Mage DPS Pre-Raid Gear
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items from Pre-Raid content for your Mage DPS in WoW Classic. For more gearing advice, please refer to our Mage DPS Gearing and Best in Slot guide.
Mage Pre-Raid Best in Slot (BiS) List
This is the pre-raid gear we recommend for Fire Mages, setting you up to tackle the most challenging content in Phase 5, AQ40. While gear from starter raids will help you be even more prepared for the challenges of Ahn'Qiraj, you should be perfectly fine going in with our suggested pre-raid gear.
You will be looking for gear with a lot of (Fire) Spell damage, Spell Hit and Spell Crit, with Stamina being a secondary concern. Powerful frost gear such as Boreal Mantle is still listed because you can swap to these pieces when doing Molten Core, Onyxia and Blackwing Lair.
This list contains gear from: dungeons, blue PvP sets (up to rank 10) and reputation gear. While we are only listing the Horde versions of the PvP set and PvP reputation gear, equivalent versions can be found on the Alliance side, with the same requirements, cost and stats.
You can find more Mage BiS lists in our dedicated gear hub below.
Changelog
- 10 Mar. 2024: Clarified source for Dark Whisper Blade.
- 06 Dec. 2020: Added Staff of Balzaphon.
- 18 Sep. 2020: Added Tome of the Lost to off-hands.
- 30 Aug. 2020: Corrected Spritecaster Cape drop location.
- 26 Jul. 2020: Updated with Phase 5 gear.
- 20 May 2020: Added Sandworm Skin Gloves.
- 15 May 2020: Added Silithus Twilight boss summonings gear.
- 28 Apr. 2020: Added Eye of the Beast quest source for Alliance players.
- 23 Apr. 2020: Added Zulian Ceremonial Staff.
- 14 Apr. 2020: Added the Bloodvine Set.
- 11 Mar. 2020: Updated with Arathi Basin gear.
- 28 Feb. 2020: Added Flarecore Leggings.
- 11 Feb. 2020: Guide added.
This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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