Forever Arcane Mage Stat Priority

Welcome to the Stats page for Arcane Mage at Level 60. This page covers your stat priority, what each stat does, and how it contributes to your damage output. As you gear up however, it is always advised that you use the sims for the best results. These recommendations are subject to change as Forever is updated.

Each stat will provide the following effects.

Stat	Bonus
Hit Chance	Reduces the chance to miss enemies with all your attacks and spells.
Spell Damage	Increases the damage of your spells.
Critical Strike	Increases the Critical Strike Chance of your spells.
Intellect	Increases your maximum Mana and grants Spell Critical Chance.
MP5	Stands for Mana per 5 seconds, which is the amount of mana you restore every 5 seconds. This is not impacted by casting spells. You always gain the full amount of MP5.
Spirit	Increases your health and mana regeneration. Additionally, regeneration pauses for 5 seconds every time you finish casting a spell that costs mana. Using your wand does not interrupt Spirit's mana regen.

Below we will discuss each stat in a little more detail as it applies to Arcane Mage in WoW Forever.

One of the best changes in all of WoW Forever is that the guaranteed 1% chance to miss is removed from the game! Missed spells not only reduce the amount of damage you deal, it can also affect the application of on-hit effects, and could even waste important procs such as Missile Barrage. Talents like Arcane Focus increases your chance to hit with Arcane spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.

Hit Chance Table

See below the hit / miss chances and their respective hit caps.

Spell Hit Requirements:

Level Difference	Hit Needed for Cap
Same level (Level 60 vs 60)	4%
+1 level (Level 60 vs 61)	5%
+2 levels (Level 60 vs 62)	6%
+3 levels / Raid Boss (Level 60 vs 63)	17%

Spell Damage: Increases your Spell Damage. Depending on the spell cast length, the coefficients will change. Click below for a more detailed coefficient breakdown for Arcane Mage.

Spell Damage Explained

When calculating Spell Damage, it is important to understand that Each spell has an attached Spell Damage Co-Efficient. For example a flat amount of 100 Spell Damage does not increases every spell's damage by 100. The equation is as follows.

Spell Damage x Spell Damage Co-efficient = Damage Dealt

Below we will the list Spell Power coefficients for your core damage spells at max rank.

• Arcane Blast – 0.429
• Arcane Explosion – 0.143
• Arcane Missiles – 0.286 (Per Hit)
• Arcane Wrath – 1
• Frostbolt – 0.814
• Frost Blast – 0.271

With these coefficients in mind, we can run some example calculations. If we have 100 Spell Power and multiply that by 0.429 we would get 42.9, which means that Arcane Blast would have its damage increased by 42.9.

You may also come across items with Arcane Damage on them. Value these equally to Spell Damage, as it applies to almost all of our damage. These items have a higher item budget, meaning the equivalent level item might be 10 Spell Damage vs 16 Arcane Damage.

Arcane Mages value Critical Strike nearly as much as spell power. Due to the Arcane Mind talent, arcane spells have a bonus 100% critical strike damage, which greatly improves crit value.

Intellect increases your Mana and Spell Critical Chance. It also increaes your chance to gain weapon skill, which also applies to your wand skill. A larger mana pool also allows you more freedom in situations where you might run out of mana before a fight ends.

Arcane Mages also have the Arcane Blast talent which stacks up to 4 times. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, you gain 15% of your Intellect as Spell Damage up to 60% for 15 seconds which further increases the Intellect scaling.

One drawback from having a larger mana pool is the sheer amount of time required to drink or regen passively. Luckily, once you are max level and raiding, there are almost no drawbacks.

Intellect Scaling

Each point of Intellect will increase your stats by the following.

• Mana
  • 1 Intellect grants 15 Max Mana.
• Critical Strike
  • 54 Intellect results in 1% Spell Critical Strike chance.
• Weapon Skill
  • Each point of Intellect increases your chance to improve weapon skill.

MP5 means "Mana Per 5", or "Mana generated every 5 seconds." This stat applies both outside and inside combat.

Arcane Mage recieves the Arcane Meditation talent which allows 50% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting plus Mage Armor which gives an additional 30% giving a total of 80%. Even with 80% mana regeneration MP5 is a slightly stronger stat than Spirit for mana regen.

Increases your Health and Mana regeneration per 5 seconds while not casting. It also increases the mana regenerated by Evocation. During extended fights Spirit will help regen throughout the encounter allowing you to continue doing full damage without inturrupting your rotation or sacrificing offensive consumables for let's say... a mana potion.

Arcane Mage recieves the Arcane Meditation talent which allows 50% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting which makes spirit even more valuable, especially while leveling or during extended encounters. Typically spirit's mana regen is restricted to the 5-second rule. If you are unfamiliar with this, check below for a detailed explanation.

5-Second Rule

Whenever you cast a spell, your Mana regeneration will stop for 5 full seconds. After the 5 seconds, it will begin again regenerating an amount based on your Spirit. With talents such as Arcane Meditation, you can bypass it to some extent. But with this rule in mind, it can often be worth stopping casts when an enemy is close to dead or you find yourself in situations where the enemies will die soon. That way you can start the process of regenerating your mana which will save you a ton of time in the long run.

If you find yourself completely out of mana, continue doing damage with Shoot while your Mana regenerates.

Haste decreases the cast time and Global Cooldown of your spells and abilities. Global Cooldown is a baseline cooldown of 1.5 seconds which is applied to all of your abilities, including instant cast ones such as Fire Blast.

For example, 5% haste means you are able to cast 5% more spells in a given window. For arcane, haste is valued nearly 3x more than our other most important stat: hit rating. Although haste will be hard to come by in WoW Forever, it is an extremely valuable stat.

Until we know how Mana manegement looks at Level 60 in end-game gear, it's better to focus on other stats as Blizzard has made it clear they don't want haste to be easily accessible.

Stamina will do nothing to increase your DPS, but will help you survive dangerous mechanics which may require you to have a minimum max health.

Note: Undead DPS is slightly increased by Stamina, as Touch of the Grave scales off of Max HP.

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