Arcane Mage DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

There are both Epic and Rare gems, with Epic gems being significantly more powerful. However, you can only equip a single epic gem, so you will have to fill out the rest of your slots with rare gems.

Indecipherable Eversong Diamond is the best epic gem to use. For rare gems, Flawless Versatile Amethyst will be the best choice. The exact best gem can differ based on your existing gear, but the difference is usually very small. For the most accurate results, we recommend simming gems, but this can take a long time for very little gain, due to how small the differences are.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

You should be using Thalassian Phoenix Oil as your weapon augment in all content.

Slot	Enchantment
Helm (non damage)	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Shoulders (non damage)	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
Legs	Arcanoweave Spellthread
Ring	Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle
Feet (non damage)	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Not all enchants provide damage, like Helm, Shoulders and Feet, and instead you can choose between Speed, Avoidance or Leech for these slots. Speed is usually a solid choice, as you can move further during all of the instant cast spells like Arcane Barrage or Arcane Orb, and channeled spells like Arcane Missiles. This allows you to save your quick mobility spells like Shimmer / Blink for when you need to move very suddenly due to a mechanic. However, Avoidance enchants are also a great option for these slots to simply reduce the damage you take from various enemy abilities. I generally do not recommend the Leech enchants for group content, but it can be quite nice for solo content.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

For Season 1, you should use Flask of Thalassian Resistance. It is the best option because it provides more secondary stats than other Flasks.

Light's Potential is the best DPS potion for all content, while Silvermoon Health Potion is our healing potion of choice.

Any of the highest rank feasts are optimal, like Quel'dorei Medley or Blooming Feast. But master tier personal food like Champion's Bento can be used just as well if your group does not use feasts.

Note: if you are doing content where you will die a lot, like progressing a raid boss, you can use Hearty variants of food, which last through death but are more expensive, like Hearty Quel'dorei Medley (feast) or Hearty Champion's Bento (personal).

Augment Runes are often quite expensive, but do provide roughly a 1% DPS increase when used so they can be quite important when doing the hardest content. Void-Touched Augment Rune is the only available Augment Rune currently.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz has been playing Mage since 2009 and writing guides and theorycrafting since 2012, with many top 20-100 world kills and rank 1 parses under his belt. He is the owner of the official Mage Discord server Altered Time, where he is involved in Mage Theorycrafting and everything else Mage. You can reach out to him directly for questions or feedback about the guide there.