Gnome Mage

Once you hit around the mid 20′s, frost aoe mages can be deadly.  With talents such as improved blizzard, shhater and finally completing the base frost aoe build at level 40:  Ice Barrier.  Here is a base frost build that will take you to level 61, after that you can do what you want with it because after around level 40, you pretty much have all the skills necessary to aoe 8-10 melee mobs no problem.  The following is which skills to get and when and how to perform the aoe spell combo.  If you are having trouble leveling your mage you MUST check this leveling guide out.  (more…)

Upcoming AoE DPS Changes in WotLK WoW

This is Quoted from: Ghostcrawler (Source)

There is definitely a lot of AE (area effect damage) going on in World of Warcraft dungeon runs at the moment. We’re not too worried about it for now – on the contrary it’s nice to see so many people doing the level-up dungeons on the way to level 80. If we find that AE tank + AE damage strategy (with no sheeping, sapping or other crowd control) is the only way people are running heroics and raids, then we’ll probably make some changes, but for now we’re content to just see what happens. (more…)