WoW Mage Guide – Fun And Fast-Paced World of WarCraft Action
When it comes to World of Warcraft I think mages are one of the most fun classes to play. They feel fast-paced compared to warriors, rogues or hunters. You can kill off a lot of mobs at once using your area of effect spells and you can also add lots of value to every raid or PvP party.
Some players think that mages are too squishy – touch them and they die.
Personally, I don’t like to weight and compare each of the classes with each other. I think of them more as pieces in a chess game. Each class has a purpose and a set of strengths and weaknesses. And depending on the situation at hand a mage is very useful or almost useless.
Mage Professions
Let’s look at some of the professions that suit a good mage:
Mages usually choose Tailoring for their primary profession. The cool thing is, all the material you need is dropped by mobs, which gives you the opportunity to choose a secondary profession without having to think about mining for materials.
As with most other mage guide, my suggestion is, go with Enchanting!
You can then use the tailored items and disenchant them – the essences you get sell for a lot of gold at the AH.
Alchemy and herbalism is also nice since mages are always hungry for mana potions. The items you can produce are consumables with a temporary effect.
Mage Builds
Now let’s look at some of the most basic mage builds without going into too much detail about how you should spend each talent point.
Hardly anybody focuses fully on Arcane for obvious reasons. Which leaves us with two basic Builds:
Fire Mage – If you’ve read a mage guide before, you know this one’s great for the early stages of the game. You can kill quest mobs fast by sniping them with fire spells. This builds doesn’t need you to think about how to use your skills for mana efficiency – at least not when leveling – as you will use your mana up quickly.
Frost Mage – Frost mages are great at handling groups of mobs simultaneously. Frost mages are more mana efficient and their mana flow is more consistent. Fire mages burn through spikes of mana, while frost mages burn mana slowly over time.
So there you have it.
This is everything you need to know to get started with a Mage Toon in WoW.
Go out and gather some XP, then come back to read a more in-depth WoW mage guide.
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