Welcome to the Mage Heirlooms Guide for Legion. This post will cover all three of the Mage specs, including the optimal enchants. Please keep in mind that heirlooms are designed for leveling, and the choices of which pieces of gear to use as well as which enchants are designed towards leveling rather than raiding. In many cases the choices are the same, but if something seems odd then I’ve likely chosen it for a reason. Feel free to ask if you’re confused or care to offer other comments or suggestions. In the long run, as long as you’re wearing heirlooms with the right primary stats on it, it doesn’t necessarily matter which ones you choose.
| Slot | Item Name | Enchant |
| Helm | Tattered Dreadmist Mask | N/A |
| Neck | Eternal Horizon Choker | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Cloak | Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Shoulder | Tattered Dreadmist Mantle | Greater Crane Wing Inscription |
| Chest | Tattered Dreadmist Robe | Peerless Stats |
| Legs | Tattered Dreadmist Leggings | Greater Cerulean Spellthread |
| Ring 1 | Signet of the Third Fleet | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Ring 2 | Dread Pirate Ring | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Main Hand | Dignified Headmaster’s Charge | Elemental Force |
| Trinket 1 | Discerning Eye of the Beast | N/A |
| Trinket 2 | Discerning Eye of the Beast | N/A |
If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Choices made are based on info from Icy-Veins.com.
| Slot | Item Name | Enchant |
| Helm | Tattered Dreadmist Mask | N/A |
| Neck | Eternal Horizon Choker | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Cloak | Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Shoulder | Tattered Dreadmist Mantle | Greater Crane Wing Inscription |
| Chest | Tattered Dreadmist Robe | Peerless Stats |
| Legs | Tattered Dreadmist Leggings | Greater Cerulean Spellthread |
| Ring 1 | Signet of the Third Fleet | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Ring 2 | Dread Pirate Ring | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Main Hand | Dignified Headmaster’s Charge | Elemental Force |
| Trinket 1 | Discerning Eye of the Beast | N/A |
| Trinket 2 | Discerning Eye of the Beast | N/A |
If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others.If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Choices made are based on info from Icy-Veins.com.
| Slot | Item Name | Enchant |
| Helm | Tattered Dreadmist Mask | N/A |
| Neck | Eternal Horizon Choker | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Cloak | Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Shoulder | Tattered Dreadmist Mantle | Greater Crane Wing Inscription |
| Chest | Tattered Dreadmist Robe | Peerless Stats |
| Legs | Tattered Dreadmist Leggings | Greater Cerulean Spellthread |
| Ring 1 | Signet of the Third Fleet | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Ring 2 | Dread Pirate Ring | Gift of Critical Strike |
| Main Hand | Dignified Headmaster’s Charge | Elemental Force |
| Trinket 1 | Discerning Eye of the Beast | N/A |
| Trinket 2 | Discerning Eye of the Beast | N/A |
If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Stat priorities from Icy-Veins depend on what Tier 7 talent you decide to use, which of course doesn’t matter until you’re level 100. You can see their list here.
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Psynister's Notebook 
Matt Moody
June 29, 2016 at 2:48 PM
I guess I should have checked to see if the Crane Inscription required level 85 before buying it on the AH. I’m an idiot. Will try to get my money back
Psynister
June 30, 2016 at 5:04 PM
It’s a lie. Apply it with a level 85 character and it will work on a level 1 wearing it.
corey
October 15, 2016 at 1:10 PM
same thing happen to me….
motototo
February 3, 2017 at 10:17 PM
i need the rogue one so bad please make it happen
Psynister
February 6, 2017 at 1:41 PM
Ask and ye shall receive, Motototo: https://psynister.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/rogue-heirlooms/
motototo
February 7, 2017 at 3:34 AM
u are a fckin god waiting for other classes too good work bro
saa
February 4, 2017 at 10:26 PM
elemental force is still the best enchant do you think? what about mark of the shattered hand?
Psynister
February 6, 2017 at 12:12 PM
Which enchant is best depends on how you assign value to the enchant. Elemental Force has a proc rate of 10/minute, while Mark of the Shattered Hand procs 2.5/minute. From a pure damage output standpoint, EF will outperform MotSH until the mid 60’s. From there you need to take into account how quickly you’re able to kill your targets, and how quickly you move from one target to the next.
At level 70 you’ll see MotSH start to proc for more damage up front that EF. How quickly are the mobs dying at this point? If you’re killing mobs in less than 6 seconds, then you’re not getting the full benefit of MotSH’s bleed, so you’re wasting damage that it deals, and chances are it’s not going to take you 18 seconds to find another target, and during that 18 second window MotSH can’t proc again. Elemental Force won’t do the same amount of damage in a 6 second period as MotSH, but it deals its damage 4x as often, so it will proc on many more mobs.
From levels 1-60 MotSH is terrible in comparison to EF. Once you get to level 70+ though, MotSH starts to really pull ahead of EF, and the gap widens quickly from there. So you need to take into account what the max level of your heirlooms currently are. If they scale to 60, EF is way better. If they scale to 90 or 100, then it’s up to you; I’d say if you’re an altoholic and will reuse the heirloom I’d go EF, otherwise I’d say go MotSH.
blackbarracude
February 9, 2017 at 1:52 AM
they removed multistrike in legion i think they replaced multistrikes with mastery so should i enchant my frost mage with mastery can you update it?
Psynister
February 9, 2017 at 9:14 AM
No, replace the enchants with Gift of Critical Strike.
blackbarracude
March 3, 2017 at 2:26 PM
I really need to know how can i upgrade my hunter bow heirloom because i cannot enchant it with elemental force please help me
Jason Griffith
March 3, 2017 at 2:43 PM
There’s not much you can do with the bow because the items that do enchant them, that don’t suck, all require a higher level hunter to use. So unless you’re leveling a second hunter, there’s almost nothing you can do.
Engineering scopes are what you’re looking for. Start off with the crappy +1 and +2 damage ones, and then you can use bigger ones as you level up higher. Hunters get screwed on the weapon enchants.
andenge
November 12, 2018 at 9:23 PM
enchanting this item causes it to become soulbound, so no you can get it with a lvl 85 anymore
kat
November 29, 2018 at 4:11 PM
All heirlooms are transferable to any toon on your account. If it says it will be soulbound it will if it isn’t an heirloom.
Brian Boru
February 14, 2019 at 5:38 PM
How the heck do I get a shoulder inscription for my lvl 29 twink, I tried getting my higher level Inscriptionst to put in on a BOA heirloom–It was red when I got it on my twink–says it requires being lvl 58 to use. Are there any Shoulder chants that my twink can use? I see plenty of others with the enhancement and I don’t have any clue how theyre doing it… Thanks
Jason Griffith
February 14, 2019 at 5:40 PM
You do exactly what you just did. It turns red like it doesn’t work, but it still does.
Brian Boru
February 14, 2019 at 5:15 PM
Excellent!!!! I was not sure…..Thanks a ton!
Brianboru
February 16, 2019 at 11:52 PM
Now that you helped me with my shoulder enhancement—question: Is there a leg enhancement I can(get) put on my lvl 29 mage twink, it’s a soulbound piece and my highest level on this account is lvl 60, i’m sure the item will be in red but i’m looking for an upgrade, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated… Thanks
Jason Griffith
February 17, 2019 at 12:08 AM
Yeah, works exactly the same. Just apply it on a high level character and send it over in the mail.
Brian boru
February 17, 2019 at 12:14 AM
If it is already equipped -, can I still have a high level put that on for me?
Jason Griffith
February 17, 2019 at 12:52 AM
Yep