How to skill a 5-Mage-Team

[Joerg]

Hi,

i play 5 Mages and i have no idear how to skill them.

I thought i skill one to frost (for slowing) and the rest to fire...

What do you think?

Thanks!
Joerg

[Atrocious]

Thought it was Arcane all the way? Atleast my experience is that Arcane performs better for multiboxing than fire.

[Khatovar]

What are you planning to do with them? PvP, PvE, arena?

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=41367
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=44565
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=44631

[Joerg]

Only PvE (Level and Ini)...

[fleaplus]

You can quest pretty easily with 5x frost by having one do a freeze then the other four do an ice lance. You can do instances pretty easily now too thanks to the buffed ice barrier.

[Akoko]

5 Arcane. See the numerous mages thread.

While questing you do NOT need any sort of snare from frost. In fact, it would slow you down as you would have to walk further to loot the mob if it wasn't instant killed.

[Sam DeathWalker]

PvE is archane and PvP is Fire to my way of thinking.

[Joerg]

And what is the Dmg-Spell to use in Arkane?

At Level 23, i only habe 3 Damage-Spells:

1 with focus
1 AE
1 which stacks 4 times +10% (i think the neglish name is arcana blast)

Sorry, i dont know the spellnames in english...

Is it the spell which make 10% more damgage for every stack?

[fleaplus]

If you are on a pve server then arcane should work great. I go with frost for ice barrier so when that pesky rougue open up with a backstab it's not a one shot. As I said before you can easily do a cone of cold on one then ice lance immediately after which gives them all the shatter bonus and a mob ready to loot by the time you are in range.

[Sam DeathWalker]

With 5 mage you use the aoe. Find a spot and pull with the longest range lowest mana single target spell (target 5 different mobs then hit one key to single attack each at the same time then when all 5 come to you use the aoe).

If that dosnt work just run into a pack of mobs and start the aoe.

If that dosnt work make one guy a bit stronger for a tank/puller roll (sta armor/gems or whatever and buffs) and have him pull a mess of mobs back to the other 4 and start the aoe.

[Zub]

low levels i would still go for Frost. For the simple reason that you wont have mirror image to tank for you yet and anything that keeps the mob away from you a little bit longer is good.
I'm obviously talking about elite mobs here, as anything non-elite will just die instantly to whatever spell you use x5.

[Tonuss]

And what is the Dmg-Spell to use in Arkane?

At Level 23, i only habe 3 Damage-Spells:
Sorry to jump into this so late, but at level 23 an arcane mage has Arcane Blast, Arcane Barrage and Arcane Explosion. That's pretty much all you need the rest of the way to 85. You can level as any spec (5 mages will fry pretty much anything in two casts) but arcane will do the most damage. Anything that manages to survive five Arcane Blasts will die a split second later when you cast Arcane Barrage or (if they happen to be close) Arcane Explosion.

AoE for large groups of mobs can also be a good way to earn extra experience in the lower levels and at various points afterwards (the quests in Deepholm where you have to kill the troggs that are busy fighting the stone dwarves is ridiculously fast and safe AoE experience).

[jstanthr]

on my i used arcane barrage on most hings and they were one shotted, only used arcane blast if barrage was on cd, and u should have them both at lvl 10ish all 5 of mine are arcane btw and currently at 80

[valle2000]

Is always arcane the best choice for 70+ mages, or would five frost mages be any good as well? Could the elementals be used for holding any aggro or are they to weak?

[Tonuss]

I don't think the elementals will take or hold aggro, but five mages of any spec will plow through quest mobs and elites with little difficulty. Mirror images work for holding aggro on bosses until you can burn the boss down, as I understand it.

[Oatboat]

At 43+ your Arcane explosion will cost 60% less mana if talented and glyphed.... talk about easy rolling through some big pulls.

EDIT: Sorry 50% ... glyph was removed in 4.01

[valle2000]

Is Arcane explosion x5 powerful enough to kill elite trash in dungeons?

[RSM72]

Is Arcane explosion x5 powerful enough to kill elite trash in dungeons?
No its not. And most of the time you dont even want them to get in range to try that. But they die from very few arcane blasts.

[Malgor]

I just leveled a five mage team and went frost from 1-60 and then switched to arcane. They are 85 now and can kill pretty much anything instantly vs over.

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do dungeons without a tank and healer.

I plan on making some videos once I get better.

If you have any questions shoot me a pvt msg on here.

Malgor

[dancook]

My five mages are level 31, I managed to do dead mines at level 25 - at level 31 I tried stockades - but I didn't manage to kill hogger.

When I do get mirror images, how should I expect to fair in various instances as I level?

I do love my (T) round robin focus/symbol (R) polymorph - woo so easy.

[valle2000]

Should I use Frost armor for better protection, or Molten armor for better dmg?

[Ajew5]

I use Mage armor for the extra mana which in turn does more dps. Before that is available though molten armor is the way to go

[dancook]

I tried Uldaman at level 39 with my Arcane Mages, they have a few heirlooms and level 20+ greens

I killed

Grimlok
Ironaya - one death
Galgaan Firehammer
Revelosh
Obisidian Sentinel

I got the Ancient stone keeper down to 78 health when I wiped - didn't try again.

I didn't bother to go as far as Archaedas (can't imagine i'd have beat him) and left the instance when I hit level 40.

Arcane Explosion was good fun on the non-elite packs, and Arcane+sheep made short work of elites.