Excellent vid! My guild decided they needed a mage for raid progression in BFA and I just happened to have the highest one. I knew I liked arcane over frost for the looks, but didn't realize how amazing it was till this vid. Doing some BG's now and love this spec.
nice guide dude. really loving it, using it right now too. i actually removed temp shield only because you don't get any health back if you're spamming mana shields too, you're not actually taking damage. temp is better in duels and 2's IMO but aside from that i prefer not to take it (my pref of course). i actually took dampened magic. since we're taking mana shield, might as well buff the effectiveness of it by countering the casters and have the shield to be broken down by melee only
Mana shield gimps your mobility and allows melee to stick on you way easier, you would think you wouldn't need to kite so much because the shield will save you, no, I've had rogues and feral burst through it like it wasn't even there and with no shimmer you just get trained and die.
It eats mana though, a lot now. In this video it drained 20% now it does 50%. And yes, while you may think you can evocate for mana back, you can't actually, with rogue/feral on you. So shimmer ftw.
Great vid. I tried it out and found that survivability was insane but I wasn't able to really do enough damage on my own to take out self healing classes like shamans. Do you find that this is the case or do you have any suggestions to help with damage output?
Sup Xaryu. Question about random BGs: now that blizzard removed pvp templantes, what gems and enchants do you recommend ? Haste ? Intelect ? Versatilty ? Thank you.
I remember mana shield in wotlk and i remember winning with 1 percent live, like i was spaming arcane barrage and manashield so after each arcane barrage i would cast mana shield and keep dammaging and absorbing, remember winning a lot spamming mana shield but only when my health was veryyy low id do it. I was the nkimg about the ccs that you use. I think it would be great to ring of frost istead of third sheep 1/4 sheep
Chris Benn Its really simple. He plays mainly arcane and frost, so he isnt versed enough in fire mages so that he can make a decent guide. He has said before, that he won't make a guide for a spec he hast reached gladiator with. Thats just the kind of guy he is.
In pve yes, i play with legendary leggings and wrist which gives me 12% mana everytime i barrage with 4 stacks, and wrist gives me a chance of 18% for free arcane blast. So that gives me a lot of damage without running out of mana, whereby if i spam blast id get out of mana pretty fast. I have 203 ilvl and i do around 2.5-3k dps on single target. Missiless are longer cast time than arcane blast so i rarely get out if mana. I evocate only when i dont have enough mana to burst
sp next please. i like new sp, you can play very aggresive with a lot of instead procs and single target burst. but sp is super easy to kill and the dot dmg is not so good as it used to be.
You got a point, spriest feels incomplete, i mean, the dot damage is low, and when you reach voidform, doesnt feel like a real power up, the only thing that hits hard is the void explosion and then nothing more, idk.. i think they really need to take a look on the damage of spriest :(
Its not too bad but theres things that i dont really like for example arcane missiless and shimmer is not working anymore, displacement breaks missiles as well. And the range on displacement is 40 yards now. I love fast casting arcane blasts and spellsteal is how it used to be for arcane except in legion
I think it's because Missiles are a "channelled" spell and not a "cast." If you read the Shimmer tooltip it says you can Shimmer while "casting" but doesn't say anything about "channelling." I could be wrong though...
I feel like this is kind of op but at the same time its not that op. I feel this will get nerfed more likely than rogues and id say rogues are a much bigger problem rn.
And you think you want classic, until you get there and al the mystery is gone, all you have is nostalgia and a very unbalanced game, both pve and pvp.
Thanks for this guide!!! Just as i asked for frost/arcane guide in your 3k video! :D appriciate it a lot!!
Those arms are the MVP here, let’s be honest.
Windgrace he does have nice biceps..
You can get a pair too, it’s honestly not difficult. Just some dedication.
effortlessGFX we know. We just like to look at his as well. For educational reasons u know
Excellent vid! My guild decided they needed a mage for raid progression in BFA and I just happened to have the highest one. I knew I liked arcane over frost for the looks, but didn't realize how amazing it was till this vid. Doing some BG's now and love this spec.
Awesome Guide, thanks Xaryu. Makes me want to play mage again.
Always a pleasure to watch you play Xar! Good videos - keep them coming :D
/rocklobster
Have only been able to to get in one bg so far but I'm really enjoying arcane. Thanks for the great guide!
