Mages and Aoe

[Apollo127]

I was watching a video of a mage aoe grinding and it hit me, I totally over looked the fact that mages can easily pull 4-5 adds at a time, and aoe them down. Would multi-boxing 3 mages be incredible aoe ownage? If so I would love to roll 3 mages and do more instance/aoe grinding over quests since I'm having trouble with all my quests being gather And also, whats the best horde and alliance mage race? :thumbsup:

[Apollo127]

20 views and no replies! Also would it make sense to throw in a tankadin and take out a mage? To hold some nice aggro to make aoe grinding easier? Or would he not be able to hold the aggro? Thanks!

[Dohagan]

I run a priest and 4 mages at the moment. I think a paladin would work a lot better as a leader. With the priest at 70 and the mages at 62 they could roll through normal ramparts easily just speed ae'ing the clusters down (arcane explosion w/ priest doing holy nova). Biggest problem with mages is with the latest patches I can't macro flamestrike like I back in the old days. There is a thread in the macro section though where a guy had one of the programs set up so that he could still use it. I still think shamans are more viable but mages are definitely fun My mages are alliance gnomes with a dwarf priest leading

[Tasty]

Paladin to aoe tank priest to aoe heal (lol holy nova - you man need to heal properly in heroics) and 3 mages for aoe dps and you are set also screw flamestrike, blastwave/ae is where its at

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Why yes, yes it is incredible AoE farming ownage. Most instances I ran before outlands with my pally+4mage group was basically run in, consecrate, AoE spam the shit out of everything in sight. Only thing capping pull size was how much beating my pally could take. It was awesome.

[Apollo127]

So what would you guys recommend for a 3 boxer?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

You'll probably have to go frost if you want to do any instance stuff at all. With only 3, you just won't have the gear to survive past BRD as fire/arcane, IMO. Just too squishy w/o a healer/tank. For races, horde = undead and alliance = human, assuming a PVP server. On PVE, doesn't really matter.

[Apollo127]

But would you say 3 mages is the best combo? Or should I got 2 Mages and 1 other class? Or 3 locks?

[Vyndree]

[quote='Apollo127',index.php?page=Thread&postID=850 61#post85061]20 views and no replies![/quote]

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[Ðeceased]

[quote='Apollo127',index.php?page=Thread&postID=850 84#post85084]So what would you guys recommend for a 3 boxer?[/quote]


[url='http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/mage/talents.html?tal=240005031023212033012000000000000 0000000000000505320010205011020000']single target frost crit madness[/url] or AoE fire burstage

the second spec can be changed to a quite viable raid spec too

U'll notice the fact that all the spec I've listed have 1 or 2 points in winters chill or Imp scorch.. U don't need more! if you have 3 or more mages one of them will be applying it once every few seconds anyway