I rolled my third mage a couple of days ago.
Mage is one of those classes I know rocks and would very much like to play to a high level, but for some reason I just cannot stick to them (priest and especially druids are the other two). But heck, from time to time, just plain straightforward nuking is fun.
Because I play just horde toons these days and I’m still not tired of the Belf starting zones, I added to the million of blood elves running around. But I digress.
I’ve found that over the course of two years, I’ve eventually learned to stick to the most efficient instead of what I somehow like better - my first rogue was using daggers only until someone taught me better at level 35, and suddenly my levelling pace sped up tremendously. At the cost of variety in game play, but heck…
So applying this reasoning to the new mage, I’ve started him on fire (even though the notion of frost appeals more to me). On my previous mage, I’ve tried AoE grinding, and after about 10 hours of a nerve-racking and stressful experience, I’ve decided I’ll leave that to younger and more skilled players. I hadn’t been under that same kind of tension since going into parties as a healer in FFXI, where I basically played for two to three hours scared witless that I’d screw up. If you’re unfamiliar with FFXI, let’s just say the penalty of dying is higher than in WoW insofar you actually lose experience and may delevel upon dying. Considering that game pretty much used to force grouping to gain any kind of experience past level 15, you need to either have nerves of steel or be totally unconcerned to play a healer. On a related note, that same experience has held me back from playing healing classes in WoW for the better part of one and a half year. It took rolling a belfadin and some good talking to by my pallie role model to start getting into it.
Anyway, Frost AoE with the weakest clothie isn’t for me.
Mage was the second or third class I tried out within the first week of installing the game. Didn’t get very far either, mid 10s or something. I eventually deleted that one. And you know, it’s actually amazing the kind of stuff which even the densest of people like me will eventually pick up.
Use frostbolt to kite. Use frost nova to regain distance. Sheep and bandage or nova and bandage. Don’t forget dampen magic against casters. I found that without doing a shred of additional research on mages from my ultra-newbie days, I was actually playing the good ole glass cannon a huge lot better this time around.
Anok’suten? Pushover. Aquantion? Barely harder.
Looks like an old monkey can still learn new tricks. In a decade or two, I might even end up passable at this damn game.
Probably 2 months before Blizzard shuts down their last remaining server.
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