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Mage Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Spec 1-60 - WoW Classic
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Welcome to Wowhead's Classic WoW Mage leveling guide! In this guide, we will go over everything you need to know while leveling your Mage in Classic WoW.
If you're looking for the Season of Discovery leveling guides for Mage, be sure to check out our guides below --
Mage DPS Mage Healer
The guide goes over the best Mage talent builds and the best Mage questing zones, to improve your leveling time, available weapon skills for Mage, best Mage stat, and more. We also have tips for when should you go buy spells and which spells to buy, which is a key part to get your mount as fast as possible. Besides that, we have recommendations on the best Mage leveling gear, what pieces to aim for while leveling and more to ensure you reach level 60 quickly.
About the Author
Woah
is a World of Warcraft veteran, having played
since Vanilla
, all the way until the
current expansion
, on multiple characters, guilds, servers and classes. Currently playing WoW Classic and challenging Azeroth again from the beginning, in
Gehennas EU Horde
.
Top Things You Shouldn't Miss While Leveling a Mage in Classic WoW
Here are just a few things to keep in mind while leveling your
法师
.
Speak to your
法师
trainer at
levels 30-40
to begin the chain
Speak to your
法师
trainer at
level 60
to begin the quest for
Get a wand
ASAP
! Wands will greatly aid you in leveling: whether in a dungeon or out in the open world
Save up around
50 gold
, (reduced with SoM) as detailed in our mount and riding skill guide, so you can purchase your mount riding skill and the mount itself at level 40, and also for your epic mount at 60.
When approaching
levels 50 and up
, begin checking out your Pre-Raid BiS gear and where it drops. You can begin farming certain dungeons early on, while still gaining XP, to obtain some of that Pre-Raid BiS gear before 60:
Classic Mage Best in Slot (BiS)
Mage Leveling Talents in Classic WoW
Below we will outline some common builds for Mages leveling to 60 in Classic WoW, with links to separate guide pages describing them in greater detail.
Frost Mage Leveling in Classic WoW
Frost is, overall, the best leveling spec for Mages as it gives you access to both damage and (defensive) utility. You can also opt into various AoE Leveling builds that use talents designed to pull, control, and destroy 5+ enemies at once every pull.
Frost Mage Leveling Guide
AoE Leveling in Classic WoW
Another option of Frost talents, but in a complete different mindset. This path focuses on grinding hordes of mobs and killing them all at the same time, drastically improving the leveling speed.
Mage AoE Leveling
Arcane Mage Leveling in Classic WoW
Arcane is interesting in the sense that it supports the usage of Fire / Frost spells equally well. It also naturally evolves into one of our recommended end-game builds, AP Frost, which can be a plus for players wanting to get the hang of it while leveling.
Arcane Mage Leveling Guide
Fire Mage Leveling in Classic WoW
Fire provides the highest single target damage potential for a Mage, at the cost of some of Frost's control and defensive potential.
Fire Mage Leveling Guide
Spells to Buy while Leveling as a Mage in Classic WoW
This is a critical section to take the time to read because a common misconception is that you'll need to buy every single ability as you can train them when, in reality, you only need to purchase certain spells at certain levels. This path will save you a lot of travel time, as well as a lot of gold that can go toward buying your first mount at level 40.
Spells to Buy as Frost Mage
Spells to Buy when AoE Leveling
Spells to Buy as Arcane Mage
Spells to Buy as Fire Mage
Mage Leveling DPS Rotation in Classic WoW
While all Mage builds share many abilities, each spec has unique abilities to use while leveling that they prefer to use based on their talents.
The guide links below detail the rotation for each Mage leveling build in more detail:
Frost Mage Leveling Rotation
Mage AoE Leveling Rotation
Arcane Mage Leveling Rotation
Fire Mage Leveling Rotation
Mage Dungeon Leveling in Classic WoW
Mages are one of the best DPS to bring for dungeons. Besides bringing strong single target damage, they also have incredible AoE for large pulls, provide utility with
奥术智慧
and portals, plus they can supply the healer and other casters with free drinks.
