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Comment by althras

This remains one of the best mage robes for a very long time, even for raiders. Spending the money involved (essences ouch) is completely worth it - you won't replace it for quite a while.

Comment by 4644

I suggest any mage that is serious about raiding should get this robe. The mana clicky is invaluable and is on its own cooldown and these robes are the best thing till Enigma from C'thun.

I made at lvl 59 and am still using them. It only lacks stam, but get the ZG robes and switch them out when your called to aoe constantly.

Mats are heavy but if you grind elementals to level to 60 you will have your mats in no time.

Comment by 362

The mana regen, if used at every chance possible, is equal to about 8 mana / 5 sec.

Comment by 8403

These robes are fantastic! High +damage, 2% chance to crit, and a click function for an extra mana burst. Paired with the Fire Ruby, a Conjured Mana Ruby, and a Major Mana Potion, you can nearly fill your mana bar (roughly 1/2 - 3/4 on a UBRS geared mage).

Comment by TheUz

These robes were worth every copper piece until patch 2.0.1 came out and Honor became a currency.

The robes have dropped in price significantly over the last few months since the reagents have become less valuable. However, the PvP Epic gear is a better overall choice.

Warlord's Satin Robes: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=17624

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Warlord's Satin Robes
Binds when picked up
Unique
Chest Cloth
199 Armor
+30 Stamina
+28 Intellect
Durability 100 / 100
Classes: Priest
Requires Level 60
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 33.
Equip: Restores 4 mana per 5 sec.
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Comment by 40220

At level 62 I spent 5g on the pattern for this, plus two days farming essences. It wasn't an improvement over the Shadowcast Tunic (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31717), but it's a robe, where all the early-to-mid 60s pieces with decent stats are ugly tunics, apparently designed with malice to clash with every single other piece given as a quest reward. (On a female BE, the blue/purple/green/chartreuse/lavender pants set is particularly outrageous, especially when your guild tabard is red.)

I slapped a +15 spirit enchant on it and am still wearing it for PvE at 65, though I do still keep a +STA chest around for PvP. The mana clicky has saved my ass more than once, being just enough for another blink or slow or frost nova or mana shield cast.

Definitely not worth the effort for most, when you can easily run an instance or two for a comparable or better piece, but you're definitely not going to look like anyone else wearing this and the stats are still decent post-BC.

Comment by 48516

It's a smart choice to make it and level to 70 with it because of the instant mana gain. those essences are now really cheap bout 50s each so it will cost approximately 20g to get them +10 for the pattern +10 for the cloth and thread = approximately 40-50g which is really cheap for this epic robe.
if you do PvP on 59 it's also a great choice cause of the level 57 requirement.

Comment by scampor

For some reason this sells for 100g+ on my server... I haven't seen anyone buying it as of yet, however.

Comment by 111622

Goldweave Tunic is better. Easier to get too.

Comment by Thottbot

For a fight of 10 + minutes
you can use this robe 3 times

if average mana gained = 450
total mana gained =450*3=1350

as
1 int = 15 mana

this means 90 int

And u can still use health stone after 2 minutes

cant think of any robe better for MC

Comment by Thottbot

People,
A) its a mage specific, which makes it useless to priests and locks
B)If you roll on it AND YOU ARE NOT A MAGE TAILOR, all your doing is screwing over the mage in your group. You may make 500+ gold selling on AH, but it would make you a horrible person. If you do do this, I will create an alt on your server, opposite faction, get to lvl 60, and spawn camp you n00b body

Comment by Thottbot

About some comments up there...

This item is only useable for mages..
And what you maybe never noticed: It's BoP!

So it would be ninjalooting if a ex.: Warlock tailor would need roll at the same time as there is a Mage tailor in the group too..

That would be pretty much ridicioulus!, Because.
Why do a Warlock need the pattern if it's BoP which means he cannot sell it + He cannot equip it either..

So what is he gonna do with it? Farm/Buy all the mats and disenchant it?

ZOMG!
/Fraesarn, 60 Gnome Mage
Lightning's Blade PvP(EU Realm)

Comment by Thottbot

Hi guys
This is what i did to get the mats for the robe:

Beeing a firemage i had already adecent damage output (with some +firedmg gear, i'd say about +120).
I first tried to farm water essences in northern fellwood, but it went very slow.

