5.4 Arcane Mage DPS Guide - Warcraft Academy

[@drpapa26]

Excellent guide ... informative, high production value, pleasant voice over and no obnoxious dub step music. I salute you, sir. My mage liked this video.

[@Stone_Toad]

Huge fan of this guide, finally a valid breakdown and someone who has a great volume of intelligence to explain your rotations and purpose for why your doing it.

[@Stone_Toad]

Would enjoy an updated version for WoD

[@camaro4201]

Wow exactly what I was looking for vary detailed and to the point I will be using your vids for all my toons

[@Caelir]

Fixed: An Arcane Mage from the guild Amused to Death (Defias Brotherhood-EU) and not ScrubBusters!

[@evreliagaming]

Previously in ScrubBusters!

[@unicornslayr]

I download the weak auras, and they all work as intended. But I do not have the white outlining for the AB stacks and it does not have the black background. Everything elese works and is in the same spot as the video. How do I get those two things it's really bugging me.

[@cameroncorke6058]

With the Tier 16 2-Set to reduce the cost of Arcane Blast after Arcane Missiles, how much is the difference is following the rotation Arcane Missiles -> Arcane Missiles -> Arcane Blast -> Arcane Barrage vs using only a 25% reduction with Arcane Missiles -> Arcane Blast -> Arcane Missiles -> Arcane Blast -> Arcane Barrage? Combined with Rune of Power and planned Mana Gems keeping a high mana flow doesn't seem too difficult. This would allow more Arcane Blasts to be cast with 4 stacks of Arcane Charge for the 200% damage boost.

[@cycobieu2845]

By going AM -> AB -> AM -> AB etc. you're allowing more casts at 4 stacks and is therefore (when averaged out) more theoretical DPS, but going AM -> AM -> AB etc. is a potentially higher spike due to getting an extra cast off at higher mana, taking advantage of higher levels of Mastery @ current gear levels. You *shouldn't* really be using Mana Gem outside of Alter Time, as with the minor glyph you can double the return of Mana that Mana Gem actually gives you, which is crucial.

[@SlippySlippy]

finally another video :D missed them

[@PhyrexianMTG]

Are you sick Everilia? You sound sick :(

[@thatchl7]

nice video, i have tried installing your ui cycobi but it doesnt seem to setup correctly? i have the blizz bars aswell as the elvui bars. Icons and frames everywhere.... any idea what im doing wrong? i have changed the names etc in the folders...

[@cycobieu2845]

No idea, honestly :/ Other people who have downloaded it have had issues but not that bad.

[@julianlawrence9116]

I would really like to get the arcane charge wa string and anything else needed to make it work. If it's not too much trouble could you give me some information on it. Thanks in advance.

[@cycobieu2845]

WeakAuras: pastebin.com/Wa4wEjAV Rest of UI: mega.co.nz/#!gVIzEAbK!f7wWDX8_JTd05mcD-B1M7DvQEvM3pZNGQu2keYP7z-o Just change the folders in WTF to appropriate names and should work. Optimized for 1920x1080 so if you're not running that resolution might be a bit fiddly.

[@eddieg1316]

One thing you did not mention is what armour is best to use, unless i missed it.

[@cycobieu2845]

Frost Armour for ST-heavy fights, Mage Armour for multiple target-orientated fights.

[@JaycoubbRulez]

Mage Armor. You want a much Mastery as possible.

[@cycobieu2845]

***** Frost Armour is still better for Single Target.

[@Tommo6441]

Do you have a fire mage guide as good as this knocking around? Just speced out of Frost as my gear isn't scaling well at 570+ levels, but i'm not familiar with fire and really want to learn it.

[@evreliagaming]

It's in production

[@That_Zaerr]

hey @cycobi think you can post a WA string of your raid CDs ?

[@Shaunscraft]

What is the addon in the bottom centre of the screen displaying the amount of arcane charges he has? thanks in advance

[@cycobieu2845]

kgPanels and WeakAuras

[@UCx80L8rXNSjrdfWYG9Id5bQ]

what are the UI's that you are using excluding the raid UI ?

[@UpsPolkey]

i kinda dislike applying living bomb or nether tempest so much, so i chose frost bomb instead for big aoe fights such as gal and all that jazz. am i losing out on alot more damage that way? Or is frost bomb also a good alternative?

[@cycobieu2845]

On Galakras specifically no you're not losing out that much DPS (there are arguments that it's a DPS gain, but for Arcane it's not really), but on other fights yes you will lose DPS, LB/NT are better in pretty much every situation.

[@Christian-hf4lu]

I would really like to get that WA profile for the arcane charges, is it released anywhere?

