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battletank
i duno bro....
lol even at low levels i always topped the dps and the overall chart by a wide margin just because of aoe spamming-- though i dont think at 19 you hav blizz yet.... still flamestrike endlessly and if anyone approaches your overall damage, he's either the tank or another mage :P
i didnt start getting out-dps'd til the 40~dungeons where there are considerably wider level reqs, and i'd pty with 50's lol
single-target ftl tho-- aoe'll do you good mah boy
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Achloryn
i started leveling a mage because i enjoy leveling and wanted to feel overpowered in normal instances along the way. Well, at level 19 in blues and fully enchanted (sp to weapon/legs etc) i cant beat the tank (pally) and hunter that were both in greens in my last WC run.
Will it get better before 80? Am i missing any key talents/skills that i will get in the next few levels that will make a big difference? (other than blizzard) Or will the hunter always beat me no matter what i do.
yeah... mage damage won't get anywhere near as sick as it should until you're in outland.. that's where i started noticing myself pulling away from my groups. paladin's pull ahead in the early levels because they consecrate everything, and they have the retribution aura (i think that's what it is)... and that counts toward their damage....... at least i think it does.. lol.
hunters of equal gear as you will always be some of the biggest competetion you have in the dps charts... that's as true at lvl 19 as it will be at lvl 80....
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Synz
hated my mage untill he hit 70 when i didn't have to drink every mob it slows down the lvling something rotten on a mage you'd think mages being casters only couldn't beat a frog up with there staffs would have more mana and more regen tbh lol
Just started my first toon as a mage. I'm praying your wrong and it will get fun before then.
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Ghazpharro
Dunno, I just started a mage alt that is currently at level 18. Compared to leveling my priest this is easy. I kill faster with less drinking. When I leveled my Druid as feral, I didn't stop for anything, ever, and was amazed how fast I got to 70. While questing with him if health got low I just shift, cast HoT, shift back, and kill more. I guess its a perspective thing, some classes are better at weeding through lower level mobs faster than others.
Damage meters, that I ignored before on the priest and bear, I watch now and I'm topping them. At level 18 I was OP to be running RFC, but the group needed DPS and had a level 20 Priest healing so I went, and when we were done Recount had me at 48% of the damage overall. But the group had 2 Shammies, levels 13 and 14, other than myself for DPS and a level 14 bear tank. When I ran WC with a differnent group the results weren't so lopsided, but I was tops again by a good margin. /shrug
So far on the mage I do tend to drink a lot, but not as much as I remember drinking on my priest at this level and I now have the added benefit of not having to by that water. I'm having fun freezing mobs and fryin them. Learn the class, enjoy it, or play something else. Personally, I keep trying to get a rogue going and I can't do it, I just hate rogues. Ultimately, its your $15 dollars.
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Zenanor
I have an alt mage myself. He just hit 48 or so and he is fire specced.
Batcktotopic:
lvl 1-6: BOOORIIIING. Casting fireball and rebuffing and drinking all the time.
lvl 7-9: You got some new col looking spells but you dont use them that much. Same as above except you might have startd casting frostbolt.
lvl 10-19: questing, questing. You have talents points but you cant see the big differences.
lvl 20-29: You can now feel that the talent points are doing anything.
30-39. More questing and some instances.
40-48. You go Zul'Farrak again and again and again. Leveling goes fast.
Thats how my time on my gnome fire mage has been.
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Skyfire
I hated my Mage the first few levels of Westfall (there were a couple other times I hated leveling, but that was the only real time I can pin to my Mage). But then I loved him when we got to Deadmines, because I felt so
useful
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Do not worry, for there will come a point where you'll turn and say, blowing stuff up is fun.
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nickseng
hated my mage untill he hit 70 when i didn't have to drink every mob it slows down the lvling something rotten on a mage you'd think mages being casters only couldn't beat a frog up with there staffs would have more mana and more regen tbh lol
Just started my first toon as a mage. I'm praying your wrong and it will get fun before then.
IMHO, there are 2 types of mages; the one who plays a mage because it's what you want to play, and one who plays it to do damage.
The first one will almost always have fun, but the second will only have fun when it starts pulling in the numbers. :)
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Achloryn
IMHO, there are 2 types of mages; the one who plays a mage because it's what you want to play, and one who plays it to do damage.
The first one will almost always have fun, but the second will only have fun when it starts pulling in the numbers. :)
for me playing a mage was the first one.. it was my very first character... there were times i'd hated it when i was leveling.. i think that just comes with the territory of leveling... it gets slow and boring at times (that's a reason why DK's are so popular i think.. most of the slow boring times happen before you get to outlands).
i didn't know anything about wow.. i just picked up and started playing... a mage sounded like fun to me, so i rolled a mage.. Now i'm glad I did.. the numbers are just a part of the fun for me, now as a raiding mage.. but it's just so damn fun to play when you're raiding.. it's just amazing to see yourself sitting 500dps above everyone else on the charts and then to look at recount and see that your "Activity" is the lowest on the chart.
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LuisGD
Most people already said enuf good things, still ill put my words here.
Earlier leveling is BAD. I remember i almost gave up my mage around lvl 20.... good thing i havent!
Youlll only start getting like a killing machine around 65, maybe with heirloom items you can start earlier, maybe around 50.
Like every class in WoW, you gotta like your character. Mages take a lot of patience to level up.
The mage playstyle is pretty unique also, their tricks is what makes them so special at least for me.
So yeah, youll need patience because we really suck early levels since we need to drink a lot and die fast. Otherwise if you want to DPS believe me: you wont regret rolling one, not mentioning all the spells we have.
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Post by
Makross
The low-levels instances, were made for only one reason:
A high level character running a pack of lowbies.
Sad but true.
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Achloryn
The low-levels instances, were made for only one reason:
A high level character running a pack of lowbies.
Sad but true.
didn't used to be that way, however BOA gear and DK's starting at lvl 55 made it that way...
THERE'S your sad but true... yet another way that DK's fuxed this game. /sigh
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