Then I realized that the tar monsters in northern Un'Goro are vulnerable to fire (almost every firespell hits with a +20% vulnerability bonus). I could slice trough them in no time :)
The best part is, they drop Living Essence. On my server its worth up to 10g.

So I just farmed for these living essences and sold them all. And i just bought almost all the essences for the robe by myself (yeah... a few dropped for me while questing).

So my advice: If your a firemage, man, go farm these tar monsters... easyest thing in the world! (if your a bit lucky, > 50g/hr).

PS: This robe indeed kicks ass and is definately worth all the effort!

Comment by Thottbot

The mana effect no longer shares a cooldown with items and as our mana gems now do share cooldown with other items that makes this a valuable source of extra mana.

Even though there are now some other nice robes in AQ20 and elsewhere this is still great.

Comment by Thottbot

Decided to get the materials the hard way instead of buying mats (hey I bought the plans).

Essence of Fire - Un'Goro Crater. Probably the slowest accumulation as you usually have to fight them one-on-one. Scorchers don't chase you into melee while the Living Blazes do. If you can find a bunch of Living Blazes then sure you can take on several at a time. Also alot of competition here as it's a well traveled location.

Essence of Air - Silithus, North West side. Ride around and you can see these guys make nice like 4 point squares. Easy to ride this square pattern and pull 4 at a time sometimes 5 or 6.

Essence of Earth - once you are comfortable with the Air Elementals, you can move on to these. They are next to the Air Elementals. They hit harder, but you've had the practice.

Essence of Water - doesn't require combat as long as you have 300 fishing and bright baubles! By far the quickest to obtain. Thank god because doing the discordant bracer quest for Hydraxis noticed "Frostbolt Immune Immune etc" had to resort to AM and fire spells *gasp*

http://home.earthlink.net/~thalen/wow/elemental.htm Just fish the patches in Azshara and you'll get about one Essence of Water per pool spawn. Do yourself a favor and get the quest from Duke Hydraxis in Azshara before going to Silithus and you can kill 2 birds with one Solid Stone ;p

PS: Hope you haven't forgotten you can make an Azure Silk Belt

Comment by Allakhazam

This is very nice for a crafted epic item.. I wouldn't expect it to be better than epic robes from the raid zones MC / BWL. Although it seems to have a better dmg increase than either alanna's, netherwind, or arcanist robes. +all stats or +100 to mana or hp would be required for this robe.

Comment by Allakhazam

This robe is fantastic, especially for new/non-frequent raiders. If your going for maxing out spell damage, this is the best robe to get. A lot of frost mages on my server like to argue that they would much prefer the (name escapes me at the moment) robes from scholo with the +43 frost damage, but for raiding, the 15 stamina doesn't matter, you want the int and the mana restorying ability to lessen downtime. Less time you take drinking, faster you clear mobs/bosses. Faster loot, and more time in the day to go do other things, like pvp or w/e. Besides, what do you need stamina for frost mages . . .ice barrier/ice block ftw. The mana restoring ability is premium too. Granted thats only 375-675 mana, but thats on top of the 800+ mana you get from citrine and the 1100+ mana you get from the ruby, AND your evocate ..and finally a potion if all else fails. Mages should never run out of mana, even on a boss fight. All these mana restoring abilities ALLOW you to skimp a bit on intel gear and go hardcore dps gear. I just leveled my mage to 60 about 2 months ago (hunters are boring.) And have tested a lot of gear options and theories. In the end, mages are a DPS class . .so you know .. . . you should gear to do more DAMAGE. The "best" geared mage in our guild (I say best, but mean "has more raid epics than the other mages) still cannot out-dps me in MC. And I'm going in there with all blue spell damage gear, with the exception of the mana igniting cord and the robes of the archmage. Fully buffed i have around 6400 mana in dps gear, and I never run out of mana unless maybe a pally doesn't cleanse me in the geddon fight. So argue all you want, but ROTA is the best chestpiece to shoot for until you get your netherwind.

