Hey guys, one of my guildies is an arcane mage and their damage is pretty poor. I’ve no clue where to start with Arcane so I’ve no idea how to help them.
Could anyone take a look and see where they can improve?
Warcraft Logs:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/LfR72zjx9Ct3GV6P#fight=13&type=damage-done
Armoury:
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/character/eu/silvermoon/Afrofrostbit
just from a quick look at his logs i can tell that he doesn’t really understand how to play arcane. step one would be to read a guide thoroughly and understand the information:
https://www.mage-hub.com/arcane
after that he has to practice the rotation, so he can actually perform it in raids. HC terros is a boss with basically no disruptive mechanics, and i don’t see a single correctly executed burn on that log.
the next step would be to understand ABC (always be casting) and work on movement. i see strange gaps between abilities everywhere:
https://i.imgur.com/l7gGdAh.png
i also see cancelled casts and movement that makes no sense. he took ice floes instead of shimmer, but only used ice floes three times during the whole fight and opted to cancel casts instead. on his opener burn he cancelled arcane surge!
there are also other issues, but the fundamentals should come first.
^ Prety much what he said.
If you fail your burn rotation, you do no damage as Arcane.
Burst is everything you got, if you mess up the burst, you got nothing left 
(Is this a name-shame post in disguise?)
If they’re learning, probably better off with frost. Secondaries are pretty much the same and a lot more straight forward to play. Play with incanter’s flow instead of rune of power till they are confident.
Arcane takes a lot of target dummy training to get right and the mage chatter is that the cd timings are making it seem better than it is in the raid rn, so it might not be a great time investment at this point.
Cheers for this guys 
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