In this mage talent leveling guide I want to show you the 2 most common and most popular mage leveling specs. What else could it be? The Frost AoE build and the Fire build, of course!
Let’s start with the Fire Spec:
Mage Talent Leveling Guide Fire
At level 80, this is what your talent trees should look like! When it comes to the progression, start off with the most important fire talents: The talents that improve your critical hit chance and damage the most!
A good fire leveling spec always focuses on destroying a single target as fast as possible, as every mage talent leveling guide will tell you. Big crits is what fire is all about.
One advice: Fire mages are more vulnerable than frost mages due to the lack of defensive spells like ice block etc. Don’t try to take on groups of mobs like you would with the frost spec – the chances that at least a few mobs will get into melee range are too high.
Now, on to the frost AoE leveling build:
Mage Talent Leveling Guide Frost
First of all, you have to know what the frost spec focuses on. I’ve seen a lot of players getting the wrong idea about the frost tree. They think it’s about spamming Frost Bolts and slowing the target.
Well… that’s wrong! Of course you can fight a single mob and kill it slowly… but you can also pull 10+ mobs at once, Frost Nova them all in one spot and nuke them with your AoE spells: Blizzard, Cone of Cold and Frost Nova itself.
What would you rather do? Kill one mob at a time or kill a whole dozen of them at once? Yeah, right!
My mage talent leveling guide recommends you to go for talents that completely freeze the target, but you have to remain in control. This is really important! You do NOT want to randomly freeze or slow a single target. Why? It would make pulling them to one spot much more difficult. And kiting groups of mobs is what this is all about.
Which Mage Leveling Spec Is Better?
There’s no answer to this. As I’ve already written in my other mage talent leveling guide (you should read this one, too!), Frost is more effective when it comes to the numbers, but Fire is easier and less complex.
Try them both and see which one suits your playing style!
I hope you liked my mage talent leveling guide for the fire and frost tree – see you at lvl 80 soon! 