Thanks! Looking big btw! Keep up the good work :)
Excellent video. Very easy to follow, so I appreciate that.
After seeing your 8.0 mages videos i am 100% sure im gonna reroll mage for bfa! Keep up the good work
Your breakdowns for us bigdums is fantastic.
Could u do an arcane update? 8.1? WOuld be nice!
nice guide dude. really loving it, using it right now too. i actually removed temp shield only because you don't get any health back if you're spamming mana shields too, you're not actually taking damage. temp is better in duels and 2's IMO but aside from that i prefer not to take it (my pref of course). i actually took dampened magic. since we're taking mana shield, might as well buff the effectiveness of it by countering the casters and have the shield to be broken down by melee only
fire mage guide please
Haze Plays he wont
Hes a fortnite scrub now
lol
Yeah never will happen.
nothing much changed to fire mage I run it with flamecannon and the talent that reduces combustion for 5 sec per fireball and temp shield ofc
With warmode out, I would love to hear your suggestions for talents to use in wpvp for each spec
Thinking maybe reroll after this vid! keep up the good work - and do your "Magic" ;)! looking forward to follow you in the new pvp season!
Do you plan on making BG guides for these with some gameplay?
+Method Xaryu could u make one of these for disc priest? would love to hear your spec choices w. the changes.
Mana shield gimps your mobility and allows melee to stick on you way easier, you would think you wouldn't need to kite so much because the shield will save you, no, I've had rogues and feral burst through it like it wasn't even there and with no shimmer you just get trained and die.
J Money than pop the ability again. It's on NO cd xD!
It eats mana though, a lot now. In this video it drained 20% now it does 50%. And yes, while you may think you can evocate for mana back, you can't actually, with rogue/feral on you. So shimmer ftw.
Great vid. I tried it out and found that survivability was insane but I wasn't able to really do enough damage on my own to take out self healing classes like shamans. Do you find that this is the case or do you have any suggestions to help with damage output?
Hey dude im glad to see u
omg ty for this video i was lost as arcane
how big of a deal are racial abilities? Coming back to WoW and I'm thinking about rolling a Horde Panda Mage, but my friends say its bad.
Good shit Xaryu!
awesome vid, as always.
Sup Xaryu. Question about random BGs: now that blizzard removed pvp templantes, what gems and enchants do you recommend ? Haste ? Intelect ? Versatilty ? Thank you.
Do assa rogue guide!
They are so op atm, need to know talents & 'rota'!
Btw great vid buddy, thx for the content!
Xar you should do a before and after comparison of them arms
MAN fuuck pvp ur shape is NICE atm... so motivating
Arcane Familiar is even more viable when u are gnome arcane mage player as me, so its 15% :)
Is one particular mage better than the other, or is it all preference? (Fire, Frost, arcane)
Any PVE vids for frost mage ?
What addon u using to enlarge arena frame?
Hey can you do fire mage? Or is fire mage not a viable pvp spec for bfa?
I remember mana shield in wotlk and i remember winning with 1 percent live, like i was spaming arcane barrage and manashield so after each arcane barrage i would cast mana shield and keep dammaging and absorbing, remember winning a lot spamming mana shield but only when my health was veryyy low id do it. I was the nkimg about the ccs that you use. I think it would be great to ring of frost istead of third sheep 1/4 sheep
Which spec would you recommend me? I never played mage pvp, but from what ive heard, arcane seems to be the best? Frost is also good, but rng heavy?
IMO manashield is tuned right, I ran out of mana against a cupid comp and had to evocate. If they would have stoped it I would have died.
How was your college life man, what was your major + how was it overall
Thx for the video; arena is starting to look fun again. I may never be great, bit I can at least be viable.
What is the main stat for arcane?
Do you think Void Elf would be the best race for the Arcane Mage?
you forget the blink, it is very handy
I run a void on mine. Love the racials. Also they look great
I want to see you be able to shimmer out of stuns so I can go back to that lol.
Do you still explosion spam for orbs or is that gone?
Love it!
Make shadow priest talent guide please!
What about for raiding??
Please assasination Guide! :D Thx ^^
Hey Xaryu. Frost or Arcane?
What's the name of the mage healer skill?
How come he will not do a fire mage build guide?
