WoW Mage Guide

Mages are the most powerful single spell damaging class in the game. They dish out the most damage in a short amount of time than any other class. They come with a few abilities that assist the rest of the party such as the ability to create food and water and make portals that will teleport players to cities for quicker travel.

This guide is simply intended to provide a general overview of the Mage. For a more in-depth and highly detailed resource check out the best class guides -Warcraft Pros.

Mage Strengths:

One of the major strengths of Mages is that they can use spells to inflict major damage to single and even multiple targets. But, if it’s a losing battle, Mages have two more tricks up their sleeve. Firstly, they can hold off enemies with magic and secondly they’re masters of escape with their Frost Nova, Blink and Ice Armor spells.

Another one of their strengths is that they can fight from a distance and therefore avoid, in many cases, taking damage. Also they can travel through portals and even transport other players this way.

Mage Weaknesses:

The Mages lack of armor is the source of one major weakness of this class, making it difficult for them to survive much damage. Also, they’re really horrible at melee, so if melee is part of your play style don’t choose the Mage class. Last but not least, for all their magical strengths they don’t have any real healing ability.

Mage Races

Human: They have a few talents that make them awesome choices for PvP mages. Every Man for Himself acts as a PvP trinket…meaning you can now equip two normal trinkets. Given the massive power of top-end PvE trinkets, this is an enormous bonus for any PvP mage.

Gnome: They’re another great choice for PvP thanks to Escape Artist and a passive resistance to Arcane. Otherwise the Int bonus is nice at any time, since it adds to your mana pool.

Draenei: Gift of the Naaru is handy, providing a bit of self-healing that mages lack. And it isn’t just good for PvP; being able to take some pressure off overtaxed healers, or survive when you normally wouldn’t, can be of great advantage in PvE.

Undead: Undead’s big thing is Will of the Forsaken, which is getting nerfed in 3.3. So Undead are going from top PvP dog to “The guys with the cool cast animation”. Will of the Forsaken will still be useful, but it will pale in comparison to the other racials. And the effect of WotF on PvE is negligible. Skip them if you are wanting to min/max.

Troll: Troll has a racial that is enormously valuable in both PvP and PvE. Berserking is a small speed increase, which gains speed (up to 30% increase) as your health goes down, but low health is the last place a mage wants to be. Beast Slaying is a nice little bonus for leveling, but pretty useless elsewhere.

Blood Elf: Blood elf has Arcane Torrent as their noteworthy racial. At low levels, this is great, allowing you to keep fighting by giving you an extra mana regen. And for PvP, an extra silence is great. But for end-game PvE, we have another race that is mostly useless.

Mage Talent Specifications

As a Mage, you can choose from the talent specifications of “Arcane”, “Frost”, and “Fire”. The type of character that you will want to achieve, ultimately, from the Mage will rely heavily on the points that you place in the Talent Tree of the Mage.

The Frost Mage: This is probably the most popular build for Mages, with good reason. The frost mage is a formidable build, with the ability to function with less mana burn, coupled with some nice mob-controlling abilities. However, the character that focuses on Frost as a talent spec is able to effectively hold their own – especially when it comes to PvP. In basic game play combat, Frost can prove to be effective as well – simply because most creatures that you go against are unable to fight the “freezing” that occurs when you use Frost.

The Arcane Mage: If you want to create a character that is highly effective at dealing a lot of damage, you will want to focus most of the talent points that you acquire in the Arcane part of your talent tree. While you can be quite a force in PvP, you can do so with this spec. Unfortunately, you must understand that the damage that you deal out will rely, overall, on the amount of mana that you work with. This means that once the damage is dealt, which is relatively quick, you must wait on the mana that is available to you to build back up – this could prove to hinder you in game play.

The Fire Mage: If you are looking to deal out a lot of damage per second, or “DPS” with the Mage, then the fire talent spec is the one that you should focus on. With this, you will develop abilities like “Incinerate”, “Pyroblast”, and even “Ignite”. You can definitely rule the playing ground with this particular talent spec.

Mage Leveling

The key to a good Wow Mage Leveling Spec is to have good damage dealing ability while also being able to attack often. Ideally, there would be very little down time between battles. If the down time is too much it either means the WoW Mage build is causing the player to take damage or the spells aren’t doing enough damage for the amount of mana they are costing.

The Mage is considered an important tool in groups for crowd control and AoE. It comes self-prepared; it can summon its own water and food and pass it out to others. Its AoE damage can be sufficient enough to level off of or you can use other these for single target damage. There is really wow power leveling build for a mage, it depends on how you like to play so I will cover all of the trees.

While the idea of AoE leveling seems incredible, in practice it’s really not and is usually more trouble than it’s worth. If you intend on grinding (AoE or not), rather than questing then BE WARNED: Grinding is NOT the fastest way to 80. Questing is much faster, especially if you use a guide to tell you exactly which quests to take and how to complete them in the quickest time possible.

As good as this mage leveling guide is, remember that it doesn’t in any way compare to a full leveling guide. I used one level my mage, and recommend it to anyone who really hates leveling and wants it out of the way as quick as possible. Some of these guides have mage specific sections which are incredibly useful – The Zygor Leveling Guide is particularly good.

Mage PvP

Mages can be one of the most powerful and feared forces in PvP. While their armor choices make them weaker than classes that must use similar strategies, like hunters, the mage has many tools that help players of the class excel in PvP combat.

The mage has quite a some crowd control which must be used at maximum, by communicating with the others in your group (especially when in arena). The best specs for PvP are frost (you have better defenses but less damage) or arcane (less defenses, higher damage). The spells you need to manage and use very wisely are: Blink, Ice Block and Invisibility.

While mages that specialize in the frost tree have the best PvP capabilities of this class, any mage who wishes to excel at PvP must use the tools to keep the enemy at bay. These spells are polymorph, frost nova, frost bolt, and blink. The mage can only take a few hits from spells or melee weapons, although the mage is capable of using mana shield to overcome this weakness. (The mage’s remove curse can also dispel many warlock damage over time spells.)

A Frost mage has an advantage in PvP combat over an arcane or fire mage, but this advantage does not mean that the other types of mages cannot use frost spells effectively. An arcane mage has better mana management tools while fire mages, which do the best in player versus environment situations can still do a lot of damage if they can keep the mage’s opponents away from them long enough to cast his fireballs.

Having a good Mage PvP Guide can put you at a huge advantage over the other players. What will a good Mage PvP Guide include? How to spec for PvP, how to gear for PvP, how to counter any other class, and more. It is an all in one guide to PvP success. Most guides will tell you that in order to succeed in PvP you must do the most damage as possible in the least amount of time.

1-80 Mage Leveling Guide

Distributing your talents like this will give you an advantage and indeed help your mage level way quicker than before. However, if you want to level even faster take a look at The Zygor’s Guide. This is a mage guide and a add-on, which you install in WoW. It basically inserts a large arrow under your character and add a small text bow on your screen. The arrow tells your mage which way he (or she) should go and the text box tells you what to do when you get there.

It automatically calculates the fastest way to do quests so you can level up your mage in a hurry.

Grab your copy of Zygor’s Guide here and get leveled fast, or read the best wow guide review first.