Arcane Mage Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Each Arcane Charge increases your critical strike chance by 1.0%.
• (4) Set Bonus: The critical strike damage of your Arcane spells is increased by 10%.

Tier Set Discussion: Non-gameplay-changing tier set. 4-set makes Critical Strike chance slightly more valuable, but still not enough for you to go fully into it.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Arcane Mage, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Locus-Walker's Ribbon – A passive trinket that has a chance to grant you an Intellect buff. The longer you remain in combat, the stronger the buff becomes, and it quickly decays if you leave combat. Very similar to Eye Of Kezan trinket from The War Within expansion.

Vaelgor's Final Stare – A 1.5 minute on-use trinket that grants a large amount of Mastery. It lines up perfectly with your major cooldown Arcane Surge. Its high amount of mastery granted upon use makes it the BiS trinket.

Gaze Of The Alnseer – A passive trinket that has a chance to grant Intellect. Second BiS trinket.

The current best performing Embellishments in Midnight for Frost Mage is 2x Arcanoweave Lining, which can be crafted on any armor piece. I highly recommend crafting it on low stat budget pieces, such as Cloak and Wrists.

Alternatively, I would recommend crafting a 2-hander Staff (Aln'hara Cane) early into the season due to the massive number of stats weapons provide.

These Embellishments are BiS for both raid and M+.