Welcome to our Gearing Page for Arcane Mage. This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

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BiS Gear for Arcane Mage

Overall BiS list Raid BiS List Mythic+ BiS List

The War Within Season 2 Overall BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage in The War Within Season 2 from all sources, including Raiding, Mythic+, Delves, The Great Vault, and Crafted.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Neural Synapse Enhancer (678)	Great Vault
Helm	Aspectral Emissary's Crystalline Cowl (678)	One-Armed Bandit/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Semi-Charmed Amulet (678)	Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Shoulder	Aspectral Emissary's Arcane Vents (678)	Rik Reverb/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Trashmaster's Mantle (678)	Great Vault
Chest	Petticoat of the Self-Stylized Azerite Baron (678)	Great Vault
Bracers	Consecrated Cuffs (675) with Elemental Focusing Lens and Haste + Versatility	Crafted — Tailoring
Gloves	Aspectral Emissary's Hardened Grasp (678)	Cauldron of Carnage/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Ringmaster's Cummerbund (678)	Great Vault
Legs	Aspectral Emissary's Trousers (678)	Stix Bunkjunker/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Consecrated Slippers (675) with Elemental Focusing Lens and Haste + Versatility	Crafted — Tailoring
Ring #1	The Jastor Diamond (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #2	Miniature Roulette Wheel (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #1	Mug's Moxie Jug (678)	Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #2	Eye of Kezan (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine

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Season 1 Overall BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage in The War Within Season 2 from the Liberation of Undermine Raid.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Liberation of Undermine. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is what you send to your Raid Leader/Loot Council when they ask you what your BiS gear is from the Raid.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Stix's Metal Detector (678)	Stix Bunkjunker in Liberation of Undermine
Helm	Aspectral Emissary's Crystalline Cowl (678)	One-Armed Bandit/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Semi-Charmed Amulet (678)	Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Shoulder	Aspectral Emissary's Arcane Vents (678)	Rik Reverb/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Undercircuit Racing Flag (678)	Vexie Fullthrottle in Liberation of Undermine
Chest	Bottom-Dollar Blouse (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Bracers	Illicit Bankroll Bracers (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Gloves	Aspectral Emissary's Hardened Grasp (678)	Cauldron of Carnage/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Refiner's Conveyor Belt (678)	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine
Legs	Aspectral Emissary's Trousers (678)	Stix Bunkjunker/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Cemented Murloc-Swimmers (678)	Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #1	The Jastor Diamond (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #2	Miniature Roulette Wheel (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #1	Mug's Moxie Jug (678)	Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #2	Eye of Kezan (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine

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Season 1 Overall BiS List for Arcane Mage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Arcane Mage from The War Within Season 2 Mythic+.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Mythic+. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear by farming Mythic+ dungeons.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and many items are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list, and thus, you can use the list below as a guideline as to what an endgame set of gear looks like.

Note that tier pieces are still included. Although technically not farmable in Mythic+, they do appear in the Mythic+ Great Vault (678) options and can be upgraded from Mythic+ pieces with Matrix Catalyst. Due to how important they are to building your character, and still obtainable if you only do Mythic+, I included them here.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Neural Synapse Enhancer (678)	Great Vault (678) or Operation: Mechagon (665)
Helm	Aspectral Emissary's Crystalline Cowl (678)	One-Armed Bandit/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Strapped Rescue-Keg (678)	Great Vault (678) or Cinderbrew Meadery (665)
Shoulder	Aspectral Emissary's Arcane Vents (678)	Rik Reverb/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Trashmaster's Mantle (678)	Great Vault (678) or Operation: Mechagon (665)
Chest	Petticoat of the Self-Stylized Azerite Baron (678)	Great Vault (678) or The MOTHERLODE!! (665)
Bracers	Rixxa's Sweat-Wicking Cuffs (678)	Great Vault (678) or The MOTHERLODE!! (665)
Gloves	Aspectral Emissary's Hardened Grasp (678)	Cauldron of Carnage/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Ringmaster's Cummerbund (678)	Great Vault or Operation: Mechagon (665)
Legs	Aspectral Emissary's Trousers (678)	Stix Bunkjunker/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Aspectral Emissary's Slippers (678)	Matrix Catalyst on any boots
Ring #1	Wick's Golden Loop (678)	Great Vault (678) or Darkflame Cleft (665)
Ring #2	Radiant Necromancer's Band (678)	Great Vault (678) or Priory of the Sacred Flame (665)
Trinket #1	Signet of the Priory (678)	Great Vault (678) or Priory of the Sacred Flame (665)
Trinket #2	Gigazap's Zap-Cap (678)	Great Vault (678) or Operation: Floodgate (665)