[@cycobieu2845]

The closest public release you'll get is Kaitan's Mage UI, can be found here: www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info22515-KaitMageUI3.html#info

[@SlippySlippy]

are you gonna make a guide for all classes and specs?

[@mariusdobre7791]

can give me a list of the addons pls :D, or the full interface ?

[@SwieOn]

Hello, Thanks for another good guide! Our guild is really fond of the way you explain things. But I do have a question: Why that choice of trinkets? Why is Kadris' Toxic Totem better for arcane than Black Blood of Y'Saarj?

[@cycobieu2845]

BBoY is good for Arcane, but Toxic Totem is better because Arcane hits so hard with so many abilities that it gains "increased" benefit, as it were. The difference between BBoY and KTT is small, ~2%, but it's still 2% in favour of KTT.

[@SwieOn]

Cycobi EU Alright! Thanks for the answer! Going to try switching around a few times tonight when raiding. Have a good night.

[@bennodham]

great video! keep putting them up

[@preaching_]

Hey evrelia could you make a guide for your ui? it's so awesome!

[@JaycoubbRulez]

Help! I'm an ilvl 549 Arcane Mage and I only pull 100k-200k! I do exactly as in this video. I see other people pulling 400k+ with the same ilvl as me. Is this normal? When will I be able to pull 400k dps if im not doing anything wrong?

[@cycobieu2845]

Without specifics honestly I can't really help you. WarcraftAcademy does offer one-to-one training services where we can really help you improve your numbers, regardless of starting level, if that's something you'd be interested in.

[@GaryMcNeill]

Are you fully gemmed and enchanted?

[@JaycoubbRulez]

Gary McNeill Of corse. I'm up to 560 now, and am pulling 200k-450k, so i guess im happy with where i am now.

[@jkayrouz]

That's the best name + profile picture ever.

[@Danefives]

nice video and a good way to show how its done, love the vid, used it to be sure that i am doing it right so thank you a lot. :)

[@koko-cc1qk]

i dont see u spam Arcane Explosion on add phase1 ? i see u only do single target rotation and still top damage . how is that possible?

[@Drafian]

he uses 4 stack arcane barrage that hits 5 mobs, while haveing living bomb/nether tempest on them

[@cycobieu2845]

Skada is showing boss damage only as this was progression.

[@ILikePerfectl]

What Addons you are using?

[@cycobieu2845]

There's a full addon list somewhere in the comments, but the basis of the UI is ElvUI, kgPanels, WeakAuras and Gnosis

[@ArturBellotti]

Cycobi EU In the WeakAuras pastebin you sent, after loading the WAs there were a few images that would not display, as if the file didn't exist. Apparently I need another AddOn called "KaitMedia", but can't seem to find it... any help?

[@cycobieu2845]

If you download my UI from WarcraftAcademy you'll get the folder containing KaitMedia

[@ArturBellotti]

Cycobi EU Done, Thanks! But how do I install the UI? Is it a simple file replacement? Meaning I should just drag and replace the folders after extracting, or is there a real method to this?

[@cycobieu2845]

You'll need to replace the relevant folders, rename the relevant folders and make sure you pick the proper profiles for certain addons, then it should be fine.

[@Zagrash]

Hey! Insane Guide - Im looking for you UI Setup! Mana, Stacks (The same for Frostmage), castbar, and your active and inactive Buffs ... What Addons do you use for these and can i eventually get your Settings?

[@silc3ents74r]

check out the mage (cycobi) stream, you can ask him all these questions firsthand. His stream is in the info.

[@cycobieu2845]

Can download my UI here: mega.co.nz/#!gVIzEAbK!f7wWDX8_JTd05mcD-B1M7DvQEvM3pZNGQu2keYP7z-o Make sure you change the relevant folder names and you should have everything, feel free to chuck me a PM if not.

[@thatchl7]

Cycobi EU hi could I get some help with the ui? I installed it but it's really messy. All addons all over the place.. something I'm doing wrong?

[@cycobieu2845]

Luke thatcher As I said in reply to the other comment, I'm not 100% sure. Send me a PM with a screenshot and I'll try to help you out.

[@ATFRoper]

Any links to this UI package?

[@cycobieu2845]

'Fraid not; to release a UI in Elv it has to be converted into a Plugin for Elv first.

[@Kryptonixia]

I really like that cast bar . I use elvui but mine looks a lot different. Plus what font is that your running there ?

[@cycobieu2845]

It's Gnosis not ElvUI castbar ^_^ Font is Gotham Condensed I think; it's one of the Gotham family fonts for sure.

[@Profato]

Cycobi EU What raid frames are you using?

