Also see: Mage Spells, Talent Build Suggestions

Masters of the elements and the arcane, mages are considered the heaviest hitters in terms of spellpower. With the ability to create and use portals to all the major cities as well as the skill to conjure food and water for the party, mages are useful facets to the party. Mages also carry many powerful area-of-effect attacks.

Class Role
When seeking someone to introduce monsters to a world of pain, the Mage is a good choice. With their elemental and arcane attacks, it's a safe bet something they can do won't be resisted by your chosen enemy. Damage is the name of the Mage game, and they do it well. Their arsenal includes some powerful crowd control spells, also, giving them the ability to keep hordes at bay -- in fact, these abilities can be used on the most common creatures in the game, thus making them extremely valuable for this purpose.

Strengths

• Very effective in damaging multiple targets at once with powerful Area of Effect Damage Spells
  
• Effective at escaping enemies with Blink, Frost Nova, and Ice Armor spells
  
• Excellent long range damage capability
  
• Can transport self and others to major cities using portals
  
• Great at crowd control

Weaknesses

• Restricted to wearing cloth armor
  
• Poor melee capability and low hit points
  
• Has no healing ability
  

Eligible Races: Human, Gnome, Undead, Troll, Blood Elf, Draenei
Standard Bars: Health/Mana
Armor: Cloth
Weapons: Staves, Wands, Daggers (with training), Swords (with training)

Suitable Professions
Tailoring and enchanting can be especially good for cloth wearers because you would be able to create not only the type of armor you need but also large bags which add to the space in your inventory. By also being an Enchanter you will be able to increase the quality and effects on the armor you create for yourself. You could even make money out of it by enchanting items of other people.

Magic is powerful.
Magic is corrupting.
Magic is addicting.
Magic draws the denizens of the Twisting Nether to those that wield the arcane.

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