WoW Classic Mage Guide: Weapon Skills, Abilities, Trainers, & Gear

Mages are the ultimate utility class in WoW Classic, between their portals, conjured food and water, mobility, and crowd control. Their ability to control and damage many mobs at once makes them one of the best classes for farming in both dungeons and the open world. The Mage is also a gold printing machine, able to sell portals and conjured water without even leaving their capital city. On top of all this, their strong DPS makes them highly desirable in raids.

With Blink, Slow Fall, and the ability to teleport themselves and their party members to any major city on demand, Mages have a strong advantage in Vanilla World of Warcraft where simply getting from point A to point B is half the work. They also bring Counterspell and Remove Lesser Curse as well as the valuable Arcane Intellect buff to further cement their desirability in group content.

Arcane Mage

Fire Mage

Frost Mage

Frost Mage AoE

Mage Talent Calculator

Mage Leveling Guide

Mage Pre-Raid & Best in Slot (BiS)

19 Mage Twink

29 Mage Twink

39 Mage Twink

Roles and Specializations

The three talent trees for Mages are Arcane, Fire, and Frost.

• Arcane
  • Contains talents to improve the Mage’s mana utility and effectiveness with Arcane spells.
  • The least popular specialization for Mages in WoW Classic due to the other two offering more damage and control.
• Fire
  • Buffs the Mage’s damage with their Fire spells.
  • This specialization offers the highest potential DPS, but is often avoided in early phases due to the Fire resistance of enemies in the Molten Core and Blackwing Lair raids.
• Frost
  • Improves the Mage’s damage with their Frost spells and provides additional survivability and utility.
  • This specialization is optimal for solo and PvP content due to its high AoE damage output as well as control and survival talents.
  • Often used in early phase raids where Fire resistance is high.

View the complete Mage talent tree in our Mage Talent Calculator.

Class Feature: Portals

Mages are able to create Portals to each of their faction’s three major cities. Other players in their group can use these Portals to teleport to that location, saving them the trouble of having to get back there on foot or using a Hearthstone. Mages will often sell Portals to other players as a way of making extra gold. At the end of a raid, a Mage will usually put up a Portal to their faction’s capital city for everyone to use.

Mages can also Teleport themselves in the same way. There is no cooldown on these abilities, so a Mage can very easily run back and forth between distant locations that would otherwise require quite a lot of travel time.

Class Feature: Conjured Food and Water

In addition to Portals, Mages can also conjure up food and water for themselves and their allies to use. These consumables are equivalent to the standard food and water that can be purchased from vendors, but come at no cost. Conjured items disappear once a character has been logged out for 15 minutes, but there is no limit on how much of it a Mage can make (other than the mana required to conjure it or the bag space needed to store it).

Resources

Mages use Mana as their main ability resource.

Races

Mages have a few Race options for each faction.

Racial Abilities

Starting Stats

Alliance

Stat	Gnome	Human
Stamina	19	20
Strength	15	20
Agility	23	20
Intellect	27	23
Spirit	22	23

Horde

Stat	Troll	Undead
Stamina	21	21
Strength	21	19
Agility	22	18
Intellect	19	21
Spirit	23	27

Weapon Skills and Armor Proficiencies

Mages can only equip Cloth armor and can never learn any other armor proficiencies.

Below is a table of weapon types that Mages can use and where the initial skill can be trained. Mages have very few options for weapons compared to other classes.

Weapon Type	Where to Learn
Daggers	Ilyenia Moonfire in Darnassus Bixi Wobblebonk in Ironforge Woo Ping in Stormwind Sayoc in Orgrimmar Archibald in Undercity
One-Handed Swords	Woo Ping in Stormwind Archibald in Undercity
Staves	Default Default
Wands	Default Default

Notable Abilities

Mages have a lot of useful abilities that will make them a welcome addition to any group.

Utility

• Conjure Food
• Conjure Water
• Counterspell
• Evocation
• Portal: Darnassus
• Portal: Ironforge
• Portal: Stormwind
• Portal: Orgrimmar
• Portal: Thunder Bluff
• Portal: Undercity

Movement

• Blink
• Slow Fall
• Teleport: Ironforge
• Teleport: Orgrimmar
• Teleport: Stormwind
• Teleport: Undercity
• Teleport: Darnassus
• Teleport: Thunder Bluff

Dispels

• Remove Lesser Curse

Crowd Control

• Frost Nova
• Polymorph
• Polymorph: Turtle

Threat

• None

Buffs

• Arcane Brilliance
• Arcane Intellect
• Amplify Magic
• Dampen Magic
• Detect Magic

Debuffs

• None

Mage Trainer Locations

Mage class trainers can be found in starting zones and in a few other locations depending upon your faction.

