10 Mage tricks you must know! *(Mainly for Frost Mages)*

[wow4Supplier]

Well I`ll soon finish some mage guides I`ve been working on,and I just wanted to post a few tricks every *FrosT*mage should know (mainly for frost mages):



1. Use frostbolt rank 1 to slow down enemies = 1 sec cast time 60 % (40% if not specced )
2. Same goes for rank 1 Blizzard.Use it to find rogues and druids in stealth. *(you can use Arcane Explosion rank 1 too)*
3. A great combo is: Water Elemental + Ice Block than wait 10 sec,blink,cold snap, repeat Water Elemental + Ice Block,10 sec wait,frost nova ,deep freeze,then kill him.Finally earn the "Make love not Warcraft" achievment by doing /hug
4. A great way to blink is: You run forward ,jump,and just before pressing blink -you should turn a little.That way you will cofuse your enemy and you will end up left or right,and you can FFbolt him/Pyro,because he won't know where did you dissapear
5. Counterspell is a mages best friend.Use it to intecept heals,spells etc. ,but you can also use it on warriors to get them in combat,or rogues to put CD on their abilities.
6. When falling from BIG heights,you have few ways to survive.You can use slow fall.You can Ice-block a few feet above the ground (the closer you ice-block,the better),or you can blink right before hitting the ground.
7. You can dismount enemies in BGs with polymorph.That`s very usefull...No running from a mage ey?
8. Use /castsequence macros.You can dish out a quite nice combo with that,and fast
9. Don`t think you need every CD for all fights.If you use them up on one guy,and the other comes?You can`t ask him to wait.Practice killing others without all CDs.(CD=Cooldown)
10. If your a frost-mage,TRY TO use Ice-Armor because frostbite will occur more,and we want that,do we ?

11. (BONUS) : Just for the record, ALT+F4 is not a combo.

You should know that some of these tricks have been figured out by other people too,so maybe you`ll find some of these things somewhere on the net
/cheer

[Haya]

1. + 2. senseless since all ranks of an ability got the same manacost.. (means you should always use the highest rank now)

[wow4Supplier]

Still not senseless because,better to slow someone in 1,than in 3 sec...

[Maiset]

I really disagree to some of these tips or hints.
Like the last one about frost armor, you can benefit more from mage armor vs other casters for example, you will benefit more from the molten armor vs someone like a warriors since he shouldn't touch you anyway.

I only replied to tell readers that some of these are pretty outdated and im not the person to update them.

[dragonaut]

why use ranks 1's? downranking was changed ages ago.

there is no use what so ever to cast a pyroblast, 2x frostbolt is way more dmg, nobody plays fire in arena. if he doesnt know where you are you're better off just casting frostbolt, you'll be at least halfway through the second cast before he sees where u are, casting a pyro gives him 5 seconds to see where you are.

what would a mage use castsequence for?, fire needs to watch hot streak, arcane needs to watch missle barrage, frost has to keep an eye on brain freeze. this all interrupts the castsequence.

summoning water ele and then iceblocking is a nice waste of the damn thing, any class can kill is 1v1 without taking any damage. even more of a waste is using cold snap for it.

[wow4Supplier]

summoning water ele and then iceblocking is a nice waste of the damn thing, any class can kill is 1v1 without taking any damage. even more of a waste is using cold snap for it.

That saved my life over 50 times.Sorry if you disagree,but thats how it is.

[Dragonshadow]

bump. accidentally deleted, fixed.

[Premium-mmo]

Well I`ll soon finish some mage guides I`ve been working on,and I just wanted to post a few tricks every *FrosT*mage should know (mainly for frost mages):



1. Use frostbolt rank 1 to slow down enemies = 1 sec cast time 60 % (40% if not specced )
2. Same goes for rank 1 Blizzard.Use it to find rogues and druids in stealth. *(you can use Arcane Explosion rank 1 too)*
3. A great combo is: Water Elemental + Ice Block than wait 10 sec,blink,cold snap, repeat Water Elemental + Ice Block,10 sec wait,frost nova ,deep freeze,then kill him.Finally earn the "Make love not Warcraft" achievment by doing /hug
4. A great way to blink is: You run forward ,jump,and just before pressing blink -you should turn a little.That way you will cofuse your enemy and you will end up left or right,and you can FFbolt him/Pyro,because he won't know where did you dissapear
5. Counterspell is a mages best friend.Use it to intecept heals,spells etc. ,but you can also use it on warriors to get them in combat,or rogues to put CD on their abilities.
6. When falling from BIG heights,you have few ways to survive.You can use slow fall.You can Ice-block a few feet above the ground (the closer you ice-block,the better),or you can blink right before hitting the ground.
7. You can dismount enemies in BGs with polymorph.That`s very usefull...No running from a mage ey?
8. Use /castsequence macros.You can dish out a quite nice combo with that,and fast
9. Don`t think you need every CD for all fights.If you use them up on one guy,and the other comes?You can`t ask him to wait.Practice killing others without all CDs.(CD=Cooldown)
10. If your a frost-mage,TRY TO use Ice-Armor because frostbite will occur more,and we want that,do we ?

11. (BONUS) : Just for the record, ALT+F4 is not a combo.

