WoW Mage Guide for Beginners

This WoW mage guide offers an insight into the extremely fun mage character in the World of Warcraft.

This WoW mage guide will show you all the best bits about being a mage in the World of Warcraft, and how to make the best of your new mage character.

The World of Warcraft offers you a variety of options for character choice, in this WoW mage guide we will be looking at the mage character and the abilities that this character will bring to you.

The first thing that you will need to do when selecting your character is to decide on whether you want to play as the horde or as the alliance. This choice will influence your game massively as it will determine the options that you have for the race of your mage. There are 5 options of race for the horde and 6 options for the alliance. Each of the different races bring with them racial abilities that benefit your character.

The horde options and benefits are as follows

Blood Elf race gives you increased enchanting skill, increased arcane resistance and a silencing ability.

Forsaken race gives you underwater breathing, increased shadow resistance, cannibalize to restore your health and will of the forsaken which removes all movement impairing effects.

Goblin race gives you discounts with vendors, increased alchemy skill and potion healing increase, the ability to summon a personal bank, rocket jump ability and also you can fire rockets at enemies.

Orc race gives you enrage ability to increase damage, makes you resistant to stun effects, increases your pet damage and increases expertise with axes and fist weapons.

Troll race gives you berserk which increases attack and casting speed, regeneration increase, increased damage against beasts, increased critical strike chance with bows and throwing weapons and also reduced duration of movement impairing effects.

The alliance options and benefits are as follows

Human race gives you increased spirit, increased reputation gains, increased expertise with swords and maces and also you can break out of movement impairing effects.

Dwarf race gives you the ability to take on stone form, increased critical strike rating with guns, resistance to frost damage, allows you to find extra archaeology fragments and survey faster and also gives you increased expertise with maces.

Night Elf race gives you the ability to fade into the background, makes you less likely to be hit, wisp form when dead for faster movement, increased nature resistance and faster movement when stealthed.

Gnome race gives you an ability allowing you to escape from movement impairing effects, increased mana, increased resistance to arcane damage, increased engineering skill and increased expertise with daggers and small swords.

Draenei race gives you increased jewelcrafting skill, a heal over time spell, increased chance to hit and increased shadow resistance.

Worgen race gives you periodic movement speed increase, increased critical strike chance, resistant to nature and shadow damage and an increased skinning skill and speed.

From the above list you should be better equipped to choose the race of your mage making use of the most relevant racial benefits.

Your new mage character will allow you to do massive dps and depending on the spec that you choose you will be set up for either burst damage, continuous damage or crowd control abilities. The 3 specs available are fire, arcane and frost. Fire allows maximum burst damage so that you can kill things quickly. The arcane spec is more balanced and increases your damage with all types of magic, but focuses on mainly doing more damage consistently. Frost spec for a mage allows you to become a master of crowd control which will allow you to take on groups of enemies and win.

There are a variety of very useful specific abilities for the mage class including the ability to teleport and create portals to the main cities. Mages can also make their own food and water to replenish health and mana. They also have a buff that gives a boost to intellect and the ability to blink which allows the mage to instantly jump forward and out of harms way. Mages also have the ability to polymorph enemies taking them out of the action for a short time.

The mage character is a fun character to play and is always welcome in groups due to the massive damage and crowd control abilities. The extra benefits of the buff and the constant supply of food and water only make life better for the mage and their group.

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