You have different weapon options but common weapons are staves, wands and unarmed combat. Advanced weapon skills are daggers and one handed swords. Mages can only wear cloth armor. This is another thing that makes them a bit more fragile. Mages rely on food, bandages, and health potions to make up for this.

Mages are unique in the fact that they have powerful ranged attacks and great offensive magic. Mage spells are either arcane, frost or fire. Frost and fire spells are mostly offensive and the arcane spells can be both offensive and defensive. Mages also have teleport spells which also fall under the arcane category.

Another weakness of the mage is that when they run out of mana they have little ability to defend themselves. This makes mana potions very important for the mage when in combat. The good thing is mages can create food and drinks to replenish their health and mana and when they become higher levels they can create mana stones that will instantly restore mana. These are great for use during combat.

Some sample mage spells are:

Arcane intellect: Boosts mage’s intellect for a specified time.
Blizzard: This spell calls down ice shards over a widespread area.
Fireball: Shoots a long range blast of fire.
Frost Armor: Boosts armor and slows any enemies that hit the mage.
Frost Nova: Blasts nearby enemies with cold damage and roots them in place for a few seconds.
Mana Shield: Creates a shield that deducts hit points from the mana instead of the mage’s health.

Strengths:

•    Can Summon Food and Drink
•    Powerful Area of Effect Damage Spells
•    Can Teleport around

Weaknesses:

•    Has difficulty fighting monsters that resist spells
•    Very fragile and easily killed in certain situations
•    Can only wear cloth armor

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You will need to choose your:

•    Race
•    Class
•    Gender
•    Appearance
•    Name

If you are Alliance, you can be a Dwarf, a Gnome, a Human, a Draenei or a Night Elf. If you are Horde, you can be an Orc, a Tauren, a Troll, a Blood Elf,  or an Undead. There are different class selections and different starting points depending on which of these you choose. We will explain them all below.

Alliance

Dwarf

Class selection: hunter, mage, rogue, paladin, priest and warrior
Starting Area: Coldridge Valley, Dun Morogh
Capital City: Ironforge

Gnome

Class selection: mage, rogue, warlock, warrior
Starting Area: Coldridge Valley, Dun Morogh
Capital City: Ironforge

Human

Class selection: mage, priest, paladin, rogue, warlock and warrior
Starting Area: Northshire Valley, Elwynn Forest
Capital City: Stormwind

Night Elf

Class selection: druid, hunter, rogue, priest and warrior
Starting Area: Shadowglen, Teldrassil
Capital City: Darnassus

Draenei

Class selection: Hunter, Mage, Priest, Paladin, Warrior, Shaman
Starting Area: Azuremyst Isles
Capital City: Exodar

Horde

Orc

Class selection: hunter, rogue, shaman, warlock and warrior
Starting Area: Valley of Trials, Durotar
Capital City: Orgrimmar

Tauren

Class selection: druid, hunter, shaman and warrior
Starting Area: Camp Narache, Mulgore
Capital City: Thunder Bluff

Troll

Class selection: hunter, mage, rogue, priest, shaman and warrior
Starting Area: Valley of Trials, Durotar
Capital City: Orgrimmar

Undead

Class selection: mage, priest, rogue, warlock and warrior
Starting Area: Deathknell, Trisfal Glades
Capital City: Undercity

Blood Elf

Class selection: Hunter, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Paladin
Starting Area: Eversong Woods
Capital City: Silvermoon

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