Arcane Mage Frequently Asked Questions — The War Within Pre-Patch

There are no haste caps for Arcane Mages.

However, depending on your chosen talents, and your other stats, Haste will lose some value at higher levels. To make sure you run with optimal stats, it is advised to use Raidbots Stat Weights to actively keep your stats up to date (see our Raidbots guide).

Prepatches usually have very limited balancing, as it is only a short temporary period before the expansion launches. Generally, all specs will be more than viable to be played during this period. Arcane is looking to be very strong in both Raiding and Mythic+ during this period.

Troll is the best race for Arcane Mage. However, all races are very close in DPS, and it generally does not matter which race you pick.

For a full overview of the DPS of every race, check the simulations page.

You can enter the Burn Phase whenever you have Arcane Surge, Touch of the Magi and Evocation ready.