Mage · DPS
Arcane Mage rotation assistant for World of Warcraft
Burn when the boss is there to burn, conserve when it is not.
Rice Rotations reads your Arcane Mage from the game picture, decides which ability comes next, and presses the key for it from a second PC or a virtual machine. It runs on World of Warcraft Midnight retail and on Mists of Pandaria Classic, and the profile is included in the same subscription as the other thirty-nine specializations.
How the Arcane Mage profile plays
Arcane is a mana and Arcane Charge puzzle. Rice builds charges with Arcane Blast, spends Clearcasting on Arcane Missiles instead of wasting the proc, dumps with Arcane Barrage at the right charge count, and watches mana so the burn phase does not end in an empty bar mid pull.
DPS is about never wasting a global. Rice keeps your builder and spender priority correct through procs and haste changes, lines burst cooldowns up with the window they are meant for, and switches to the multi-target priority when the pull is actually stacked rather than when a timer says so.
The profile reacts to the pull instead of replaying a fixed list: interrupts fire on casts that matter, dispels go out when a debuff lands, and cooldowns are held for the burst window rather than used the moment they come up. Dozens of Arcane Mage settings decide how aggressive or how conservative that behaviour is, so a raid night and a Mythic+ push can use different profiles of the same spec.
Cooldowns and burst windows
Touch of the Magi is opened with the damage ready to pour into it, Arcane Surge is lined up with it, and Evocation is scheduled so the next burn window starts with mana instead of interrupting the fight to refill.
What the Arcane Mage rotation handles
- Arcane Charges built and dumped at the right count
- Clearcasting procs spent, never wasted
- Touch of the Magi and Arcane Surge overlapped
- Counterspell on interrupts, Ice Block and Alter Time on damage
Raid, Mythic+ and the rest
Single target plays the burn and conserve cycle properly, which is the hardest part of Arcane by hand. On packs it moves to Arcane Explosion and Arcane Orb cleave and adjusts the Barrage timing for target count.
Raid nights, Mythic+ keystones, delves, world content and levelling alts. Rice Rotations is built and tuned for PvE, so there are no arena or battleground profiles. The desktop client is Windows only.
Setup and safety
Nothing is attached to the game: there is no injection, no memory reading and no unlocker. Rice runs on a second PC or a virtual machine, reads your gaming PC as a video stream and sends keystrokes back, so the machine running World of Warcraft only ever sees keyboard input arriving.
- Built and tuned for PvE. No arena or battleground profiles.
- Midnight retail is supported.
- Classic is Mists of Pandaria only, so no Era, no Wrath, no other ruleset.
Arcane Mage questions
- Does it manage mana?
- Yes. Burn and conserve phases and Evocation timing are handled, which is the part that separates a good Arcane player from a dry mana bar.
- Does it waste Clearcasting?
- Procs are consumed as part of the priority, so they are not overwritten while you are watching the boss timer instead of your buffs.
Other Mage specializations
Browse every supported specialization or see what is included per spec.