I’ve been leveling my fire mage now for a while off and on to get him into the 49 bracket for some serious twinkage but I’ve stopped for a bit along the way at 39 to do some battleground PVP to start working on my PVP gear for my mage. I need enough marks of honor to get the dryad bracers and the PVP boots for him and I don’t want to wait until my late 40′s to get them so I’m doing it now. And man is it brutal, the 39 twink scene is much more intense than I remember it, I got smeared last night round after round in Warsong Gulch.
Speaking of which, I already have a 70 affliction warlock but am now considering rolling a affliction lock for the 49 bracket as well, they were by far giving me the most trouble last night. If they got a full set of dots on me it took all my mana up using mana shield and most of my health to survive and I’m not even sure that guy was a twink! I’ve also been thinking on how I’m going to set my mage up for the 49 bracket.
I was planning on going all out damage with a fire mage. Also known as a glass cannon – does massive damage fast but dies quickly as well. Even as a twink. Frost mages are known for their survivability and crowd control abilities but they aren’t really known for their damage which is why I’m there so I ruled that class out. The one build I haven’t really considered to hard is actually the one I’m now gearing toward. An arcane mage.
Arcane seems to be a really good balance between massive damage and good survivability. They have better mana shields – decreasing the amount of mana you lose per hit while still protecting your health giving you more mana to sheep or frost nova and blink away. They also have much better critical hit bonuses, taking all spells up into the high 30% to low 40% critical hit range when combined with your natural critical chance. That means lots and lots of burst damage which should more than make up for the loss of all time fire damage.
The also have a bonus ability that increases your critical hit bonus from spells up to 50% which is huge considering how often you’ll crit with this build. They also have more intellect with a bonus of 15% increase to your overall intellect which will give you tons more mana and yet another nice bonus to spell crit chance. And with all that you also get arcane power which for a short time will increase all damage done, crit or not by 30%. This is a monster build and should be a lot of fun.
The down side? This build is going to require a TON of rare items out of instances. Only two of the items I’m using for this build are the easy to acquire PVP rewards. The rest are either auction bought or instance dropped. My necklace, shoulders, cape, gloves and belt are all in instances so I’m going to need to recruit some help in gathering them. Anyone have a 70 in the Arthas server that has some spair time to help me out? I have another account I can activate when the time comes with a 70 hunter but if there is someone out there who wants to trade favors leveling twinks let me know!
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Id love to help you out Black, but we are on 2 whole different localization’s i play on EU relms and you play on US
, otherwise id 100 transfered one of my many lvl 70 to your server
December 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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