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World of Warcraft Mage Guide

Posted October 23rd, 2009 by Xerin

Our Mage Class guide! Everything you need for the Mage

Welcome to the Ten Ton Hammer Mage Guide. It’s your comprehensive guide to the Mage class in World of Warcraft. Mages are the de facto magic user class known for their powerful magical damage both to single targets area of effect. Damage isn’t the only thing the Mage is good for. They’re capable of slowing down enemies, summoning food and drink for allies, locking down their enemies’ magical abilities, and can even summon a temporary pet to aid in battle.

Our Ten Ton Hammer Mage Guide is full of information to help Mages both starting out and seasoned Mages. It’s full of helpful information such as guides, tactics, walkthroughs, spell info, and more. It’s constantly evolving. We also have an active Mage forum available where you can come ask any questions not already answered by this guide or submit some ideas to help expand the guide further.

There are two ways to navigate this guide. The top menu (look up there) has a list of all of the current content while the bottom menu gives a good description of where stuff is at. Confused and just want to get started? Then start with the Mage Basics.

Mage Overview

Mage Overview

A magic user who uses frost, fire, and the arcane to obliterate their enemies.
Capable of doing some of the best damage in the endgame.
Pure DPS class means focus on doing nothing but damage.

Mage Strengths

Capable of doing massive damage from afar. Strong single target damage and insane amounts of AoE damage.
Can open portals to every major city in the game greatly saving on travel time.
Food and water summoning abilities can save money and downtime with free food and water for themselves and the group. They can also teleport themselves or their group to major capitals.
Utility spells like Polymorph, Spellsteal, Counterspell, and Remove Curse are requirements for high leveling raiding and a great asset in smaller groups. Highly desired in most group configurations.

Mage Weaknesses

Very weak and fragile in solo play. Difficult to level for some.
Reliant on mana for damage. If there isn't any mana then the damage stops completly.
Difficult to properly play and manage.
Movement leads to a direct loss of DPS.

mage in epics

Armor: Cloth
Races: Gnome, Human,
Draenai, Undead, Troll,
Blood Elf
Ranged Magical DPS

Mages are known for their ranged AoE and single target damage abilities, summoning food, and teleportation.

Mage Guide Contents

Name	Description
Basics	All of the basics to playing a Mage. How much spell hit you need, what races you can be, whare the best professions, and more all in one simple to read article.
Combat	Playing a Mage, kiting techniques, and more.
Gearing Up	This is the article to go for to learn how to gear up the mage.
FAQ	The Mage FAQ
Talent Discussion	See what the latest talent builds are and join our community to discuss what's the best talent build for your character.
Equipment	Where and what tier gear is available for the Mage and how do I get it? Want to know the basics to Mage gear? Here you go.
Quests	Looking for the level 71 teleport to Dalaran or Polymorph: Pig? How about lowbie gear from Mage specific quests? This is the page for you.
Mage Raiding Gear (Patch 3.1)	Patch 3.1 Raiding Gear for the Mage!
Glyphs	Mage Glyphs, what they do, what rocks and what doesn't.
Soloing 1-40	How to level and solo through 1-40.
Soloing the Mage Levels 41-60	How to level and solo through 41-60.
Soloing the Mage Levels 61-70	How to level and solo through 61-70.
Trainers	Learn where you can go to train your skills.
Spells	A list of Mage Spells
Talents (3.1)	A guide to talents in Patch 3.1
Mage Flavor	An in-depth look at Mages, their flavor, and their weaknesses and strengths.

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Teleport spell is...where?

Can anyone think of a reason that I wouldn't be able to see the teleport spell in the list at a trainer? I'm a lvl 23 mage, and I specifically looked for the tlelport and portal spells. I realize that the portal spells won't be available to me for many levels, but I should be able to get the first teleport at lvl20, right? Am I missing some talent points somewhere?

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Originally Posted by bpinti

You have to see a portal tr...

The mage trainer doesn't train portals. You need to see a special Portal trainer.

The Portal trainer in Stormwind is located in the Wizard's Sanctum at the top of the Mage Tower in the Mage District.

For the Horde you can learn Teleport to the Undercity at lvl 20 from the portal trainer located in the Magic Quarter. He's on the first landing next to the green waterfall looking thing. I don't remember but you might be able to learn Teleport to Orgrimmar as well at lvl 20. Not sure on that one. But the trainer is in Orgrimmar on the top level of the mage trainers inn. And at 30 you can learn Teleport to Thunderbluff from the portal trainer in the Pools of Vision. Then you can learn portals ...

Just want to bump this thread and say our Mage class guide just got a complete and total rework.

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