Eragon's Mage Guide

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Submitted by Eragon on Tue, 2008-01-01 01:21.

Intro

How's it going? I'm Eragon, you might have read my paladin guide well, now I'm back and I'm ready to give some mages some advice! I have a 20 mage on Sen'jin and I love to play on him let me tell you about mages please.

Why Play A Mage?

Mages are alot of fun and make are a important part of WoW! They do a BUNCH of damage and DPS. They have a low amount of armor but thats why they do alot of damage. They are made to defeat thier opponents before they get to them and if they get to them to impair their movement and then step back again. They also are made for doing alot of damage to multiple enemies. Mages are a key to any group doing anything

Mage Professions

Mages can choose from alot of differnt professions unlike paladins the possiblities are vast. They can use Engineering & Mining mainly for the mount, but also for when they are out of mana they can easily just throw dynamite or let a minion go get them. A good one is enchanting because mages need as much intellect as they can get so the enchants help a lot. I would say the best is Tailoring because its good armor right after you finish 1 dungeon run. Instead of selling all the cloth make some armor.

Fire Mages

Fire Mages are great for doing damage alone and befare they have to impair thier enemy(ies) movement. They reduce some mana cost with a talent as well as having a Dragon's Breath talent witch Can do a lot of damage instantly. Good for Dungeons and PvP

Arcane Mages

Arcane Mages are almost exactly like Fire Mages . Once again I say Arcane Mages do ALOT of damage. They have a cool talent spell that allows the mage to slow it's target, great for all the runners. Good for Dungeons and Roleplaying

Frost Mages

Have I put you to sleep yet? Good I haven't! Okay the final type I would like to talk about is Frost Mages! Frost mages do alot of damage after impairing their enemy a couple of times. Their attacks cost the least mana and charge the fastest. They get to summon a water elemental as a talent, along with a ability that finished the cooldown of all fost spells.Good for Roleplaying and PvP

Conclusion

Please give me feedback on how I could improve future guides and make this one better. I also realize that I'm not a real good mage specialist so i know i might have made a few wrongs! Thanks a lot!

-Eragon

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Correction

Submitted by Vildecor on Wed, 2008-02-13 02:45.

With regard to Arcane Mages:

"They have a cool talent spell that is similair to paladin's divine favor and instantly eliminates the cooldown of all spells."

This is incorrect. In the frost tree, the talent Cold Snap finishes the cooldown on all frost spells. The arcane tree has no such talent. The final tier of Arcane gives you the Slow spell.

Also, I might add that while arcane mages can do a good amount of damage (the same as all other mages), they don't really break through damage-wise until they get Arcane Blast in their 60s. Before that point, the only damaging arcane spells are Arcane Missiles and Arcane Explosion.

I'll also agree with the last comment about mages being good for crowd control. In addition, they are also helpful for portals and their infamous conjured water (or refreshment table).