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When starting a mage it should be known that the leveling experience of said mage is as follow.
-You will be able to teleport to cities starting at level 24 with Stormwind/Org and other main cities. That frees up your Hearthstone to be saved at the current location you are leveling which can save you a lot of travel time. Especially in a guild with the Perk to reduce the Cooldown of the Hearth to 15 minutes.
-Since mages are pure DPS, the major stats you should always aim for when leveling is Intellect gear. If there is spirit on it, AVOID THAT ITEM AT ALL COST! Spirit does nothing for a mage and even if it came from a quest/Better, you might as well just put on white armor (In some cases, spirit gear is okay only up to 70+)
- We mages have Three Codes we abide to. Fire, Frost and Arcane. While Arcane is tempting to level as, It should be noted that Arcane is not as powerful at lower levels like Frost or Fire. My Recommendation for Leveling is frost. That way, you can slow enemies down as well as freeze them from a distance with your Elemental.
- Never take weapons that do not have pure Intel on them! You are not going to whack the enemy in the face with it, so don't roll need on weapons or use weapons with high damage on it. The more Intel you have, the more damage your spells will do.
- Some professions may seem tempting to use as a mage. For starters to wow, be a Tailor and Enchanter. That way you can make your own gear while enchanting it with the disenchanted old gear you do not have. Later on you can get a self cloak enchant for more damage as well as ring enchants. Other professions that are pros for mages include:
Jewelcrafting
Inscription
Engineering
Mining (Profit or pair with either Engineering or Jewelcrafting)
Herbalism (Profit)
Skinning (Profit)
- NEVER BUY VENDOR FOOD! At level 38, you have a spell that can create food that replenish health and Mana. The spell also scales the food with a certain level range. Until then, level your cooking as you kill boars and other creatures to make into wonderful stat food.
- When you are able to make portals for your party members and raid team, always be the last guy in as once you (The one who made the portal) enter the portal, no one else can take your portal. Do not be an !@# or make that mistake. Headcount before you enter yourself :3 (This was added in 4.0.1. Dunno why)
- Remember to always check if your armor is on. It can be removed if you change a talent or respect or swap specs.
- If you have a wand, make sure to keep the shoot bar on hand if you have low mana and no way to regenerate it fast enough in battle. Your wand can act as a temporary damage dealing devise at long ranges.
- And last but not least, enjoy the game as a mage. Now go burn some stuff up!

If you need help at all, do not be afraid to ask this comment section like other class pages. Skilled Mages like myself from all kinds of servers will help you out in your time of need.

too much glass not enough cannon i deal more dps with my fishing pole than i do with my spells if it werent for my hunter brother inlaw i woulnt be able to last long infact the only reason im a higher level than him is professions giving me the extra exp

like the mage but the shaman sucks becase I use it in leavl 10

Mage is the worst class to play if your panderen in the last stage, all those tigers can kill you pretty easily

the Mage class is awesome when they made it easier to understand the ability and more likely the frost Mages are for Player vs player like in battleground, fire Mage are pretty awesome when they use their fire spell on to target , and arcane is change it a lot know they have put in arcane charge which its brand new.

Everyones saying frost is the bomb spec nowadays?? I am an arcane, what rotation is best for a frost ?

best mage horde for pvp

Quick question, Which Alliance race has better stats for mages? I want to make one. plz reply

My friend was having trouble pvping as a mage. I told him go frost. He killed my lvl 90 death knight in 3 seconds. I even popped anti magic shell.frost mage op.

Best race for mage on Ally

Today I learned the art if the frost mage. It's now my high dealing dps spec in both pve and pvp. I burst everyone down from 100 to 0 and they can't react because they are slower then the whale shark or stunned for all eternity.

seriously??!? arcane mages are nerfed?!? HAHAHA YEA RIGHT!! has ANYONE seen the patch notes?the arcane blast/missiles stack only has to stack 4 times now(instead of 6) and arcane blast only cost an extra 1.67% mana per stack, while each stack increases damage by 50% NOW!!!! ALSO, the invocation talent is only 2.5sec spell now and is adjusted based off the ARC stack number(so is nether tempest and ARC BARrage)...IMa tailor too, and already have ilvl522 gear to make for myself, just need the spirits...So everyone, calm down, dont get it confused< MAGEs are still OP and will be even more OP as the new ilvl500+ comes out

If I make a belf Mage should I go frost or arcane.Answer in a pvp perspectiveplease

I think mages would down right fun to play if i could i do it right im hunter through and through but i like all classes and races (only played horde at the moment but would like to start a alliance toon and server hope when im done with all my horde ones) I thought considering fire was the weakest spec going into 5.2 that it would get a buff here and there kinda how they did with MM hunters but instead they come out with the old nerf bat. I still see mages as the best over for pure DPS arcane on paper still is the best and if you like to play frost there great with all the cc's and stuff they can do ive on a few occasions seen a good frost mage just go through people like butter even i couldnt kill that person and im fairly well equiped to kill mages and he just knew when and where to tele to through me off. Overall i think mages are awesome and cant wait to get my alt up to 90. :)

mages need like Eye of Kilrogg! It would be awsome.

Should of gotten clothe heirlooms

How do I get more lotions I can teleport too?? My last mage just had them show as he trained but with out the training system, i'm lost?

To everyone that says mages suck let me tell you this i have played a mage since 08 it is fun yes we die alot and all that but look at this way we can teleport which you can usually get for 10g a port as a tip nowadays oh and why do you need food when you make your own well that rules out another properly from 0-90 about 10k g spent in food lets see here oh and arcane is what i have been all that time i dont care about being nerfed i just like arcane and i still do 101k crits in dungen and even done it a few times out of one you just have to figure out how to play one and there cc is unsurpassed lets see frost nova this group oh and polymorph this guy and slow this guy blink away arcan blast 4 times arcan missile blink again rinse and repeat. Not hard i love being a mage saved a lot of money too but all and all its your choice but the important thing is just have fun

night elf

As a matter if fact, my friend is thinking of becoming a Mage, but cannot decide which race is best. (He also takes engineering(always) and has a friend (me) to tank). Please suggest something other than horde, Draenei, or human. I would appreciate feedback soon

In addition to tailoring, make sure you have a tank with you, preferably a paladin, because they can heal tank, but most importantly, draw agro

Mages are sort of decent, but can't take many hits.make sure you or your friend takes up tailoring