--- title: "Retail Mage Talents – WoWCensus" description: "Mage talent picks observed in Retail nearby-player inspections, ranked by popularity within each spec." url: "https://wowcensus.io/retail/mage/" --- # Retail Mage Talents – WoWCensus [Paladin](/retail/paladin/)[Warrior](/retail/warrior/)[Druid](/retail/druid/)[Hunter](/retail/hunter/)[Shaman](/retail/shaman/)[Priest](/retail/priest/)[Rogue](/retail/rogue/)[Mage](/retail/mage/)[Warlock](/retail/warlock/)[Death Knight](/retail/death-knight/)[Monk](/retail/monk/)[Demon Hunter](/retail/demon-hunter/)[Evoker](/retail/evoker/) ## Mage talents Among Mages we've inspected, **Arcane** (59%) is the most common build, followed by **Frost** (31%) and **Fire** (10%). **167**Mages with known specs ## Spec split **Arcane** 99 · 59%**Fire** 16 · 10%**Frost** 52 · 31% #### Arcane **99**59% 1. 1**Alter Time****100%** 2. 2**Amplification****100%** 3. 3**Arcane Missiles****100%** 4. 4**Arcane Orb****100%** 5. 5**Arcane Salvo****100%** 6. 6**Arcane Singularity****100%** 7. 7**Arcane Surge****100%** 8. 8**Arcane Warding****100%** 9. 9**Arcing Cleave****100%** 10. 10**Charm of Aegwynn****100%** 11. 11**Charm of Medivh****100%** 12. 12**Concentrated Power****100%** 13. 13**Focusing Crystal****100%** 14. 14**Ice Block****100%** 15. 15**Improved Clearcasting****100%** 16. 16**Inspired Intellect****100%** 17. 17**Overflowing Energy****100%** 18. 18**Prismatic Barrier****100%** 19. 19**Prodigious Savant****100%** 20. 20**Refractive Images****100%** 21. 21**Shimmer****100%** 22. 22**Slipstream****100%** 23. 23**Spatial Manipulation****100%** 24. 24**Tome of Rhonin****100%** 25. 25**Brainstorm****99%** 26. 26**Eureka****99%** 27. 27**Greater Invisibility****99%** 28. 28**Improved Prismatic Barrier****99%** 29. 29**Intuition****99%** 30. 30**Mirror Image****99%** 31. 31**Spellfire Spheres****99%** 32. 32**Spellslinger****99%** 33. 33**Splintering Sorcery****99%** 34. 34**Tome of Antonidas****99%** 35. 35**Winter's Protection****99%** 36. 36**Aegwynn's Technique****98%** 37. 37**Expanded Mind****98%** 38. 38**Flow of Time****98%** 39. 39**Overpowered Missiles****98%** 40. 40**Quick Witted****98%** 41. 41**Time Walk****98%** 42. 42**Touch of the Magi****98%** 43. 43**High Voltage****97%** 44. 44**Energized Barriers****96%** 45. 45**Improved Warding****96%** 46. 46**Permafrost Bauble****96%** 47. 47**Prismatic Bolt****96%** 48. 48**Arcane Tempo****95%** 49. 49**Burden of Power****94%** 50. 50**Charged Orb****94%** 51. 51**Codex of the Sunstriders****94%** 52. 52**Invocation: Arcane Phoenix****94%** 53. 53**Mana Cascade****94%** 54. 54**Ashes of Inspiration****93%** 55. 55**Barrier Diffusion****93%** 56. 56**Enlightened****93%** 57. 57**Memory of Al'ar****93%** 58. 58**Merely a Setback****93%** 59. 59**Orb Barrage****93%** 60. 60**Resonance****93%** 61. 61**Savor the Moment****93%** 62. 62**Aether Attunement****92%** 63. 63**Glorious Incandescence****92%** 64. 64**Lessons in Debilitation****91%** 65. 65**Pyrocosm****91%** 66. 66**Spellfire Salvo****91%** 67. 67**Ice Cold****90%** 68. 68**Rondurmancy****90%** 69. 69**Consortium's Bauble****88%** 70. 70**Improved Conjuration****84%** 71. 71**Master of Time****84%** 72. 72**Supernova****81%** 73. 73**Remove Curse****76%** 74. 74**Spellsteal****63%** 75. 75**Captured Thoughts****59%** 76. 76**Master of Escape****59%** 77. 77**Mana Confluence****49%** 78. 78**Incantation of Swiftness****33%** 79. 79**Augury Abounds****20%** 80. 80**Reactive Barrier****20%** 81. 81**Slippery Slinging****20%** 82. 82**Spellfrost Teachings****20%** 83. 83**Splintering Orbs****20%** 84. 84**Controlled Instincts****19%** 85. 85**Force of Will****19%** 86. 86**Signature Spell****19%** 87. 87**Splinterstorm****19%** 88. 88**Archmage's Wrath****18%** 89. 89**Improved Counterspell****18%** 90. 90**Arcane Familiar****17%** 91. 91**Attuned Familiar****16%** 92. 92**Impetus****15%** 93. 