I Tested The New Arcane Mage In The War Within Alpha

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[@minimcune]

probably some of the most beautiful spell effects on any class. ever.

[@pegmeasap7433]

Nah. Moonkin.

[@minimcune]

@@pegmeasap7433 moonkin is also lovely. Only problem is that they're a dumb looking mutant owl 😂

[@rudyz5782]

If you like this style, try Mesmer in GW2

[@minimcune]

@@rudyz5782 I have, and I loved it!!!

[@Roachehh]

@@minimcune Any real boomkin plays astral form lol

[@The_Fictionist]

“Visually beautiful” is an understatement. As soon as these changes go live in prepatch I’m just going to practice arcane every day until I’m good at it because this looks so freaking cool.

[@DanteDemonZ]

As a PvE player I am still so thankful for this video. Literally EVERY Mage streamer who got into Alpha has been exclusively playing Fire and it has been driving me insane. Thank you for actually letting see what my abilities look like, my hero 💜

[@zacaronid8263]

For real, arcane has some of the most visually appealing hero specs and no one is showing them🥲

[@eugenesternin6039]

Mage has the best hero talents imo.

[@nathanieljohnson5908]

evoker

[@Tallestdwarf]

Mage is the best class, fantasy wise, where mixing the specs creates something cool.

[@eriuz]

rider of the apocalipse

[@katzicael]

This has all the *GOOD* vibes from Legion arcane, and if it is like legion arcane i'm going to be *SO* happy... I Absolutely LOVED arcane. BFA prepatch absolutely cooked it and it's not been *truly* pleasing to play since. This gives me *SO* much hope for Arcane.

[@ben_ger1988]

after playing some classic recently i really hope they will change the dmg numbers in retail back to what they were. It is SO MUCH MORE satisfying in classic. The crits, and the way the numbers pop up is so much better. I will never understand why the changed it. I really dont want to use a buggy addon for this, they need to make an option to change it back the way it was. Its actually really weird that they have not figured it out yet, the difference is so insane.

[@sepsam4556]

I didn't play classic, what's better about it?

[@akpade]

Use Classic Numbers addon

[@ben_ger1988]

@@akpade gives lua erros and misses out some numbers. Its not like real classic. They should add options ingame and not force people to use addons for better dmg numbers of the past...

[@akpade]

@@ben_ger1988 I’ve been using this adding for the past 4 expac at very least, and i haven’t got any lua errors for ages, and idk what you’re talking about bro, it’s litteraly the same as classic stop the cap

[@stevenpike7857]

I spent time leveling another mage, but fire to learn and master it. I love Frost. Arcane has always been boring to me, although I love the lore part of it. I would love for it to get some fun love.

[@JKane_88]

I am a fire mage at heart, but arcane looks good, less complex in a good way, but still plays like an arcane cannon and I like that.

[@ederscrolls]

Still waiting them give Arcane Lightning theme to Arcane Mage/Spellslinger instead of crystals, especially with "electric" names for the new talents. I love the Spellslinger mechanic, but it could embend into the target with volatile energy and then release a purple/pink Arcane Lightning spear, like lightning spear in Diablo IV. (and Arcane Barrage call down purple/pink lightning instead of spiral bolts haha)

[@Fortexcross]

Alot of the new visuals for the new stuff are great. Really looking forward to this expac.

[@Dusty_Broomstick]

why is he impressed with damage when the tuning pass is months away? you'd think he would have caught on after the windwalker hero ability that kills people in one channel

[@Wellshem]

Streamer brain

[@TheSilverwing999]

True tuning doesn't matter at all yet

[@VileVamp]

Whoever is handling mage is a real one.

[@OriginalMokthol]

It looks amazing! I almost wish the arcane splinters from the Spellslinger tree had a touch of blue particle effects, just to make them more visually distinct from the rest of the arcane spells being thrown at the target. Basically just enough to imply there's a hint of frost in there The Phoenix from Sunfury looks amazing!

[@daltonpearce1893]

Can you please show us a gameplay test of Frost mage next? Would love to see the updated spellslinger visuals there.

[@ilmstreams]

let's go ARCANE! one of my fav specs ever too

[@iJxlly]

Those spellslinger splinters look amazing.

[@ReyReyzzz]

I already had it set in mind to play spellslinger as soon as the hero spec names dropped. But seeing the visuals now completely set my decision. Im not going anywhere near sunfury or frostfire lmao

[@NBetweenStations]

New slinger animations looking good!

[@Surgicalshred]

DEFINITELY gonna be playing Arcane :D

[@hookshot320]

Yea, I'm super pumped for mage in TWW. Between the arcane rework and sunfury fire mage, it's gonna be a great xpac. Seems like we finally got some mages back on the dev team! :D

[@xxgamerxx6074]

visually arcane looks so cool

[@technicallypvppodcast]

I recognize that warlock you used as a target dummy!

[@Mazzle94]

Wish they'd get rid of all the random modifiers and procs and focus it more into cds, and fewer of those as well

[@maxstreim4612]

I am so excited for this I hope arcane can pump in m+!

[@MordecaiandMonroe]

Wish i was excited for my hero talents

[@MrMazvaz]

Really hope they make every single hero talent spec as visually distinctive as the mage ones. Class fantasy and flavor is literally the entire point of these new hero talents. I cannot understand how some of them are just a bunch of passives

[@StrobeFireStudios]

God damn I can't wait for The War Within

[@toastyman111]

Any TL;DR on the rotational complexity/button bloat?