Mage Dungeon Cleave Setup in Classic WoW
A popular leveling strategy that has recently surfaced in WoW Classic is a dungeon cleave group.
Spell Cleave Dungeon Guide
Let's quickly go over some strategies for a
法师
who may find themselves in a spell cleave group. This is a very fast-paced strategy, and oftentimes groups will spend hours at a time in one particular dungeon. Your primary objective will be AoEing and provide utility with your
Portals, Conjuring Food/Drink
and more:
Frost spells work great to kite large packs of mobs using:
,
,
Use your AoE abilities such as
,
烈焰风暴
Stay out of melee range, use
to save yourself from dying
Provide food & drinks for your group
Mage Trainer Locations in Classic WoW
You must train abilities, including their higher ranks, through Mage Trainers. The Mage Class Trainer guide details the locations of all Class Trainers as well as the costs of all abilities. You can also check out the "Spells to Buy while Leveling as a Mage" section of this guide for which are the very best abilities to train, and which you can skip to save gold.
Mage Class & Portal Trainer Location Guide
Alliance Mage Trainers in Classic WoW
Northshire Abbey, Elwynn Forest:
凯尔登·布雷门
Goldshire, Elwynn Forest:
扎尔迪玛·维夫希尔特
Wizard's Sanctum, Mage Quarter, Stormwind:
詹妮亚·坎农
,
艾尔莎林
Anvilmar, Dun Morogh:
玛瑞克·斯托纳尔
Kharanos, Dun Morogh:
玛济斯·石衣
Hall of Mysteries, The Mystic Ward, Ironforge:
彬克
,
丁克
,
朱莉·雷线
,
尼特布尔·火花
Horde Mage Trainers in Classic WoW
Deathknell, Tirisfal Glades:
伊莎贝拉
Brill, Tirisfal Glades:
凯恩·火歌
Magic Quarter, Undercity:
安娜斯塔西娅·哈特威尔
,
皮尔斯·沙克尔顿
,
凯利斯蒂亚
Valley of Trials, Durotar:
迈安
Sen'jin Village, Durotar:
安苏瓦
Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar:
尤塞尔奈
,
迪诺
,
恩尤
,
皮菲瑞多
Pools of Vision, Thunder Bluff:
奥松·格鲁尔
,
瑟斯顿·科萨恩
,
大法师山姆
Portal Trainers in Classic WoW
Wizard's Sanctum, Mage Quarter, Stormwind:
拉瑞麦尼·普尔度
Hall of Mysteries, The Mystic Ward, Ironforge:
贝尔斯塔弗·风暴之眼
Temple of the Moon, Darnassus:
埃莉萨·杜马斯
Magic Quarter, Undercity:
莱克斯顿·莫泰姆
Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar:
索乌
Pools of Vision, Thunder Bluff:
比尔吉特·克兰斯顿
WoW Classic Mage Weapon Skills
Mages are able to equip Staves, One-Handed Swords, Daggers, and Wands. All Mages begin their Classic with the Staves and Wand skills learned, and they will need to learn how to equip Daggers and One-Handed Swords.
]Learn more about Weapons for Mages in our Mage Weapon and Wand Guide
Default Weapon Skills for Classic Mages
Every Mage race starts off with one weapon skill learned by default.
Race
Default Weapon Skills
人类
Staves
侏儒
Staves
巨魔
Staves
亡灵
Staves
Weapon Trainers for Classic Mage Weapon Skills
At level 10, Classic Mages can visit weapon trainers in capital cities to learn additional weapon skills for each.
Be aware that not all Cities have trainers for all weapon skills - For instance, there is no Sword Trainer in Thunder Bluff.
