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Welcome to the latest Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that is your absolute best source for all things mage. Arcane Brilliance has all your mage needs covered. Leveling guides? Talent spec guides? Loot guides? PvP guides? Profession guides? Random, Wow Gold vindictive, mean-spirited, and wholly superfluous warlock-bashing? Check, check, check, check, check, and CHECK. .
Frost mages now have access to full on Shatter combos, and should be enjoying freezing pet info everything in sight, critting the crap out of them with lightning fast Frostbolts, and then Frost Novaing them place and sprinting away cackling madly. Level 30 opens up a very important weapon in a Frost mage's arsenal: Cold Snap. This wonderful spell instantly resets the cooldown on your Frost spells, meaning that if you need a second Ice Block, or repeat performance of Icy Veins is called for, or even if you just need an emergency Frost Nova, Cold Snap basically resets the fight for you. It's too powerful to let languish on your action bar. The cooldown is long, but don't let that keep you from using Cold Snap when it's called for. .
In case I haven't been clear enough about this in the past, let me restate my position on warlocks: I hate them, and I want them to die horrible, horrible painful deaths. To any warlocks out there, I would like to address you using the immortal words of Sue Sylvester, and tell you my secret desire:
New spells: Portal: Exodar, Stormwind, Ironforge, Orgrimmar, Undercity, Silvermoon
Level 40
Frost mages can now pick up Ice Barrier, which is one of the best defensive spells in the game. It's a shield spell, but unlike Mana Shield, it actually absorbs a healthy amount of damage and--even more importantly--doesn't drain your mana to do so. Keep it up whenever you're in a position to get smacked. .
One last thing, before we adjourn for the week:
I feel it is the right.. I'm just saying that warlocks, as a class in a game called World of Warcraft, are a crime against nature and should be put down like a sick animal.. I'm not advocating bigotry. The sooner a leveling mage learns this, the better.nay, the duty.....and it is a mage's job to do it.of every mage to hunt down and commit pixellated acts of atrocity against as many warlocks as possible. .
Level 35
If you've chosen the path of the Fire mage, you now likely have fast-casting Fireballs, powerful Pyroblasts, large, meaty crits, and the fifth tier brings you Blast Wave, introducing you to your almost unparalleled ability to set multiple targets aflame at once. Fire mages are one of the truly premiere AoE class/specs in the game, and Blast Wave is a significant factor in that designation. It knocks enemies back and dazes them, all while causing a lot more damage than any Arcane Explosion ever could. Pick it up as soon as possible, then head for Arathi Basin and use it to hurl members of the opposing faction to their deaths at the Lumber Mill flag. Later, it will become the catalyst for many an instant Flamestrike, but for now, it's merely a taste of AoE greatness to come. .
If you haven't been putting all your talent points into a single tree, now is a good time to rethink that strategy. Find a mage skill trainer and pay them to let you relearn your talents. Your dream of a master of elements who can cast both Fireballs and Frostbolts with ease is a fine one, but better put off until level 75 or so, when you get access to a little spell called Frostfire Bolt. You'll be glad you did. The talents in the fifth tier are too powerful to put off having access to, and believe me when I say that whatever the talents were that you couldn't resist taking in another talent tree, you will be better off waiting to pick them up when you've already taken everything you want in your primary tree. .
Arcane is finally starting to come into its own now, and though it still falls behind the other two specs as a standalone tree at this level range, speccing Arcane is no longer the horrible idea it once was. Your Arcane Missiles are a force to be reckoned with, you have the potential for high mana efficiency and return, incredible resistance to magic, and now level 30 opens up a signature Arcane ability in Presence of Mind. This is another spell that becomes more useful as you gain more powerful spells to cast with it, but for now it can still cause some major damage. This grants you an instant spell of your choice. At this level, it's probably wise to use it for a Fireball, or possibly a Frostbolt if a snare is called for. .
"I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. And then on some dark, cold night I will steal away into your home, and punch you in the face. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat." .
Yes, for some reason, your first portal spell is to either Theramore, a small dock town on the edge of a filthy swamp, or Stonard, an even smaller town in the middle of an even filthier swamp. Before these little portal/teleport spells were implemented last year, your first portal spells were to the major cities at level 40. Though relatively out-of-the-way, both of these zones are fairly level-appropriate right now, so feel free to take a trip to the one that your faction favors, pick up your new spells, and stick around to quest a bit if you like. Now you can get this one five levels early. I'm not sure what kind of sense that makes, but whatever. Dustwallow, especially, is a very high-quality place to spend 5-10 levels, what with the newish quest hubs introduced a few of patches back and the close proximity to Tabetha's mage quests. . ljz322 wow gold And that would have been tragic.
