Mage Leveling: Early Gold Grinding & AoE

Jpy · 2018-11-28T09:44:10Z

Wow Classic Mage Leveling: Early Gold Grinding and AoEby Jpy • Last Updated 2/5/201Disclaimer:I'd just like to clarify that my experiences with classic Mage are exclusively on private servers. There are of course some differences between Vanilla and private servers but for the most part they are minimal. It's also hard to speculate how much different Classic will be than Vanilla as we've only seen a very unpolished version of two zones and a few levels from the Blizzcon demo. If Blizzard intends to stay the course of what they've expressed as their plans for how Classic will be handled, the majority of everything discussed here will carry over to their servers. I'd also like to point out that my Mage was leveled as Undead so some spots and ideas may favor Horde Mages due to inn proximity to farming spots etc. I also do not know for sure which dungeons will be available at launch, which could pretty drastically effect the most ideal route for hitting 60. From what we know now Dire Maul should be available at launch, which makes it hands down the most efficient place to level (from an experience and gold viewpoint) for 53-60. I'll try to list as many alternatives at various levels as possible as it's always good to have a backup plan: contention for your mobs is a very real thing and this will cripple your effectiveness. Sometimes the best course of action is to just move on to another spot or go back to questing. About Grinding and AoE Leveling:There are quite a few variations of "grinding" but essentially they all share the same idea: killing mobs that aren't necessarily tied to a quest in a fairly densely populated spot for either experience, gold, or both. The most common method of grinding, which is the method that is most ideal for most classes (and Mages as well at earlier levels), is to kill a particular mob one by one over and over. This method is most commonly used to acquire gold, particularly the 90g (Honored discount) cost of your first mount at level 40. It can also be used as a temporary alternative while waiting for a quest objective to become available. This may be a "Mage" focused write up but the mobs listed for gold grinding can be put to use by other classes. From an efficiency viewpoint, I think some grinding before level 40 will be most beneficial to Mages, Warriors, Rogues, and Priests as these classes do not have as good of mobility options pre 40 or a free mount at 40. Mages are unique in that they are the only class in the game that can adequately kill large pulls of mobs simultaneously while leveling due to inherit AoE potential and extremely effective slow application. This method is more commonly used while leveling to push experience gains and can even compete with/surpass questing efficiency under ideal situations. It's important to understand that each method, including questing, should be used to reach 60 as fast as possible. I'd highly recommend questing with mob grinding in between your questing objectives until at least somewhere in the 30-39 level range. This is around the time you should start considering investing in gold farming to have your mount by 40. I would advise against trying to level with AoE before 40 (or at the very least late 30s, when you already secured gold for your mount/skills at 40 through grinding) for fresh servers or Mages without funds from another character as it severely cripples your single target efficiency through talents. Competition for mobs may be greatly exaggerated when the entire server is still leveling and respec costs can quickly scale up. For Classic launch in particular, AoE leveling before 40 is going to be nearly impossible for 99% of Mages because of the enormous expected population. Keep this in mind when considering your talent choices; the longer the server has been up (or more specifically, the less people that are actively leveling), the better your chances are to be successful with AoE leveling. Pre-40 Gold Grinding LocationsAoE Leveling LocationsDungeon AoE LevelingTalentsProfessionsTips and TricksAddons[/goto] mobanchor Levels listed are the level range of the mobs themselves. With 3/3you will reach "hit cap" (you will always have 1% chance to be resisted with spells) with frost and fire spells against monsters up to 2 levels higher than your level. For mobs 3 levels higher than your level, even with 3/3you will still have 11% chance to be resisted. With that in mind, you want to try to always be no more than 2 levels lower than the mob you're killing. The goal here is to acquire gold for your mount by the time you hit 40. Questing until 40 when you can start realistically attempting to AoE level will be better use of your time if experience is your only desire. Some mobs (generally Beasts) will provide most of their gold supply through vendoring items. Beasts also further supplement your income via skins if you have Skinning. Others (Elementals, Dragonkin) are more dependent on the Auction House. Auction House farm has ...

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"2/3 Improved Blizzard may be more suitable to first time Mages or people who haven't experimented with AoE farming before as it will allow you to refresh your slow with Blizzard before it falls off."

I assume you meant refresh with Cone of Cold, fix it if you have time.

Thank you for the guide, it is very helpful! =)

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Posted : 17/06/2019 11:29 pm

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