure your Rune drops close to the pool, so you can simply sidestep when the winds begin Into the Static Field without losing uptime on Rune.

Depending on your group's damage, cooldowns will align differently with the different phases. However, it is very important you align your cooldowns at least with the huge bonus damage moments in phase 2. ( Focused Charge) This effect happens shortly after the start of phase 2, so channel Evocation about 5-10 seconds into phase 2 and things should align naturally with the bonus damage.

We currently have no Mythic specific tips for Raszageth the Storm-Eater.

For more information, please refer to our Raszageth guide.