Chris Benn Its really simple. He plays mainly arcane and frost, so he isnt versed enough in fire mages so that he can make a decent guide. He has said before, that he won't make a guide for a spec he hast reached gladiator with. Thats just the kind of guy he is.
Arcane now reminds me of when fire used to be super tanky.
Make a disc priest guide next :)
What ability is on his Shift C that has a 60 second cooldown?
Shift-C is on use trinket, trinkets are back!
Should do sub rogue pre-patch
entire guide > doesnt show the 1 shot/rotation just says "popping my 1shot"
LOL I really enjoyed the vid, but I also wondered what the heck the one-shot was! I'd love to see some dueling guides
Great job as usual, mate. This Mana Shield's gonna get nerfed though :S
I like ur strat with master of invis, im going to change to that talek
finally!
Good stuff. Thank's
I'm using Time anomaly, its very broken for duels
I know you don't play it much, but fire mage next?
J B he wont
How can someone be a professional wow streamer and still look hot and in fit shape? :O
is the arcane missiles even worth casting without the proc?
In pve yes, i play with legendary leggings and wrist which gives me 12% mana everytime i barrage with 4 stacks, and wrist gives me a chance of 18% for free arcane blast. So that gives me a lot of damage without running out of mana, whereby if i spam blast id get out of mana pretty fast. I have 203 ilvl and i do around 2.5-3k dps on single target. Missiless are longer cast time than arcane blast so i rarely get out if mana. I evocate only when i dont have enough mana to burst
I pvp at the moment arcane blast is much better though plus shimmer breaks missiless
can someone tell me the stat proi in pvp for arcane? thx =)
Are you in method?
Maybe update title to PVP?
I saw you liking comments asking about arcane and rogue guides in the frost vid. Where's my rogue guide REEEEEEEE
mana shield makes arcane mages OP in 8.0.1
Why are you making a guide for the prepatch everything's broken rn
rip mana shield lol
so it was a bug? how bad is it now compared to what was in vid?
Xar says he mains Mage, but he looks more like an Arms Warrior to me...
sp next please. i like new sp, you can play very aggresive with a lot of instead procs and single target burst. but sp is super easy to kill and the dot dmg is not so good as it used to be.
You got a point, spriest feels incomplete, i mean, the dot damage is low, and when you reach voidform, doesnt feel like a real power up, the only thing that hits hard is the void explosion and then nothing more, idk.. i think they really need to take a look on the damage of spriest :(
He’s so good lmao
Rogue guide please !!!
mage seems very strong and actually has useful pvp talents unlike other classes.
My problem with PvP talents is that there is no variety. There are like 2-3 good ones and the the rest is pretty bad.
Yeah i agree. Every talent should be better or worse vs certain enemies, not majority of them worse than the rest in all situations
Do Fire Mage guide next
Am i the only one who feels like arcane missiles are hiting like a wet noodle?
Distractingly cute
thanks
so if they will, nerf mana shield = ded mage in 2 sec
See you in a month, this will be nerfed to the earths core.
Its not too bad but theres things that i dont really like for example arcane missiless and shimmer is not working anymore, displacement breaks missiles as well. And the range on displacement is 40 yards now. I love fast casting arcane blasts and spellsteal is how it used to be for arcane except in legion
I think it's because Missiles are a "channelled" spell and not a "cast." If you read the Shimmer tooltip it says you can Shimmer while "casting" but doesn't say anything about "channelling." I could be wrong though...
well they could just leave it as it was. I think they just wanted to nerf
Tleps Sdrawkcab wow youre right i just tried it
Disc Priest guide next please :D!!
I feel like this is kind of op but at the same time its not that op. I feel this will get nerfed more likely than rogues and id say rogues are a much bigger problem rn.
Priest next pls
Thanks told me all I need to know about Arcane...don't play it..lol
Yeah definitely not for everyone Jim!
All we want is classic vanilla.
No we don't lol.
BaKuDo yes. We do. You do as well you just dont know it yet.
And you think you want classic, until you get there and al the mystery is gone, all you have is nostalgia and a very unbalanced game, both pve and pvp.
Slow down a bit during the games. Your just shout casting them like it’s a tourney game.
Venturi build better
Arcane mage guide: play fire or frost
arcane orb is the shittiest arcane talent ever they should remove it and add something better
Can you please don't show yourself in the next video ı wanna watch the guide not you
LOL
Do Fire Mage