Category Archives: Mage

Malon’s MOP Mage Tips 5.2

By Malon | Published: March 18, 2013

Today’s guest post is by Malon of <Nightshift> on Wildhammer-EU. He has been a raiding Mage since WoW’s European launch. Hi Everyone, I’ve had some requests on Twitter (where I post as @ArcaneTactics) to collate my #MageTips series into a single document. These are various helpful hints and tricks for PvE Mages; things that will [...]

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The 5.2 Mage PVE raiding survey

By Lissanna | Published: March 6, 2013

Now that 5.2 is here, there is a lot of angst and worry happening in the mage forum. For me to be able to go to the community managers with mage problems, I need data. I’ve done this type of thing before when I was raiding on a druid, but now that I’m raiding as [...]

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The plight of a stationary spec in movement-heavy encounters

By Lissanna | Published: February 9, 2013

Today, I’m going to talk about some of my problems with frost mages in the 5.2 MOP patch. With the Invocation talent change, my frost mage was still running OOM before the Invoker’s Energy buff faded, and so I was having to use evocation early (thus losing out on the benefit of the change they [...]

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Why I hate the level 90 Mage talents

By Lissanna | Published: January 9, 2013

I have been raiding on my mage for all of Mists of Pandaria thus far. I really enjoyed the mage class leveling up from 89 to 90. However, as succinctly discussed on a youtube video by MikePreachWoW, the level 90 mage talents are the exact opposite of fun. The level 90 talents are largely a [...]

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Miniliss the mage hits 85

By Lissanna | Published: July 14, 2012

So, after my dissertation had been defended and I found myself with something resembling “free time”, I finally got my mage (Miniliss) to level 85.  Yes, I do understand the irony of the fact that while I have maintained a leveling guide for druids for almost 6 years at this point, Miniliss is only my [...]

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When do you change mains?

By Lissanna | Published: May 1, 2012

So, my dear blog readers, we need to have a very serious discussion today. See, for the last several weeks, I’ve been unhappy with my druid on the live server. My druid on the live server is raiding as a primary moonkin in 25-man raids where my DPS is pretty low most of the time [...]

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