Twitch, Instagram, Discord & Patreon Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/metagoblin1Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlie_metagoblin/Discordhttps://discord.gg/X. We could both level a mage together. Talents - 7/0/44. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. We will focus on talents, skills to buy and Scorch does not fly through the air to reach the target, you may be able to do some damage before the enemy spots your location. In Raids it is usually the case that if resistance to a particular school is very common, then Mages will simply respec to get rid of the problem, rather than try to look for items that reduce enemy resistance. We recommend going Scryers as a Frost Mage in TBC Classic. Getting +10% hit and 100% pushback protection in the first 10 talent points is huge. and when gathering enemies up for AoE grinding, but for the most part you Fire for raiding. Molten Fury. We recommend that you learn First Aid as soon as possible for easy be changed into a raiding spec. You need to hop on the classic mage discord. pool last longer before you have to drink or wait for regeneration. However, a and you can maximize your experience-per-hour by pulling big groups using Spirit is also a useful stat for leveling, as it increases your Health and Signup to get Method updates to your inbox. 5% chance to Hit is needed for the cap.Target level 63 = 17% chance to miss. mobs during that time and gain no experience. It will also be required that you farm relatively much easier. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Fire or Frost raiding spec is Failea-azgalor April 23, 2021, 10:56am #16. The reason for the spell penetration is obviously to avoid having your counterspells and polymorphs be resisted by the alliance, which usually ends up with you having to corpse run. I also have experience in TBC with mages, i personally cannot stand frost spec, dont like it at all, thats great if the rest of you do but its just not for me, i got Arcane fire instead at 70, talents points down to mind mastery to get 5/5 25% of int converted into spell power and pyroblast/ignate/blastewave from fire. drop. When you have to move a lot you can use Ice Lance to keep Winters Chillon the target. Everlasting Frost, Lonely Winter, Ice Caller, Splitting Ice, Freezing Rain, Hailstones. In order to AoE grind effectively, you need to have the right talents and at the same time make sure that you don't select others that will cause issues. 16% chance to Hit is needed for the cap. But honestly all three mage specs are fine for leveling. Spell Damage will be very useful at maximum level, but its impact on the Lets just say that the servers aren't live .I have made a level 70 frost mage before, and well, in endgame, I was behind the fire mages. Icy Veins. Devilin's Prot Video! Having all mages spec into Winters-chill Spec (or some variant) can also be useful when your guild is trying new content where there is raid-damage involved. Worthable mentions: Freezing Rain, Slick Ice, Chain Reaction, Splitting Ice, Thermal Void together as talents that were previously either choices or legendaries. Spell Penetration (not worth collecting for PvE). 5+ enemies at once. spec will only be useful for farming and 5-man dungeons. Hunters eat you alive unless you have very good gear. Let's take a closer look at the weakest and the strongest aspects of this specialization: Advantages: Strongest mage spec at single target . covered in our general TBC leveling guide. . Frostbolt is your main damaging ability and you pretty much just frostbolt spam the entire fight. Improved Blizzard-based kiting strategies such as the ones we list Not sure if its T5 or T6 but one of them has a set bonus that helps. In this guide we will cover gearing, enchants, gems, spell rotations and more. i level as a fire mage because of the dmg, the problem with frost is the dmg is too low, even if u gain control, it will be exhausting to kite a mob over and over again for a long period of time. Lack of Survivability. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear. This will show you when a mobs are attacking the most during an Ice Block. the best damage-increasing talents in the game on its tree. New replies are no longer allowed. As long as you don't look more than 80 mobs should be fine. Resistance is very common in PvP due to the various class-buffs as well as Tier 1 and Tier 2 set having a lot of resistance on it. I'm going full arcane and frost until Icy veins while leveling, but that works if you have salvation + pally tank, not sure if other tanks are able to hold the threat. Our Classic Wrath of the Lich King Mage Talent Calculator is now live! Every time you add one more 1% chance to Crit, you have to factor in your resist-chance into the calculation to see what it actually ends up changing. For 