Arcane Power

Mage · Arcane · opens at 30 points spent · 1 rank

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

Instant · 3 min cooldown

Arcane Power ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 For the next 15 sec, your spells deal 30% more damage while costing 30% more mana to cast.

What Arcane Power 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 When activated, your spells deal 30% more damage while costing 30% more mana to cast. This effect lasts 15 sec.

Where Arcane Power sits in the Arcane tree

Arcane Power is a Arcane talent for Mage. You need 30 points in Arcane before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Presence of Mind first.

How often people take Arcane Power

39 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 34% — put at least one point in Arcane Power. Counted across the 1500 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.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage