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Helo, thanks for this guide.
I have a question about caps:
Crit, haste and mastery?
How much is the ideal?

I’m also very curious about stat priorities with arcane. I’ve read through several guides and have seen some different opinions on what is optimal. For instance noxxic suggests this stat weight:

Intellect [9.06] > Versatility [7.56] >= Crit [7.41] >= Haste [7.26] > Mastery [4.56]

I’m curious as to you opinions on this and if you’d be able to dive deeper into your recommendations on stat priorities that would be great!

So I used simc and raidbots. One gave me crit, mastery, vers, haste; the other said crit, vers, haste, mastery. Kind of confused on which is the better to follow. I did use the same settings on both.

Dutch I have been benefiting from your clear and accurate guides for years. Thank you. I have three questions.

1. Why use Presence of Mind after using Arcane Power? Wouldn’t it be a dps increase to spend the global outside the arcane power window, and go into it with two Instant ABs qued up?
2. Does both the damage and the % chance to gain 2 arcane charges stack when using more than one piece of azerite gear with Galvanizing Spark?
3. When I simmed my character for top gear (patchwork, all default parameters) raid bots output that a shoulder piece with thunderous blast was better than one with galvanizing spark. This *seems* to conflict with your recommendation to triple stack galvanizing spark for Single target. Regardless, what should I make of that recommendation? I am inclined to stack galvanizing spark anyway.

Thank you!

Hey quick question. What weapon enchant are Arcane Mages using? I was thinking about Deadly Navigation.

Good evening, I just rerolled into a Iron dwarf and I was wondering if my new racial ability changes my rotation (in terms of presence of mind)..
It says that we cast POM at the end of arcane power but if i use the iron dwarf racial at the beginning w/ all my other cooldowns, does that change anything or do i cast POM at the beginning w/ arcane power so it synergizes w/ the iron dwarf racial ability.

my 2nd question is if you are fighting lets say a dungeon boss with low hp and you do the burn phase and then evocate but the boss has low enough HP that you could likely kill him by spamming arcane blast (burn phase without arcane power) instead of the Arcane blast x4 --> arcane barrage, would it be smarter to do a 2nd burn phase (without the arcane power) or should you still be sticking to conserve phase.


Thanks and love from Canada!!

Hello everyone,

Sorry if my english is bad, i'm French.

I'd like to ask : recently Galvanizing Spark has been nerfed and i wondered if the Azerite Traits Sim were updated cuz we still see Galvanizing Spark on the top (HeroDamage/IcyVeins/WowHead).

Galvanizing Spark is still the best trait after the nerfs, yes.

Galvanizing Spark is still the best trait after the nerfs, yes.

Do I understand well and I'm not supposed to cast arcane missiles during arcane power at all?

And only use PoM at the very end of it (why?)?

Also, when I sim myself haste is muuuch worse than everything else. I know it depends on your current stats and shit but I wouldn't expect such a difference from the guideline in here which places it as second best.