The first of these quests is handed out at level 30, and can be picked up from the mage trainer in any of the major cities. Hint: They're identical except that this one is better. The chain of quests this leads to have a very nice reward, namely your choice of three blue-quality wands. But don't let that dissuade you. The mobs in Dustwallow are a fair bit higher level than that, making the trip slightly more perilous than I may have let on a paragraph ago. Do with that information what you will. .
I know we covered this last week, but I neglected to mention something (er...someone) important: Tabetha. Thanks are due to reader Brian for pointing this out in last week's comments section, because in all likelihood, I would have forgot about good old Tabetha without the prodding. .
Tabetha is a witch who lives in Dustwallow Marsh and hands out mage quests. Now, you just follow the road. Way back in the dark ages when I was leveling my first mage, her tiny hut was a million miles from anywhere and incredibly difficult to locate. Damn kids. In my day, we had to march uphill in soggy boots through miles of swamp, fending off crocolisks as best we could, hoping against ugamegold hope that at some point, we'd find that stupid hut and our miserable sojourn would finally end. Now, you can just mount up, /wave to the crocolisks as you pass, and if you get tired along the way, Mudsprocket's like 10 feet to the south. You young whippersnappers don't know how good you got it. .
Here's my patented in-depth instructions for how to do it: Spec Frost. Gather up as many mobs of an applicable level as you can, then kill them. Basically, this is a method of leveling that allows you to methodically and efficiently eliminate giant packs of mobs at once, using Improved Blizzard, Frost Nova, Blink, etc. They will be complicated and use terms like "mob anchor radius," list optimal grinding spots for each level, and argue the merits/drawbacks of taking Frostbite as part of a grinding build. Take Improved Blizzard. Repeat over and over until you begin to bleed from your eyes and your soul withers within you like a piece of rotted fruit. Ding!There's a bit more to it than that, of course. Go do a Google search for "mage AoE frost grinding" or something similar and you'll find a bunch of more complex explanations than I care to give. .
Down the road, at level 35, another small chain opens up that leads to a trip to Uldaman and eventually a choice between a frankly awesome off-hand item and a staff you'll likely be replacing in like five minutes. Chances are better than average you won't be finding a better one until level 60ish. Hint: take the off-hand frill. .
Fire mages have access to several talents that increase the crit chance of their Fire spells, and should now be walloping their enemies with big explosive crits in grand fashion.
You can do this if you like. Slay. You'll make it to level 80 eventually. I'm not sure what kind of fun you'll have, but you'll make it there. Head over to the Dabyrie Farm in the Arathi Highlands. Go forth. .
Arcane mages are finally getting to the good stuff in their tree, including several talents that flat out increase the damage of all your spells, and the awesomeness that is Arcane Power. If you've been secretly wishing to be an Arcane mage, now might be the time to respec.
The thing I don't understand is why you'd want to. Your eyeballs pregnant woman healthy and your soul will thank you. I'm not opposed to it, mind you. Just don't grind unceasingly. Anymore, this method isn't noticeably faster than good, solid questing. Use it wisely, and sparsely. I just think you'd be better served by leveling almost any other way. This method can be useful, especially if you're coupling it with the type of quests that ask you to go to a place and kill "X" number of mobs there, or simply need to clear an area to get to an objective. .
Finally, a new armor spell. It's also handy for spots when you know you'll be fighting enemy casters, as the extra spell resistance it grants will slow the rate at which you die to their spells. From this point forward, until you get a little spell called Molten Armor, this is your instance armor spell of choice. The extra armor and slowing effect of Ice Armor is probably still more useful for solo play, but when you're in a group and have a meat-shield up front taking the beating for you and a healbot standing behind you keeping that meat-shield alive, the extra mana return Mage Armor gives you is far more important. .
I point out these quests for two reasons:
Level 30
New spell: Mage Armor
Every week Arcane Brilliance teleports you inside the wonderful world of mages and then hurls a Fireball in your face. Check out our recent two-part look at what Cataclysm will mean to Mages, or our ongoing series of mage leveling guides. Until next week, keep the Mage-train a-rollin'. .
