So you’ve decided to roll a mage. Congratulations!
If you haven’t played a particular race before (or if it’s been awhile since you last leveled a character from level one), it can be a lot to handle. The first thing to do is take a deep breath. Don’t panic. Gnomes and Worgen have a lot happening when you first arrive. Goblins are fairly busy as well, but they are on par with the Human starting zone. Comparatively, the other races are fairly sedate.
Level 1 and 2
Advice: Take things one at a time. Your character has no healing spell at this time and has very little in the way of armor.
The first spells that we know as a mage is Frostfire Bolt and an active racial ability. The racial ability may already be on the action bar; if it is not, drag it from the spell book to the action bar. We probably will not need to use it until around level ten or so, but it is good to know that it is available. View full article »