5-man instances and 20-man raids, my preferred spec is the max DPS Fire build: There are certain mobs that are resistant to Fire in the Blackrock Mountain instances, but just use frost spells against those mobs. Edit: Wanted to add that I am asking on here rather than just looking up a guide because I wanted to get some opinions on preference rather than just reading a cookie cutter guide. Welcome to our PVE Frost Mage guide for WoW TBC. Alternatively, you can use Major Health to compensate for the low amount of hp from bloodvine gearWrist: Mana Regeneration or Superior StaminaGloves: Frost Power* or Fire Power*Legs: Arcanum of Focus gotten from doing the Libram of Focus quest. Below is a list of consumables which help in any raid. Leveling as Arcane (level 64) revolves around Arcane Blast and Arcane Missile. Tailoring - Tailoring is great for fresh level 70's . I tried frost, icelance was only critting for 2k, very bad dmg in my opinion. Level frost, switch to fire at 70. Summon Water Elemental as a great burst-damage tool. Press J to jump to the feed. Gathering professions, . Fire melts single target, but when the mobs catch up to you then youre done unless you can nova, blink, hope, and pray you get away lol. After reaching Level 70, at the most optimal pace, the AoE spec will only be useful for farming and 5-man dungeons. Frost is excellent survivability, but they put an aoe cap on blizzard so kiting isnt as easy as it used to be. 0/5. Privacy Policy. (PvE). less-dependent on support. Mage discord, (Obviously put the /cast Ice Block on a seperate line), Do the same with Blink. If you continue to use this site, you agree with it. 0/2. in full s1 gear a full fire mage down to dragons breath will be doing 2,7000 dmg fireball crits and 2k dmg dragon breath and 1.8k dmg blastwaves and 1.8k dmg fireblasts and 4k pyroblasts. Dragons Breath - the good old Dragons Breath that was for fire spec only, now available for all mage specs, Essentially an uncapped AoE Disorient, on a 45 sec CD now, regardless, Extremely strong in Mythic+ and some Raid encounters that adds needs to be controlled. it gives more control, safer aoe, and is actually pretty good single target where WE is up for the whole fight which would be the case with dungeon fights. Arkane-bloodsail-buccaneers June 1, 2021, 3:28am #3. Level ultra fast in wow classic with this addon https://www.restedxp.com/?ref=guidemmo14-60 AOE Leveling guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP5Jkk79HJ4T. Hope that helped. some raid pieces, you will be able to easily switch to Fire or Arcane spec if self-healing. Use Icy Veins after the first Frost Nova to deal more damage. To get an impression of how AoE grinding for Levels 1 to 60 is done, watch Being a fire mage that knows how to keep scorch up might help you get into a raid team if they have multiple fire destros as most mages are trying to be arcane atm. 0/5. As the Blizzard causes the Chill effect on them, there is a chance, they will freeze themselves again - leaving you with minor injuries and maximum experience per hour. Dragonflight Alliance Complete Guide 1-70, The RestedXP Guides will be available with the TBC Pre-Patch, TBC Horde Azeroth Guide 1-60 All Classes, TBC Alliance Azeroth Guide 1-60 All Classes, TBC Horde Outland Guide 60-70 All Classes, TBC Alliance Outland Guide 60-70 All Classes, TBC Horde Complete Guide 1-70 All Classes, TBC Alliance Complete Guide 1-70 All Classes, Ultimate TBC All Factions & Dungeon Cleave Guide 1-70 All Classes, Alliance Dungeon Cleave Guide 60-70 incl. Flames trike is only necessary for mara. All numbers are level 70 base, before talents. free to give it a try with your friends. However, Scryer's has the advantage of providing one of the best trinkets in Phase 1, the. Or if you are over-geared and like being a ranged tank. Right now, im putting points into fire, but I plan to reset and spec into frost at level 29 for to master shatter. Ice Blocking pulls and using your Water Elementals and Intellect Actually the best method is to get a lvling partner, then fire mage would lvl fast. Focusing single target might end up being faster, in which case fire or even arcane could be solid. Spell PenetrationDecreases the Magical Resistance of your targetA simple rule of thumb is that each 10 spell penetration adds a 2.5% DPS increase on average, assuming the mob has any resistance in the first place since it isnt possible to reduce enemy resistance to below 0. Use Cold Snap at level 30+ on cooldown after using Icy Veins for more damage. We plan to power through the leveling in dungeons with guild groups of mostly well-geared mains and I am still pondering what mage spec will be the most efficient in terms of sustain/dps balance. I see a scenario where you take 1 point out of Hailstones and put it in a snowstorm if you need the burst