You should know that some of these tricks have been figured out by other people too,so maybe you`ll find some of these things somewhere on the net
/cheer

Uhm?? Copy paste or you are not aware of patch changes in 3.0.1?
2. Same goes for rank 1 Blizzard.Use it to find rogues and druids in stealth. *(you can use Arcane Explosion rank 1 too)*
Use max Rank, it will cost lesser mana than rank 1 and do more damage


3. A great combo is: Water Elemental + Ice Block than wait 10 sec,blink,cold snap, repeat Water Elemental + Ice Block,10 sec wait,frost nova ,deep freeze,then kill him.Finally earn the "Make love not Warcraft" achievment by doing /hug
Hypotermia lasts 30 seconds so u can't Water Elemental + ice block just after doing so and that's a normal combo involving deep freeze, if the enemy is good enough , he can easily kill the pet in under 4 second and you lost...


4. A great way to blink is: You run forward ,jump,and just before pressing blink -you should turn a little.That way you will cofuse your enemy and you will end up left or right,and you can FFbolt him/Pyro,because he won't know where did you dissapear
Might Work vs noobs but it's a good trick



5. Counterspell is a mages best friend.Use it to intecept heals,spells etc. ,but you can also use it on warriors to get them in combat,or rogues to put CD on their abilities.
6. When falling from BIG heights,you have few ways to survive.You can use slow fall.You can Ice-block a few feet above the ground (the closer you ice-block,the better),or you can blink right before hitting the ground.
9. Don`t think you need every CD for all fights.If you use them up on one guy,and the other comes?You can`t ask him to wait.Practice killing others without all CDs.(CD=Cooldown)
Common sense Imho


8. Use /castsequence macros.You can dish out a quite nice combo with that,and fast
Not Viable in pvp as you may require different spells in different moments



I think is not a very good guide >_> too much common sense and mistakes, anyway i'll give you 1 rep cookie for writing this yourself

[Leander]

The only reason I keep Rank1 frost bolt on my bars these days is a quick slow on a target. My rank 1 casts in under 1 second due to haste. But as others have said lower ranks actually cost more mana now so no point in using them.

[stormer]

This is copypasted or you write yourself and you've been bored.
cos its like you just wanna rep and youre rly despered. its like..

Hello its stormer and i wanan give tips for rogues
1) Stealth is your best friend. use it cos its pretty cool that enemys dont see you!
2) use poisons. cos you get extra dps and slow /heal reduce to target!! :OO
3)Dual-wield. cos two 1hand weapons are better than one 1hand weapon.
4)Remember to use vanish!!
5)Remember to put talent points! you get extra dps / utility / ...cool thinks`?
6) oh go f*** urself Allready...ffs bored.

[BaboonX]

1. Now frost bolt costs the same ammount as full rank. Your better off blinking then sheeping.. Only on special ocasions should you ever use rank 1 frost bolt.
2. No, now Rank 1 Blizzard and Rank 1 Arcane Explosion cost the same ammount of mana.. What game are you playing?
3. They can kill your water elemental while your in Iceblock. Your WE has really low health.. and you just wasted a lot of CD's. And not to mention the time loss of you in iceblock. You should only use ice block if you really need to.
4. Everyone knows this, but it doesn't really work that well. They well no where you are.. Rarely does something ever happen where you can fake blink and get a pyroblast off.
5. Good idea.. But your better off using ice lance, or even fire blast on ocasions.
6. Stuff like this has been posted so many times on MMOWNED, if your a normal user of MMOWNED you would see all of those being posted.
7. Yeah, yeah you can.
8. Never thought of using a /castsequence macro because of my keybindings everything is just .2 seconds away from each other. But thanks for giving me the idea.. I guess.
9. You should use your CD's as a frost mage, but use them wisely. If you have WE glyphed the WE uptime well be 40-50% of the time so you might as well use it. Not to mention cold snap.
10.What game are you playing? Frost armor is the best against mele classes / and hunters. But I think you where joking

I think this was a poor attempt at reputation. Do you even play a frost mage? Because all this stuff is really old. It's not reputation worthy at all.

I have made something similar to this, but I can't say it is better than yours.
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...-n-tricks.html

But atleast my guide is up to date.

[wow4Supplier]

Well yeah I made it myself,and I know why is it out of date...
I`ve been playing mages since TBC came out,and didnt play my mage a looong time. So I didnt know about all those changes.Back than this stuff rocked. I mean some of these tricks still work,like the blink trick.
And I`m not "desperade for rep",just wanted to help.you cant blame me for that

[Ferag]

7. You can dismount enemies in BGs with polymorph.That`s very usefull...No running from a mage ey?

I think you mean "eh" not "ey". Outdated tips, but there is value in them still. For instance the casting rank 1 Frostbolt... mana cost is up, yes, but cast time is low and that's the whole point of it. As for Arcane Explosion and Blizzard though, not advised.

[AngryLlama]

Worst guide EVER. Seriously, you must be a terribad geared mage/terribad skilled mage. For one these are like the new basic NON tricks every mage already knows. not "must" know. Secondly, as a mage, how do you not know that rank 1 skills cost the same as max rank skills? Jesus christ don't people ever research before they post .

[wow4Supplier]

Yeah,number 2 = pretty much useless....