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Popular Builds: Mage — Talents · WoW Forever

The most popular builds for each specialization: raids and dungeons, PvP and leveling. Open any build in the talent calculator to see every point, or in theorycrafting to test it.

The list grows with the community: new builds appear here based on how often they are used and how popular they are among wowcalc.net players.

Arcane

1
  • Arcane Blast Battery

    PvEDamage dealer

    Arcane: 39, Fire: 12, Frost: 0

    Stacking Arcane: each Arcane Blast powers up your other spells, Missile Barrage speeds up Arcane Missiles, and Arcane Power with Presence of Mind adds burst.

    Key talents

    • 1/1Arcane Blast
    • 1/1Presence of Mind
    • 5/5Arcane Mind
    • 3/3Arcane Instability
    • 1/1Arcane Power

Fire

1
  • Heating Up Pyromancer

    PvEDamage dealer

    Arcane: 12, Fire: 34, Frost: 5

    Fire built on crits: Heating Up shortens your next Pyroblast, Master of Elements refunds mana, and Combustion stacks crits for a burst.

    Key talents

    • 1/1Heating Up
    • 5/5Critical Mass
    • 1/1Blast Wave
    • 3/3Fire Power
    • 1/1Combustion

Frost

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  • Fingers of Frost Wanderer

    LevelingDamage dealer

    Arcane: 10, Fire: 0, Frost: 41

    Frost leveling: Improved Blizzard and Permafrost slow whole pulls, Fingers of Frost and Ice Lance punish frozen targets, and Ice Barrier cuts downtime.

    Key talents

    • 1/1Ice Block
    • 3/3Improved Cone of Cold
    • 1/1Cold Snap
    • 2/2Fingers of Frost
    • 1/1Ice Barrier
  • Winter's Chill Frostbolter

    PvEDamage dealer

    Arcane: 19, Fire: 0, Frost: 32

    Group Frost built on Frostbolt: Winter's Chill raises frost crits, Fingers of Frost and Shatter turn procs into crits, and Arcane adds Missile Barrage.

    Key talents

    • 3/3Arcane Meditation
    • 1/1Ice Lance
    • 3/3Shatter
    • 2/2Fingers of Frost
    • 5/5Winter's Chill
  • Shatter Duelist

    PvPDamage dealer

    Arcane: 17, Fire: 0, Frost: 34

    Frost for PvP: freeze targets with Improved Frost Nova, shatter them with Ice Lance, and stay safe with Ice Barrier, Ice Block and Cold Snap.

    Key talents

    • 1/1Ice Lance
    • 1/1Ice Block
    • 1/1Cold Snap
    • 2/2Fingers of Frost
    • 1/1Ice Barrier