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Mage Leveling Guide
Class – Mage
Role – Damage
Armor – Light (Cloth)
Deals Frost, Fire or Arcane magic damage
Can polymorph enemies or freeze them to the ground
Can teleport to cities and conjure food and water
Uses mana as a resource
Mages are the iconic magic users of Azeroth and learn their craft through intense research and study. They
make up for their light armor with a potent array of offensive and defensive spells.
Primary Stats – Spell Power / Intellect
Talents / Spec
Talent points become available starting at level 10. While leveling, you will only receive new powers to
train in at even level numbers (i.e., 2, 4, 6, etc.), you will receive talent points at every level gain
starting at 10. Don’t forget to allocate those points to augment your abilities. These are very important
to the growth and development of your character. These talents may help your character with survivability,
healing output, or damage output. Read the talents carefully when decided where to spend your points. That
being said, let’s take a look at the Mage talent tree.
Arcane - These talents are going to be pretty straight forward with each tree representing the individual
spell types. While there are certainly talents in other trees that people will want, the Arcane line
increases criticals on all of your arcane magic types. It's worth noting that in the game, there are
several buffs that can increase Fire or Frost resistance, there are very few that will increase Arcane
resistance.
Fire - Here it is folks. Your solo and group build that truly makes you a glass cannon. What does that
mean? Glass because you are still squishy and cannon because you do massive damage. Truly the hardest
hitting class at end game, the Fire mage brings tremendous burst damage and even a few talents that will
add some minor DOTs to your attacks as well as instant casting to some spells. Extremely nice for solo
grinding, this build sacrifices some survivability for in your face dps. Be warned, I have seen several
Fire mages that have actually pulled aggro off the Tank during large raids and that will get you dead, very
quickly.
Frost - Not as powerful as a Fire build, Frost increases survivability and adds much needed crowd control
and damage mitigation to the Mage class. There are lots of end game raiding guilds that insist on Frost
mages as part of their make up as well as Fire mages simply because their incredible damage can be spread
across a much larger mob as well as directed at a boss fight.
Remember, you can respec your character at any time if you decided that you don’t like where you have
started to place your talent points. It’s important to note that while you can respec at any time, the cost
increases each time you do with the first respec starting at 1 gold. Also, there are times when Blizzard
makes significant changes to talent trees for one or all classes during a patch download. When warranted by
Blizzard, all of your talent points could be refunded and you will need to take the time to re-allocate
those points.
We'll be back with more additions to the Mage Leveling Guide soon.