Weapon Master Location
Weapons Skills Taught
伊琳尼雅·月火
(57.6, 46.6), Warrior's Terrace, Darnassus
Daggers
比克斯
(62.0, 89.6), Military Ward, Ironforge
Daggers
吴平
(57.0, 57.6), Trade District, Stormwind
Daggers, One-Handed Swords
塞尤克
(81.6, 19.4), Valley of Honor, Orgrimmar
Daggers
阿基巴德
(57.8, 31.6), War Quarter, Undercity
Daggers, One-Handed Swords
Best Weapons and Gear For Leveling a Mage
Unlike Melee classes, Mages don't need particular item upgrades in order to have success in their leveling. You'll want to figure out what the best stats are and use pieces that give you better stats than you previously had, looking for pieces with Intellect to increase your mana pool, Stamina for health, and Spirit for health regeneration.
Wands are very useful for leveling as a Mage, as you can damage enemies at range and conserve Mana at the same time, which reduces downtime. There are two primary sources of wands on a fresh server, enchanting and questing:
Enchanting Wands in Classic WoW
If you're looking to get a wand early on in Classic World of Warcraft, then you're going to want to look into enchanting.
次级魔法杖
is the earliest wand you can pick up; it requires 10 skill in enchanting and is created by
次级魔法杖
. This item is generally pretty cheap on a developed server; you can probably find this on the auction house for just a few silver. If you're on a fresh server, you'll have to invest some time and resources into leveling enchanting in order to get this wand.
强效魔法杖
is a "greater" version of the previous wand but also takes a bit more effort as it requires to reach 70 enchanting to craft it. If you aren't leveling on a fresh server and the auction house has had time to develop, you will be able to purchase this item relatively cheap as well.
Questing Wands in Classic WoW
As you reach the 10-19 zones, you'll start to discover quests that give you a wand as a reward, if you're speed leveling and not trying to level up your professions in order to obtain one you will want to rush these quests. Some of the earlier questing wands for each faction include:
人民军之星
: Reward from
西部荒野人民军
in Westfall, available for the Alliance.
精灵魔杖
: Reward from
in Darkshore, available for the Alliance.
矮人火焰魔杖
: Reward from
收集石像
in Loch Modan, available for the Alliance.
燃烧之杖
: Reward from
逃跑
in The Barrens, available for the Horde.
凋零魔杖
: Reward from
博伦的巢穴
in Silverpine Forest, available for the Horde.
墓碑节杖
is a notable low-level wand from the dungeon quest
in Blackfathom Deeps.
At level 30, Mages can start the questline for
冰怒魔杖
, which will take them to the Scarlet Monastery Dungeon.
Use our
Classic Wands Database
to find even more wands. You can even filter by wands that
deal frost damage
.
Mage Leveling Wand Progression in Classic WoW
When leveling, wand upgrades will be very impactful for Mages due to the sheer number of times you find yourself wanding mobs to finish them off. Because of this, always having the best-possible wand can make your leveling experience much easier and faster.
For DPSing and questing in general, you'll be usually fine always going for Wands that have a higher DPS stat, so you can use that as a rule to see if a weapon is an upgrade or not.
Below is a list of popular Wands and their levels/requirements, either for being Quest Rewards, easily crafted by professions, or easy drop from popular dungeons.
Note
, however, that this is not an extensive list of every weapon available while leveling. Don't grow attached to wands and replace them often when you find DPS upgrades on them, even if they are white wands from vendors, as long as they offer better DPS stats.
Lvl 5:
次级魔法杖
11.3 DPS -
附魔
(10)
(A)Lvl 9:
人民军之星
12.7 DPS - Reward from
西部荒野人民军
in
西部荒野
Lvl 13:
强效魔法杖
17.5 DPS -
附魔
(70)
Lvl 15:
烟尘魔杖
13.4 DPS - Available from
Wand Vendors
.
(A)Lvl 17:
塑法魔杖
20.3 DPS - Reward from
完鳞归玛伦
in
石爪山脉
.
Lvl 17:
曲奇的搅汤棒
22.3 DPS - Dropped from
曲奇
in
死亡矿井
.
(A)Lvl 23:
神圣魔杖
24.1 DPS - Reward from
森林里的狼人
in
暮色森林
.
(A)Lvl 22:
挖掘之杖
24.2 DPS - Reward from
奥莫尔的复仇
in
湿地
.
