Any advice for an old school newb?Follow

not really. mages in wow are kind of like wizzards in eq only that they have no pet (not really we do eventually get 45sec pet every 3min (well 2min15sec really)) and have high DPS.

in the lower levels pick a talent tree and fill it out. there is a GREAT guide at the top of this forum. read it, most info you will need will be right there.

i can say that a few UI mods will help you level faster, but sometimes that is not always best.

If you are an old school EQ player, try and explore the world without guides as much as possible. And it is possible. The quests are worth it, crafting is viable from level 1. Things like camping, spawn stealing, ninja looting, xp grinding, etc are not 100% eliminated, but greatly reduced.

Since most servers are fairly mature, so there is a market on much of the stuff you find (except for things only used in 60 raids, which aren't run anymore). I do have a few tips:
- Get the biggest bags you can afford. Although bags do drop, sometimes they don't so low bag space will hold back your money generation.
- Loot everything. Sell items whose names are in gray text, see if you can auction items with white/green/blue text. What you keep, auction or just dump to an NPC vendor comes with experience.
- You can learn fishing, cooking and first aid. Learn them as soon as you can afford them. Fishing/cooking go hand in hand. With cooking you can make stat food early on. The really good food is much later, but cooking gives you something to do with all that animal meat you find. First Aid I found important, even for a mage.
- You can also learn two other professions. Depends how much of a crafter you are:
- If you like crafting I'd suggest tailoring and enchanting. You can tailor your own cloth stuff. As an enchanter you can disenchant things you make, but don't need. And you can disenchant items and sell the materials or use them to raise you enchanting. There are other professions. Check them out and see what appeals to you.
- If you don't like crafting picking skinning and either mining or herbalism. Then you can just sell everything you gather.

There is more information, addons, websites, etc than you can shake a stick at. Use them if you need them. But I remember starting WoW and doing my own exploring. I liked it.

your frostbolt will be kind of like snare. it is one of your DD + reduce movement speed on target.

froze nova, i am guessing is like frost nova, an AoE ice trap type spell that locks things in ice stopping their movement for up to 8sec (might be 10, i forget would have to check the spell info on the exact time)

cone of cold is a higher level spell, but yup does same thing.

3 trees to go do.

arc = mega DPS = lowest mana efficient. you will spend a lot more time drinking then killing compared to fire or frost.
fire = very high dps = very efficient for mana. great for PvE and solo.
frost = good DPS (PvE) = most efficient for mana. good for solo, PvE it is great in instances and raids, best for PvP.