Mage Leveling Guide
General InformationMages are considered an important tool in groups for crowd control and AoE. They come self-prepared; they can summon their own water and food and pass it out to the groups. There AoE damage can be sufficient enough to level off of or you can use other these for single target damage. There is really no “best” leveling build, it depends on how you like to play so I will cover all of the trees.
Arcane
The master blaster of instant Area of Effect spells focusing on increasing your arcane explosion, wand damage, and damage output will allow you to excel as an Arcane Mage.
I would recommend pulling as many as 8 melee (non-caster) mobs to you about 2 levels lower and using your frost nova and arcane explosion to AoE them all to the ground. You will burn out your mana fast but you can drink water you summon and you will get 8 kills at the same time, depending on how many at a time you can handle.
10: Improved Arcane Missiles 1/5
11: Improved Arcane Missiles 2/5
12: Improved Arcane Missiles 3/5
13: Improved Arcane Missiles 4/5
14: Improved Arcane Missiles 5/5
15: Wand Specialization 1/2
16: Wand Specialization 2/2
17: Arcane Concentration 1/5
18: Arcane Concentration 2/5
19: Arcane Concentration 3/5
20: Arcane Impact 1/3
21: Arcane Impact 2/3
22: Arcane Impact 3/3
23: Arcane Fortitude 1/1
24: Arcane Concentration 4/5
25: Arcane Meditation 1/3
26: Arcane Meditation 2/3
27: Arcane Meditation 3/3
28: Arcane Concentration 5/5
29: Improved Mana Shield ½
30: Your choice here, depending on what path you choose and what skills you are having the most fun with. Continue to increase the damage output or damage avoiding abilities like blink. Slow is a definite must for some seriously good PvP action later on.
Fire
This talent tree focuses not so much on AoE as the Arcane Tree but on a lot of single target burst and damage per hit. This is considered to be the ultimate tree for PvP when using cooldown abilities with instant cast fire spells because it can cause a lot of damage in a very short period of time. It has some use for leveling but you will mostly be focusing on pulling one mob at a time, blasting it away, and pulling again until you run out of mana.
10: Impact 1/5
11: Impact 2/5
12: Impact 3/5
13: Impact 4/5
14: Impact 5/5
15: Flame Throwing 1/2
16: Flame Throwing 2/2
17: Improved Fire Blast 1/3
18: Improved Fire Blast 2/3
19: Improved Fire Blast 3/3
20: Pyroblast 1/1
21: Incinerate 1/2
22: Incinerate 2/2
23: Ignite 1/5
24: Ignite 2/5
25: Master of Elements 1/3
26: Master of Elements 2/3
27: Master of Elements 3/3
28: Improved Scorch 1/3
29: Improved Scorch 2/3
30: Blast Wave 1/1
From here you will know which talents you are using the most to level and be able to place talents in the right areas. Combustion is a very important talent to get in this tree.