Lvl 24:
墓碑节杖
29 DPS - Reward from
黑暗深渊中的恶魔
/
in
黑暗深渊
.
(H)Lvl 25:
跳动之火
32.8 DPS - Reward from
in
千针石林
.
(A)Lvl 30:
悲伤魔棒
31.8 DPS - Reward from
通缉:奥图和法库雷斯特
in
阿拉希高地
.
Lvl 30:
冰怒魔杖
/
怒火魔杖
/
虚空灵力魔杖
37.2 DPS - Reward from Class Quest
.
Lvl 30:
燃火魔杖
32.7 DPS - Reward from
破碎岭好战者
in
希尔斯布莱德丘陵
.
Lvl 35:
侏儒除草器
32.7 DPS - Reward from
in
阿拉希高地
.
Lvl 41:
黑骨魔杖
35.3 DPS - Available from
Wand Vendors
.
Lvl 43:
碑石长条
41.4 DPS - Reward from
in
菲拉斯
.
Lvl 46:
诺克赛恩魔杖
50 DPS - Dropped by
诺克赛恩
in
玛拉顿
.
Lvl 54:
烟鬼的打火器
53.1 DPS - Reward from
烟鬼的炸药
in
东瘟疫之地
.
Lvl 51:
侵蚀魔棒
55 DPS - Dropped by
伊兰尼库斯的阴影
in
沉没的神庙
.
Lvl 51:
蜿蜒骨杖
54.6 DPS - Dropped by
杰德
in Upper Blackrock Spire.
Stat Weights while Leveling in Classic WoW
Spell Power > Intellect > Spirit >= Stam
Spell Power:
You probably won't find much of this while leveling but, if you can get your hands on any spell power gear I would use it.
Intellect:
Gives you spell crit and more importantly increases your mana pool.
Spirit:
Spirit is nice to have while leveling in Classic, as it grants you higher Mana regeneration outside of combat, reducing the amount of time you need to drink for. It's slightly more useful on Trolls because of their racial
再生
.
Stamina:
Increases total health points, allowing you to survive through mistakes.
Best Mage Professions in Classic WoW
Although there are many professions to choose from, some can give a
法师
a bit of an edge. Many choose to go
工程学
&
裁缝
. With these two professions, a
法师
can craft many helpful pieces of gear to aid them in leveling, as well as help get them geared with the recommended
Pre-raid BiS
(Best in Slot) gear such as:
绿色透镜
(...of Frozen Wrath) -
工程学
大法师之袍
-
裁缝
工程学
can also greatly aid you in both PvE and PvP combat. You'll find many cloth materials for
裁缝
if you choose to run a Dungeon Cleave strategy.
If you're looking to just make money, oftentimes players will choose a gathering profession such as
草药学
,
采矿
or
剥皮
.
Mage Class Quests in Classic WoW
In WoW Classic, all classes have special quests that are unique to them, providing unique experiences and, more importantly, rewards. For a
法师
, you'll find that many class quests will pop up for you from your class trainers throughout the leveling journey. Some of the rewards are better than others, but you can see a full list of all of the
Mage Class Quests in Classic WoW
. Some notable rewards from
法师
class quests include:
冰怒魔杖
,
虚空灵力魔杖
or
怒火魔杖
from
(Level 30)
冰川之矛
,
奥术水晶坠饰
or
火焰宝石
,
法师的会见
from class trainer (Level 50)
from
in
艾萨拉
(Level 60)
You can learn about some of the notable Classic WoW
法师
Class quests in our Mage Class Quests Guide.
Changes to Questing in Classic WoW
If you're coming to Classic from BFA or any recent expansion for that matter, there are going to be some changes in your questing experience that you will want to be ready for:
Quests and Objectives are not displayed on the map.
To put it: you will have to do some exploring. You will get lost at some point during a quest, and you might have to read the actual quest or go to an external website to find out what you are supposed to be doing. While there may someday be a leveling addon for Classic, part of the game "experience" is feeling immersed in the world and creating an adventure of your very own.
