New Mage Leveling?Follow

I hate making these but this is a class I am completely clueless about.
I started Shadow Priest. PW:S is godly and completely ridiculous early on. I had a Priest remind me of how awesome it was when they cast it on me during a quest and it lasted the WHOLE duration vs constant mobs my level.

Then I went Retadin and well, that just owns anything in the way. I take on 4-7 mobs at a time and just smash them down.

I then made a Lock, which is -very- tough because of the squishy factor and so far, no ****************** buttons aside a single Healthstone. Really hard, but fun, but also opposing faction.

So I decided to pick up Mage and see how it goes. Got her to level 11 so far, lot of fun, but I am concerned with Talents.
I have tossed two into Fire Blast for when I get aggro having an instant spell more available, but I know Mage keeps changing, especially with all these patches.

My question(finally) is for leveling, is Ice still the way to go for control? I solo, not much for instances, and am debating which route to take. I see a lot of fire and arcane, but I don't know which way to go!

Right now I pop off a Frostbolt, then Arcane Missiles x2 and maybe a Fire Blast to end it. If aggro, I pop off Frost Nova, Fire Blast, Arcane Missiles, Fire Blast.

Well I know aggro, I played FFXI for 4 years lol. I know the vast majority of everything MMO's have to offer.

As for the greatest mage post... only sticky is the new one :/

I meant when I get "ambushed" by a mob, not attacking it on purpose.

And... many things are incredibly similar. So yeah, "card played". I'm fine in WoW in the majority of things, but talents are a bit difficult to pick up when varied classes have little in common. Melee to Pet to Caster is a huge jump.

How about a little more helpful, a little less prick? I asked a simple question because the sticky that people told me to find is not stickied that I see.

We try to avoid absolute hand-holding with talent builds. I am more than happy to help with questions, but why not go ahead and throw a build together on http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=o and link it here and we can critique it together talking about the positives and negatives of the various talents.

TGMPE doesn't specifically state which build to take, but Poldaran and myself have gone through and looked at every talent, discussed them, and even ranked/rated them in their raid/pvp/soloability underneath the talent.

I can give the basics of frost talents quite easily if that is what you want.

First is get that frostbolt hitting faster then pick anything that does more damage or that will freeze mobs , frozen mobs cannot attack you so is a great breathing space to either run or blink back to a safer spot to carry on frostbolting them , my talents probably could be better but work very well for me ( check out my mage ) a mage does take some levels to get going but is not that hard as you will find out and if you die a lot you are doing it wrong .

you can get Ice Barrier at level 40 =)

I am leevling a mage at the moment and have gone fire(I'm level 32) and I am loving it. I do have plans to go frost at 40...gnome in a bubble ftw =p.