Comment by Allakhazam

The damage bonus is applied universally. I've noticed somewhat of an increase in damage by my spells, especially during critical hits. I've broken 800 damage on several occasions when my old record was in the mid 700 range

+1% critical spell chance is always a plus

The +mana has a 5 minute cooldown, but it does not trigger the cooldown on any other items. So, you could use a mana ruby, mana potion, and the robe function, and get a good amount of mana back. Besides, anything helps.

As for the drop, don't worry if people try to ninja loot it if it drops. The pattern can only be picked up by a Mage with 300 tailoring skill.

Comment by Allakhazam

That's the worst gnome I've ever seen.

That robe is awesome, my alt mage is wearing it atm.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have been farming for this for quite a while now. I really want it but it costs like 300g on stormscale. The essences will be a pain to get tought ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

Thx to my fellow Total Madness Guildies on bloodscalp, I got the robe in 2 days :D

I only needed to farm the air essence and the rest was taken care of :D

On Topic: Just Awesome imo ^^ (my first epic!)

Comment by Allakhazam

I mean, compared to the Magisters Robe, it seems to lack some stats imho. Ok so it does extra damage, thats nice, and it has a 1% crit increase. The mana it gives you is neglible. But how much +int would also give you a +1% crit chance? The Magister has +31 int for increased crit and mana, plus +8 spi and +9 sta to boot. This one sure feels like a lot of work to get. Need to be a tailor and the ingredients will take some time to get too, not to mention the pattern itself. The only thing I can say is that it looks good though. :)

Comment by Allakhazam

farm the air's in silithus from dust stormers, 2% drop chance and *!@#loads of them

Comment by Allakhazam

I looted the pattern a couple days ago and made my robe yesterday.

Yes, the robe is still BoP while the pattern is tradable. (And the robe is "Class: Mage")

And I am a skill 300 tailor mage when I looted the pattern from one of the Pyromancers.

Edited, Tue May 10 05:47:50 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

made mine the other day.. mats are a pain in the @$$ .. i think it cost me about 500g total =( but awesome robe.. loving it =)

Comment by Allakhazam

lol dude non raiders ..... i have arcanist robe, arcanist bracers, arcanist mantle, and arcanist belt, and i rarely use them + i have zandalar robe mantle and bracers + i have robe of volatil power , and my guild is in bwl and i still prefer robe of the archmage because its mana regen is above all others + 2 zandalar set shoulders and bracers makes me have arround +484 dmg if i use arcanist 3 pieces i loose tons of dmg even using zandalar as chest or if i use zandalar chest and arcanist shoulders and zandalar bracers i dont loose mutch dmg but i have 230 or arround that more mana and that is a frostbolt lol...only diference is stamina but for pve i dont need stamina that mutch

Comment by Allakhazam

It takes about 1 hour in each place to get the mats for this.

Felwood for water elementals
Un'Goro Crater for Fire
Silithus for Air and earth same general area too.

Recipe cost me 50g, worth it IMO seeing as I plan to pvp alot at 59 before levling on. I'll get my stamina from BC greens.

Comment by Allakhazam

does anyone have a screen shot of it?

Comment by Allakhazam

The bonus is given to damage and healing spell and *effects*, and includes *any* item you can have (trinket, ring, necklace etc) that you can use to heal yourself or cause damage.
So if I have a ring that will heal me for 600hp when used, this is considered a magical effect and I would get 640 with the bonus given by the robe.
I believe, for example, u would get the +40 when using a lifestone:
Lifestone yes this is a mage only robe and the bonus to healing can be useful as well.

Edited, Sat Apr 23 17:55:17 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

I wear this robe, got it 50% off normal AH price for the pattern and guildies/friends helped me farm for mats, I love this robe, it beats the %^&* out of any robe, - netherwind and new AQ robe ofc =) And: Freezing Lich Robes: Only for fire mages, and Robe of Winter Night: 1% crit ant the use: effect really rox. It have a 5 min CD, so in a long MC fight, u get to use it one-three times, along with the mana ruby and citrine. This robe beast the crap out of Arcanist robe, unless you have several arcanist pieces and get some set bonus, then I'd preffer arcanist.

