Arcane Mage DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (11.1.5)

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Arcane Mage, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

We highly recommend using Raidbots to sim your character's ideal gems and enchants, as they might differ from our general recommendations.

The best stats for Arcane Mages when Raiding or doing Mythic+ depend heavily on your gear. The best stats for Arcane are very dynamic, and getting a bit more of one will make the others better and vice versa. Generally, Haste and Versatility are a safe option, but depending on your gear, other gems can be better. There is no universal rule for gems for Arcane Mage, and gemming a lot of one gem can make the other gems more valuable.

You should use Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Quick Ruby/ Quick Onyx/ Quick Sapphire/ Versatile Emerald. Fill in remaining sockets with Versatile Emerald.

However, if simming has you showing other gems to be better, we suggest following those results.

An alternative option is using Elusive Blasphemite. This is a small DPS loss ( ~0.5%), but provides a meaningful movement speed boost, which can often end up being worth more DPS due to having to spend less time moving.

All Corruption Rune Enchants are quite close for Arcane, however, Greater Rune of the Void Ritual is slightly ahead of all other options, both on single-target and AoE, making it an easy choice for all situations. Since this is a purely passive effect, it has no impact on your rotation, so you can simply enchant your helm with it and do more damage.

Disclaimer:The Helmet enchant will only be available once the Horrific Visions open up on May 20th.

You should be drinking the Flask of Alchemical Chaos at all times.

You should be using Algari Mana Oil.

Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust/ Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should keep a stock of Algari Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Algari Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should be eating from a Feast at all times, either Feast of the Divine Day, Feast of the Midnight Masquerade, or Hearty Feast of the Midnight Masquerade.

If Feasts are not available, eat Outsider's Provisions, Beledar's Bounty, Jester's Board, or Empress' Farewell instead.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!