Warcraft Leveling Guides

Introduction

There are two main ways to level your mage but many different builds. As early as lvl 10 you will have to decide whether to be a fire mage or frost mage, both builds are equally as good for leveling but require a different playstyle. If its fast leveling you want then you should probably choose a fire mage as you will burn through your opponent fast with a high sustained DPS. From Level 40 you may want to check out the Frost/AoE grind leveling techniques often discussed on forums but for pure speed leveling and single target killing then a fire mage is faster.

Talent Points

Lvl10-14 Improve Fireball 5/5
Lvl15-16 Flame Throwing 2/2
Lvl17-19 Ignite 3/5
Lvl20 Pyroblast 1/1
Lvl21-22 Ignite 5/5
Lvl23-24 Burning Soul 2/2
Lvl25-29 Impact 5/5
Lvl30 Blast Wave 1/1
Lvl31-33 Critical Mass 3/3
Lvl34 Improve Fire Blast 1/3
Lvl35-39 Fire Power 5/5
Lvl40 Combustion 1/1
Lvl41-43 Pyromaniac 3/3
Lvl44-45 Molten Fury 2/2
Lvl46-47 Improve Fire Blast 3/3
Lvl48-49 Incinerate 2/2
Lvl50 Dragon Breath 1/1
Lvl51-55 Improved Frost Bolt
Lvl56-60 Ice Shards
Lvl61-63 Frostbite
Lvl64-65 Improved Frost Nova
Lvl66-70 Shatter

Fighting Strategies

Before you begin any leveling you should always self buff with Arcane Intellect and Frost Armor and make 20 or more of your highest level food and water. With so many different crowd controlling (CC) techniques available to them a mage can fight in a variety of ways. As you level you will get more experience on how to kill with different spells and what to do when things go wrong.

Your main CC will be Frost Nova to root mob as they get close to you, but you will soon have Polymorph to play about with as well. Both these skills when used with Blink should keep any mob away from you and this is the most important part of your kill strategy, you cant kill much if your dead!

Before engaging in any fight get maximum range, use polymorph if more than one mob in the area, and open with Frostbolt (from lvl4) to slow the mob, next would be to blast them with Fireball until dead or they are near you. Now depending on their level of health will determine your next action. If 25% or less you could use Fire Blast (from lvl 6) and Scorch (fromLvl22), if more than 25% you could Frost Nova and run/blink away and turn to continue Fireball’s until dead.

As you gain more spells and abilities take time to get to understand them and use them in the right situation at the correct time. From lvl 12 you should use Dampen Magic if fighting any mob that use magic against you and Slow Fall is a fun skill to play with. At lvl20 you gain one of the most important abilities a fire mage has, Evocation will returmn mana to you when in battle so if you go Out Of Mana (OOM) either polymorph or beter still frost nove in place then evocate for mana then continue killing. You should remember that when polymorphed the mob will regain all its health and mana so you should use this wisely.