But the big news about level 40 is, of course, that you can now upgrade your slow and pathetic mount to a shiny epic one.something, and then sell that junk at the auction house. Just go out and skin a few things, or mine a bit, or herb. And it's totally worth your while. Plus it's epic.alize... It'll cost you 45g if you've managed to hit honored with your home faction (and by now, unless you've not been questing much at all, you should have) for the training, and 10g for the mount itself. If money's a problem, spend a bit of time making some... For the love of god, don't be the douche that hangs around in the bank in Orgrimmar, whispering everyone for gold to buy a mount. 55 gold shouldn't take you that long to put together. That fast mount speeds everything up enormously. .
The rewards are nice. Doing the mage quests is part of being a mage, and I'll hear no arguments on the matter. This isn't even remotely an opinion. Every mage should do the mage quests. It's a fact.Level 34 .
Portal spells are just like the teleport spells you've been using to whiz around Azeroth for some time now, only these conjure a portal that members of your party can also use to whiz around Azeroth.apparently those places are much harder to port to) to pick Wow Gold Instant these bad boys up... Keep the reagents stocked, and have fun teleporting back to all of your faction's capitals (except Thunder Bluff or Darnassus. From now on, you will be conjuring one (or more!) of these at the end of every instance you ever run. .
Level 30 is the approximate point at which I believe the way you've been allocating your talent points begins to define you as a mage. You have 21 talent points under your flimsy cloth belt and (unless you've been employing some wacky and ill-advised hybrid scheme in which you feel it's important to have both speedy Fireballs and uninterruptable Arcane Missiles) have access to the fifth tier of your chosen tree.
In celebration of our new-found competence, we'll be changing the content of these leveling columns a bit. Instead, we'll be covering each new spell as it comes, and every major milestone at the appropriate point. Read on and we'll see how it goes. We'll no longer be giving each two-level gap its own blurb. If that means that more than two levels go by without a specific shout-out in the text, so be it. If it's terrible, we all know I'll just blame warlocks. Enough preamble. .
You've reached the midpoint of the leveling process. It is time you learned to hate warlocks. It is time you turned your attentions to one of the great callings of the mage class. .
At this point, your talent trees should be filling themselves out quite nicely. You've reached tier seven of your chosen tree, and even more of the eventual flavor of your spec should be starting to shine through.
Also, this is as good a time as any to mention an alternate method of farming experience several of you have pointed out in previous installments of this leveling guide. I'm talking, of course, about Frost AoE grinding. It's not as optimal as it once was, due to all the streamlining traditional leveling methods have undergone of late, but it still holds a certain grindalicious appeal for some. .
New spells: Teleport: Stonard or Theramore, Portal: Stonard or Theramore
And the leveling parade continues! Your mage is level 30 and you've grown in your mastery of the magical arts. Your Fireballs are now significantly more likely to set your enemies aflame than they are to go off in your face, you now arrive at your teleport destinations with your extremities more or less intact, and small children no longer cry at the sight of the pastries Wow Gold Cheat you conjure.
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Every weekend, Addon Spotlight takes a look at the little bits of Lua and XML that make our interfaces special. From bar mods to unit frames and Wow Gold beyond, if it goes in your Addons folder, we'll cover it here.
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It just occurred to me that I've been really focusing on bar mods in the last few Spotlights (Dominos and AutoBar, specifically). QBar is a simple mod, with a simple goal. Its reason for being is to show you any clickable quest items that may show up in your inventory, on a movable bar. To complete a trio, today I'm going to do it again with QBar. .
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The other night I was chatting to a friend of mine on Skype and she casually mentioned -- because she knows I play WoW -- that she Wow Gold was about to roll a character (Elfly) for the first time. Yes, I suspect you know where this going, especially when she twittered a few hours later expressing her new-found love for Azeroth. Elfly had had an account for a while but had never been able to try it out while at university and now she has the whole summer stretching out in front of her. .
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A visual disability is a much bigger obstacle for computer games simply because no two people are the same and it can also affect how you play. Fortunately Druids also have that added hybrid flexibility which allowed Free WoW Gold me to try melee combat and ultimately spec Balance. However the issue of depth perception (and lack of) can cause plenty of problems. I, for example, have no depth perception and have problems following past moving objects like mobs so I picked a caster class. I crossed that invisible line which sets them off, causing a rather bloody wipe, a high repair bill and the ire of my guild mates. I've aggroed everything from trash to High King Maulgar and Gruul himself (and don't recommend it) simply because I was unsure of how far away I was. .
