Mage Leveling Guide
Mages have a multitude of abilities to help them level. Of course other classes get their things aswell, but they’re not as powerful as teleports or the ability to conjure one’s own food and water. On top of that you also get blink to once again travel that extra bit faster. To get into the leveling builds for mages, there is a bit of discussion in that regard. As I played my mage I realized that each tree has their own moments of supremacy. I use 3 different talent builds each covering their own level range to level as easily and fast as possible..
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Anyway, let’s get into the builds and the level range you use them in:
10-30 Fire Leveling
Before you get some gear the high damage from fire in general will provide easier leveling. Another good part of fire is that the base range of spells is significantly longer than Frost and Arcane. The key part is also that the early talents all help you a lot, be it give more range or increasing your damage. You also get Pyroblast for those moments where you really want to blow something up.
30-64 Frost Leveling
The change to frost at 30 is very logical. At level 30 you are able to pick up the key talents for Frost Play. These being Ice Shards, Shatter and Frostbite.The summary of what these talents do is that you will crit more and harder, while being able to keep mobs at range. Considering your main nuke, being Frostbolt, casts quite fast and has an added snare in it to slow your target you will be able to cast enough spells before the target reaches you to proc Frostbite and as such get ample chance to get easy critical hits in. If the target does end up reaching you, you’re free to simply frost nova it move a few steps back and blow it up then. Later on you also get Fingers of Frost which causes your next 2 spells to treat the target as frozen. In other words, Fingers of Frost gives you a 15% chance on all your frost spells to cause your next 2 spells to have an increased 50% chance to critically strike. One of my favorite talents is Brain Freeze. As with Fingers of Frost, it gives your spells that apply a slowing effect a 15% chance to give yourself an INSTANT CAST, FREE OF MANA Fireball.
64-80 Arcane Leveling
Are you wondering why you would give up the safety of Frost? At level 64 you obtain Arcane Blast which is a key talent for an arcane build.. If you read your Missile Barrage talent deep down in Arcane you can see it has a 40% chance to proc the effect which basically turns you into a turret when channeling Arcane Missiles. When you first try this build you can open with frost bolt to trigger Torment the Weak. This you will do until 75 when you will instead use Frostfire Bolt. After that you cast Arcane Blast until Missile Barrage is active, after which you can quickly decimate the target with Arcane Missiles. Why do I prefer the dangerous Arcane build over the safety of Frost? That’s very simple, not only will you be killing monsters even quicker than a full Fire build you will have NO MANA PROBLEMS. With Arcane getting Arcane Flows (Tier 8 talent) your evocation will only have a 2 minute cooldown, allowing it to be up before you will need it again. Besides this you also get nifty talents like Slow, Arcane Barrage and the option to make your Invisibility spell instantly fade.
If you’re a mage that likes diversity, changing between these 3 builds will allow you to experience every aspect of the mage in their prime time. This means the high hitting Fire spells, the control of the frost mage and the interactivity of arcane. Even though this gives you a rundown of exactly when to go for certain builds while leveling, you may be wondering how to quickly level up by quests. If so, you should check out my Dugi’s Guide Review. In it you will learn everything about Dugi’s Guide to leveling faster than ever before in World of Warcraft and much more if you’re interested.