It is worth noting, that our best in slot weapon ( Neural Synapse Enhancer) shares a 20 second cooldown with any on-use trinkets. Due to this, using the Neural Synapse Enhancer greatly devalues on-use trinkets, and in turn, on-use trinkets devalue the weapon. This combined with the limited good on-use trinkets in Season 2, makes us use the weapon and then combine it with 2 passive trinkets.

There are various trinkets that are good for Arcane in Season 2. Below we list the most important options:

• Mug's Moxie Jug — One of our two top trinkets
• Eye of Kezan — One of our two top trinkets
• Synergistic Brewterializer — Equal to Eye of Kezan on single-target, but harder to use and also falls behind in AoE situations. Good pick if you cannot obtain Eye of Kezan.

Additionally, there are a bunch of weaker trinkets which can also be used if you do not have access to the top trinkets:

• Reverb Radio: Worse than the best options, can be used as a fallback if you do manage to obtain it without obtaining the better trinkets.
• Carved Blazikon Wax: Quite a bit worse than the best options, however it can be farmed in Darkflame Cleft allowing you to deterministically obtain it with enough effort if you cannot obtain the raid trinkets.

Cyrce's Circlet is a ring introduced in Patch 11.0.7. This ring is obtained by doing content is the zone of patch 11.0.7, Siren Isle. It has 3 sockets that can be filled by a special type of gem, also obtained from Sirens Isle content. Each socket has its own type, and there are 4 gems for each type, for a total of 12 gems. However, most slots only provide limited DPS related options, providing limited flexibility.

If you have a maxed out ring, it stays relatively strong until you can get heroic item level rings from Liberation of Undermine, or similar level from Mythic+. However, it highly depends on the rings available to you, so I suggest simming your own items. Generally, using Season 2 rings will be better. If you do not have the ring maxed out, it is not worth spending time to max out the ring, as the ring will be replaced with Season 2 rings.

These are generally considered to be the best gems, but it is highly recommended to sim yourself to figure out the best choices and combinations for your specific gear and the specific gems and other rings you already own:

• For raid, you will want to play Thunderlord's Crackling Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine and Legendary Skipper's Citrine
• For Mythic+/AoE, you will want to play Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine and Squall Sailor's Citrine

Disclaimer: What to craft is highly dependent on your own personal goals, what content you are doing, and what items you have looted so far. We strongly suggest you run your own simulations on raidbots by using droptimizer to figure out your personal best crafting options.

The best-in-slot crafted option is Elemental Focusing Lens. However, this only works well when you have a lot of gems in your gear already, which usually does not happen until late into the tier. So until you reach that point, the recommended embellishments will be Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension + Writhing Armor Banding.

