Coltcannon69's Guide to Mages

[coltcannon69]

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Hey all, Seeing an absence of mage love here, i thought i'd start some : )

Part 1: Talents
1.1 - leveling
1.2 - twinks (19,29,39)
1.3 - Pure Pwnage PvP at 70
1.4 - Raids Biatch!

Part 2: AoE grinding - Worth the Hype?
2.1 - places

Part 3: Spell Rotations
3.1 - Fire
3.2 - Frost

Part 4: Professions and other junk : )

Part One!

Many peeps i talk to have no Idea at all if to go Frost, Fire or Arcane For leveling, So here's a quick Run-down.

Frost - Surviablity and AoE grinding. Imo, frost is THE BEST until you hit 58 and jet to the outlands.
Sample AoE build:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...13235013201001

Fire - Two shotting mobs, and very good mana usage is optimal for the questing in outlands. When i level'd i could kill 22 ish mobs before needing a med session... Very usefull.
Sample Grinding Build:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000
(After this i tended to go Into Arcane)

Arcane... Not to much expirience, exept playing w/ it at 70, sorry

TWINK BUILDS??
What... dude, mages can't twink... WRONG.
19 - I likes fire http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000

29 - still fire... Pryo's just for ab, dont try it so much in wsg : P 29 is where mages really start to shine imo
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000

39 - Mages Pwn everything in sight, except shadow priest twinks : P
Fire: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000
Ice : http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...10205010000000


PVP AT 70 - Kinda Meh, but w/e : P

Arena - Us mages Pwn in arenas, if we're frost. Some fire mages do ok, but frost is where its at.
Basic Usage - Mostly mages, in my expirience piss the crap outta the healer, or whoever. I always Poly the healers, and try to keep them that way. while we're not doing that, frost bolt spam w/ frost novas and ice lances work very well. I use the pet at the beging and usually have time for one more at the end.

Gear - Get stam... and +spell dam. Thats about it : P

Talent:
1 http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...10205013201011
2 http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...10205013201501

The Ever QQ'd about 3min mage - Its ok... >
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000

RAIDS BIATCH!
So, in my expiriance, arc / fire or Fire mages have had the Best Dps.
Remeber to load up on +spellcrit +spell dam and +int gear, as well as some +spellhit.
Arc / fire (nubly : P (jp))
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000
Fire! <3
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000


Part 2 AoE grinding - Worth the Hype?
Yes!

...well till you hit 58 and go to the Outlands, see part 1 : )
So what's the big deal about AoE grinding you might ask.
Well, killing !0+ mobs at a time is very time efficient, and very $$ effiecient, as you make alot of it : P.
The basic move is gather a bunch of mobs up - keep them w/ you by using rank 1 arcane explosion (at 40+ just mount up and get a bunch)
Then, CoC (cone of cold) Frost Nova, Point away, and Blink. Cast Blizzard twice, then CoC, frost nova. Repeat if nessesary.

2.2 - basicly, you need to be 24 to start. I only did horde, so these are more hordy places. : D

24-28(ish) I liked the Worgs in Duskwood. Only mobs i could find to do : P

28 - 34 I dunno, i instance'd it : P

34 - 38 I did Mobs In Shimmering flats - Theres alot : P

38 - 42ish YOU NEED TO DO SM AND RFD FOR GEARS, no jokes
38 - 45 ah, the first encounter with murlocs - duskwallow marsh
43 - 46 MOR MURLOCKS? AHHG. SoS : )
46 - 50 Pirates in Tanaris (omg i loved that)
50 - 51 Get the quest for Noggenfogger - Grind the Elementals in lower tanaris for them. (thistleshrub Valley)
51-54 The first field in WPL... the lowest one by the ally argent camp
54 - 58 start w/ felstone field and then move on to Scarlet lumberjacks.

Grats! go to the outlands now : )

PART 3: Spell Rotations (raids)
Fire - This is for fairly geard tanks, and imp scorch.
Scorch
Pop trinket
Fireblast
Scorch x4
Fireball
Re- scorch if still alive.
use fireblast whenever the CD's up.
If you use Molten fury + Comb, wait for the ma' to get to about 30% pop comb and pryo away. Ignites will burn your eyes.

Frost - i dont like it : P
I icelance for full wintersbite. then frostbolt spam. Use your trinkets.

PART 4: Proffessions and Junk.
Alchemy + herb
Tailoring + mining
or just be a farming class. 'nuff said.

Other things - Evo needs a spi wep atm. I just got a random 70 staff "of spirit" and slapped a +20 spi on it. Evocation kinda sucks without it.
Agro and You!
Fire - No agro reducing, so my rule of thumb for 5- mans is 3 big crits in a row, wand for 10sec. 10 -mans 4 big crits wand for 7sec.
Frost - ice block : P

Fun mage things - At 60 mages can do a quest to get Poly: Pig from archmage Xylem in Ashara - Tres fun. poly: turtle is from Gaz'ranka in ZG.

Where do i get my final Conjure water + food. And whats this Grp arcane brilliance buff i keep getting nagged for?
All i can say is: save money, the ah will set you back a bunch for these books. search for usable items in Recipes - Books.

Hope this was at least semi - useful. Im tired, and am going to bed, later guys.

<3 Coltcannon69

(BTW, this is all my own stuff, I just sat down and typed, cause im cool like that. No stealing here : D )


Edit for annoying color : )

[Zacred]

Mages ftw...
Nice guide, keep up the good stuff

[Snuss]

read the first.. seems ok but didnt wanna read more couse of the color! very annoying

[Trustdale]

Arena - Us mages Pwn in arenas, if we're frost. Some fire mages do ok, but frost is where its at.

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*cough* insta pyro 4k hit or 6k crit? *cough* i just say:

AP - Trinket - PoM - Insta pyro (6k crit) - fireblast (3.5k crit) :wave: @ healer

[coltcannon69]

@ trust...

its a good build, every three min, otherwise, its a little gimp. I liked frost alot better, constant 2.5k frostbolts w/ the pet for ice lances = win

[Snitch]

Great guide, I only glide mages dont know how to use them that well. Thanks!

Snitch

[lolgnome]

Arena - Us mages Pwn in arenas, if we're frost. Some fire mages do ok, but frost is where its at.

Ive gotta agree with trust on this one, as long as youve got a fairly DECENT arena partner fire is where its at, and at 70 you SHOULD have enough mana to be able to spam mana shield and not die as well as fire blast kite, AND if your specced correctly, 1.5 second cast Scorches that hit for 800 and crit for 1400-1500 are waay better dps than 2.5 second cast frostbolts at minimum that only crit for 2.5k, fireball is waay better imo in that it is a 3 second cast and mine crits for nearly 3.7k and 4.5k if AP and trinket is still on. Frost is a good build if you know how to use it but I cant see any very good pvp'er strictly frost, you would need to be more of a hybrid elemental spec like 0/30/31 to make that work which obviously doesnt give you the pet. +rep for trying

[1nSanE]

frost mages suck ever since frost nova got nerfed
they just dont have enough CC