Building The Best Mage In World Of Warcraft

Class Strengths and Weaknesses

Mages do amazing damage, and have some of the best crowd control in the game. They are also the easiest class to die. Essentially, Mages are glass cannons.

With their direct spells, Mages are able to unleash a great amount of damage in a small amount of time and they have the useful AOE (area of effect) spells that retard and harm all enemies within range.

Mages have great crowd control. Their enemies are left to wander around lost and dazed as they are polymorphed by the Mage into sheep and other critters. They can slow enemies in a blizzard of frost. The Mages crowd control works well in both PVP and PVE gameplay.

In groups (instances and raids) Mages are expected to do high damage, give out Intellect buffs to all casters, set a nice table (the Table of Refreshment that a Mage conjures provides food that restores both health and mana), and polymorph key targets.

Suggested Professions

Tailoring with Enchanting is a good choice for a Mage (if you have lots of gold to level these expensive professions). You can create awesome armor for yourself that won’t be exceeded until you get raid gear.

An excellent choice for various buff is Alchemy which will either compensate for you deficienies (more life, damage absorption) or improve your strengths (more spell damage).

Noticably, unless you can turn them into mega gold getting professions, leatherworking and blacksmithing have not much to offer.

Mage Talents

When you level you get a talent point starting at level 10. Tailoring your WoW character is provided by way of talent trees. There are differing abilities in the 3 talent trees that there are to choose from. Ensure that each talent point you get is spent every time you level.

It is crucial to carefully plan what talent trees to spend you talent points on. You have to pay gold to get talent points refunded. A few suggestions for the best mage builds are made for your class in World of Warcraft Mastery guides.