Enemies Are Stronger Than on Retail.
As a
法师
you can handle several mobs at once, which is unique for Classic; but, it's worth noting that enemies on Classic are much stronger than enemies you'd find while leveling on Retail.
Zones don't guarantee a certain amount of levels:
Once again, coming from BFA or one of the later expansions, you might be used to finishing a zone (Vol'Dun for instance) and expecting to be two levels higher. In Classic, the difficulty of zones vary, you'll find yourself bouncing between a few zones at any given level range.
Best Mage Questing Zones in Classic WoW
While questing is all about opportunity, exploration, and competition, you should be familiar with some of the better zones for each faction:
黑海岸
(11-19): Once you complete the starting area for your particular race, you begin to have options of where to go, where to quest, and for Alliance, in particular, one of the best early game zones is Darkshore.
洛克莫丹
(10-18): Second to Darkshore would be the Gnome/Dwarf 10-18 zone of Loch Modan. The zone isn't as rich as Darkshore, but, it has some relatively easy quests. This is a good place to come back to and complete the quests once you out-level the content.
西部荒野
(9-18): While these initial questing zones come down to preference, I would not suggest Westfall as a zone in regards to difficulty. However, if you have a group of friends you are leveling with, and you want to go into Deadmines for a quest run and get some higher item level rewards, this zone is worth considering.
赤脊山
(15-25): This is the level range where you will have to bounce between zones of equal difficulty if you want to fill your quest bar from questing alone. Forming an efficient route of the next few zones will be important to increase your leveling speed.
暮色森林
(20-30): This is probably one of my favorite zones; it's full of quests, full of flavor, and has a lot of solid upgrades. Don't miss out on this zone if you play Alliance.
湿地
(20-30): This is probably the last "Alliance only" zone, from here on out you will enter into zones that are contested by both Horde and Alliance.
北贫瘠之地
(10-33): This is the big one, as it is the meeting point for three of the four races of the Horde, this zone has no shortage of quests and will easily propel you toward level 20. As great as this zone is, be ready to compete for mob tags, as there will be a lot of players funneled into this one zone.
银松森林
(10-20): This is the Undead version of The Barrens; it has some decent quests to complete, but, I usually don't end up coming here at all.
石爪山脉
(15-25): Although this zone offers Alliance quests, it is almost entirely a Horde zone. This zone is fantastic as it is right next to the Barrens, and the level range of the two zones overlap.
希尔斯布莱德丘陵
(20-31): Home to the infamous Southshore vs. Tarren Mill world PvP spot, this zone has a lot of good quests for both Alliance and Horde and is usually worked into most people's leveling routes.
灰谷
(19-30): Another flavorful zone as this is the home to what will become Warsong Gulch, plenty of quests for both Alliance and Horde.
千针石林
(24-35): Home to the infamous Shimmer Flats, this is a great zone for both factions to get almost an entire level. It also has a questing hub for Horde.
北荆棘谷
(30-50): probably one of the most infamous zones in the whole of World of Warcraft, you will be coming to this zone off and on from level 30 and up towards level 50.
凄凉之地
(30-39): Home of the dungeon Maraudon, this is one of my favorite zones in the game, and I spend many levels here. There are both Horde and Alliance quest hubs here.
阿拉希高地
(30-40): This zone is home to the 2nd battleground Arathi Basin, there are two hubs here (one for each faction), and there are plenty of good kill quests here.
荒芜之地
(36-45): This is a quick and dirty zone, while it only has a hub for Horde; it is a quick level, and if you have enough players around your level you can do an Uldaman quest run.
塔纳利斯
(40-50): Home to the dungeon Zul'Farrak, I recommend questing here as well as doing a full quest run of ZF.
菲拉斯
(41-60): This is one of the less popular zones for people to quest at, it's worth coming here in your early 40s as there are plenty of quests for both factions.
灼热峡谷
(43-56): This zone is particularly exciting because you get your first taste of the end-game, On one side of Blackrock Mountain is a lower level zone with various quests coming from the Thorium Brotherhood.
