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Post by
Lampris
Hello everyone,
I am a very young and inexperienced mage who is hesitant between levelling as frost or fire. I am levelling with a friend and probably we will be in the Dungeon Finder most of the time (and the friend is also a tank) so I think frost levelling is not as such useful as mobs wont even get close to me most of times. I am not looking for a super uber fast levelling spec just something that would actually be fun. I do like crits and big booms and bangs so im thinking fire might be the most fun to level in such case? or is frost still viable to level in the instance ?
i'd be greatful for any insight from experienced mages!
thanks
Post by
hashmel
I went Fire for lfd till 70 when I was able to use
Blade of Wizardry
which I had slapped
Black Magic
on due to the imrpoved scaling of ratings at lower levels then went from 70 to 80 as Arcane.
Fire has a plethora of aoes and aoe CC and virtually infinite mana while aoeing once you spec into
Empowered Fire
. Was even capable of Mage tanking most things up to BRD and DM east when someone had to leave or afked right off the bat given mobs were susceptible to slows, snares, knockbacks, stuns, or disorients and enough room to do so.
Frost slows are of little use when a tank is holding a group in 1 place to aoe and blizzard can take a toll, Fire generally regains more mana than it uses while also getting a free cast Flamestrike, and Arcane is lacking in competitive aoes but can chain clearcast Blizzards quite effectively. Personal preference is the only real deciding factor, pick your poison.
<3
Firestarter
Post by
Lampris
thanks for a comparison im getting closer to choosing fire now. do you remember roughly which spec were you using? i dont feel confident enough with choosing my own talents as i go as i dont know the class so well, any guidance would be helpful and the fire threads in stickies are largely outdated ;(
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Post by
Lampris
Ok so if i only focused on damage and crit adding talents for the first 30 lvls thats what i got :
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#oZcEc0oh0z:dZ0
question: is fire blast CD shorter very important ?
question2: is blast wave better than flamestrike or are you supposed to use them both? or just one?
glyphs: is scorch the only viable fire major glyph for the first major slot?
thanks much for the already helpful hints! :)
Post by
Bidgets
Glyph of Fireball
will also suit your first slot. I would actually recommend getting it first. Losing the dot is nothing in comparison of more casts. Eventually you will want
Glyph of Molten Armor
. I'm not a theorycrafter so I'm not sure which is better, scorch or molten armor but my money would be on molten armor.
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hashmel
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Change it up some if you like, I personally wound up as the tank several times after every ret pally, dps DK, and fury warrior queuing as a tank died horribly for one reason or another so I opted not to use Glyph of Blast Wave till later levels.
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