World Of Warcraft..?

Question

Ok, thinking about maybe trying a mage... but my concern is that since I dont reallyt know anyone who plays, I solo quite a bit... since the mage is paper, will this be difficult, or should I maybe try something else instead?

Answer 1

I play several mages. I have a 60 undead frost mage, who I LOVE dearly. He is low on health, but high on protection. Let me catalogue for you his various lines of defense.

First, he uses Frostbolt to pull. This slows the enemy, buying you time to get another spell off. Once they do get to melee, I hit them with Fireblast (just for a little extra free damage) then I use Frost Nova, which will freeze it in place for up to 8 secons. Back up and repeat frostbolt (slowing the target). If they get to melee again, I can cast Ice Barrier, which is an instant-cast damage absorbing shield. It will absorb around 800 damage, and my spells are not interrupted while it is in effect. If I have blown through Frost Nova and Ice Barrier and need another line of defense...I have Ice Block. This will encase me in ice for 10 seconds, preventing me from taking any damage. But I can not move or cast spells while in effect. If that wears off and I STILL need a new line of defense (i.e. Frost Nova is still cooling down), I have Cold Snap, which ends the cooldown timer for all my frost spells. So I now have another Frost Nova/Ice Barrier/Ice Block combo.

In addition to these lines of defense, my offense is not too bad. It isn't nearly as damaging as a Fire Mage, but it does the job for me. In combat, I almost exclusively use Frostbolt. That will sound silly to a low level mage, as I recall when I started out I only liked the spell for its slowing nature, and stuck with fireball for damage. But now I like frostbolt as my primary damage spell. I never run out of mana, since the cost is so low. My ice talents give it bonuses to get a crit, bonuses to damage, bonuses to crit damage, a chance to freeze targets in place for 5-6 seconds, and it still keeps the critter slow. I crit for about 1200 with it (fire mages will crit for much much more with their fire spells, but I have not done a fire mage so I do not know the numbers). My other pride and joy spell is Blizzard. LOL! It does take up a lot of mana, but I use it either situationally, or if I go into clearcasting (next combat spell is free...an Arcane talent). Blizzard itself is an area effect. It will rain down ice on everything in its radius every second for 8 seconds. It is a channeled spell, so if you get hit it cuts the time down. My current blizzard does approx. 160 damage on everything per second. Blizzard also slows the targets, much like Frostbolt. But coupled with the talent that gives a chance of freezing a target in place when it is hit by a chill effect, and given that they are hit with the chill effect every second for 8 seconds, I wind up freezing whole groups of things in place. This is good and bad, as if some freeze and some don't then the group is split up and I am not in as much control...but it's still quite fun! Hehe.

So to let you know...I usually solo (unless I group up with my wife and a couple friends from work) as my mage and I haven't had many problems at all. Mage is very solid, even with so little health and armor. Email me if you need help as a mage.

Answer 2

Mage should be fine. Everybody is capable of learning. I reccommend starting off with a hunter if your that worried. If your not afraid to challenge yourself then any class should be fine.

Answer 3

Mages are easy.
Actually every class is easy to level.
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