If you are looking for an up-to-date guide about mage specs, don’t go any further. This is my Mage Leveling Spec 2010!
I want to point out the best usage for every talent tree. Every tree can be used to level your mage, but the efficiency varies a lot. Every build depends on some core talents and are completely useless if your level is too low to spec them.
Before we press on and look at the talent builds: Here’s a comprehensive guide that you can check out if you want to level faster, earn 500g+ / hour and get exalted with all factions.
1. Frost Mage Leveling Spec 2010
The frost build is widely considered the fastest leveling tree, thanks to mana-efficiency, survivability, crowd control and high burst damage.
Before you hit level 40, you will still lack some important spells: Ice Block and Frost Barrier. This makes using AoE abilities extremely dangerous. If things go wrong you will not be able to save your life and will often die. That’s why before level 40 you should stick to Frostbolt and Frost Nova.
After level 40 frost mages can unfold their full potential and go all in: Pull as many mobs as you can, Nova them and bring them down with your AoE spells. The fastest and easiest way to level up.
Take a look at this Frost Mage Leveling Spec.
2. Fire Mage Leveling Spec 2010
The fire leveling spec is known for the lack of AoE damage and incredible high damage on single targets. The mana-efficiency is rather low, though.
The fire talent spec is great in the early levels when Frost still lacks the most important abilities. Start out with Improved Fireball first.
The Fire leveling spec relies on high critical strike chance and spell damage. Talents such as Critical Mass and Pyromaniac are mandatory.
Playing this spec needs no explanation as it is very straight-forward. You always try to bring down a single target … and hit it with everything you’ve got. Just don’t use AoE abilities on single targets since they are even more mana-inefficient and might exhaust your mana too quickly.
Take a look at this Fire Mage Spec 2010 for detailed talent instructions.
3. Arcane Mage Leveling Spec 2010
The Arcane leveling build focuses on mana conservation and lacks the high damage of a Fire tree. Although it has a great potential to control the battlefield, the low damage output make the Arcane build hard to level on your own. It’s better suited for a group play.
I don’t recommend you to play an Arcane build if you want to level fast, but lots of Fire specs put a few points into the Arcane tree to further boost their critical strike chance and conserve some mana that they greatly need.
Check out each tree and see for yourself if you like the playing style. Or switch to another build later if you lack the core talents yet. I hope you got some value from my guide about the best mage leveling spec 2010.