10.2.6 S4 Dragonflight Arcane Mage Guide | ST & AoE Rotations and Talent Builds! | World of Warcraft

Welcome to the patch 10.2 Dragonflight Arcane guide!

In this guide, you'll find info for talent builds and rotations in both ST and AoE!

If there's anything I missed feel free to comment below and I'll make sure to get you an answer ASAP!

*What is spell queuing?*
The Spell Queue Window is the time in milliseconds in which you're allowed to tell WoW's servers about the next spell you want to cast before your current cast is finished. This defaults to 400 milliseconds. When we want to spellqueue Arcane Barrage into Arcane Blast, we spam click Arcane Barrage when our Arcane Blast cast is ~70% complete.

*Why shouldn't I spellqueue in AoE?*
The reason we don't want to spellqueue in AoE has to do with how Radiant Spark and Harmonic Echo buff spells. Radiant Spark buffs spells when you cast them, but Harmonic Echo only buffs spells when they land on your target.

When you spellqueue Arcane Surge and Arcane Barrage together, both are cast at the same time and thus both benefit from Radiant Spark's bonus damage. However, due to Arcane Surge having no travel time it lands on your target first thus getting buffed by Harmonic Echo. In multitarget scenarios, it is more worth for Arcane Barrage to benefit from Harmonic Echo over Arcane Surge (due to Arcing Cleave + Resonance talents), so we remove the spellqueue. You also don't want to spellqueue Surge and Barrage in single target either as they would consume the same stack.

Link to AoE flowcharts: https://imgur.com/a/uNNTAQx
Single Target Cheat Sheet: https://imgur.com/a/VAIKP93

Nether Precision Tracker: https://wago.io/-ApNbKpq1
Clearcasting + Concentration Tracker: https://wago.io/c8zvYCldS
Tier Set Tracker: https://wago.io/elFFqnJmv

All my addons and WeakAuras can be found in the description of this video:
   • My Addons and WeakAuras | Arcane Mage...  

Pure ST Import String
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Funnel Cleave Import String
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AoE Import String
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If you're having trouble landing Touch of the Magi before barrage lands in melee range, this macro can help. Just spam click it when you want to instant cast TotM right after Barrage:
/castsequence reset=10 Arcane Barrage, Touch of the Magi, Touch of the Magi

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0:00 Intro
0:12 General Tree Talents
1:09 Pure ST Talents
1:49 Funnel Cleave Talents
2:16 AoE Talents
2:27 Arcane Damage Pattern
2:46 ST Rotation (Surge Burn)
5:06 ST Rotation (Filler)
5:54 ST Rotation (Mini Burn)
6:44 3 Minute ST Demo
10:22 AoE Rotation (Surge Burn)
12:29 AoE Rotation (Filler)
12:57 AoE Rotation (Mini Burn)
13:37 2 Minute AoE Demo
16:10 Outro