Arcane Shielding

Mage · Arcane · opens at 15 points spent · 2 ranks

Arcane Shielding works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Arcane Shielding ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Decreases the Mana lost per point of damage taken when your Mana Shield spell is active by 17% and increases the resistances granted by your Mage Armor spell by 25%.
  2. Rank 2 Decreases the Mana lost per point of damage taken when your Mana Shield spell is active by 33% and increases the resistances granted by your Mage Armor spell by 50%.

What Arcane Shielding does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

  1. Rank 1 Decreases the mana lost per point of damage taken when Mana Shield is active by 10%.
  2. Rank 2 Decreases the mana lost per point of damage taken when Mana Shield is active by 20%.

Where Arcane Shielding sits in the Arcane tree

Arcane Shielding is a Arcane talent for Mage. You need 15 points in Arcane before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Arcane Shielding

57 of the 109 public Mage builds saved here — 52% — put at least one point in Arcane Shielding. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Arcane Shielding

3 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Arcane Shielding.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893