Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Arcane Mages in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Arcane Mage PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Arcane Mages in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Arcane Mage Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Arcane Mage Stat Priority

Versatility (25%) > Haste > Mastery > Critical Strike

Our main focus for our stats should be on Versatility. You want to focus on getting as much of it as you can, up to at least 25%. This will happen automatically through PvP gearing, as most of the items you will end up using will have Versatility on them.

Beyond this stat, Haste will be our second most important stat. Haste is great since it makes our casts quicker and reduces the global cooldown. This allows us to land Crowd Control easier at the right times, assisting us with creating pressure or to peel for your team more often.

This secondary stat also makes it easier to generate more Arcane Debilitation stacks, giving us more opportunities to create massive burst.

After that, you’ll be focusing on Mastery. This makes your throughput stronger and reduces the chance that you run out of Mana early on.

Followed by Mastery, Critical Strike is your least favored stat and should be avoided.

BiS Arcane Mage PvP Gear

Weapons

Main Hand: Algari Competitor’s Staff with Haste / Versatility
Alternative Main Hand: Forged Gladiator’s Staff

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

When it comes to trinkets, we are pairing up with Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity in almost every game. This adds some static Haste that will benefit us in our stat priority, while occasionally proccing for a considerable boost to our primary stat.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

As an alternative, you can choose Forged Gladiator’s Emblem instead of Insignia for some temporary HP boost in cases where you are guaranteed to be the kill target. This can more promising into setup based matchups, such as RMP or Jungle Cleave.

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Best Arcane Mage Embellishments

Item 1: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on Algari Competitor’s Staff.
Item 2: Writhing Armor Banding on any crafted armor piece.

Alternative Item: x2 Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted piece.

Both embellishments are solid enhancements to our toolkit, however Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension has an upper hand out of the two with its constant flow of secondary stats throughout a game. Even though this embellishment can be RNG dependent at times in terms of proccing the most effective secondary stats, it can contribute a ton to our burst windows if we are lucky enough.

Alternatively, if you would rather use our conquest weapon instead of a crafted version, Elemental Focusing Lens embellishment is quite nice to have as it helps us with our consistent throughput. Make sure to have at least 1 gem equipped for this embellishment to work.

This embellishment occasionally deals damage from a specific school of magic based on the gem you equip. Keep in mind that the damage from this embellishment can’t be buffed by cooldowns, talents, or any damage bonuses from school types.

Best Arcane Mage Gems

Core Gems: Cognitive Bloodstone + Quick Sapphire
Alternative Gem: Versatile Emerald

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

As Versatility and Haste are your best secondary stats, you will want to both gem and enchant it wherever possible. For your new unique PvP-specific gem, we highly recommend the Cognitive Bloodstone, which acts almost identical to the Precognition Embellishment from Dragonflight.

For all gem slots, we will use either Quick Sapphire or Versatile Emerald, depending on your preference. Regardless of which gem you choose, both support our current stat priority and grant a minor boost to our throughput and survivability.