Is Arcane a Spec worth trying in PVP? I know Frost is king, but i don’t want to play Frost. I hear Fire is kind of bad right now. I know Arcane has 1 school of spells besides Ring of Fire. I do BGs’ as I level and do Arena at max level. I also hear you have to fake cast a lot because of the 1 school of spells. Any advice on how someone would improve that?
It isn’t for anyone, and definitely has a low representation, pretty much across all aspects of PvP. It still is, in my opinion, pretty fun.
Frost is definitely the de-facto, undisputed king spec for PvP. Most of the complaints for mage nerfs come because of Frost. Amazing sustained, instant-cast damage, control, rng roots, and access to all schools of magic which help with lockouts.
You do need to be mindful of your casts, yes. Chronoshift with slow is a great way to help create some distance, building up haste stacks so you can get in some quick arcane blasts and missiles. Definitely try and juke first though.
Just have fun with it. One of the most insightful and best arcane mage PvP players is Aeghis. Check him out!
Is the damage decent with Arcane? I have seen a few posts where people say Arcane does hardly any damage, is this true?
Kieko can probably answer this better than I can but… my experience of arcane in pvp is you can do respectable damage if you can cast, but you can never cast. Other classes and specs are able to pump out far greater damage with less effort, less stress, and less frustration.
We were in a decent enough position at the start of TWW that I was able to get 1950 rating and unlock the weapon enchant, but I absolutely could not get 1950 again after all the changes and nerfs since then.
I’m an Arcane Mage main and after climbing in BG Blitz on Frost for a bit, you really see how horrible Arcane mage is in PvP and it’s night and day. The stuff you can do on Frost is about 2x of what you can do on Arcane Mage. I would stick with Frost Mage if I were you until some decent changes finally come in for the spec.
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Arcane suffers from being locked out of Poly/Alter/blink if you get kicked. And anyone halfway decent is going to immediately kick when they see Arcane Surge, kinda forcing your block if there’s any pressure / if you’re not being spam healed. Fire/Frost can at least dance around being kicked, the former being largely instant cast anyway.