The spellcasters provide many of the most essential services for the residents of Azeroth and are also a welcome guest in every group, on every battleground, and in every raid.
- Possible Races: Orcs, Undead, Trolls, Highborn (Alliance only), Humans, Gnomes
- Possible Roles: Ranged attackers focusing on Fire, Frost, or Arcane spells
- Resources: Mana
- Greatest Feature: Can teleport themselves and allies to cities and summon food and water.
- Available Weapons: One-handed swords, daggers, staffs, wands
Official Description: Mages are spellcasters with great knowledge and enormous skills. Their striking physical frailty is misleading, as they can bend the cosmic energies of the Twisting Nether to their will. Mages are rarely active in melee combat. Instead, they prefer to attack from afar, hurling Frost or Fire bolts at their unsuspecting enemies.
What are the strengths? Those who want to have enough water at all times in WoW Forever or quickly travel from Capital A to Capital B should keep good company with mages. But spellcasters offer more than just their service.
Mages are kings when it comes to dealing consistent area damage or quickly bombarding enemies with low health. Moreover, they have three specializations in Frost, Fire, and Arcane that can be combined into strong builds for leveling, PvP, dungeons, or raids.
What are the weaknesses? All three specializations have their own weaknesses. Arcane is very mana-intensive, Fire is highly gear-dependent, and Frost typically scales poorly with better gear.
Against enemies with high Frost or Fire resistances, mages need to adapt (i.e., respec) or rely on less optimized spells. A pure Frost mage doesn’t deal as much damage with Fire spells as a specialized Pyromancer.
Without essential Frost talents like the temporarily protective Ice Block or the shielding Ice Barrier, the spellcaster becomes a fragile glass cannon that quickly lies defeated on the ground. Mages generate a lot of threat with their spells, which puts any tank under pressure.
The Mage is ideal for: Anyone who is fully into the archetype of the spellcaster and prefers to blast enemies from a distance with magic. Also a strong class for anyone who enjoys leveling and farming by pulling larger groups of enemies solo.
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