Arcane Mage DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Arcane Mage for each boss of the following raid: Crucible of Storms. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3.
Disclaimer
This page will be a talent cheatsheet and Arcane Mage-specific tips page for Crucible of Storms. For an actual strategy on the encounters, you should check the raid guide.
Arcane Mage in Crucible of Storms
Both of the encounters favour multi-dotting classes. Since Arcane Mage lacks any type of multi-dotting ability when enemies are spread out, Arcane Mage will look weaker on logs than it might actually be in practice.
Talent Cheatsheet
We advise to use the following talents on The Restless Cabal.
- Level 15:
Rule of Threes
- Level 25:
Shimmer (or
Slipstream, situationally)
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (or
Incanter's Flow, situationally)
- Level 35:
Resonance or
Arcane Echo
- Level 40:
Chrono Shift
- Level 45:
Arcane Orb (or
Supernova, situationally)
- Level 50:
Overpowered
We advise to use the following talents on Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.
- Level 15:
Rule of Threes
- Level 25:
Shimmer (or
Slipstream, situationally)
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (or
Incanter's Flow, situationally)
- Level 35:
Resonance or
Arcane Echo (or
Nether Tempest, situationally)
- Level 40:
Chrono Shift
- Level 45:
Arcane Orb (situational options:
Reverberate or
Supernova)
- Level 50:
Overpowered (or
Enlightened, situationally)
The Restless Cabal
We advise you to use the following talents against The Restless Cabal.
- Level 15:
Rule of Threes
- Level 25:
Shimmer (or
Slipstream, situationally)
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (or
Incanter's Flow, situationally)
- Level 35:
Resonance or
Arcane Echo
- Level 40:
Chrono Shift
- Level 45:
Arcane Orb (or
Supernova, situationally)
- Level 50:
Overpowered
Depending on what your group is struggling with, you can opt into more cleave
DPS by swapping to Resonance and/or
Nether Tempest.
Tips
The job of an Arcane Mage on this fight is to focus on quickly killing priority targets and boss DPS.
Use Shimmer to quickly get far away from the group when
Crushing Doubt
is about to expire, and then use
Displacement to go back.
If your group's strategy allows getting multiple stacks of
Promises of Power, you should make sure you line up your cooldowns
like
Rune of Power and
Arcane Power when you have 9 stacks of this
buff (or any other high amount of stacks that your strategy allows).
Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void
We advise you to use the following talents against Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.
- Level 15:
Rule of Threes
- Level 25:
Shimmer (or
Slipstream, situationally)
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (or
Incanter's Flow, situationally)
- Level 35:
Resonance or
Arcane Echo (or
Nether Tempest, situationally)
- Level 40:
Chrono Shift
- Level 45:
Arcane Orb (situational options:
Reverberate or
Supernova)
- Level 50:
Overpowered (or
Enlightened, situationally)
If needed, you can spec into Resonance,
Reverberate, and
Arcane Orb to assist in killing the Swarming Voidspawns in Phase 3,
depending on strategy used for the boss. This is however not the strength of an
Arcane Mage on this fight, so you should only opt to go this route if your group
really needs the additional add DPS.
Tips
Shimmer can be used to evade
Piercing Gaze of N'Zoth.
During Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy, try to avoid
Arcane Barrage to
reduce damage done to raid members.
Avoid using cooldowns while you have the 50% reduced damage done debuff from
Storm of Annihilation.
Changelog
- 13 Jan. 2020: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.3 and no changes are necessary.
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 12 May 2019: Added more tips.
- 15 Apr. 2019: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz is a Mythic raider in one of the top raiding guilds, Angered, owner of the Mage theorycrafting website Altered Time, and the owner of the Mage Discord server, Altered Time.
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