Arcane Mage DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Season 1

This section 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.

There are both Epic and Rare gems, with Epic gems being significantly more powerful. However, you can only equip a single Epic gem, so you will have to fill out the rest of your slots with Rare Gems.

Gems can be applied to a Helm, Bracer, or Belt via the Radiant Jewelbinder item from the Great Vault, alongside items that drop with a socket, namely Neck and Rings.

Indecipherable Eversong Diamond is the best Epic Gem to use. For Rare gems, generally Flawless Versatile Amethyst will be the best gem. The exact best gem can differ, but the difference is usually very small. For the most accurate results, I recommend simming gems, but this can take a long time because of how small the differences are.

Not all Enchants provide damage, like Helm, Shoulders and Feet. You can choose between Speed, Avoidance or Leech for these slots. Speed is usually a solid choice, as you can move further during all of the instant cast spells like Arcane Barrage or Arcane Orb, and channeled spells like Arcane Missiles. Allowing you to save your quick mobility spells like Shimmer / Blink for when you need to move very suddenly due to a mechanic. However, Avoidance Enchants are also a great option for these slots to simply reduce the damage you take from various enemy abilities. I generally do not recommend the Leech enchants for group content, but it can be quite nice for solo content.

Slot	Enchantment
Helm (non damage)	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Shoulders (non damage)	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
Legs	Arcanoweave Spellthread
Ring	Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle
Feet (non damage)	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

For Season 1, you should use Flask of Thalassian Resistance. It is the best option because it provides more secondary stats than other Flasks.

Light's Potential is the best DPS potion for all content.

Silvermoon Health Potion is our healing potion of choice.

Any of the highest rank feasts are optimal, like Quel'dorei Medley or Blooming Feast. But master tier personal food like Champion's Bento can be used just as well if your group does not use feasts.

Note: if you are doing content where you will die a lot, like progressing a raid boss, you can use Hearty variants of food, which last through death but are more expensive, like Hearty Quel'dorei Medley (feast) or Hearty Champion's Bento (personal).

Additionally, you can use a Tea for a movement speed increase, like Argentleaf Tea. This buff can be used alongside the normal food buffs.

You should be using Thalassian Phoenix Oil.

Augment Runes are often quite expensive, especially early on, but do provide roughly a 1% DPS increase when used so can make the difference when doing hard content. Void-Touched Augment Rune is the only available Augment Rune currently.