Arcane Mage DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.1

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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.

There are two epic gems, either of which can be best depending on the situation. If you have 5 gem slots or more, Powerful Eversong Diamond is the best epic gem. However, if you have fewer than 5, use Indecipherable Eversong Diamond.

Rare gems are all very close in power, and the best one will fluctuate depending on your exact stat distribution. If you have 5 gem slots or more and thus using Powerful Eversong Diamond, you should use one of each color. Otherwise, you can just use any gem that sims best, or go Flawless Quick Amethyst as a safe default. See the list below for full details.

• Epic:
  • With 5 sockets or more: Powerful Eversong Diamond
  • With fewer than 5 sockets: Indecipherable Eversong Diamond
• Rare with 5 sockets or more:
  • 1x Flawless Masterful Peridot
  • 1x Flawless Quick Garnet
  • 1x Flawless Quick Amethyst
  • 1x Flawless Quick Lapis
  • Rest of slots Flawless Quick Amethyst
• Rare with fewer than 5 sockets: Flawless Quick Amethyst in all slots

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

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

You should be using Thalassian Phoenix Oil as your weapon augment in all content.

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

Not all enchants provide damage, like Helm, Shoulders and Feet, and instead 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. This allows 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.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

For Season 2, all secondary stat flasks are very close in DPS and the exact best Flask will differ based on your gear. Flask of the Blood Knights is usually a safe choice to be best or close to best.

Light's Potential is the best DPS potion for all content, while Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion is our healing potion of choice.

Silvermoon Parade, or Hearty Silvermoon Parade if you are doing content with frequent dying, like progressing a raid boss.

Augment Runes are often quite expensive, but do provide roughly a 1% DPS increase when used so they can be quite important when doing the hardest content. Void-Touched Augment Rune is the only available Augment Rune currently.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz has been playing Mage since 2009 and writing guides and theorycrafting since 2012, with many top 20-100 world kills and rank 1 parses under his belt. He is the owner of the official Mage Discord server Altered Time, where he is involved in Mage Theorycrafting and everything else Mage. You can reach out to him directly for questions or feedback about the guide there.

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