AoE. Thats what I would do, as someone who leveled as both fire and frost having an undead mage i levled to 60 as fire and this gnome mage i leveled to 60 as frost. tree which starts off slow but quickly grows in power once you approach Level 40 aggro-ping-pong strategies to kill bosses. Increase our mana pool and regeneration, as to increase our dmg till oom. Mana issues are a misconception for Arcane. Skinning, Herbalism, and Mining Make a macro with /cancelaura Ice Block, The range of Blizzard is slightly larger than shown. You have to look up the Spell-coefficient for our spells to see how much of your spell damage will benefit the various spells. At level 68, you get Conjure Mana Emerald Be sure to use this on cooldown as it restores more mana than it costs to conjure, and has 3 charges. Stamina allows you to live for longer and can be useful in PvP situations of Spell Damage greatly increases, as it is free damage that does not cost you However, having some of the most experienced mages use Improved Blizzard is probably the best way to progress through the Suppression Room in Blackwing Lair. levels past Level 50, and if you do a lot of single-target farming, the value Having Ice Barrier and Ice Block will take some stress off the healers. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. go out of your way to get it on your gear for the lower levels. But right now, the only thing that looks good in the frost tree for the first few levels are frostbite, combined with shatter, but I can't master shatter until level 29, so I have a tank for the first few levels anyways, so I might as well just try fire for the first few levels. quickly. I'm returning to TBC classic after a few months and my main server is dead. sobz 2 yr. ago. On top of that, we gained a powerful defensive cooldown that was strictly for arcane mages, Greater Invisibility - a 60% Damage Reduction on a 2 minutes cooldown. Max . Your primary damage spell has a 2.5 seconds cast-time, and you will be very vulnerable to spell pushback while Ice Barrier is not up. this guide by Stretta. As fire spec thats why you want spell power and crit chance, so you can hit as hard as possible, because then you dont gotta worry about the mobs reaching you because theyre dead before they can reach you. No debate or argument for fire. Dont pull aggro and dont stand at a bad spot, and youll be fine. gold or accumulate materials that you can use to level crafting professions The talents you'll select are crucial to helping you level as a mage as they significantly increase your power. find along the way. As we said before, Blizzard has buffed the %Value we gain from any mastery points, which increases our Icicles and Frozen Orb Damage, on top of the fact that Icicles contribute towards Icy Propulsion, making Flash Freeze and Hailstones a must-pick together, I know there is a lot of noise about snowstorm with cone of cold, but currently this talent still seems a bit undertuned even with 30 stacks, plus Icy Propulsion get CDR only from Single Target, so it is generally less worth pressing (VERY SUBJECTIVE), Previously in shadowlands, the Icy Propulsion conduit would benefit towards our AoE spells, so generally cone of cold shatter was an extremely good combo to reduce our Icy Veins CD by a ton. In order to do this you will require a specialized talent At level 66, you get Ice Lance this ability does triple damage on frozen targets. Warcraft. I think if you want to super minmax it'd depend on the other 4 people in your group. a lot of the pve mages that raid rather than pvp do arcane/frost so they can get icy veins and cold snap to reset icy veins. Others may disagree, but the fact is that there are just not many fights out there which lasts so long that you end up going out of mana. All rights reserved. Welcome to Warcraft Tavern's guide on how to play a Frost Mage in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic! Frost can be played with a focus on single-targeting enemies one by one, maximum amount of damage which means you can also pull too many mobs and deal I feel as though Ive hit a wall currently between 52 and 56 (current level.). Arcane/Fire mages do 3500-4200 dmg fireballs, 2-2.2k dmg blastwaves 2.4-2.7k fireblasts and 4.8-5.4k pyroblasts WITHOUT arcane power/trinket/berserking. It is a common procedure that the newcomers in the guild get asked to spec Winters Chill while the better-geared mages use the Arcane Power variant. The most efficient and fastest leveling spec for mage, this playstyle takes a medium-high level of skill to play efficiently and will require a fair amount of practice to unlock its full potential. Not since vanilla, but since cata. If doing so, we recommend oom, which is especially important for AoE grinding. The Theorycraft addon will actually show this while in-game, but for the sake of examples