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How to: Arcane Mage PVP (3.0.3)

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How to: Arcane Mage PVP (3.0.3)

Arcane, The new PVP spec for mages!

But HOW do you PVP as arcane?

Three time Glad mage here, hopefully I'll help you out a bit. Going to write a brief guide while I'm temp banned for treat exploiting!
It'll be brief because, well, it's really not that complicated.

Please feel free to post any questions you may have!

Rotation:
Your rotation should take full advantage of your Arcane Barrages 3 second cooldown. Remember that you can use any ability and then Arcane Barrage will be up again. You'll want to use it every time possible.

Here's an example of a good rotation.
Arcane Barrage (0) -> Slow (1.5) -> Arcane Barrage (3.0) -> Fireblast (4.5) -> Arcane Barrage (6) -> Frost Nova (7.5) -> Arcane Barrage (9.0) -> Fireblast (10.5) -> (start over)

NOTE: Frost Nova can be replaced with almost any instant and is a great time to cast a polymorph.

Make sure to have a macro for Presense of Mind as follows and weave it in between Arcane Barrages when going for a kill. (You WILL kill someone if you do!)

Code:
#Showtooltip Presence of Mind
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Fireball(Rank 14)
Spec:
In this spec your basically boosting all your instants, it's pretty much the cookie-cutter spec for Arcane PVP. Although I'm sure there's people who have tweaked it slightly, for example I've seen people pull 3/3 and go with 3/3 .



Gear:
Accessorys:
Go with the silk guardians for the extra crit (it really adds up)








Armor:
Obviously your going to go with whatever you have access to here, but ideally full Brutal Gladiator armor.

Trinkets:
Your going to want to go with a "burn" trinket, what this is a trinket with a use that gives more additional spell damage for on demand extra damage to get that kill.

If your not human go with and
If you don't have access to or the badge trinkets or from

If your human I would highly recommend going with and . This is to take advantage of the fact that you can stack with a burn trinket, if you use the Mana Emerald just before or any similar trinket you will stack the damage for insane burst.

Gemming:
Your going to want to go maximum damage here.

Go with in every slot and 2 to get your meta bonus on .

Enchants and Armor Kits:
Helm: although is a good alternative.
Shoulder: (Aldor) or (Scryer)
Cloak:
Chest: or (This is really personal preference here)
Bracer: (Same damage as but this costs significantly less!)
Gloves:
Pants:
Boots:
Rings: (If your an enchanter only)

Screenshots of Arcane PVP:

Here's a few screenshots of what I've done so far with this spec. These are all pugs (pick up groups) and I had no assistance from other players.





(c) by christina3d
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what about ?
removing magic absorbtion and magic focus and replacing it with incanter's absorption would give your mana shield nice spelldmg proc on hit.
guess you have 1k this would add ~500 dmg absorp to you mana shield. therefore mana shield should absorb aprox. 1200 dmg resulting in a 180 spelldmg boost from incanter's absorption (15% from absorbed dmg)
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nice guide, but to be honest: everyone who needs a guide to get kills as an arcanemage shoould quit the game or try reroll retri ; )
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nice spec thx
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Need ... "How to: Enhancer Shaman PVP (3.0.3)"
Would be perfect ... =/
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very nice guide but can someone explain it in german please :P
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Rotation:
Your rotation should take full advantage of your Arcane Barrages 3 second cooldown. Remember that you can use any ability and then Arcane Barrage will be up again. You'll want to use it every time possible.

Here's an example of a good rotation.
Arcane Barrage (0) -> Slow (1.5) -> Arcane Barrage (3.0) -> Fireblast (4.5) -> Arcane Barrage (6) -> Frost Nova (7.5) -> Arcane Barrage (9.0) -> Fireblast (10.5) -> (start over)

NOTE: Frost Nova can be replaced with almost any instant and is a great time to cast a polymorph.

Make sure to have a macro for Presense of Mind as follows and weave it in between Arcane Barrages when going for a kill. (You WILL kill someone if you do!)

Code:
#Showtooltip Presence of Mind
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Fireball(Rank 14)
Spec:
In this spec your basically boosting all your instants, it's pretty much the cookie-cutter spec for Arcane PVP. Although I'm sure there's people who have tweaked it slightly, for example I've seen people pull 3/3 and go with 3/3 .



Gear:
Accessorys:
Go with the silk guardians for the extra crit (it really adds up)








Armor:
Obviously your going to go with whatever you have access to here, but ideally full Brutal Gladiator armor.

Trinkets:
Your going to want to go with a "burn" trinket, what this is a trinket with a use that gives more additional spell damage for on demand extra damage to get that kill.

If your not human go with and
If you don't have access to or the badge trinkets or from

If your human I would highly recommend going with and . This is to take advantage of the fact that you can stack with a burn trinket, if you use the Mana Emerald just before or any similar trinket you will stack the damage for insane burst.

Gemming:
Your going to want to go maximum damage here.

Go with in every slot and 2 to get your meta bonus on .

Enchants and Armor Kits:
Helm: although is a good alternative.
Shoulder: (Aldor) or (Scryer)
Cloak:
Chest: or (This is really personal preference here)
Bracer: (Same damage as but this costs significantly less!)
Gloves:
Pants:
Boots:
Rings: (If your an enchanter only)

Screenshots of Arcane PVP:

Here's a few screenshots of what I've done so far with this spec. These are all pugs (pick up groups) and I had no assistance from other players.





(c) by christina3d

kann mir das pls jmnd auf deutsch übersetzen xD ^^
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Nice.
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This is a bit of an old post, does this still work?
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eeeehm sooory to bust your dreams... but what about missile barrage? and arcane blast and its dps boost? are you nuts to use a fire spell to do dps on a ARCANE spec??? 4arcane blasts and you have 60% additional damage.. take that into account next time you want to post something useful...

ps. I registerd only to notiffy other ppl who are locking for some actual information...

and just notice no spell haste WTF... go read a manual pls before you read one...
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Old Thread bro.
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Old Thread bro.
#closed thread bro.
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