How to skill a 5-Mage-Team

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

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

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

Only PvE (Level and Ini)...

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.