When did the class "click" for you?Follow

Actually for me it was much earlier. In the 30's around STV and Dust I started to be able to get deep enough into frost to really start shattering and controlling mobs. It was awesome almost nothing could touch me, I started soloing elites just for the challenge learning to frost kite them I was able to kill mobs that should have totally smoked me. That lasted through BC and outlands. I remeber a mage buddy of mine was asking for help with one of the elite demons in Shadowmoon. I told him dude you are a mage you don't need help with that demon you can solo it. He thought I was nuts so I went out there and soloed it right in front of him to show him how it was done. :D

I leveled my pally first in WoTLK. Then I was working on my hunter when I realized I really needed a JC and miner. So I dusted off my mage. I was a bit bummed that they nerfed frost kiting elites so bad in WoTLK. Every single elite just about is immune to frost speed reduction and snares. Booo... But I fell in love with my mage again anyway.

At 80 I switched to arcane and it was just jaw dropping. Even with my crappy quest blues I was kicking major deeps. With a bit o gear it has only gotten better. Seeing 13-15k AB crits or doing 9k DPS on a pack of mobs in Naxx with IV AP Blizzards, well its just plain fun.

After leveling a warrior for a while I began to appreciate how easy it is for a mage to grind. So many less buttons to push...it's more tactical as well. Instead of just letting three mobs beat on your face and then chowing corpses playing mage requires some finesse. Also it's a bit cheaper than leveling most melee classes because you don't often, if ever, need to bandage. I always preferred frost for the trip to the level cap but to each his own. Arcane is fun to mess around with for a while.

Playing mage in instances isn't much different than other damage dealing classes but it's still a lot of fun. It's easier for a mage to squeeze out nice dps at early levels because of the area damage spells you have at your disposal. It's more difficult to get maximum damage out of a Rogue, Feral Druid, or Warrior in those early levels although they all stack up nicely when played well.

Sometime in my 20s, I decided that I needed to relearn how to move so that I turned with the mouse instead of the keyboard. Within hours, a whole new mage world had opened up. That said, even before that, I was already really loving my mage.

The mage class really did click to me once I lost my virginity to a woman who plays an Arcane Mage.

Female Arcane Mages do it better? =x

The class clicked for me ever since I started it. I have always loved mages. (: But it was really awesome during TBC. I absolutely loved pvping with my mage. I could pretty much kill anything (except resto druids) if I played it right. All my friends and guildies knew I was pretty good at PvP so they always called on me to help them when they are getting ganked or something haha.
I'm in the process of leveling up my mage right now. I can't wait till I hit 80 (:

Once I got Pyroblast >=D. KABOOM!

By the time I actually got the spell I had already planned out that I was going to get Shatter as well and I simply couldn't wait until I could experiment with Frost Nova and getting Pyroblast off.

Yeah the downtime at lower levels is pretty painful. The better part at that level range is when you can do a bit of AoE grinding to get through the levels that are taking a while. It isn't quite as good as it used to be, but even though you will have to drink after every AoE pull you will be killing 10+ guys.

Level eight, polymorph. My favourite spell in WC 2&3 - there's just something awesome about turning somone into a sheep.

Talents look good overall -- the next couple of levels I would put a single point (at least) into imp blizzard to get the chill effect (which could explain why you were getting pummelled if you didn't have that) and then a point or two into icefloes before you get your frost barrier. From there shattered barrier and the other damaging talents deeper in the tree will keep you afloat for a long time. Don't forget to pick up piercing ice when you start getting a bit of spellpower or at least start hitting a little harder.

Funny, I found mage pretty easy to level. There are plenty of escape options (nova, CoC, blink, polymorph, slow fall, all up after lvl 26) plus it's a ranged class, so easy to pull with. Aside from difficulty opening on some mobs, rogue and druid (after about level 30, anyway) were a little easier, but warrior, paladin (seriously), and priest were all harder to get out of major trouble with. In a way, DK and Warlock have more trouble getting out of major difficulty too, but that's only because major difficulty for either class amounts to a raid boss using nukes as javelins. I'd probably rate mage as about a middling difficult class to level.

Yeah, drinking is annoying.

It hasn't yet. And I'd love for it to click.

I'm on my second attempt at the class. My first one died a swift death at level 20 or so some two years ago. Current one is an ex-bank alt which I'm going to VERY slowly level with a friend of mine. I'd love to get him to 80 so I can gogo crit a ton and have a lot of fun, but I'm not sure I'll get around to it.

Let's seeeeee, druid at 70 is my current leveling alt. THEN I'll probably turn my attention to forgotten hunter at 60 ... My friend will take a little summer break, so if I' 50 by christmas I'll be a happy mage. Hopefully it'll click by then XDXDXD