Like most of other magician class in other games, WoW mage also have very low hit points and armor which make them very vulnerable to melee attacks and hard to master; a mage in an inexperienced player?s hand will fall very quickly since they don?t have tanking pet like a hunter do.

If you play as a mage, your job is to deal as much damage as you can while stay away from the enemies as best as you can. A mage in a group will be very helpful since they have crowd control abilities and high DPS spells. There are a few playing style depends on which talents tree that you want to focus.

Arcane Mage

As an Arcane Mage you have high DPS (damage per second) that surpass even the heavy fire mage which has high fire damage. In order to do this though, you will need the right gear and a lot of mana. Here are the basic playing styles of an Arcane mage:

1. Your main spell will be Arcane Blast, available at level 64; this spell will increase the damage of your arcane spell by 15% as well as increase its own mana cost. You can stack this spell up to three times, giving you a very high damage boost. At the third cast, it increase your base damage by 45% and cost around 56% of your base mana, which will make your mana pool suffer if you do it without proper gear.

2. Once you powered yourself with 3 times Arcane Blast, Arcane Barrage will be your choice of spell. Cycling between Arcane Blast and Arcane Barrage will give you high DPS while not having to deal with the debuff.

Overcoming the trouble with mana isn’t impossible; you do have a few things you can use: runic mana potions, mana gems, evocation, and mage armor.

Fire Mage

You will be the one that everybody in your group expect to deal the most DPS while they protecting you and while you will not throwing half of your mana for damage boost like an Arcane mage, you still need adequate amount of mana to keep burst high DPS. Also keep in mind that you don?t have the survivability like a Frost mage have, so you will need a little more control skill. These are the basic playing style as a Fire mage:

1. Your primary spell for damage is Fireball, but it is not a wise decision to spam it since it will make your mana pool suffer; the best way to use it is mixing other spells to complement this spell. Remember to get Improved Fireball talent; it will reduce your cast time, which means more DPS.

2. For AoE (area of effect) spells Flamestrike is your best choice. You can talent it to create high critical rate and it can be cast from a long distance.

3. The job of the Fire mage is to deal high damage so you will want to add all talents that will increase damage, such as these: Improved Scorch, Fire Power, Ignite, and Incinerate.

4. Having Flame Throwing will increase your survivability since it gives you an extra 6 yards of casting distance. Definitely a must have talent.

The purpose of this build was to increase damage. The next thing you will want to concentrate on is spell damage gear and enchant boost so you can increase your damage output, if you use it correctly.

Frost Mage

As a Frost mage, you will have more survivability since you have the spells to kite such as Frostbolt and have less problem with mana since frost spells are quite mana friendly. Despite all these advantages, Frost spells don?t have as much damage as Fire spells or insane damage boost as Arcane spells, so you need to invest your points very carefully. These are the basic playing style as a Frost mage:

1. Your main damage spell is Frostbolt, but the spell is not very effective on its own. Complement it with Frostbite, Ice Shard, Shatter, Piercing Ice, and Frost Channeling will get you a nice damage package. Don?t forget to invest on Improved Frost Bolt; it will reduce your cast time, which means more DPS.

2. Blizzard and Improved Blizzard together will lower your target movement.

3. Increase the range of your spell by using Arctic Reach. This will keep you safe and further away from your enemies.

4. Get Frost Nova, it is the gateway to Shatter effect.

5. Ice Block is an essential defense skill; you cannot act for the skill duration but in exchange you will immune to everything, clear almost all debuffs, drop all aggro, and give time for your group?s priest to heal you.

You won’t burst much damage, but by casting Blizzard with Improved Blizzard, Frostbite, and Shatter, you will be able to help your group because you kite a whole mob which will make it easier for the others to kill them.

This is just one idea of some of the basic builds available. This WoW mage guide is focused only on one talent tree. There are other builds you can use such as: Arcane-Frost, Fire-Frost, etc. No matter what build you choose you will need gold to buy gear. Remember, a mage is very reliant on his gear to increase his survivability and DPS.

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