Arcane Mage Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 - The War Within (11.0.2) (2024)

Last updated on Aug 21, 2024 at 18:20by Dutchmagoz58 comments

On this page, you will find our Level by Level Arcane Mage leveling guide for The War Within.Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level.For more general leveling information, please refer to ourMage leveling guide.

Arcane Mage, is very strong at outdoor contentdue to having basically infinite mana due to the downtime while doingoutdoor content. Due to this, it can effectively 1 shot most outdoor enemiesby simply staying at 4 Arcane Charges all the time. Due to this, simply questingis a very effective way of leveling.

Having said that, Arcane is also very strong at dungeon content, doing incredibleDPS, especially starting around level 40 when you start getting most ofthe kit unlocked. If you have some friends (especially a tank or healer)to queue up with, spamming dungeons is very efficient. If you are playing solo,the queue time for dungeons as a DPS makes it impractical.

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with thehighest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ringor Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on itinstead of 1.

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Level: 70

Below, you can see the suggested levelling talent build and the order inwhich to pick the talentswhile levelling. The below build is incredible for both dungeons and outdoor content.

Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attackability: Frostbolt.

1. Make sure you keep Arcane Intellect up at all times.Keep in mind, if you die, you have to re-cast it. Otherwise just cast it once per hour.
2. Cast Time Warp when you are about to go into a bigpull or boss fight. Keep in mind, you can only gain the benefit once every 10 minutes,even though the cooldown is 5 minutes.
3. During Arcane Soul (the buff you get after Arcane Surge ends from Memory of Al'ar):
   1. Cast Arcane Barrage if you have less than 3 Clearcasting;
   2. Cast Arcane Missiles if at 3 Clearcasting;
   3. Note: On the very final global cooldown of Arcane Soul, you can cast Arcane Barrage even if you have 3 Clearcasting.
4. Use Fire Blast on cooldown.
5. Cast Arcane Orb when you do not have 4 ArcaneCharges.
6. Cast Shifting Power when your other spells are on cooldown.Try to use it outside of combat, while moving to the next enemies.
7. Cast Evocation whenever it is ready to activatethe large Intellect bonus. Use this shortly before activating Arcane Surge.Try to use it out of combat, while moving to the next enemies.
8. Cast Arcane Surge whenever it is ready andyou have 4 Arcane Charges.Make sure Touch of the Magi is ready before using Arcane Surge.
9. Cast Arcane Barrage when you have Burden of Power(and thus will also benefit from Glorious Incandescence).
10. If Touch of the Magi is ready and you have 4 ArcaneCharges, Cast Arcane Barrage, immediately followed by Touch of the Magi.Ensure you cast Touch of the Magi before Arcane Barrage lands.
11. Use Arcane Missiles when you get Clearcasting.
12. Cast Arcane Barrage whenever you have 4 ArcaneCharges, and there are 3+ targets to hit with it. Additionally, whenever you areclose to running out of Mana, cast Arcane Barrage. Only cast it with 4 Arcane Charges.
13. Cast Arcane Explosion when there are 3 or moretargets.
14. Cast Arcane Blast as your filler on single target.

In this section we will rank the PvP talents best forleveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

1. Chrono Shift is a huge mobility increase and helps a lot withkiting enemies in the open world.
2. Temporal Shield is arguably the best defensive tool in the game,as it is off the global cooldown, and has a relatively short cooldown, allowingyouto avoid damage against most enemies you face.
3. Master of Escape and Mass Invisibility are both spells thatyou can pick to help you skip more mobs when going through crowded areas.

Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you havehit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn howto play at max level.