11.0 Sunfury Arcane Mage Guide | Burden Update, ST & AOE Rotation, Talents, Gear, Advanced, and more

Now that the War Within is here, I have compiled my most comprehensive guide to date. In this video we cover Arcane for Beginners and Veteran Mages alike. This guide is for Season 1 of the War Within (TWW). OPEN FOR MORE INFO↧↧↧

This video contains optimizations made in the past 24 hours for the new Burden of Power without double dipping. Credits for these mainly to Porom, the Wowhead Arcane Mage Guide writer. Other small things by other members of the Altered Time discord.

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UI Weakaura HUD (Luxthos w/ heavy modifications) WIP:

Orb Barrage Cha-ching Weakaura:

Sunfury Mage - Hyperthermia & Arcane Soul Weakaura:

Clearcasting stacks WA:

I use Dorovon Castbar:

Touch macro:
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=10 Arcane Barrage, Touch of the Magi, Touch of the Magi

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
01:32 Arcane Basics
10:38 Sunfury Arcane Overview
11:50 Burden of Power & Glorious Incandescence
14:43 Arcane Tier Set
15:25 Missile Clipping
16:24 Arcane Cooldowns
18:38 Stats and Gearing
20:50 Arcane Opener
24:44 Arcane Soul
25:55 After Cooldowns
29:45 Rinse Repeat
32:53 Advanced Single Target
36:04 AoE Talent Changes
37:28 AoE Rotation

[Preheat]

Swap to AoE rotation in execute (35%) at 3+ targets, otherwise do it at 5 targets for best results assuming you have the talents. AoE execute goes HARD.

[supergaga]

Thanks for this video, it’s much clearer and approachable than your previous ones, where it felt you needed 2 phds.

[theguywhoiscoding]

Here are all timestamps:

1:32 Arcane Basics
10:38 Sunfury Arcane Overview
11:50 Burden of Power & Glorius Incandescense
14:43 Arcane Tier Set
15:25 Missile Clipping
16:24 Arcane Cooldowns
18:38 Stats and Gearing
20:50 Arcane Opener
24:44 Arcane Soul
25:55 After Cooldowns
29:45 Rinse Repeat
32:53 Advanced Single Target
36:04 AoE Talent Changes
37:28 AoE Rotation

[ativvafoxx]

This is the most well put together guide you have done yet. Great job keep it up. For those who havent tried the coaching I can vouch for it. His coaching is amazing.

[arianmoazamipour]

Dude you rocked this guide. First time ever playing arcane and I was very overwhelmed with the rotation. Thank you for slowing things down, pausing the video to go over situations, and making it very clear. I appreciate your time!

[philippeng]

definitely the clearest guide to arcane mage! Thank you! Now I understand the logic behind every casted spells rather than just merely memorize the rotation. Really helpful!

[rikardek]

All the pauses and explainations through out your rotation showcase is 10/10. The weakauras you use will be of much help for me as a first time mage player. Thank you man!

[NathanSStorey]

Yeah. This is the best one out there.
Timestamps would be great but the info is spot on.

[howardstacey]

Preheat,

Thank you very much for the detailed guide. At the start of the expansion, I leveled as Spellslinger Arcane. After I hit the max level, I slowly started to try to learn Sunfury. I kept making bad mistakes as I had the Spellslinger mindset when playing.

After countless hours of watching this video, researching helpful Arcane macros, playing with weakauras, and pushing high-level delves, I was able to pull this off during my guilds raid run.

This has been the most helpful video I could ever ask for, and I want to thank you so much for putting the time and effort into it.

[Tollerah]

Wonderful breakdown. Too many people making guides and speeding through the "whys and hows" making it incredibly hard to make judgement calls. I appreciate you explaining every step as to why you would take an action and why you WOULDN'T. It helps me understand how to make decisions on the fly because I understand the full reasoning behind why a certain action is taken. This was incredibly concise. Thank you

[liamclancy]

I agreed your first 2 videos like blew my mind but this one is fantastic. As stupid as it may seem to experienced mages the first 10 minutes is very very important. Thankyou.

[kairukus]

genuinely believe this is the most comprehensible guide you have ever done. this is fantastic

[viktore.degray]

honestly the best guide i have seen on arcane mage damn, simply made me wanna play the spec just because i actually understand how it works now well done!!!

[mattproulx]

Bro I dont even play arcane, and i wanna switch after watching this very easy to understand guide, I love how you explained this, starting with the basics and why, and then adding onto it so that players can understand not only what to do, but why they're doing it, in bite sized chunks of information. Brilliantly explained, clear and concise.

[skeletorzomg]

This is the best you've put out. You can tell how much effort you've put in and it paid off! Thank you so much!

[Maximo-Maximus]

You have never put together such a clear and concise guide as this up to know. This is definitely the format to go, keep up the amazing content!

[Thurb]

So my guild and I decided to put me, a former shadow main, on the second mage spot. I'm kinda happy about that decision, but got overwhelmed by arcane pretty fast. I've never played anything else as a main ( than shadow ) since cataclysm. Your videos are helping me ( and the first mage in our guild) a ton! Espacially this one is amazing, seeing everything in bitesized pieces with propper explanations has so much more effect than reading a guide or watching a 6-7 minute "guide" Video.
Thanks, I really appriciate your time and effort!

[raynathanielcaparas]

Thanks for your guide, into arcane for 3 days already and i'm loving it, need more practice though

[CristobalHernandez]

Man this is the video I have enjoyed the most watching. It is easier to understand and cleared up all the questions I had. Good job on this one Preheat.

[kimelisson]

THIS gudie was one of the best yet! good work!