燃烧平原
(50-59): The other side of Blackrock Mountain, this is a higher level zone and has hubs for both Horde and Alliance, you will probably come to this zone a couple of times as the level range is quite large. Some dungeon quests come from this zone.
费伍德森林
(47-54): This zone is a must-complete for me as the quests are quite good and you will need to come here to get your
塞纳里奥信标
, which is needed to farm various consumables like
鞭根块茎
.
安戈洛环形山
(48-55): This is another hot zone as it has a plethora of quests and will get you nearly two levels from completing the crater.
西瘟疫之地
(46-57): This zone is excellent for quick leveling, as you can complete the "cauldron" questline for massive amounts of experience. It's worth noting that you need a breadcrumb quest from your faction's major city.
东瘟疫之地
(54-59): Home to the legendary Naxxramas, this zone gives you another taste of the end-game immediately upon questing. You will spend a lot of time here even at max level.
冬泉谷
(55-60): This is an amazing zone, it has a ton of quests that give a ton of experience, and you can get
玛艾里的容器
, allowing you to farm Jujus, a very good consumable for raids.
Leveling Routes in Season of Mastery
For more detailed leveling routes, you can check out our
Alliance
and
Horde
leveling route guides.
For a more streamlined leveling guide, you can check out
CWL 1-60 Leveling Guide
module created by Navak and Egregious on ClassicWoW.live. The guides in this module supply information based on the chosen faction, group size, race, and class.
Leveling Dungeons for Mages in Season of Mastery
While leveling in Classic, often you'll find quests for dungeons appropriate for your level. Classic doesn't have quality of life improvements like Dungeon finder or Group Finder, so players must use default chat channels like General or LookingForGroup to find groups for dungeons.
We have guides for all dungeons in Classic to help you in your journey.
Ragefire Chasm (13-18)
Wailing Caverns (15-25)
Deadmines (18-23)
Shadowfang Keep (22-30)
Blackfathom Deeps (20-30)
The Stockades (22-30)
Gnomeregan (24-34)
Razorfen Kraul (30-40)
Scarlet Monastery (26-45)
Razorfen Downs (40-50)
Uldaman (35-45)
Zul'farrak (44-54)
Maraudon (46-55)
Sunken Temple (55-60)
Blackrock Depths (52-60)
Lower Blackrock Spire (55-60)
Upper Blackrock Spire (55-60)
Scholomance (55-60)
Stratholme (Living) (55-60)
Stratholme (Undead) (55-60)
Bag Space in Season of Mastery
One aspect of Classic leveling that many players, especially retail players, often forget is bag space. Unlike when you start a new expansion, starting in Classic means you only have your default backpack available, with meager 14 items lots.
To ease that off, there are some bags that you can easily obtain at the start of the game:
亚麻包
- Created by Tailors. Requires
裁缝
skill level 45 and takes 6x
亚麻布
, obtained from Humanoid enemies, and 3x
粗线
, purchasable at
Tailoring supplies vendors
.
If you have the necessary materials, try asking in General Chat or Trade Chat if any Tailor could help you making that bag. If you find someone, make sure to tip them for their help!
棕色小袋
- Dropped by many different humanoid mobs and sold by
select vendors in early game
for around .
科多兽皮包
- Created by Leatherworkers. Requires
制皮
skill level 40 and is learned from
图样:科多兽皮包
, which is only sold by a Horde vendor. Alliance players may get this pattern by using the Neutral AH in Gadgetzan. Requires 3x
薄科多兽皮
, 4x
轻皮
, and 1x
粗线
.
Classic Bags and Storage Guide
Season of Mastery Mage Level 60 Guides
As you start getting closer to level 60, you may want to shift your focus from thinking about what is best while leveling your Mage to best max level options as far as best in slot gear, talents, and stats go. For that, we've prepared many different guides to guide you in your max level Mage journey.
Mage DPS Max Level Guides for Season of Mastery
Mage DPS PvE Overview
- The place to start your journey to be the best DPS Mage. Best races, best professions, strengths, weakenesses, and much more.