93**Infused Splinters****15%** 94. 94**Polished Focus****13%** 95. 95**Freezing Cold****11%** 96. 96**Mass Invisibility****11%** 97. 97**Energized Familiar****10%** 98. 98**Improved Frost Nova****10%** 99. 99**Mana Bomb****10%** 100. 100**Illuminated Thoughts****9%** 101. 101**Mana Adept****9%** 102. 102**Time Manipulation****8%** 103. 103**Arcane Pulse****4%** 104. 104**Frost Conditioning****4%** 105. 105**Orb Mastery****4%** 106. 106**Improved Spellsteal****3%** 107. 107**Mass Polymorph****2%** 108. 108**Overflowing Insight****2%** 109. 109**Improved Remove Curse****1%** 110. 110**Reverberate****1%** Median level 90 #### Fire **16**10% 1. 1**Blazing Barrier****100%** 2. 2**Alter Time****94%** 3. 3**Flamestrike****94%** 4. 4**Ice Block****94%** 5. 5**Pyroblast****94%** 6. 6**Combustion****88%** 7. 7**Fire Blast****88%** 8. 8**Fuel the Fire****88%** 9. 9**Inspired Intellect****88%** 10. 10**Winter's Protection****88%** 11. 11**Fervent Flickering****81%** 12. 12**Ignition****81%** 13. 13**Meteor****81%** 14. 14**Mirror Image****81%** 15. 15**Overflowing Energy****81%** 16. 16**Scald****81%** 17. 17**Supernova****81%** 18. 18**Arcane Warding****75%** 19. 19**Flame On****75%** 20. 20**Greater Invisibility****75%** 21. 21**Improved Blink****75%** 22. 22**Tome of Antonidas****75%** 23. 23**Tome of Rhonin****75%** 24. 24**Blast Zone****69%** 25. 25**Brainstorm****69%** 26. 26**Cauterize****69%** 27. 27**Charm of Aegwynn****69%** 28. 28**Charm of Medivh****69%** 29. 29**Deep Impact****69%** 30. 30**Energized Barriers****69%** 31. 31**Fevered Incantation****69%** 32. 32**Flow of Time****69%** 33. 33**Improved Blazing Barrier****69%** 34. 34**Molten Fury****69%** 35. 35**Mote of Flame****69%** 36. 36**Quick Witted****69%** 37. 37**Temporal Realignment****69%** 38. 38**Frostfire****63%** 39. 39**Frostfire Bolt****63%** 40. 40**Master of Time****63%** 41. 41**Slow Burn****63%** 42. 42**Spatial Manipulation****63%** 43. 43**Spellfire Spheres****63%** 44. 44**Barrier Diffusion****56%** 45. 45**Captured Thoughts****56%** 46. 46**Fiery Rush****56%** 47. 47**Fired Up****56%** 48. 48**Inflame****56%** 49. 49**Kindling****56%** 50. 50**Permafrost Bauble****56%** 51. 51**Remove Curse****56%** 52. 52**Scorch****56%** 53. 53**From the Ashes****50%** 54. 54**Master of Escape****50%** 55. 55**Ashes of Inspiration****44%** 56. 56**Burden of Power****44%** 57. 57**Codex of the Sunstriders****44%** 58. 58**Controlled Destruction****44%** 59. 59**Explosive Potential****44%** 60. 60**Feel the Burn****44%** 61. 61**Firestarter****44%** 62. 62**Improved Conjuration****44%** 63. 63**Incantation of Swiftness****44%** 64. 64**Invocation: Arcane Phoenix****44%** 65. 65**Mana Cascade****44%** 66. 66**Memory of Al'ar****44%** 67. 67**Merely a Setback****44%** 68. 68**Rondurmancy****44%** 69. 69**Sunfury Execution****44%** 70. 70**Conflagration****38%** 71. 71**Critical Mass****38%** 72. 72**Fire's Ire****38%** 73. 73**Flame Accelerant****38%** 74. 74**Frost Conditioning****38%** 75. 75**Glorious Incandescence****38%** 76. 76**Heat Shimmer****38%** 77. 77**Ice Cold****38%** 78. 78**Ice Nova****38%** 79. 79**Intensifying Flame****38%** 80. 80**Pyrocosm****38%** 81. 81**Spellfire Salvo****38%** 82. 82**Spellsteal****38%** 83. 83**Spontaneous Combustion****38%** 84. 84**Blast Radius****31%** 85. 85**Dualcasting Adept****31%** 86. 86**Duality****31%** 87. 87**Elemental Affinity****31%** 88. 88**Flash Freezeburn****31%** 89. 89**Frostfire Empowerment****31%** 90. 90**Frostfire Infusion****31%** 91. 91**Heat Sink****31%** 92. 92**Ice Ward****31%** 93. 93**Imbued Warding****31%** 94. 94**Isothermic Core****31%** 95. 95**Pyroclasm****31%** 96. 96**Thermal Conditioning****31%** 97. 97**Wildfire****31%** 98. 98**Cinderstorm****25%** 99. 99**Elemental Conduit****25%** 100. 100**Improved Counterspell****25%** 101. 101**Mana Confluence****25%** 102. 