Arcane Mage DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.2.5

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.

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.

We advise you to use the following talents against The Restless Cabal.

• Level 15: Rule of Threes
• Level 30: Shimmer (or Slipstream, situationally)
• Level 45: Rune of Power (or Incanter's Flow, situationally)
• Level 60: Resonance or Charged Up
• Level 75: Chrono Shift
• Level 90: Touch of the Magi (or Nether Tempest, situationally)
• Level 100: Overpowered

Depending on what your group is struggling with, you can opt into more cleave DPS by swapping to Resonance and/or Nether Tempest.

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).

We advise you to use the following talents against Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.

• Level 15: Rule of Threes
• Level 30: Shimmer (or Slipstream, situationally)
• Level 45: Rune of Power (or Incanter's Flow, situationally)
• Level 60: Resonance or Charged Up (or Supernova, situationally)
• Level 75: Chrono Shift
• Level 90: Touch of the Magi (situational options: Reverberate or Nether Tempest)
• Level 100: Overpowered (or Arcane Orb, 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.

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.