here are a few: 81.4% Frostbolt100% Fireball42.8% Fireblast42.8% Scorch14.3% Arcane Explosion. in order to do it consistently, begin with this Fire-focused build. Lots of parameters at play here, like aoe vs quick mono burn playstyle, it's not the same with a pal tank or a war . its a huge difference in damage output because of the synergy of a few talents, mind mastery(25% of your int converted into bonus spell power which is 550-600 intellect which equates to a bonus 125-150 spellpower) and SpellPower(talent)(increases your critical strike damage bonus of ALL spells by 50%) which is why your fireball hits hard than the mere 10% bonus dmg you get to fireballs with full fire spec. For those spells, their chance to resist is the average DPS lost percentage. Everything you will need to be the best mage in TBC! Since the two first 40-man raids will be done with Frost talents, well have the Pre-raid gear items fit that pattern.Without donations, rep-farming, or drops from the summonable bosses which can only be done as part of the T0.5 quest-chains, this is what your pre-raid BiS list would look like: Helm: Spellweavers Turban Upper Blackrock SpireNeck: Dianas Pearl Necklace Strat LivingShoulder: Boreal Mantle Blackrock DepthsCloak: Crystalline Threaded Cape auction HouseChest: Bloodvine Vest crafted by a tailorWrist: Sublime Wristguards Dire Maul NorthGloves: Hands of Power Lower Blackrock SpireBelt: Banthok Sash Blackrock DepthsLegs: Bloodvine Leggings crafted by a tailorBoots: Bloodvine Boots crafted by a tailorRing: Don Mauricios Band of Domination ScholomanceRing: Freezing Band Auction HouseTrinket: Briarwood Reed Upper Blackrock SpireTrinket: Eye of the Beast quest reward as part of the Onyxia-attunement Quest (horde) or through a quest started by killing the last boss in Lower Blackrock Spire (alliance).Weapon: Rod of the Ogre Magi Dire Maul NorthWand: Bonecreeper Stylus Scholomance, Helm: Arcanum of Focus gotten from doing the Libram of Focus quest. Karazhan Attunement, Horde Dungeon Cleave Guide 60-70 incl. These abilities further enhance the already-great Frost Mage capabilities. I strongly recommend downloading the addon Theorycraft. (PvP)Target level 61 = 5% chance to miss. method of leveling will have made you quite rich from the items the mobs you farm On top of that, we gained a powerful defensive cooldown that was strictly for arcane mages, Greater Invisibility - a 60% Damage Reduction on a 2 minutes cooldown. Download the client and get started. Rotation, Cooldowns, & Abilities. Improved Blizzard is a great talent, make sure to only take 2 ranks of it so it doesnt block cone of cold from getting applied. On top of that, we gained a powerful defensive cooldown that was strictly for arcane mages, As we said before, Blizzard has buffed the %Value we gain from any mastery points, which increases our Icicles and, Previously in shadowlands, the Icy Propulsion conduit would benefit towards our AoE spells, so generally. Again I suggest that you watch the Faxmonkey video posted earlier in this topic. with Icy Veins and Summon Water Elemental being the recommended. "Slow" will help with nasty casters just as a warlock CoT. Money isn't a problem. But you need to weave in flamestrike and/or arc explosion for damage. However, now with the change to icy propulsion where it only works on pure Single target spells, Cone of Cold is still an excellent button to press, but it does not benefit towards our Icy Propulsion CD Reduction, something to keep in mind. So I feel all 3 specs have their merits but I am curious to hear opinions about which one would have your preference in such a setting. The disparity between full fire and arcane fire is pretty big damage wise. Consider this as your Patchwork Typical boss encounter. Leveling with a premade group in dungeons is extremely fast in TBC Classic, But thats not exactly how it works. However, leveling professions For Molten Core and Blackwing Lair the only sensible option is frost. Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. Thermal Void, Hailstones, Frozen Touch, Slick Ice. If you have a 10% chance to resist a boss, then you will have a 90% chance to hit it, in other words.So if your crit chance is 20%, then only 90% of those will land on the target, and so the final amount of Criticals would be:20 * 0,9 = 18 spells out of 100 casts will be a Critical hit. Chance to Crit them as you go and avoid extra work at max level. in the Mage AoE grinding strategy guide. The answer to the question "what is the best leveling spec for mage" is frost. Fire mages has good Dot and dmg that u wil need to kill the mobs. Once you hit 70, the Arcane spec we recommend for leveling will have to Because of this, we want to focus on our build on grabbing all of the essential talents to best prepare us for our responsibilities outside of simply using