Smorcmage

Arcane Mage
Mag'Har Orc
302 ilvl
Season 0
2721 Mythic+

Smorcmage from Area 52 (US) is recognized as one of the top PvE Arcane Mage in World of Warcraft Dragonflight 10.2.6, having achieved an impressive 2721 rating in Mythic+ during season 0.

Here you'll find a detailed snapshot of his character from . It includes a thorough breakdown of his stats, talents, equipment, embellishments, enchantments, and gems. Use this as a guide to enhance and inspire your own Arcane Mage build.

Stat Priority

Stats are crucial attributes that directly influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They not only determine the character's strength but also define the overall feel and playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various pieces of equipment, in consumables created by the Alchemy profession, certain foods, some enchantments , and gems .

It's important to note that each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. This means that optimizing a character's performance involves more than just maximizing each stat; it's about finding a balanced distribution. Here is how Smorcmage's Secondary and Minor stats are distributed.

Secondary Stats
+927
33% Critical Strike
+721
24% Haste
+766
36% Mastery
+460
12% Versatility
  1. Critical Strike
  2. Mastery
  3. Haste
  4. Versatility
Minor Stats
+78
6% Avoidance
+83
4% Leech
+61
6% Speed
  1. Leech
  2. Avoidance
  3. Speed

Class Talents

Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing the playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing character abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Mage specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements that are essential and universal to the Mage class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Mage's overall capabilities, regardless of the chosen specialization.

Prismatic Barrier
Ice Block
Overflowing Energy
Incanter's Flow
Winter's Protection
Spellsteal
Tempest Barrier
Incantation of Swiftness
Remove Curse
Arcane Warding
Mirror Image
Shifting Power
Alter Time
Cryo-Freeze
Reduplication
Quick Witted
Mass Polymorph
Slow
Master of Time
Diverted Energy
Ring of Frost
Ice Nova
Shimmer
Mass Slow
Blast Wave
Improved Frost Nova
Rigid Ice
Tome of Rhonin
Tome of Antonidas
Volatile Detonation
Energized Barriers
Frigid Winds
Flow of Time
Temporal Velocity
Ice Ward
Freezing Cold
Time Manipulation
Displacement
Accumulative Shielding
Greater Invisibility
Dragon's Breath
Ice Cold
Time Anomaly
Mass Barrier

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents constitute a specialized tree, providing Arcane Mages with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style.

Arcane Missiles
Arcane Orb
Reverberate
Concentrated Power
Arcane Tempo
Improved Arcane Missiles
Arcane Surge
Crackling Energy
Nether Precision
Rule of Threes
Charged Orb
Resonance
Mana Adept
Slipstream
Amplification
Presence of Mind
Foresight
Arcing Cleave
Nether Tempest
Improved Prismatic Barrier
Impetus
Improved Clearcasting
Chrono Shift
Touch of the Magi
Supernova
Evocation
Enlightened
Arcane Echo
Arcane Bombardment
Illuminated Thoughts
Conjure Mana Gem
Siphon Storm
Prodigious Savant
Radiant Spark
Concentration
Cascading Power
Orb Barrage
Harmonic Echo
Arcane Harmony

PvP Talents

PvP talents are specifically tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with war mode enabled, these talents are designed to optimize a Arcane Mage's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements and strategies that give players an edge in combat against other players, reflecting the unique demands of PvP gameplay.

Master of Escape
Improved Mass Invisibility
Temporal Shield
Kleptomania
Arcanosphere
Ice Wall
Ring of Fire
Master Shepherd
Ethereal Blink

Equipment

Equipment directly determines a character's power level in World of Warcraft. These items are acquired from diverse sources: they can drop in dungeons and raids, be discovered across the world, be crafted through various professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.

Each piece of equipment significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here are the items currently equipped by Smorcmage.

Head

  1. set
    Erudite Occultist's Hood

Neck

  1. Choker of Barbed Reins

Shoulders

  1. Grim-Veiled Spaulders

Back

  1. Trashmaster's Mantle

Chest

  1. set
    Erudite Occultist's Robes

Wrist

  1. Grim-Veiled Bracers

Hands

  1. set
    Erudite Occultist's Handwraps

Waist

  1. Cinch of Infinite Tightness

Legs

  1. set
    Erudite Occultist's Leggings

Feet

  1. Sandals of Sacred Symmetry

Ring 1

  1. Logic Loop of Recursion

Ring 2

  1. Overclocking Bit Band

Trinket 1

  1. Moonlit Prism

Trinket 2

  1. Tovra's Lightning Repository

Main Hand

  1. Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos

Off Hand

  1. Acoustically Alluring Censer

Embellishments

Embellishments are unique effects that can be added to crafted items, either as predefined elements in recipes or through an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.

Here are the embellishments equipped by Smorcmage for the Arcane Mage specialization.

Unfortunately, no embellished item data were found.

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Head, Back, Chest, Wrist, Waist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Waist enchantments specifically require Blacksmithing, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers, and Head enchantments come from the Incandescent Essence , a reward obtained through a quest in the Amirdrassil raid.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here are the specific enchantments chosen by Smorcmage for each equipment slot.

Back

  1. Enchant Cloak - Fortified Avoidance

Chest

  1. Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats

Wrist

  1. Enchant Bracers - Eternal Intellect

Ring 1

  1. Enchant Ring - Tenet of Versatility

Ring 2

  1. Enchant Ring - Tenet of Versatility

Main Hand

  1. Enchant Weapon - Celestial Guidance

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession, typically offering stat bonuses to enhance your gear. These gems can be socketed into specific items such as Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings. The presence of sockets on items is usually random upon their drop.

Notably, Neck items can be uniquely modified to have up to three sockets by using 3 Tiered Medallion Setting . Additionally, a single socket can be added to other eligible items with a Nature's Cradle , which requires 6 Aspects' Tokens of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, here are the gems currently socketed by Smorcmage.

  1. Versatile Jewel Cluster
    4
  2. Straddling Jewel Doublet
    1