Comment by Allakhazam

You could farm these mats in one day if you got lucky, 2 days eaily. ALl mats are farmable and you dont need a group to farm them.

Comment by Allakhazam

if you would rather have mooncloth robe over this, you are on some very bad drugs /reroll kid. the only robe better than this is Netherwind robes

Comment by Allakhazam

Compare this robe to Alanna's Embrace, Arcanist Robe, and Netherwind Robe. Seen in that light it's very unimpressive simply because it has almost nothing in the way of stats.

IMHO: Blizzard should get rid of the near-worthless On Use (it gives about as much mana as a regular Mana Potion, that's right, the level 20ish kind) and bump this baby up to +15 int/+15 sta. THAT would be an Epic robe.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have yet to see anywhere on the recipe or the item itself where it says this is a class specific item. Can anyone show me where they found that information? I am a crit build warlock and would love to have this.

Comment by Allakhazam

I am not sure if they changed it, but when I got my pattern, it was BoP, and a pallie rolled the pattern Raid goes WTF? He says, "Ima tailer noobz" and we all screamed at him.

Well, I won the roll, but before I got the mats together, I got the RoVP from MC. This was about 6 months ago.

I am now back to farming mats for this again. RoVP is alot better for PvP, but this robe is better for PvE imo. Less crit in raids = less death.

Comment by Allakhazam

Okay alot of mages will disagree with me on this, but I can't understand why you would spend money on this robe, or the pattern. I have mooncloth robes, and have had the chance to buy this robe/pattern several times. I would never wear it because I think it's just garbage. Okay we have 12 intellect/1% to crits/Up to 40 damage/Restores 375-625 mana. Hmm.... let me think. Well you lose 13 intellect/12 Spirit/12 Stamina for 1% crits/Up to 40 damage/ and 375-625 mana. I dont think the trade off is worth it. Okay the 1% crits does'nt mean jack unless you have a good amount of intellect from other items, and your other gear gives crits as well. The up to 40 damage does'nt translate out to be anything significant either. The 375-625 mana just makes me laugh considering you could only cast one more spell after you use it. I will take back what I said about the pattern though. I would actually buy it if I got a good deal, and farm the mats. Because a sucker is born every minute, and alot of suckers have bought this garbage. If blizzard wanted to make this robe/pattern worth getting they would change the stats to 10 intellect/10 stamina/8 spirit. They should keep the 1% to crits because it's epic. The spell damage could be dropped to "up to 30", and get rid of that retarded 375-625mana ability. Of course this is just my opinion.

Comment by Allakhazam

This Robe is absolutely awesome. I have Netherwind and Zandalar Robe and i wear Archmage in every PvE fight where stamina isn't necessary.
In fact, with 1% crit and 40 dmg which is with my stuff about 56 dmg, it is equivalent to Enigma Robe or Robe of Volatil Power ( but it is much more easy to get especially when you don't do MC anylonger ) but the regen mana given is better.
About the stats, for a 5 min fight, the T2 Robe will give you 14 intel and 8 spirit so 210 mana + 135 mana ( regen 45% if you have Meditation ) + 120 mana if you use evocation so it is 465 mana while Archmage is 500 and Archmage give a higher dps boost.
For a fight which is longer then 5 min, the Archmage mana tick can be used 2 and sometimes 3 times so the difference with T2 Robe is more and more important.

Edited, Nov 18th 2006 at 5:29am PST by Ragaklogg

Comment by Allakhazam

How can people not think this is mage only. It says right on the recipe Class: Mage. That means only mages can wear it.

If you say Robes of Volatile Power I'll say good luck getting it. Our guild has done MC numerous times. I haven't seen it yet. However with a little money you can have this robe in a few days. This robe also does a lot more damage than RoVP. With 12 Int built in and 100 Health added you have a robe with 12Int, 10STa, +40 dmg, 1% Crit, and the mana you get from using it. Imo that makes it one helluva nice robe.

As for Magisters I would only use it for doing AOE farming for the extra intellect and depending on your other gear that might not even be necessary. You don't really need the extra stamina and if you haven't tried damage gear before you have no idea what a difference +40 dmg makes on single targets.