[@misaelvergara]

As a current arcane mage main, I'm really happy with the changes! I still think Sunfury, especially for arcane, needs a few changes tho

[@angelabadzhiev9036]

Pretty much the team of the new expansion '' Random dmg procs ''

[@Rockernaap]

Arcane echo talent will be useless as far as I know with the removal of Arcane Tempest. But the talent tree is really tricky since there are quite some talents that you have to take. Leaving the options limited for keystones.

[@NBetweenStations]

Would be cool to test the spellslinger supernova 1600% damage bomb talent

[@menswearhous]

will frost get some love?

[@dr.dejnairb7022]

So Arcane now is like a copy of Frost mage icicles?

[@daethmer7834]

Men i want to play mage so badly but every time I play it I just feel the need to come back to play melee

[@michaelmajor1909]

Wait I can’t be sunfury as arcane?

[@SweetManaT]

Omg that duel

[@sweezyjackson4935]

All the spell effects are crazy. Now imagine 40 players spells going off at the same time in a raid. Or 20 or 10. You wont see anything becauae of it.

[@flix1179]

Spellslinger is just frost mage mastery but lightning

[@vaels5682]

Omg that's so many damage % modifiers haha

[@prophet246]

Yeah that damage will get tuned LOL :D

[@aaronjohnson2215]

Sunfury is still too fiery for me for arcane. On the other hand spellslinger looks underwhelming... ehh

[@Valvax4500]

i swear if we dont get hunter changes.....

[@bravos2709]

Have feeling like out of 3 specs arcane got least impressive damage tbf, check fire and frost , they seems to have much stronger damage, from one side I'm happy for arcane rework, from other bit sad they didn't gave bigger burst / damage.

[@matteocotza9981]

random damage procs... one of the things i hate about retail, damage feedback and control on that it doesn't feel good. Everything is basically just a "a0oshd0a9hq93ujf'aojd'a0sujd'u" that what it feels like to me.

[@igordjordjic4985]

Gonna look forward to a next expansion once wow decides to delete PvP add ons

[@blade2282]

i dont like evocation ? xD do u have any idea about arcane?

[@aroshley4348]

hes a pvp player mate

[@user-zd3re1gc4k]

"I mean I don't really know what's going on but I have a lot of random damage procs" - me when I play current arcane mage.

[@13samfootball]

I'm sure he's lining up some of the multipliers, but not all, and he's still pumping

[@user-zd3re1gc4k]

@@13samfootball He's level 80 and missiles is hitting for less than what I melee for at level 70 rn. even with the buffed clearcasting procs until he gets the 5th cast off which is the buffed missiles. I know he wasn't doing the rotation perfect, and that's kind of my point to the spec. I'm glad they kept the tier set and added into the talents but it's a spec that's still so stupidly imposing mechanically, in comparison to how brain dead (and FUN) some other specs are you know? Nobody wants to play a spec where you have to track 5+ modifiers just for 1 cast. I mean maybe masochists do but that's not a FUN spec in my opinion. Arcane should just be about those 3 spells (for st) (Blast/Missiles/Barrage) + cd. Buff them, give the spec mobility, capstone talents could be the barrage throwing an orb out because that is quite fun when it does proc, blasting/missles etc. Just my opinion of course and I'm aware not everyone shares it.

[@akashaedge1379]

@@user-zd3re1gc4k arcane is literally just pressing 7 buttons in the correct order, then doing a 2-3 button filler rotation.

[@TBxMASTERx]

​@user-zd3re1gc4k I love that arcane has some mechanical challenges so not every random can pick it up and there is a skill gap I'm between. If you want easy play BM huntard

[@gohomehero]

I hate arcane blast and barrage. I want to spray arcane missles like a gundam shooting missles.

[@Wellshem]

Arcane Mage are extremely different in pve and pvp, like day and night

[@13samfootball]

Yeah, not fun in pvp. Sunfury all fuggin day

[@TheSilverwing999]

This video is surprising to me. Did you never play arcane before? Because 90% of these talents are the same as they are currently on retail but you seem really surprised about them. The positioning hasn't even changed

[@aroshley4348]

uh what-? Literally 10 new talents as the patch notes showed and 4 that got reworked, thats actually a lot

[@myv112]

HELP shaman now

[@lacrosseman02]

I can't tell if "Wizened" is a typo or intentional, because "wisened" [why-zend] and "wizened" [wih-zend] are two entirely separate words with almost opposite meanings.

[@heflash]

I think orb barage just sucks for pvp. The chances are too low for the amount of 4 arcane charges arcane barages you use

[@lukaszgadek5366]

wow same shit

[@Gerritson]

Literal copy of Virtuoso Mesmer in Guild Wars 2 lmao. They keep copying stuff from that game, like dragonriding

[@Nick-oo5lh]

How so?

[@ironsideeve2955]

And plundershit too

[@Wellshem]

Mythic+ are Fractals too

[@Wellshem]

​@@Nick-oo5lhthe little pink magical dagger above your head that give bonus damage

[@13samfootball]

Man guild wars was great back in the day!!

[@dipsy4005]

That warlock was dumb af 😂

[@allbies]

Familiar looks kind of annoying to be honest.

[@Kenji-117]

Frost and arcane can be as cool as they want, nothing will change my mind that setting entire trashpacks on fire to let them explode shortly afterwards is the coolest F-ing thing you can do on a mage 🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@luqmanhaqim8087]

No one asked

[@filipfenix]

Bro, did your random arcane-sicles randomly break poly ? Absolutely bottom tier trash.

[@splitloopgaming3523]

the floating combat text loses all meaning when there are a billion numbers on teh screen

[@hegelianfrog]

For once I’m hyped for Arcane, glad to see they’re finally getting it right