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World of Warcraft Mage Leveling Guide
The Mage is famous for its burst DPS in WOW and many different groups often want to have a Mage amongst their ranks. They have a good damage output, the ability to give health & mana regenerating foods and also have an intelligence buff.
The Mage is very powerful but it definitely lacks hit points compared to other classes. Paladins, Warriors and Death Knights have a lot more hit points than Mages, Priests, Druids, and Shaman can heal themselves when wounded, Rogues can disappear and both Warlocks and Hunters have pets. Mages don't have these luxuries, what they do have however is control. If you have a Mage you need to master the use of the strengths the Mages have.
Like all classes in World of Warcraft the Mage has three skill trees. These are Arcane, Fire, and Frost. The first two can inflict massive amounts of damage but lack control. In the Fire and Arcane trees there is little in the form of crowd control. Of course all Mage characters have the infamous "sheep" ability but only Frost gives even more control.
While frost may not give you the massive hit that Arcane and Fire can, you will have a lot more control of the situation. Some talents allow your chill effects to actually freeze the target for a short time, you can also increase the time the chill lasts for and stun your target. Frost can be very effective to use when levelling solo.
One of the tactics that you might use to level is to pick an area with a large number of mobs in a general area. To be safer you should pick an area where the mobs are green to you. Start gathering them up and when you have a number around you pop your Frost Nova and root them in place. Jump back out of melee range and cut loose with Blizzard. This is a tactic that I have used on a number of Mage characters that I have built over the years and it really works.
I know there are those who are going to say that you should be doing mobs your own level but I beg to differ. Let's play out two separate scenarios.
In scenario 1 lets assume that I'm going into a zone where the mobs are all the same level as me. They hit hard which mean I'm going to be forced to take them our one by one. I will get more hit points for each one I kill as they are my own level but I'll have to work harder and longer to kill them. Let's assume I get 200 experience points for each kill and I can kill roughly 20 in an hour. My total experience gained would be 4000.
In the second scenario I'm facing mobs that are green towards me. This time I can take on 5 at a time so I round them up, use Frost Nova, and then Blizzard to kill them. This mob would give me roughly 100 experience points each. I should be able to kill 5 of these in the same time it took me to kill 1 in scenario 1. That'll leave me with 500 experience points every 3 minutes coming to a total of 10,000 and hour. Don't forget that I've looted each mob here as well which will definitely earn me a heap more than just fighting 1 same level mob at a time.
Leveling a Mage in World of Warcraft can seem like an arduous task, especially given that Mages don't have the abilities to heal themselves, don't have pets, and have low hit points. It's not as tough as it seems however. If you take the time to practice the art of control, you'll see that you can do massive damage in short time periods.
About the Author Seth Symonds is a veteran WoW player. Learn more about Leveling a Mage by reading Seth's WoW Mage Leveling Guide. If you want to dominate WoW, Seth recommends checking out the Ultimate WoW Guide.
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