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone know what lvl it is to make one?

Comment by Allakhazam

Its not mage only... what could -possibly- give you that impression... its +to healing spells....

Seriously... now if your mage can heal, I want it on my raids.

Oh and no, you dont need 300 tailoring to drop... have some of you people even -played- the game?

Comment by Allakhazam

this robe is excellent just wished it looked better

Comment by Allakhazam

Nice math calculations nice people telling about dices (it's an online game with graph not a txt/dice game but nice way to put an example) and nice people telling how much they love this robe .
I will not disagree with noone , just one thing :
Even tho u use +spelldmg or +int +stam the result is the same . Now what do i mean :
A +spelldmg means that u gonna kill ur mob faster using less int and less stamina cause it will hit you less times ,
A +int and +stam robe means that u gonna kill your mob slower using more intelect and more stamina cause u gonna need more shots and it's gonna hit you more times .
At the end the result is the same , the mob is dead and the only think that change is the time tha you have spent to kill it :) .
So in finall coclusion , +spelldmg is for people that they are anxius and they don't have much time (agro type :P ) and +int and +stam is for people that they have all the time in the world and they r prity much on they world :P .
I am an anxius type sto thank you blizzard for putting that expansion FINALY and now we have CRAZY +spelldmg robes :)

Kisses to all of the wow lovers :D

Comment by Allakhazam

It's good, but I was expecting more. Perhaps I'm just expecting too much of epic items.

But I was really expecting something gasp-worthy. Ahh, well ...

Comment by Allakhazam

So now there is a belt as well. I don't think this chest piece is mage only.

Comment by Allakhazam

Is this still bop? i've heard from different places that it is no longer bop but others still say otherwise, i was wondering if anyone could comfim which one it is

Comment by Allakhazam

So I am still farming the Airs for this robe, but I wanted to get your thoughts on the usefulness of this robe for an Arc build instance mage. I don't care about damage (approx. 8 DPS extra when casting AM), I really don't care about crit (I mean, come on, one out of 100 AM missiles is going to crit for an extra hundred damage? big whoop, an extra 1 DPS over the long term) and all I really want to do is stay in a fight as long as possible. So, given that you're in a fight with Onyxia, and you plan to be fighting for upwards of 20 minutes, would this robe still trump Magister's or, more to the point, Mooncloth Robe, since Onyxia has that nice AOE blast, and having stam is a plus. The extra mana every five minutes would be alright, I suppose, and almost necessary for a sustained fight like that, but is it prudent to completely disavow stam on your equipment in favor of this?

Edit: It really is a sweet looking robe, though.

Edited, Fri Jul 8 12:02:45 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

Edited, Thu Dec 29 13:52:17 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

The robe is MAGE ONLY.

IT says so in the description.

Comment by Allakhazam

I think +35 to damage and healing is huge (since you will most likely be stacking every other piece of equipment with +damage items).
+12int is nice. The mana restoration aint bad. Put them all on one piece of equipment and its an epic piece.

Mal

Comment by Allakhazam

We had this drop last night in lbrs off the pyromancer.

Nice robe, glad we got it. And yes, it is mage only. Regardless that it adds +healing, as the post a couple above states, it is a generic buff. Not specific to that robe.

Comment by Allakhazam

Robe of the Archmage is the best robe until Netherwind or ...
Zandalar Illusionist's Robe what i use, but i have robe of the archmage too. (I'm exalted with ZG, so the neck + robe = +13 dmg and better stats is the only reason i use the ZG robe)

Comment by Allakhazam

this is ridicilous. i would clearly prefer

Nightsky Armor these crappy robes. First off, thats +8stam which would keep alive way more than those stupid robes of an archmage, plus the graphicz of those robes suck! Also the +40 damage, even though it may be the highest in the game,is overrated, not to mention that 1%crit is completely useless i mean say you roll a die 100 times, thats only 1 time that you would crit with the die. ALSO the robes of uberness i linked have +8 spirit which is enough to gain about 4 more mana a minute, thats like 80 more mana in a long fight! OMG