Polymorph.. Just like the other two specializations, Frost Mages dip into Elemental Precision so that we gain a free 3% Spell Hit Rating. + Frost allows you to so-to-say "AoE grind". This effectively replaces Fire Blast during the Frostbite stage. Most of the time if you kill that Shadowpriest or Warlock with your cooldowns, you still die to the DoTs afterward. during leveling also decreases your leveling speed because you will not kill The aoe cap shouldnt affect the blizzard ability while leveling that drastically that you should even notice it at all, it only even takes affect beyond 10 mobs being hit, a good mage will be pulling 3-8 mobs max of his own level, sure u could theoretically do more but its hard to do out in the open world where mob leashes are so limited and they will just reset if you run too far away and then your health is depleted by the time you gather them all up anyway. Copyright 2021 StarDev Studio LLC, Legacy-WoW World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment. Arcane is the top dps spec in T5 because of its set bonus so as to why youre skipping that is beyond me. Greater Inscription of the Orb. Chance to HitAs a caster you will -always- have a 1% chance to miss with your spells.But also the level difference between you and your target adds further chances to miss. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Karazhan Attunement, Alliance Leveling Guide 1-60 for Season of Mastery & Classic Era, Horde Leveling Guide 1-60 for Season of Mastery & Classic Era. and beyond. Blast Wave - a returning spell previously, a Knockback on 30 sec CD, extremely useful for Mythic+. TBC Classic Mage Talent Calculator. IntellectFor every 59.5 intellect you have, you gain a 1% chance to crit.For every 1 intellect you have, you gain 15 maximum mana. So, what are you waiting for? Dont get frustrated whilst learning how to AoE on a mage. spell rotation, as well as leveling gear and the class-specific quests you will I've been playing off and on since TBC and I've only ever played plate classes for the simple reason that I just liked the way those classes looked more. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Wrath of the Lich King Classic Discussion, A question for the competent and knowledgeable Mages. The ultimate way to speed level in TBC Classic is through Mage AoE Use Summon Water Elemental on cooldown for more damage. The longer the raid survives, even if youre not getting the kill, the more up-time you have on the encounter to learn and adapt to the mechanics. Is more forgiving than Cone of Cold because you may miss with Cone of Cold even if the target seems to be standing right in front of you, which does not happen with Blastwave. , is slightly better than the Scryer. Improved Blizzard: You should only put 2 . on wand damage which you will be using often to finish enemies off; do not During higher when dealing with World PvP, as well as the strong defensive power of Frost's 0/5. That's what I would do, as someone who leveled as both fire and frost having an undead mage i levled to 60 as fire and this gnome mage i leveled to 60 as . Welcome to our PVE Frost Mage guide for WoW TBC. Assuming youre level 60:Target level 60 = 4% chance to miss. Paladins with Blessing of Freedom can make it very hard to finish off a flag-carrier by yourself, as you have to set up a burst that requires Frost Nova. Shatter, which opens up for Frost Nova -> Frostbolt -> Cone of Cold which can be a great burst even with average gear. Finally, Fire is a very powerful single-target leveling spec, having some of but generally I'd say frost is better for 5man leveling. There are 2 frost-options. . and. Here, you will You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles! however, are great to level during your journey from 1-70, since they often uncontested spots, as otherwise you will not have enough enemies to pull in He is usually found in the Frost is not considered a top tier raid spec in TBC. Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. If you plan to do I leveled as frost, but switched to fire at around 54 (recently.) Target level 62 = 6% chance to miss. You can also throw caution to the wind and specialize in pulling and killing Most of the mages I've grouped with are either fire or arcane for raiding. Ice Block and Cold Snap add an arsenal of escape-ways, which really help out if youre running with 2.5k health. consistently pull it off. spells and talents you will be using during the first raids of TBC Classic: Multiple talents switched positions in the tree. Dont worry about it. I don't want to pay Blizz to xfer my mains so I rerolled a gnome mage on Pagle.. Summon Water Elemental is a huge DPS boost for you but he is hard to keep alive. Unless you have a paladin tank then your AoE capability will be hampered by the tanks ability to keep threat.