The biggest problem for me personally is raiding. Welcome to wow map level my nightmare. I usually yell for the raid leader to mark said fallen soul but it doesn't always happen. Somewhere in the mass of moving targets, dead trash mobs and my valiant guild mates is a corpse. Picture this, if you will, we're mid-raid (10 is bad, 25 a nightmare) and someone dies. My raid leader pipes up: 'Combat rez on xxx now!' As the Druid, this means me and it's time to panic. I've got to find and rez that corpse now and I have no idea where to find them. .
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But there's a catch. Anyway, between the pair of us, we're so blind that we both think Blizzard should insert white canes and guide dogs in patch 3. To give you an example for what the world (in-game or real) ffxiv gil is like for me, nip to your nearest Azerothian tavern and quaff flagons of mead until you get completely smashed and the screen goes all blurry, alternatively just click here. A lot.3's game files. This means we play with our noses touching the screen and get lost. I'm a VIP (disabled shorthand for visually impaired person) and she's (in her own words) a blindy (shorthand for, well, a blind person). Like me, Elfly is disabled. Though, given the game setting, maybe that should be an ornate white staff of sightlessness and a guide wolf? .
My desire to play has forced me to ignore the lack of accessibility and just get on with it. Yes, it looks nice it's very difficult to read making even the most mundane kill x of y quest annoyingly difficult. It's little things like the size of the quest text and fantasy font. However it's now come to a point, thanks to my ever deteriorating vision, where I just can't do that. The fact that Elfly peppers me with questions about how to do things in-game has also made me think about how Blizzard could improve the default UI. .
Guiding Elfly around Shadowglen made me remember how hard the game was when I started and, at the same time, how ill-suited WoW is for visually impaired people. However once she recognised a specific mob she was slaughtering like the best of them. It took a few minutes for Elfly to realise she needed to kill those nightsabers. I have a mental map of most areas of WoW, which fails miserably when it comes to specific NPCs but is pretty good for mobs. Especially as she kept asking where such and such a critter was. .
Then there's the instance factor. I used to regularly get lost in Karazhan (I suspect I'm not alone in this however) but I would also get lost in every other instance from Deadmines to Ulduar. I ended up with my own escort to guide me through the maze that was Medivh's Tower and I am now so glad that Blizzard have started implementing proper instance maps. Getting to the bosses is half the problem. They might just be the Wrath dungeons and instances for now but it's a start and a good one, certainly much better than map-based AddOn I've come across. .
For example, while the action bar is handy and offers loads of extra slots, navigating them is a lot more complicated. It's okay if you have the various spells and icons tied to the number keys (everyone, repeat after me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2). Even trying to find a particular spell can be a nightmare and it would be so nice if they would double wow gold in size if moused over. But, rotations aside, there are only so many number keys. Assigning a second bar leads to confusion all manner of chaos mid-fight when you're trying to figure out why can can't cast a particular spell because you accidentally moved the mousewheel to another bar. .
Yes, it's nice to have NPCs mapped on the minimap but that itself is pretty useless. Bigger is always better so never mind putting the icons on the large map itself, what about things like important NPCs, places to repair and sell goods, flight masters and trainers? Even better, the ? and ! icons above the heads of quest NPCs are great, could we have it game show applications for ones who will repair gear as well or buy trash for a meagre pocketful of gold?
The fact is there are a lot of disabled players in Azeroth. Allen Brack's has promised they intend to make the game more accessible to people. Indeed they've even started making good on that with the addition of a colour blind mode. We've interviewed several players with vastly different disabilities and Blizzard's own J. Unfortunately while the game might rate highly for anyone with a physical disability, the fact remains, if you're visually impaired you have to look at AddOns or tinker with the default UI in order to be able to play without putting undue strain on your remaining vision. .
While the game world takes my breath away, from a VIP's point of view, the user interface is a disaster. The rest of the UI cannot be altered unless you know what you're doing or spend large amounts of time researching AddOns and this is not something for the beginner, much less someone on a ten day trial. The font in the chat boxes can be enlarged, but it is still way too small and while you can compensate by buying a bigger monitor or lowering the resolution. This is not a cheap game experience or ideal situation, especially as I actually like to see where I am. .
But the problem remains, Blizzard need to think about addressing the problems of visual impaired players and think about implementing changes which do not force us to look to AddOns and make basic game play more comfortable. It's my hope that with the release of 3. It's not much to ask and I don't know of any AddOns specific to people with visual disabilities.3 Download Wow Gold and the next expansion that Blizzard will make good on their promise to make WoW more accessible to everyone, both disabled and otherwise.
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