Comment by Allakhazam

wear it for 1% crit on spells rather than stats

Comment by Allakhazam

Didn't really have much trouble getting this.
I had just read about the robe on thottbot after I saw a mage on my server wearing it, and decided to give it a go. Went to LBRS with a random group, asked if we could kill the pyromancers, downed them, and yay there's the pattern. For some odd reason all of them passed(no ninjas, wtf!), I got the pattern and farmed two-three days and had the robe. Bought the earth essences off AH for approx. 4-5g each, farmed air in silithus and water in felwood, and finally got the 10 essences of fire from the guildbank. Not too much work for the robe with the most +dmg ingame imo. And to clear some of the speculations going on, yes the pattern drops from pyromancer's, and no the pattern is not BOP, it's perfectly ninjable, and I've seen it twice on the AH.

Comment by Allakhazam

...o-O

It's been a year and a half, and I still use this.

Looks like I got two wait for the expansion to replace it completely.

Comment by Allakhazam

lol look how much stuff in needs 12 bolts of runecloth 10 essence of fire water air and earth and 2 rune thread thats crazy

Comment by Allakhazam

take away the gnome please ;_;
nice robe though. looks a bit, blue..

Comment by Allakhazam

ok all mages who are searching for the pattern to this robe - and CANT find it: DONT DESPAIR!

1.: the pattern only frops from 3 mobs in the game: Pyromancers in LBRS!
But u dont have to make a raid and walk all the way through mobs...there is a shortcut in LBRS which lowers the pattern farming SUBSTANTIALLY: just after getting into the big room (after you killed the first worg master) you jump down on a "ledge" to the right and right down to the Firebrand legion. From there, it ill take you only ½-1 hour to get to the pyromancers.
I did LBRS 6 times before tho pattern dropped - and DOES drop :)

RUMOR1: you DONT have to be tailor 300

RUMOR2: you DONT have to be mage to make it drop (get your team to pass the pattern if they are kind to ye :))

RUMOR3: you DONT have to be in a party if u want to...you can also do it in raid if u want to - patern drops aswell.

gl and hf!

Comment by Allakhazam

thats pretty pimp lookin

Comment by Allakhazam

I suggest any mage tailor out there to get this pattern and make this robe, it's very nice.

However, for those non-tailor frost mages out there don't worry too much. Freezing Lich Robes for frost mages drops from Ras in Scholo. Robe of Winter Night is an easy to make robe. Both have comparable stats to the Robe of the Archmage and are significantly easier to aquire.

Comment by Allakhazam

you DO need 300 in tailoring

on topic:
This robe is great, i cant do raids becuase im in the middle east and the internet isnt great and the robe is a great alternative to non-raiders.
Id say its the best robe u can get after netherwind and ofc the new AQ imba chests.

Saw it fell in love got it (2 days)started with 50g

Comment by Allakhazam

Love the robe.
The instant mana ragain is imba.
The spell DMG is imba.
12 int...could be more but imba.

Comment by Kotomatsu

The robes are BoP but the recipe isn't. These robes are amazing early on and it will take some time before they get replaced. One of the reasons to go with tailoring alongside the Bloodvine set bonus.

"The pattern drops off the Firebrand Pyromancers in Lower Blackrock Spire which are located in a nook at the base of the hill leading to the spiders, where the fire orcs meet the spider eggs."

Comment by Etreum

Of course I am the biggest and stupidiest idiot on Azeroth.

I purchased the pattern. I farmed the mats for hours.

I tailored the robe. I enchanted it with +3 stats

And... Then I tried to send it to my mage alt...

Fail!

Somehow, I failed to notice it was BOP.

I don't know whether to cry or quit.

In the 16 years I've been playing WOW, this has to be the worse mistake I've ever made.

Comment by Mychyru

Once created, can you remove the tailoring profession, place another one and continue using the chest?

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Robe of the Archmage

	Phase 1

Item Level 62
Binds when picked up

Chest	Cloth

109 Armor
+12 Intellect
Durability 100 / 100

Requires Level 57
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 40.
Equip: Increases your spell critical strike rating by 14.
Use: Restores 375 to 625 mana. (5 Min Cooldown)

Sell Price: 2 68 66

This item is part of the following transmog set: Wizard Regalia

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