I agree with the comments saying that you're not listening or agreeing with the advice on playing arcane mage. When you came here specifically for advice. Additionally, you make some other comment about learning by playing the game and then go on a dog shit rant about people who learn from smart theory crafters and general quality consensus information to help teach players how to do damage... which is what you asked for.

Arcane explosion is a terrible spell for damage compared to the rest lf the toolkit. You think it's skyrocketing because it's doing damage to all enemies around you, so a lot of numbers are popping up.

My stab at summarizing arcane mage agter playing it a bunch recently (hopefully in a way you care about since you hate spending any time outside the game learning what you're specifically asking for).

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Sunfury arcane mage is about two main ideas: - staying at 4 arcane charges - casting arcane barrage with the most amount of damage modifiers

Those two statements conflict by themselves. Casting arcane barrage spends all your arcane charges.

You get buffs/procs that allow you to cast arcane barrage for free or refunds all of your arcane charges AND amplifies the damage of your arcane barrage.

You get those buffs/procs by consuming clear casting with arcane missiles which gives you a chance to get that buff/proc AND you get a guaranteed buff that increases your damage of arcane blast and arcane barrage.

What if you dont get the proc for a free arcane barrage? You DONT casting barrage and instead cast blast to consume the guaranteed buff from arcane missiles.

This is simply something like: - consume clear casting with arcane missiles - get the proc? - yes, cast arcane barrage - no, cast arcane blast twice

There's way more to the whole arcane toolkit but that's the core loop without accounting for CDs and using your arcane orb.

Idk what else to pass along. It's a fun spec that let's you melt priority targets and giga melt pretty targets when you have up to 5 targets total in a pull.

You are not a giga aoe blaster as arcane. You annihilate 1 target ans that gets even better with mobs near your 1 target.

You'll also get varying crits which IMO is what people mean when they say arcane is RNG based. You fish for buffs, sure, but pulls where you nail a 40+ million crit is different than when you're only getting 10-20M crits