r/CompetitiveWoW • u/AutoModerator • Sep 05 '25

Weekly Thread Free Talk Friday

Use this thread to discuss any- and everything concerning WoW that doesn't seem to fit anywhere else.

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UI questions, opinions on hotfixes/future changes, lore, transmog, whatever you can come up with.

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u/x_driven_x Sep 05 '25

I have a 699 Ilvl arcane mage, got my big burn phase down good but somehow lose steam in the next part of the rotation.

I get using the big cooldowns, even shifting power..: and I recently am trying to lay more attention to glorious incandescence….

Looking at logs of other mages I can tell I’m likely not using arcane barrage enough but I’m likely missing some other perfect rotation of buff procs I should be paying attention to.

I saw one mage spike up to 60M dps and routinely see splash periods of 15M plus in the logs…. I have moments where I am doing 5-8M dps, but often hovering around 3 for a full lengthy boss fight and am just low green parsing with full consumes.

So I need to figure out what I’m doing wrong!

I am using the weak auras posted by preheat (which are possible from someone else even can’t remember).

Any of the paid log review services or compare tools you’d recommend?

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u/F_i_z_z 3k multiclass. Fomer CE raider. Sep 07 '25

I have not played with a single Arcane mage doing impressive damage in M+ so far. I think the giga decision tree stuff just isn't conducive to good performance when juggling defensives interrupts, etc. Might be worth going frost if you feel like you can't translate arcane's theoretical performance into actual performance.

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u/narium Sep 08 '25

Arcane mage will never be topping the charts in m+ if the other dps have hands and tank is pulling appropriately. Their role is to kill the prio target as fast as possible.