Mages are sought after members of most groups in WoW. Their intelligence buff coupled with their ability to provide foods that regenerate health and mana are some of their most sought after characteristics. The Mage is also famous for its burst DPS.
When comparing a Mage to other classes, you'll notice that Mages definitely lacks something when it comes to hit points. The are also far more limited in their fighting than other classes such as Warlocks and Hunters who have pets, the ability to heal themselves when hurt (Priests, Shaman, and Druids), they don't even have heavy armor like Paladins and Warriors do. What the Mage has is control In order to successfully level a Mage you'll need to learn how to master this.
Mages, like all other WoW classes have three skill trees. For Mages, the skill trees are Arcane, Fire, and Frost. Frost is the skill that has most control out of the three. Arcane and Fire both lack a lot in terms of control but can be devastating for opponents.
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.
A tactic that I have used often (one that works very well for me) when leveling my Mage's is to go out to an area where there a plenty of mobs, get them around you and the go for them with Frost Nova. This will root them still in one place. You should then follow this up with Blizzard (make sure you're out of melee range) to do massive damage.
Some players may argue that you should always go for mobs that are your level, I don't see it like that however, lets play out two different scenarios.
In scenario one we will assume I'm out fighting mobs my own level. Given I don't have strong armor and the mobs hit hard, I'll have to take them out one at a time. At an estimate lets say I can kill one every 3 minutes, that means I'd get through 20 in an hour all going well. At 200 points per kill, I'll have a grand total of 4000 experience points after an hours killing.
In scenario 2 we will head out into a zone where there are a heap of mobs that are all green to me. I start rounding them up 5 at a time and going at them by freezing them and then using Blizzard. I'll earn about 500 experience points for each group of mobs that I kill. I kill these off at about the same time it took me to kill 1 in scenario 1. I can therefore make 10000 experience points per hour compared to 4000 in scenario 1. I'll also get to loot a heap more mobs meaning I'll be able to make a lot more cash.
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.
Tyrone Bouton is an avid WoW player. Learn more about Leveling a Mage by reading Tyrone's WoW Mage Leveling Guide. If you want to dominate WoW, Seth recommends checking out the Ultimate WoW Guide.
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