Hi everyone. First post on the mage forums. : )
The reason I'm here is because I have a question to ask those who might have already tried it.
I've started up a mage, and he's lvl 17. He's awesome, and I love him. My friend has also started up a priest who's lvl 15ish now, and he's really liking him too. We've both played WoW semi casually for a good while now(mostly pvp) and would like to lvl these two characters when our schedules intermingle to a full 70 some day.
What I'm here to ask is will this be the best 2 headed combo for grinding out those lvls? I've heard that AOE grinding with a mage is awesome with some healer backup, but do you also need to be higher in lvl to do it successfully?
Anyways, just looking to see if anyone has tried this(even for a short while). Thank you for help in advance.
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A healer and a mage will level just fine together.
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Hey There! I have a lvl 49 fire mage, and my hubby has a priest, and we've really enjoyed lvling together. I deal out the dps and protect him, and he heals and gets me out of scrapes. All in all a good deal. ;)
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my roommate is a priest and its nice to have him there healing. I can get bigger pulls. I started AoE grinding around 28 Ravenhill Cementary the zombies in the back are awesome :D
Thanks for the answers. I'm really excited to try this out.
I've read the posts on AoE grinding, but it talks about doing it at a higher lvl.
With my low lvl mage, should I just be running around spamming arcane blast and have my shield on to slow them down when they hit me? I'm not sure on the process.
I've read the posts on AoE grinding, but it talks about doing it at a higher lvl.
With my low lvl mage, should I just be running around spamming arcane blast and have my shield on to slow them down when they hit me? I'm not sure on the process.
Having a priest around will help quite a bit with AoE grinding, particularly as you're still learning it. Most people recommend L.40 for AoE stuff, simply for the mount. Makes it alot easier to round baddies up. With a priest's shield and heals, however, you might be able to get away with it even earlier.
Regardless of when you start, speccing into frost is a must for the most effective AoE grinding. Again, with a healer along for the ride, you might be able to hang in as fire, but it will still be less effective than frost.
As for single-target grinding, I peronally don't even have Arcane Blast on my hotbar anymore. It seemed like a cool spell at first, but its mana inefficiency really kills it. If you like the quick-cast nature of Arc Blast, try Scorch instead. Ridiculously efficient and very respectable dps if you spec fire. It should never be your pulling spell, but it's a good one to use in the middle of a fight with a melee guy on ya.
All that said, healer/mage is in my humble opinion one of the poorer teaming combos. The couple of times I've done kill quests with priests, I kinda felt like I was doing all the work. With single pulls (especially at 60+), most mobs are dead before they get very many hits on me. So my biggest problem is mana, not health. I always found having a tank (especially a pally with their AoE tanking) or another dps'r to be greatly preferrable. With that in mind, consider having your friend go shadow (or disc? dunno much about priest talents)--that way you get dps and a mana battery...though I'm not sure when spriests get the ability that helps party members regen mana...
On the other hand, I know a couple holy priests with whom I get along very well...so in those cases I rather like feeling like I'm doing all the work b/c I know what a PITA it is for them to grind and I enjoy feeling like I'm helping them. But that's not really relevant here.
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Edited, Oct 26th 2007 9:55am by AynLoD
Regardless of when you start, speccing into frost is a must for the most effective AoE grinding. Again, with a healer along for the ride, you might be able to hang in as fire, but it will still be less effective than frost.
As for single-target grinding, I peronally don't even have Arcane Blast on my hotbar anymore. It seemed like a cool spell at first, but its mana inefficiency really kills it. If you like the quick-cast nature of Arc Blast, try Scorch instead. Ridiculously efficient and very respectable dps if you spec fire. It should never be your pulling spell, but it's a good one to use in the middle of a fight with a melee guy on ya.
All that said, healer/mage is in my humble opinion one of the poorer teaming combos. The couple of times I've done kill quests with priests, I kinda felt like I was doing all the work. With single pulls (especially at 60+), most mobs are dead before they get very many hits on me. So my biggest problem is mana, not health. I always found having a tank (especially a pally with their AoE tanking) or another dps'r to be greatly preferrable. With that in mind, consider having your friend go shadow (or disc? dunno much about priest talents)--that way you get dps and a mana battery...though I'm not sure when spriests get the ability that helps party members regen mana...
On the other hand, I know a couple holy priests with whom I get along very well...so in those cases I rather like feeling like I'm doing all the work b/c I know what a PITA it is for them to grind and I enjoy feeling like I'm helping them. But that's not really relevant here.
edit: spelling
Edited, Oct 26th 2007 9:55am by AynLoD
Priest will help for AoE Grinding.
Warlock would be better for Chain-Pulling though, and in many situations you can actually chain pull easier than you can AoE. With Warlock partner have him DoT up with a few while you Icebolt for slow, then hit em with one nice Damage Spell (Fireball works) and run to the next one, the monster will be dead in a matter of seconds anyways. Fighting harder stuff have the DoT/Icebolt/Fear for a super-efficient Fear Kite that works wonders in PVP as well.
Priest + Mage is awesome indeed, but don't overlook Warlock + Mage, as that is my personal favorite Partner when playing either.
Warlock would be better for Chain-Pulling though, and in many situations you can actually chain pull easier than you can AoE. With Warlock partner have him DoT up with a few while you Icebolt for slow, then hit em with one nice Damage Spell (Fireball works) and run to the next one, the monster will be dead in a matter of seconds anyways. Fighting harder stuff have the DoT/Icebolt/Fear for a super-efficient Fear Kite that works wonders in PVP as well.
Priest + Mage is awesome indeed, but don't overlook Warlock + Mage, as that is my personal favorite Partner when playing either.
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i leveled with a pally (me being fire mage). he was ret until 50ish and respecced to prot.
i liked this duo. prot pally is a mages best friend, i let him tank while i blast and aoe the **** out of stuff. group quests were easy since he healed while tanking too. LOH ftw too lol
i liked this duo. prot pally is a mages best friend, i let him tank while i blast and aoe the **** out of stuff. group quests were easy since he healed while tanking too. LOH ftw too lol
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