Mage DPS Talents & Builds
- Builds, talents trees, and more. Learn all about talents to minmax your builds and talent tree decisions. Learn more about popular Mage builds like Arcane Power Frost, Winters Chill, and Combustion builds.
Mage DPS BiS Gear
- Learn about the best Mage DPS pre-raid gear to get ready for and what pieces to get inside , including tier pieces and exceptional gear pieces .
Mage DPS Rotation & Abilities
- Everything you need to know to be the best DPS Mage. Learn about your abilities, rotations, priorities, and much more!
Mage DPS Stats
- Understand more about the stats for your Mage, learn what stats always to look for and how they affect you.
Mage DPS PvP Overview
- Everything you need to know to destroy and outmatch your enemies in PvP Combat. If it's red, it's dead!
Closing Thoughts on Leveling a Mage in Classic WoW
Quality of Life changes have been implemented over the years:
If you are coming from
Battle for Azeroth
, there are going to be a lot of not-so-friendly changes that make questing harder, or at least take more time. Quests and objectives won't be marked on your map, so you will have to do a lot more exploring. There won't be a steady stream of quests from 1-60, so you will have to combine questing and grinding enemies for the experience to level. There's no AoE looting, and quest items take space in your bags. Cooldown abilities are available much less frequently, and there's significantly less personal healing, which adds much more downtime in between pulls as you sit and eat or use First Aid/Alchemy to heal. Playing efficiently is the best thing you can do to speed up your leveling.
Play Frost for Leveling:
There's only one option for leveling a Mage, and that's using Frost Talents. Whether you are AoE grinding or leveling straight up, you will do the most damage and have the most efficient leveling experience as Frost. In addition to leveling speed, Frost is the best option for World PVP as well.
Grouping is optional for Mages:
Although I didn't cover this explicitly in this guide, Mages are almost always leveled solo, the best route for a mage to go is solo-AoE grinding. On the other hand, if you have some consistent leveling partners, there's nothing wrong with grouping with others and contributing massive AoE damage to help others.
Buy abilities only when needed:
A lot of people don't think it is possible to afford a mount by level 40, in reality, it's much easier as long as you only buy the necessary spell upgrades to save money. It's also worth noting that following this guide for buying spells will save you a lot of travel time as flights back to major cities or your questing hub can take a lot of time away from leveling.
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评论
评论来自
Impho
Your guide is awesome, one can say that you are a very good and experienced player, but i think there is one big error in it. You chose to talk just about aoe leveling and that is absolutely not going to happen when classic starts, because of the population. It would be better if you update this guide with involving single target leveling guide, which would be much more useful and realistic. I would like to see it. Although its just my opinion. Thank you for your information and experience :)
评论来自
macazares20
Wow Krug, great guide! As someone who never played back in Vanilla, I am very excited to get my journey started!
评论来自
Sytheion
For someone with only vague memories of what vanilla was like, this'll be an invaluable help for the levelling process. Thanks, Krug!
评论来自
Wortok
Is there any reason to level up
冰霜新星
?
As far as I remember, it only increases the damage with every rank.
And the damage of it is not that great compared to our other AOE spells.
So what is the reason for upgrading it?
评论来自
Arraya
Don’t forget some +Frost Spell Damage gear! Extremely helpful, so you’ll want the Azure Silk set ;)
评论来自
Topetine
so arcane explosion won't have a casting time when classic servers launch?
guess they're planning on removing all of the annoying parts from the get-go, to not lose people within the first few months. cause i vividly remember speccing into that when i was running around saldean's farm in westfall, trying out my reduced casting time on a wolf
评论来自
dein0s
Kinda weird guide, starting from talents and stat weights. I do understand that people have different playstyles and all that, but i still don't get why you don't pick arcane meditation and imp frostbolt at 60 but put points in talents like wand spec, arcane resilience, shatter.
