Mage Builds

Mage Builds, Updated for Patch 3.1

This area lists mage talent builds for World of Warcraft. The below builds are for the 3.1. Please note I have a lot of builds yet to add and if you wish to submit a talent spec or make a comment please email me.

Arcane Talent Builds
1 - 50/3/11 +7 - Arcane Frost PVE * Only bare essential points are taken in this build, so as to provide the most customizable build possible. Certain talents have no objective effect on DPS, such as Magic Attunement, but are useful in other ways and a good investment of remaining points. Magic Attunement and Arcane Stability protect DPS in less measurable ways, for instance, by reducing spell pushback from certain encounter mechanics, and Arcane Barrage is a useful mobile DPS spell, if not the best stationary damage spell. Your rotations should be Arcane Blast 1, 2 or 3 times, depending on the length of the fight and your MP5 and Arcane Missiles, after the Arcane Blasts, regardless of whether Missile Barrage procs or not. Use Presence of Mind at your own preference. At least 8 points are taken in Frost for Precision, providing a 289 hitcap for Arcane spells. Going deeper in Frost for Icy Veins and into Fire for Incineration increase overall DPS, though points can be spent otherwise to adjust for your own play style.

2 - 57/3/11 - Arcane Frost Raid PVE



Fire Talent Builds
1 - 18/0/53 - Raid Deep Frost + Torment the Weak This build consists of spamming Frostbolt at all times, while casting Fireball on Brain Freeze procs, using your Water Elemental on every cooldown and stacking Icy Veins with damage trinkets and raid buffs like Bloodlust/Heroism. It invests into Arcane for Torment the Weak, a +12% damage increase for both your primary and secondary nukes.

2 - 20/0/51 - Frost Arcane



Frost Talent Builds
1 - 7/0/54 - Frost PVP -You can swap the two pts in Imp CoC for Permafrost if you like.

2 - 20/0/51 - Level 80 Frost/Arcane

3 - 2/0/59 - Frost PVP

4 - 17/0/44 - Frost/Arcane PVP