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Best PvP Talents & Hero Talents for Arcane Mages – The War Within 11.0 PvP Guide

Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents & Hero Talents 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 PvP Talents in The War Within.

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The War Within expands our arsenal of talent options, which include our new talent hero talent trees, Sunfury and Spellslinger. Since Sunfury is quite lackluster and provides no significant benefits, we will focus our attention solely on the Spellslinger tree.

Hero Talents: Spellslinger

This will be your default Spellslinger build for a majority of matchups. Most of the talents here are passive enhancements to your throughput after using certain spells and buffs that are core to your rotation.

Here are some talents that require a bit more explanation in terms of how they work in order for you to optimize your gameplay.

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Mage Class Talents

In the Mage Class talent tree, most of your talent choices will be mandatory when advancing onto each tier. Some of most noteworthy mandatory talents are:

Our updated talent tree gives us access to a lot of basic tools. Most of your toolkit contains a lot of “no-brainers”, where we pick up Ice Block, Spellsteal, Remove Curse, Mirror Image, and Alter Time.

Additionally, there is another talent selection between Ice Floes or Shimmer in the second tier that can be flexible depending on the matchup faced or preferred playstyle.

  • Shimmer is your most recommended option, as this changes your Blink ability to be instant, and can be used while casting. This does not remove Stun effects like the original Blink, but can allow you to avoid getting stopped on important casts.
  • Ice Floes allows you to freely cast while moving, but reverts your Blink ability back to its original counterpart. Blink now becomes a spell that removes any Stun effects and requires a global to use. Make sure to choose this against compositions that prioritize stuns on you, especially into Subtlety Rogues.

Then there will then be a few flexible talents that can be moved around depending on the composition that you are facing.

In the first and second tiers you have two flexible talents; Remove Curse and Arcane Warding. Either of these can be swapped around for a talent point in Reduplication or Cryo-Freeze. If you plan on playing double DPS 2v2, it’s preferred to use Cryo-Freeze for some extra survivability.

  • Remove Curse against Shamans to remove Hex or Warlocks to get rid of Curses that are buffed by Amplify Curse.
  • Arcane Warding reduces the amount of Magic damage that is dealt to you. This will be typically chosen in most circumstances.
  • Reduplication grants you more uptime on Mirror Image, which can be helpful if you want to make your character feel tankier throughout the course of a match.
  • Cryo-Freeze periodically heals you while in Ice Block.

Arcane Spec Talents

For our spec talents, most of these will be mandatory as you advance onto each tier. Some of the most noteworthy talents are:

Arcane Mage PvP Talents

As for your best Arcane Mage PvP talents, Ring of Fire, Chrono Shift, and Master Shepherd will be your default loadout in most games.

  • Ring of Fire supplements our throughput when we get locked on the Arcane school.
  • Chrono Shift slows the target we use Arcane Barrage on and increases our movement speed by a solid amount for 5 seconds.
  • Master Shepherd is great for a bracket like Solo Shuffle, as this removes the healing effect from Polymorph, and provides us with a boost of Versatility when enemies are affected by it.

For your flexible talents, these can be swapped with Master Shepherd based on the composition you are playing or facing.

  • Ice Wall is unique as this allows you to remove line of sight from any location. This can be utilized offensively and defensively, allowing you to peel for yourself or allies, or to prevent enemy healers from connecting to their ally in order to score kills.

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