102**Mass Polymorph****25%** 103. 103**Molten Chill****25%** 104. 104**Pyromaniac****25%** 105. 105**Burnout****19%** 106. 106**Improved Warding****19%** 107. 107**Master of Flame****19%** 108. 108**Time Manipulation****13%** 109. 109**Improved Spellsteal****6%** 110. 110**Mass Invisibility****6%** Median level 90 #### Frost **52**31% 1. 1**Ice Barrier****100%** 2. 2**Alter Time****98%** 3. 3**Blizzard****98%** 4. 4**Fingers of Frost****98%** 5. 5**Frostbite****98%** 6. 6**Frozen Orb****98%** 7. 7**Glacial Bulwark****98%** 8. 8**Ice Block****98%** 9. 9**Ice Lance****98%** 10. 10**Icicles****98%** 11. 11**Inspired Intellect****98%** 12. 12**Winter's Protection****98%** 13. 13**Arcane Warding****96%** 14. 14**Charm of Aegwynn****96%** 15. 15**Charm of Medivh****96%** 16. 16**Flow of Time****96%** 17. 17**Flurry****96%** 18. 18**Glacial Attunement****96%** 19. 19**Greater Invisibility****96%** 20. 20**Improved Shatter****96%** 21. 21**Remove Curse****96%** 22. 22**Time Walk****96%** 23. 23**Tome of Rhonin****96%** 24. 24**Brain Freeze****94%** 25. 25**Frostfire****94%** 26. 26**Frostfire Bolt****94%** 27. 27**Lonely Winter****94%** 28. 28**Ray of Frost****94%** 29. 29**Shimmer****94%** 30. 30**Spatial Manipulation****94%** 31. 31**Splintering Sorcery****94%** 32. 32**Tome of Antonidas****94%** 33. 33**Winter's Blessing****94%** 34. 34**Improved Ice Barrier****92%** 35. 35**Brainstorm****90%** 36. 36**Master of Time****90%** 37. 37**Overflowing Energy****90%** 38. 38**Quick Witted****90%** 39. 39**Energized Barriers****88%** 40. 40**Permafrost Lances****88%** 41. 41**Splitting Ice****87%** 42. 42**Wintertide****87%** 43. 43**Barrier Diffusion****85%** 44. 44**Everlasting Frost****85%** 45. 45**Flash Freeze****85%** 46. 46**Fractured Frost****85%** 47. 47**Frigid Focus****85%** 48. 48**Permafrost Bauble****85%** 49. 49**Deep Shatter****83%** 50. 50**Hand of Frost****83%** 51. 51**Heart of Ice****83%** 52. 52**Master of Escape****83%** 53. 53**Improved Flurry****81%** 54. 54**Mirror Image****81%** 55. 55**Glacial Assault****77%** 56. 56**Glaciate****77%** 57. 57**Ice Cold****75%** 58. 58**Thermal Void****71%** 59. 59**Frozen Touch****69%** 60. 60**Augury Abounds****65%** 61. 61**Force of Will****65%** 62. 62**Controlled Instincts****63%** 63. 63**Incantation of Swiftness****63%** 64. 64**Infused Splinters****63%** 65. 65**Shifting Shards****63%** 66. 66**Splintering Orbs****63%** 67. 67**Polished Focus****62%** 68. 68**Reactive Barrier****62%** 69. 69**Signature Spell****62%** 70. 70**Spellfrost Teachings****62%** 71. 71**Splinterstorm****62%** 72. 72**Supernova****62%** 73. 73**Rimecaster****60%** 74. 74**Slippery Slinging****60%** 75. 75**Archmage's Wrath****58%** 76. 76**Spellsteal****54%** 77. 77**Crystalline Refraction****50%** 78. 78**Improved Counterspell****48%** 79. 79**Freezing Rain****44%** 80. 80**Frost Conditioning****42%** 81. 81**Improved Warding****42%** 82. 82**Time Manipulation****42%** 83. 83**Piercing Cold****40%** 84. 84**Ice Nova****38%** 85. 85**Frostfire Empowerment****37%** 86. 86**Glacial Shatter****37%** 87. 87**Blast Radius****35%** 88. 88**Comet Storm****35%** 89. 89**Dualcasting Adept****35%** 90. 90**Duality****35%** 91. 91**Elemental Affinity****35%** 92. 92**Flash Freezeburn****35%** 93. 93**Frostfire Infusion****35%** 94. 94**Heat Sink****35%** 95. 95**Imbued Warding****35%** 96. 96**Isothermic Core****35%** 97. 97**Severe Temperatures****35%** 98. 98**Captured Thoughts****33%** 99. 99**Hailstones****33%** 100. 100**Elemental Conduit****31%** 101. 101**Molten Chill****31%** 102. 102**Mass Invisibility****17%** 103. 103**Mass Polymorph****17%** 104. 104**Ice Ward****15%** 105. 105**Mana Confluence****13%** 106. 106**Improved Conjuration****12%** 107. 107**Improved Remove Curse****6%** 108. 108**Improved Spellsteal****6%** 109. 109**Cone of Frost****4%** 110. 110**Freezing Winds****4%** Median level 90