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at 40 till ~60, fire goes well with a paladin to tank.

60 - 70, go frost and bring your pet paladin to AoE farm with laughable ease.

or, after you get some get some good mana/5 gear (60+), throw on your mage armor and get blessing of wisdom for arcane builds in pvp and pve instances.

If you will truely be playing with an equal level paladin at most times, and he goes Protection, at around level 30 go ice.

There is a special Blizzard build that works so exceptionally well with Paladins that it's relatively insane.

Protection Paladin does not melee damage for much, they stand there and do Damage to all the monsters attacking them with different types of thorns (Retribution Aura, Holy Shield, Shield Spike, Consecrate, ect) so he will be holding agro one 1 monster with the same TPS as a dozen.

Ridiculous -- After the Pally has rounded up his set, give him about 2 more seconds to lock Agro and just Blizzard -- you don't even have to Flamestrike if you don't want, all it takes is Blizzard.

Now if you're soloing, or PVPing, or he isn't going Protection then throw this build out -- its actually very weak if not in the right situation.

Raids don't matter til you hit 70. Both Fire and Ice are useful in 5 mans and group quests. If you want to PvP, the leveling build strategies on frost tends to match well with the PvP build strategies on frost for PvP, so that may affect your decision.

I'm not sure how much more specific these folks can be, though.

So are you saying to go whatever until 70 and re-spec? What would i want to respec to at that point? And so frost would benefit me most at warsong gulch?

Alright, cool! So just to clear something up for me, Warsong Gulch IS PvP right? Because i will mainly just be playing the main game of quests and stuff, but on occasion will go to Warsong GUlch because a couple of my buddies go there.

Alright! You guys have helped me out a ton. I might post later if i have anymore questions. Thanks.

Oh yeah,i did have one question... How much would it cost me to go up in the fire tree till around level 40-70 (I'm not sure) and then switch to ice for some PvP? And if i follow the guide lines in the greatest mage post ever, i will have to be changing most of my talents. So how much would it cost to switch pretty much an entire tree over?

Edited, Feb 2nd 2008 8:43pm by MageGawyn

Edited, Feb 2nd 2008 8:46pm by MageGawyn

you don't pay per talent point, you pay to wipe the entire thing clear. your first respec costs 1g, then 5, 10, 15 and so on to max out at 50g. each month you do not respec I believe it goes down 5g.