Best In Slot Mage Shadowlands

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Stat Priorities

In Shadowlands, these enable you to customize your Arcane Mage, drastically improving your performance, and are arguably the most important aspect of your gear. The purpose of this page is to help you pick the right legendary powers (and item slots for them) for your character, depending on the content you are interested in. The biggest change is how Fire Mage's mastery works. In Shadowlands, ignite spreading is not a part of Mastery. Instead, you have to use Phoenix Flames in order to spread it. Removal of corruption also means ignite isn’t your top damage by a mile anymore, however still a meaningful portion, specially on ST and on any low target count cleave. Welcome to Wowhead's Fire Mage Arena PvP Guide, up to date for 9.1! In this section, we cover how gear works in PvP in Shadowlands, the best stat priority for Fire Mages in PvP, the best pieces of gear and legendaries for Fire Mages in arena PvP, as well as the best enchants to use on your gear.

As a general rule of thumb, intellect is our most crucial stat in any situation, which means that every ilvl upgrade you get should be considered.

Single Target

1. Intellect
2. Critical Strike - Shatter cap 33.34%
3. Haste
4. Versatility
5. Mastery

AoE & Mythic+

1. Intellect
2. Critical Strike - Shatter cap 33.34%
3. Haste
4. Versatility/Mastery

Stat Outline

Critical Strike - This is a frost mages bread and butter. The whole spec works around critical strike, with the help of Icy Propulsion and Shatter.

Haste - Haste is an extremely important stat for a frost mage; even though we are getting a lot of haste from Icy Veins, It still gives us the ability to cast Frostbolts faster. This means that we will get more chances to proc Ice Lance Brain Freeze, which in return will provide us with more cooldown reduction and more Icy Veins resets.

Versatility - Not much to say about Versatility. It increases our damage and survivability.

Mastery - Mastery as a stat is pretty irrelevant for a frost mage on single target, and you should try to avoid it as much as possible for single target purposes.

As far as races go, generally speaking, all the mage races are relatively close.

Dwarf and void elves are slightly ahead when playing Alliance, and blood elf, trolls, orcs, and goblins are all valid options on the horde side.

Enchants

You should always Sim yourself but as a guideline you want to enchant critical strike up to 33% and then haste when you are above.

Chest - Eternal stats

Bracer - Eternal Intellect

Best In Slot Gear Mage Shadowlands

Cloak - Fortified Avoidance

Weapon - Sinful Revelation(single target) and Celestial Guidance gains value on more targets.

Ring - Tenet of Critical Strike / Tenet of Haste, but like stated in the stats section, sim your character if possible to see what your gear needs

Deadly Jewel Cluster (Crit) / Quick Jewel Cluster (Haste)

Consumables

Food - Feast of Gluttonous Hedonism. If you cant have feast go with Spinefin Souffle and Fries(Crit) / Tenebrous Crown Roast Aspic(haste)

Flask - Spectral Flask of Power

Potion - Potion of Spectral Intellect

Best In Slot Arcane Mage Shadowlands

Health Potion - Spiritual Healing Potion

Oil - Shadowcore Oil

Rune - Veiled Augment Rune

Armor Kit - Heavy Desolate Armor Kit

Covenants

The 2 best covenants for a frost mage will be Night Fae and Venthyr.

Venthyr is mainly for raidingST. Having Mirrors of Torment on single target works well with Icy Veins, essentially getting Brain Freeze Proc roughly every 15 seconds, which helps us extend Icy Veins with Thermal Void and reduce the cooldown of the ability due to the Icy Propulsion conduit.

Night Fae has a lot of value in Mythic+ because it reduces the cooldown of Icy Veins with shifting power. On top of that, you will also be able to have multiple Frozen Orbs active.

Raiding - Venthyr will be our choice since Mirrors of Torment gives us essentially 3 Brain Freeze procs over 45 Seconds. It helps our consistent single target damage by reducing the cooldown and extending our Icy Veins with Thermal Void. It synergies well with our overall toolkit.

Mythic+Multi-spec - Night Fae will be the better choice for Mythic+ dungeons or if you are planning to play other mage specs. The Night Fae covenant is very flexible, and it gives us the most benefit in terms of Mythic+. Shifting power reduces our cooldowns which allows us to have Icy Veins up more often. It will also enable us to have multiple Blizzard and Frozen Orb simultaneously, which benefits our damage by a large margin.

Night Fae

For Night Fae you will be using the following Conduit Setup:

Venthyr

For Venthyr you will be using the following Conduit Setup:

Legendaries

Silk Ice Legendary

While Icy Veins is active, each frostbolt you cast reduces the cast time of frostbolt by 2%, stacking up to 10 times.

This Legendary is super strong when fighting one target. It synergies well with our Icy veins cooldown, essentially granting us almost 100% uptime, assuming we can keep casting without being interrupted.

Optimal slot: Legs with critical Strike and haste.

Freezing Winds Legendary

While Frozen Orb is active, you gain Fingers of Frost every 2 Seconds.

This is our go-to legendary for multi-target encounters and mythic+. It essentially makes us highly mobile and gives us the ability to squeeze in a lot of burst damage during Frozen Orb since we will be getting a lot of Fingers of Frost. It's overall a super-strong pick when you are fighting anything more than one target.

Optimal slot: Gloves with critical Strike and haste.

Domination Shards

For our domination shard set, we will be using the following pieces from the raid.

• Bracers
• Belt
• Helm
• Chest
• Shoulders

This gives us the ability to essentially equip 5 shards in total.

Raid

The shards you want to equip for sanctum of domination as a frost mage will primarily be Chaos Bane, which is combined from 3 Unholy Shards.

• Shard of Dyz (Unholy) Provides a small stacking damage buff on the target.
• Shard of Oth (Unholy) Provides a slight mobility boost, but it requires you to complete the unholy set.
• Shard of Zed (Unholy) Nothing beneficial damage-wise, but essential for having 3 Shards for the set.
• Shard of Cor (Frost) Large damage increase when first engaging a target or swapping to a new target.
• Shard of Bek (Blood) Increase damage if you are at high health.

Mythic+

For Mythic+, you want the following shards of domination, but keep in mind that the set won't be active outside of Sanctum of Domination. However, the Gems themselves remain extremely powerful to equip.

• Shard of Dyz (Unholy) Provides a small stacking damage buff on the target.
• Shard of Oth (Unholy) Provides a small mobility boost.
• Shard of Cor (Frost) A large damage Increase when first engaging a target or swapping to a new target.
• Shard of Bek (Blood) It increase damage if you are at high health.
• Shard of Rev (Blood) Increasing your leech and survivability.