Neophytes and Acolytes: Leveling Mages for the Whole Family

The idea of leveling is a simple one. You need experience to get to the next level. That’s it.
To that end, the most efficient leveling comes from being able to kill monsters rapidly, with as little “downtime” as possible. Downtime here defined as time forced to spend recuperating mana or some other resource.
For mages, this [...]

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Wrath Day, What I Will Be Doing

Supposedly, if my notoriously unreliable sources are correct, there was a  Blog Azeroth shared topic about… well, what I just  said. What will YOU be doing come Wrath Day?
First, actually buying the game. That will be important. Unsure if I’m going to go to a midnight thingy or not. Maybe.
Second, installing/patching and so forth… hopefully [...]

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Never Forget

Each grey circle marks the grave of a former zombified player. Looks like the hunter talent “Lock and Load” made it live just in time.
I wish I had a shotgun… at least I have my rocket launcher.
There needs to be more zombie movies with rocket launchers. Or grenades. Or flamethrowers. I mean, a fire mage [...]

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Just A Friendly Reminder

Remember, if you are participating in the Scourge invasion world event, remember that these mobs are “Scourge”. Meaning you can equip your Argent Dawn comission and recieve Scourgestones for killing them.
And please. Shadow of Doom responsibly.

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The Race Card

It’s a question that crops up with an obscene level of regularity on the mage forums. Look through the archives, and I can guarantee you there are just as many “what race should my mage be?” threads as there are “warlocks are overpowered” threads.
As a blogger, I have to say that you should go with [...]

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R.I.P. Little Guy

For those who haven’t heard the news, Ezra Chatterton died a few days ago.
Poor kid didn’t even get to see this side of 13.
Aka’Magosh.

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The Forums Asplode!

Patch 3.0.$ has been out for a week now, let’s take a quick glance at the class forums and see what people are talking about…
Druids
MY GOD this class friggin rocks my damn socks. From moonkin to tree form, is there anything this class can’t do?
Can’t chew to the center of a tootsie roll pop in [...]

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Like Holy Crap You Guys

I am currently, embroiled in a post, that will probably become a series of posts directed at leveling and new mages in general. Those of you who’ve been around long enough may remember these as the “Magecraft” guides. They’re being heavily revamped, updated, and renovated.
I almost feel guilty about releasing all these posts about talents [...]

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Testing DPS On Beta. No Seriously. Nothing Interesting Here.

With the live realms screaming obscenities and refusing to sell me ice cream, at least Blizzard has the foresight to keep the Beta realms up and running. So what’s there left to do on the Beta?
Why, chain cast stuff on Target Dummies and run random instances, of course!
The mage I’m using is what we would [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen… Fasten Your Seatbelts

It’s been one helluva rough week so far. Respecs every couple of hours just to try stuff out; mods and UIs to get up and running, or replace; an all new achievement system that seems to be a major hit; massive amounts of PvP to be had to get used to the new balances; and [...]

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