AoE Farm Guide[Mage]

[BrightChild]

Hello, first off.. i did NOT wright this guide--Credits to: TheDude

i ran some searches and didnt find anything on the subject, so i decided to post this becuase it helped me in the long run.feel free to flame if this was already posted.
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1. Make 100% sure you spec to have improved blizzard. It is crucial to good mana efficiency, resulting in less downtime. It also prevents you from getting hit… ever.

2. Make sure to spec into frost, because later on down the line (40+) you are going to get ice barrier, the god of all AoE spells. It prevents you from being dazed, knocked off horse and dieing, the 3 main AoE pitfalls. GET IT!

3. Stay far, far away from ranged/caster mobs. If there is even 1 in a group, they will mess up your whole system. A lightning bolt/arrow/bullet in the
chest and your blizzard is gone. That’s 700+ mana down the drain and you probobly dead from OOM(out of mana). MELEE ONLY!

4. Use wand to pull straying mobs. If they are spread out, use ur wand to aggro them, then while they run at you, run away from them to the other mobs to pull a bigger group. If you aoe correctly, you can take on an infinite amount of mobs.
This should be your AoE order every single time. Get the mobs together in whatever way you want, but make sure they are tightly packed together. Frost Nova them, SIDESTEP (don’t back up, you move slower, and you need to get to 30 yds before the Frost Nova breaks. Moving sideways lets you keep them in view and move at 100% speed.) Blizzard them so you are hitting them all. When your blizzard is just about out, cast it again somewhat near you so they walk into it and get hit as much as possible before they hit you. When they get close, frost nova, and backup and blizzard again. If you are too low on mana, instead of blizzard, try flamestrike and an Arcane Explosion, and wand them to death. Your Ice Barrier may be up again, allowing you to wand them without dieing. Try and save Evocation for when you run OOM and there are too many mobs with too much health. Use cold snap if you must, Frost Nova, run away and evocation to full mana. AE to death.

[Stephen Colbert]

Nice find, I have never seen an actual guide for doing this.
A bit basic, but +rep for posting it.

[c0rrup]

I have a paladin and I do this with a mage, I use blessing of sacrifice on them while they shield and round like 20-30 ppl up on their mount....then she does the ice trap (forgot the name) , i throw down a consecrate and the mage continues to aoe from there : )

[outcast]

Any mage will know this, if not.. reroll.

[Acechill]

Nice find, I have never seen an actual guide for doing this.
A bit basic, but +rep for posting it.

There's some AoE guides around the mage forum

[Disphotic]

Nice guide, + rep However I would let you know about the god of all aoe places, I saw a chinese powerleveler there in the 40 levels killing 30 mobs at a time.
The pirate place in Tanaris.

[Cakewalk]

I think this build would work for AoE, any comments?
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0E0oZZMAMIsfxsbqz

[outcast]

lol arcane fortitude and water elemental.. i strongly suggest you roll an elemental mage, get Blast wave in fire and go full frost with the usual arcane talents. Thats the way to AoE.

I currently AoE all instances up to ZF Solo, havn't tried any higher ( By AoE i mean groups of minimum 15~20 mobs ) and i'm actually just plain fire spec.

[Disphotic]

Could any mage give some thoughts on this build?
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=kZVgGz0c0oZVAMIsb0sbq
Ive never played a mage but AoE seems so fun and profitmaking. Please say if its a good aoe build or not and what that can be improved

[BrightChild]

Could any mage give some thoughts on this build?
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=kZVgGz0c0oZVAMIsb0sbq
Ive never played a mage but AoE seems so fun and profitmaking. Please say if its a good aoe build or not and what that can be improved

that spec would be alright, i would probly roll into arcane for mana regen, and conservation. PoM usualy helps alot too.

[Cakewalk]

that spec would be alright, i would probly roll into arcane for mana regen, and conservation. PoM usualy helps alot too.

well actually 15% mana regen kinda sucks, since aoe gear dont have spirit.

lol arcane fortitude and water elemental.. i strongly suggest you roll an elemental mage, get Blast wave in fire and go full frost with the usual arcane talents. Thats the way to AoE.

I currently AoE all instances up to ZF Solo, havn't tried any higher ( By AoE i mean groups of minimum 15~20 mobs ) and i'm actually just plain fire spec.

well fire and frost aoe is two completely different things. Since you dont have any spelldamage on lower levels, fire/AE spam is pretty worthless >.<

[Disphotic]

Well I will get alot of Frost spell damage gear from the Ah on the low lvls, and is AoE a nice way to level on the low lvls?

[BrightChild]

i would start AoE leveling around level 40ish for that frost shield,iceblock,imp blizz, cold snap.. frost spec ofcourse

[Cakewalk]

Well I will get alot of Frost spell damage gear from the Ah on the low lvls, and is AoE a nice way to level on the low lvls?

Well I did that mistake aswell, I crafted Azure Silk gear on my aoe mage. Then I figured out that spell damage does basically NOTHING to Blizzard. You should aim for Stamina and Intellect only.