[@shinebo3495]

is that good or bad? at WoD Arcane Blast: Blasts the target with energy, dealing 86.52% of Spell power) Arcane damage and generating an Arcane Charge.Arcane Blast's damage is increased by 50% per Arcane Charge, and its mana cost is increased by 150% per Arcane Charge. Replaces Frostfire Bolt. ~@! and the nerf instead of 749 to 869 + 77.7% of spell power) instead they going to give only 86.52% without the bonus of the 749 to 869 of spell power. now I wanna know if that good or bad >.< anyone knows?

[@cycobieu2845]

It's a small buff.

[@shinebo3495]

I think arcane gonna be more a singel target burst such as bosses. that amazing I love it and I am going for it they improved the misslils by 5 and their % spell power by a bit which is awsome

[@cycobieu2845]

Realistically on Beta atm both Frost and Fire are superior to Arcane.

[@shinebo3495]

I think because most of the ppl played both fire and frost in pandaria and want to check their classes in the beta but as far as what I seen arcane gonna be the better dps of both of them and I am talking about singel target dps . I compere all the nerfs and upgrades and that's what I come with

[@cycobieu2845]

אוהד יצחק Frost is the highest Single Target right now on beta.

[@AnyaZell]

Is it odd I find his voice oddly soothing? Great tutorial though! :)

[@badgersonazeppelin6755]

Hey man. Can u help me a sec? I installed UI and all is great except for a black kg panels box covering the skada and loot windows. If I remove the panel I can't see the loot anymore. Is there something else I can do? This is the only thing wrong with the UI. It's excellent otherwise.

[@cycobieu2845]

Try changing the strata on the kgPanel, or turn down the opacity.

[@IamDaveTheDK]

yayyy you are back :D!!

[@Oracloid]

Incredibly interface. Can I download it somewhere? Best Regards.

[@cycobieu2845]

Apologies for not getting around to this sooner, mega.co.nz/#!gVIzEAbK!f7wWDX8_JTd05mcD-B1M7DvQEvM3pZNGQu2keYP7z-o

[@PascalBatzliJr]

Awesome interface... is it all WeakAureas?

[@GooseFire]

Good video! I really like it. My gf plays an arcane mage, and I can use this to help her. SO thank you. Also, I play a lock but I sitll play a demo and am pretty competitive with it but Im stuck on where go with stats if I choose to drop my UVLS. I got mostly Heroic gear, 574 in destro but I use NWF KTT. Can you do a video for 5.4 on demo warlocks? You did aff and destro, but nothing towards Demo.. I know it may represent a smaller playerbase, but I think if people tried demo /w a bit of direction you in current gear it wouldnt be so fearful a spec.

[@evreliagaming]

Its on my list of things to do, don't worry. There's a written version that's updated for 5.4 on the website though. :)

[@TheLun4tic]

No Shadowpriest DPS guide on this channel yet. make one! Do it now!

[@evreliagaming]

Find me a pro Shadowpriest :D

[@Christian-hf4lu]

***** Ask Koilie?

[@MoritzJahr]

Christian Alexandersen hah, good one

[@ThokenWoW]

Sound ill man :D Nice vid as always :)

[@camaro4201]

I love you presented your video vary professional and entertaining keep them going

[@alejandrolopez3510]

podrias hacer una en español?

[@Larkrafte]

Hi, can i have your weak aura plz, it looks so good!

[@cycobieu2845]

pastebin.com/u/Cycobi

[@karlzone2]

The UI is very, very sexy.

[@linkinlol20]

did u change to mage ?

[@evreliagaming]

Nope, still a Warlock :)

[@linkinlol20]

im never seen for a while uploading videos, did u quit for while then coming back next expansion?

[@lankeysob]

Feeling a little sick Ev? Your voice seemed a bit raspy this video.

[@evreliagaming]

I had the flu a few weeks back and my voice didn't recover. It's a lot better now though than it was when I recorded this.

[@superssj2]

Frost mage please

[@serwotka]

Cycobi, a top Arcane Mage? pfffttt Jokes, great video, pls coach me.

[@cycobieu2845]

[@bySmokyy]

sound kinda ill :O nice video

[@jacobwu6717]

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@Aithei]

"Arcane Mage Dps Rotation" lol

[@SmokerFace12]

Good lord, why is this game so full of nerdy blablabla bullshit? such a shame dammit

[@andrewwoods564]

This is hard? Lol go play League of Casuals then. The rotation isn't even the hardest part, in PvP reactions and some gear matter the most. I saw a mage who was faster than my macros lol.

[@camaro4201]

I love you presented your video vary professional and entertaining keep them going