Best Mage Build

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. Basically, Mages are glass cannons.

Mages do damage with direct spells, they can unleash huge damage in a little time and they have effective area of effect (AOE) spells that slow and damage every enemy in a certain radius.

Mages are very good at 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 are able to retard the enemy in a frost blizzard. In either PVE or PVP game play, the Mages crowd control functions well.

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.

Alchemy is also a good choice for the various buffs that will either make your strengths even stronger (more spell damage) or compensate for your weaknesses (damage absorption, more life).

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. You have three talent trees to choose from, each tree has a differing focus of abilities. Ensure that each talent point you get is spent every time you level.

Careful planning of what tree or trees to spend your points on is vital. By paying gold you can get talent points returned. A few suggestions for the best mage builds are made for your class in World of Warcraft Mastery guides.