Above we listed the best items, however, the order in which you craft items is highly dependant on how quickly you expect to get certain items. Below we list some suggested options to approach your crafting:

1. Grab the following 2 early on:
   1. Vagabond's Bounding Baton (double-check you pick the Intellect staff!) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Haste + Versatility is a very solid starter option. Although not technically best-in-slot, it requires low amount of crests and provides a large amount of immediate power. If you are confident you will loot a 675+ weapon early on, you should skip this step.
   2. Assuming you crafted the staff, craft any item slot with Writhing Armor Banding. Which slot is best depends heavily on your available items, but make sure to avoid tier slots.
2. Then re-craft into the following when you start having really good gear, specifically a 675+ weapon and many sockets in your gear. The exact time to switch over heavily depends on your exact gear, so be sure to use sims to determine if you should switch over:
   1. Switch over to the 2x Elemental Focusing Lens setup. Craft either boots, bracers or belt with Elemental Focusing Lens and Haste + Versatility. Pick whichever slot is lowest item level currently. Boots/bracers are best-in-slot, but focusing on replacing lower item level is more important than best-in-slot, as all 3 are extremely close in damage. (within 0.2% DPS)
   2. Craft another item from the previous step: boots, bracers or belt with Elemental Focusing Lens and Haste + Versatility.
3. Next, chase Item Level where needed. None of the crafted options aside from your 2 Embellished items will be best-in-slot, so just go for whichever slot gives you the biggest item level bump.
4. At some point, if you are close to full best-in-slot, switch your Embellished items over to boots + bracers, if they are not already. Only do this if you have 678 item level belt.
5. At this point, you are mostly done crafting. You can spend future Sparks on off-spec items, alternatively statted crafts for different situations, and so on.

The Tier Set is comprised of 5 items of the Aspectral Emissarys set. Wearing 2 and 4 pieces from the set gives you DPS bonuses:

• Mage Arcane 11.1 Class Set 2pc — Your spells and abilities have a small chance to hit a Jackpot! granting you Clearcasting and 5% increased spell damage for 12 sec. Casting Touch of the Magi always hits a Jackpot!
• Mage Arcane Season 1 4pc — When you hit a Jackpot!, you also gain Aether Attunement at 100% effectiveness.

The Tier Set Bonus is absolutely mandatory for competitive play, and you should prioritize obtaining it. You can use the Matrix Catalyst to convert regular items (from Mythic+, for example) into Tier Items.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses. We recommend you get all items except for the Chest, but obtaining 4 items as fast as possible is much more important than getting them on the right slots. Check out the BiS List for more information.

The 2-set provides you a simple damage buff sometimes, but also provides additional Clearcasting procs. You can definitely feel the amount of extra procs. Due to the extra procs, it is also effectively providing you more mana regeneration. Additionally, the fact it is guaranteed to proc when you cast Touch of the Magi guarantees that all of your burn phases, including your mini burns, are even stronger, and you do not need to try to save any procs for your burn phases.

The 4-set makes the set even stronger. Aether Attunement greatly increases your Arcane Missiles damage. However, this set bonus shines even better in AoE scenarios, where Aether Attunement is a massive damage buff. Additionally, since you generally run High Voltage in AoE scenarios, this also provides a large amount of Arcane Charge generation.

To see how the set bonuses fully interact with the rotation, see the rotation page.

You can get guaranteed items from Liberation of Undermine through the Puzzling Cartel Chips currency. Note that you can only get three items in total from them, and you can only obtain items from bosses you have already killed at least once. For a full explanation of how it works, check out our Puzzling Cartel Chip section.

Below we list some of the best items to get with the Puzzling Cartel Chips:

• Eye of Kezan - Our best available trinket.
• Mug's Moxie Jug - Our second best available trinket.
• Stix's Metal Detector - Although our best-in-slot weapon is Neural Synapse Enhancer, there is no way to obtain this with certainty (as it needs to be from the Great Vault), so if you are stuck with a lower level weapon, you should get one via a Cartel Chip.
• The Jastor Diamond - One of our best-in-slot rings only obtainable from the raid with no alternatives from the Vault or Mythic+. It is also a very rare drop, making it hard to obtain normally.

The easiest way, and also the method we suggest, to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best. See below for a guide on how to sim yourself.