Arcane Shielding ranks in Forever
- 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%.
- Rank 2 Decreases the Mana lost per point of damage taken when your Mana Shield spell is active by 34% and increases the resistances granted by your Mage Armor spell by 50%.
Rank 1 from footage. Ranks 2+ were still Classic text; rewritten from rank 1 with linear scaling. Rank 2+ values not yet seen on camera.
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. In Classic Era it is called Improved Mana Shield.
- Rank 1 Decreases the mana lost per point of damage taken when Mana Shield is active by 10%.
- 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.
- Same row: Improved Counterspell, Arcane Meditation, Missile Barrage
How often people take Arcane Shielding
13 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 11% — put at least one point in Arcane Shielding. 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
- Rank 1 from existing Forever footage overlay; later ranks were Classic leftovers and were scaled from rank 1 (linear, same method as Savage Strikes)