Arcane Mages Are THRIVING In War Within Beta! The Spec Continues To Win Again And Again

I don’t like the arcane familiar, so I went with improved arcane explosion dmg on each cast (procs from the arcane missiles talent benefit it); and arcane harmony node with the chance for missiles to gain an arcane charge. This turns the rotation into a scenario where you basically never have to cast arcane blast - which feels great 😂

Did they nerf the visuals of the arcane splinters? They were so visual and sparkly before and now don’t look as impressive. Now they just look like purple darts

Keep the Arcane goodness coming. I initially thought the talent changes and the pathing on the tree were going to be problematic but after watching this video those worries are gone. Glad the spec is still thumping even with having to miss out on a few really solid talents. Should open up plenty of viable and fun builds

I have never played mage in any wow expansion ever but OMG is Arcane the most fun caster I’ve ever played on the beta right now. I can’t get enough 😂

fire was over performing so i can see why the nerfs happened , but seeing the patch notes was kinda brutal.. and fire wasn't really that good in pvp either so hopefully they get some compensation there

Can’t wait to alt mage 😁

Mained Rogue since Burning Crusade but highly tempted to main Mage :O

As an Arcane main this is exciting, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up just yet cause Fire usually reigns supreme lol -

Just going to get the warlock treatment. It's clearly waaay overturned at this point. So it'll get nerfed and end up in a weird state Something about warlock feels awkward now. I havnt been able to put my finger on why. And demonology is legit trashcan Either way, all my testing has been on mage and warlock and I can say with certainty that mage is better in every single way

changes are not buffs, the latest changes to arcane are not buffs.

A little adjustment to fire??? They basically killed the spec before release….. yet they are buffing every other class lol come on blizz don’t force me to play arcane

I hate hunters as a mage. if you do a vid of them, make sure they are getting nerfed into the fking ground.

I really like the mechanics, BUT the splinters looks like made of cotton candy. 😭 Can't believe blizzard missing another oportunit to give some lightning flavour to arcane. Make the splinters solid and sharp purple crystals with blue lightning around. Blue crystals and purple lightning for Frost. In the same way, Arcane Missiles/Blast/Explosion can just have some crackling energy when hit the target. But Arcane Barrage was the first missing opportunit to give a Arcane Lightning spell, call down purple/blue lightning bolts instead of spyrals bolts. Arcane mage energize the target, and gain arcane charges, until make them a conduit to finish with Arcane Barrage. Even Chrono Shift makes more sense with it, cause if a lightning strikes you, at least you will be dazed. 🥲