Trainer	Faction	Location	Coordinates
Marryk Nurribit*	Alliance	Dun Morogh – Cold Ridge Valley	28.6, 66.4
Magis Sparkmantle	Alliance	Dun Morogh – Kharanos	47.4, 52.0
Mai’ah*	Horde	Durotar – Valley of Trials	42.6, 69.0
Un’Thuwa	Horde	Durotar – Sen’jin Village	56.2, 75.0
Khelden Bremen*	Alliance	Elwynn Forest – Northshire	49.6, 39.6
Zaldimar Wefhellt	Alliance	Elwynn Forest – Goldshire	43.2, 66.2
Bink	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	27.0, 8.2
Dink	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	26.8, 8.6
Juli Stormkettle	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	26.2, 7.6
Nittlebur Sparkfizzle	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	27.0, 6.8
Deino	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	38.6, 86.0
Enyo	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	38.8, 85.4
Pephredo	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	38.6, 85.6
Uthel’nay	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	39.0, 86.0
Elsharin	Alliance	Stormwind – Mage Quarter	37.4, 81.6
Jennea Cannon	Alliance	Stormwind – Mage Quarter	38.6, 79.6
Archmage Shymm	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	22.6, 15.8
Thurston Xane	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	25.8, 21.8
Ursyn Ghull	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	25.6, 15.6
Isabella*	Horde	Tirisfal Glades – Deathknell	30.8, 66.0
Cain Firesong	Horde	Tirisfal Glades – Brill	61.8, 52.4
Anastasia Hartwell	Horde	Undercity – Magic Quarter	85.0, 10.2
Kaelystia Hatebringer	Horde	Undercity – Magic Quarter	85.2, 15.6
Pierce Shackleton	Horde	Undercity – Magic Quarter	85.6, 14.6

Mage Portal Trainer Locations

Mage Portal Trainers only teach the Portal and Teleport spells for the city where they are located.

Trainer	Faction	Location	Coordinates
Elissa Dumas	Alliance	Darnassus – Temple of the Moon	40.6, 82.0
Milstaff Stormeye	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	26.0, 8.6
Thuul	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	38.6, 85.8
Larimaine Purdue	Alliance	Stormwind – Mage Quarter	39.6, 79.6
Birgitte Cranston	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	22.4, 16.4
Lexington Mortaim	Horde	Undercity – Magic Quarter	84.6, 16.8

Gear Sets

Here are all of the equipment sets for Mages in Classic WoW, including dungeon sets, raid tier sets, and PvP sets.

• Magister’s Regalia (Dungeon Set 1 or Tier 0)
• Sorcerer’s Regalia (Dungeon Set 2 or Tier 0.5)
• Arcanist Regalia (Tier 1 – Molten Core)
• Illusionist’s Attire (Tier 1.5 – Zul’Gurub)
• Netherwind Regalia (Tier 2 – Blackwing Lair)
• Trappings of Vaulted Secrets (Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj)
• Enigma Vestments (Tier 2.5 – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj)
• Frostfire Regalia (Tier 3 – Naxxramas)
• The Highlander’s Intent/ The Defiler’s Intent (Arathi Basin)
• Lieutenant Commander’s Regalia/ Champion’s Regalia (Rare PvP)
• Field Marshal’s Regalia/ Warlord’s Regalia (Epic PvP)

Notable Items

• Mind Quickening Gem: A powerful Mage-specific trinket that drops from Vaelstrasz in Blackwing Lair.
• Neltharion’s Tear: A highly prized trinket from Nefarian in Blackwing Lair that helps with the Mage’s Hit cap woes.
• Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian: A legendary weapon from the Naxxramas raid that can be used by Mages. (Atiesh Guide)

Skill Books

Below are all of the skill books that are available for Mages in WoW Classic. These books teach new abilities or ability ranks that cannot be learned from trainers. The books are not Soulbound and can therefore be traded or purchased from the Auction House.