But the thing that makes me question even more is - why someone will ever put spell power on a first place while leveling? There're only 3 mage spells that has 100% spell coeff: fireball, pyroblast and arcane missiles (100% per cast, not per missile). With all that said, you gona need ~24 spell damage (aka spell power) to get just +1 more damage on your blizzard tick for example (~4% spell coefficient per tick). And 24 spell damage is really a big deal with items having 5-10 spd on average until late 40s - early 50s.
评论来自
Macbrutus
Great guide. Thanks
评论来自
etomu
Quite sure that stat weights while leveling are:
Stam > Int=Spirit > Spell power
评论来自
Scuttlefrog
I'm wondering if master of elements procs off of blizzard and do lesser ranked frostbolts or blizzards get resisted more? Does blizzard crit sporadically every second or does the whole channel crit/not crit? Thank you.
评论来自
ZoktarScryers
I leveled as frost mage and as a fire/arcane mage in Vanilla (two different servers). Frost gives you more survivability (especially after the Frost Barrier talent). But I found leveling as fire/arcane better suited for my play style. Fire/arcane is also a good build for pvp, particularly when you get the Presence of Mind (PoM) talent in the arcane tree.
So if you don't want to go frost for your mage, here is my take on a fire/arcane.
Start in the fire talent tree. The goal is to grab Pyroblast as soon as possible. This is one of the greatest damage spells in the game. Starting a fight with Pyroblast gives you a good advantage over regular mobs.
Switching to arcane now is ok but you will be subpar compared to a full fire spec. You may want to respect to fire/arcane at level 41 which is when you are able to have both Pyroblast and PoM. After grabbing PoM, continue arcane until the final talent Arcane Power. Then, you can grab a few more fire talents.
This is not a build for everyone. Frost may be more consistent. But if you are disliking frost, this could be an alternative.
评论来自
Grimzou
This is a build for aoe solo xp. It's the best build for leveling. The big problem is that you wont be able to aoe all the time becausse of the population server.
So I think the Solo target build is the best at the beginning.
In a Pvp server, Aoe build is to avoid because of player who wants to gank you, the single target will be more usefull
Cya
评论来自
Hezkezl
The "Mage Class Quests" section has a typo in the item ID of one of the rewards.
Icefury Wand, Brain Hacker or Ragefire Wand from Mage's Wand (Level 30)
Brain Hacker is a 2h axe, lol. It has an item ID of 1263. The right item is #11263, the Nether Force Wand.
FYI!
评论来自
Varagos
Thank you so much for this, just started as a mage and this will be invaluable.
评论来自
BooFluff
yeah FYI Duskwood is not meant for level 10-30, its 20-30. Go there at level 10 and you will die!
评论来自
Kurtosis
When you recommend saving money for your class mount at 40, you should add a note on
how much they cost
. Free for Paladins and Warlocks but every other class has to buy theirs.
评论来自
Mikula
RE: Mage levelling - higher ranks of Frost Nova do not increase the damage dealt (not notably at any rate), root time, or area of the spell. They literally just cost more mana. Keep rank 1 to save a bit of gold and to give you easier escape when you're low on mana.
评论来自
Parrs
Why does this guide go 3/3 into Imp Blizzard? Should only be speccing 2/3 so it doesn't overwrite Cone of Cold's slow.
评论来自
Pensrikin
Cone of Cold Can be used on "Frozen" enemies to Shatter them for a guaranteed critical strike. This spell can also be used simply as instant cast AoE damage that adds a slow.
I have a question.Where does it day that Cone of Cold lands a crit if enemies are frozen? Closest thing I can find is the Shatter talent, which you even capitalized Shatter as if the talent were indicated, but you don't put points into it. I'm just confused on why everyone is saying it should be critting when it's not for me or my husband.
评论来自
leokhaleesi
Great guide! For the stat weights, do you happen to have specific weight values or a pawn string? The default pawn frost mage scales favor stamina over int, which isn't ideal.
评论来自
Furryhoof
Kodo Hide Bag? Seriously? This is such a meme item. You can buy 6 slot bag from any vendor for 4-5 silver. Getting materials to craft this bag is generally not worth it at all. No sane mage would take leatherworking to craft this bag!
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