Arcane Mage Dragonflight Leveling Guide From 1 to 70 (Dragonflight 10.2)
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Arcane Mage leveling guide for Dragonflight Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Mage leveling guide.
Gear Options
When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.
Level by Level Rotation and Talents
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Below you can see the suggested levelling talent build, and the order in which to pick the talents while levelling.
Rotation to Level Up as an Arcane Mage
Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attack
ability: Frostbolt.
- Use
Fire Blast on cooldown.
- Use
Presence of Mind when you have to move to allow you to cast
Arcane Blast on the move.
- Cast
Touch of the Magi whenever it is ready and you have no Arcane charges.
- Cast
Arcane Barrage if
Touch of the Magi is ready.
- Cast
Arcane Orb when you do not have 4 Arcane Charges.
- Cast
Arcane Surge whenever it is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges.
- Cast
Arcane Surge whenever it is ready and you have 4 Arcane Charges and the target is affected by
Touch of the Magi.
- Use
Arcane Missiles when you get
Clearcasting.
- Cast
Evocation when you are out of mana.
- Cast
Arcane Barrage to finish off a target, or when running low on mana. Only cast it when you have 4 Arcane Charges.
- Cast
Arcane Explosion when there are 3 or more targets.
- Cast
Arcane Blast.
Arcane Mage War Mode Talents for Leveling
In this section we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.
Arcane Empowerment is a direct damage increase to
Arcane Missiles during
Clearcasting, directly increasing your DPS. Only pick this if you often pull a single target.
Temporal Shield is arguably the best defensive tool in the game, as it is off the global cooldown, and has a relatively short cooldown, allowing you to avoid damage against most enemies you face.
Master of Escape and
Mass Invisibility are both spells that you can pick to help you skip more mobs when going through crowded areas.
Congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching Level 70! Now that you have hit Level 70 we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 11 Jul. 2023: Upated levelling tree for the new talent trees.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Minor changes to levelling tree.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz is a Mythic raider in one of the top raiding guilds, Turtles and the owner of the Mage Discord server, Altered Time, where he is involved in all things Mage, and you can reach out to him directly for feedback or questions about the guide.
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