Arcane Mage talents
Every Arcane talent, row by row, with what each rank does.
About the Arcane tree
16-point milestone: Missile Barrage. Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your Fireball, Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt spells a 20% chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by 50%, reduce the Mana cost by 100%, and missiles will fire every 0.5 sec.
Recommended leveling build
Our pickOpinion, not confirmed by Blizzard35/0/16 at level 60, with Missile Barrage at level 25. Mana management and cooldowns. Pick this if you like Arcane Missiles.
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Another legal route to Missile Barrage · not our pick
One order that reaches Missile Barrage within the tree's rules: 16 points, which is level 25. Swap the early points for the talents you want.
- 1Wand Specialization2 of 2Row 1
- 2Arcane Focus5 of 5Row 1
- 3Improved Channeling5 of 5Row 1
- 4Arcane Subtlety2 of 2Row 2
- 5Magic Absorption1 of 2Row 2
- 6Missile Barrage1 of 1Row 4
All Arcane Mage talents
A value like 1/2/3 is what rank 1, 2 and 3 give.
Arcane
16 · Missile Barrage (milestone taken)
35points
Shown with our leveling pick's points at 60. Try your own in the calculator
Row 1open from level 10
3 talents
Max rank 2
Increases your damage with Wands by 13/25%.
Max rank 5
Increases your chance to hit with your Arcane spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Max rank 5
Gives you a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles and a 14/28/42/56/70% chance while casting Arcane Blast.
Row 2needs 5 points in Arcane
4 talents
Max rank 2
Reduces your target's resistance to all your spells by 8/15 and reduces the threat caused by your Arcane spells by 15/30%.
Max rank 2
Increases all your resistances by 5/10 and causes all spells you fully resist to restore 1/2% of your total mana. Cannot trigger more often than 1 time per sec.
Max rank 5
Rank 1: Gives you a 2% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%. All 5 ranksHide ranks
- Rank 1: Gives you a 2% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
- Rank 2: Gives you a 4% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
- Rank 3: Gives you a 6% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
- Rank 4: Gives you a 8% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
- Rank 5: Gives you a 10% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
Max rank 2
Increases your Armor by an amount equal to 25/50% of your Intellect.
Row 3needs 10 points in Arcane
3 talents
Arcane Geometry
Unconfirmed
Max rank 2
Rank 1: Increases the range of your Arcane spells by 3 yards. All 2 ranksHide ranks
- Rank 1: Increases the range of your Arcane spells by 3 yards.
- Rank 2: Increases the range of your Arcane spells by 3 yards.
Max rank 3
Rank 1: Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane spells by 2%. All 3 ranksHide ranks
- Rank 1: Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane spells by 2%.
- Rank 2: Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane Explosion spell by an additional 4%.
- Rank 3: Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane Explosion spell by an additional 6%.
Max rank 1
Blasts the target with energy, dealing 95 to 104 Arcane damage. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the damage of all your other spells is increased by 10% and the mana cost of Arcane Blast is increased by 175%. Effect stacks up to 4 times and lasts 8 sec or until any other damage spell is cast.
Row 4needs 15 points in Arcane
4 talents
Max rank 2
Rank 1: Decreases the Mana lost per point of damage taken when your Mana Shield spell is active by 17% and increases the resistances granted by your Mage Armor spell by 25%. All 2 ranksHide ranks
- Rank 1: Decreases the Mana lost per point of damage taken when your Mana Shield spell is active by 17% and increases the resistances granted by your Mage Armor spell by 25%.
- Rank 2: Decreases the mana lost per point of damage taken when Mana Shield is active by 20%.
Max rank 2
Rank 1: Your Counterspell also Silences the target for 2 sec. All 2 ranksHide ranks
- Rank 1: Your Counterspell also Silences the target for 2 sec.
- Rank 2: Gives your Counterspell a 100% chance to silence the target for 4 sec.
Max rank 3
Requires 5 in Arcane Concentration
Allows 17/10/15% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Missile Barrage
16-point milestone
Max rank 1
Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your Fireball, Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt spells a 20% chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by 50%, reduce the Mana cost by 100%, and missiles will fire every 0.5 sec.
Row 5needs 20 points in Arcane
2 talents
Max rank 1
When activated, your next Mage spell with a casting time less than 10 sec becomes an instant cast spell.
Max rank 5
Increases your Intellect by 2/4/6/8/10% and increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Arcane spells by 20/40/60/80/100%.
Row 6needs 25 points in Arcane
1 talent
Max rank 3
Requires 5 in Arcane Mind
Rank 1: Increases the damage done by all your spells by 1% and your critical strike chance with all attacks by 1%. All 3 ranksHide ranks
- Rank 1: Increases the damage done by all your spells by 1% and your critical strike chance with all attacks by 1%.
- Rank 2: Increases your spell damage and critical strike chance by 2%.
- Rank 3: Increases the damage done by all your spells by 3% and your critical strike chance with all attacks by 3%.
Row 7needs 30 points in Arcane
1 talent
Max rank 1
Requires 1 in Presence of Mind
For the next 15 sec, your spells deal 30% more damage while costing 30% more mana to cast.
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Races that can be a Mage: Human, Gnome, Orc, Undead, Troll, Skyborne (High Order).
Talent data: public community datasets, Forever beta build 1.60.1.69893. Numbers can change in any later build or patch. Icon credits