Mage Leveling spec?

Well I’m not new to the game, but I am to mage. I plan on it being my main for the future patches to come. I am still learning it, I understand that

  • frost is great for dungs.
  • Arcane is weird for me
  • fire Is good single target damage

But which is the best for leveling through legion. I’m using frost atm, but I’m kiting ALOT lol which I don’t have a problem with, just wondering if there are better options.

Arcane is great in legion, just spam arcane blast.

Arcane is the best for leveling. I also prefer it in pvp but that’s just me.

I think arcane is the best for leveling sub 110. Once I hit BFA stuff, I switched to frost as I’m able to AOE big packs down.

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Yeah I feel pretty good with frost now, haven’t tried arcane yet. But dungs Im always topping charts even over those who have haritage armor.

I don’t pull big packs cause I’m so squishy, but glacial spike is like a 2 or 1 hit kill on a mob

Basically what I do with big packs is cast blizzard, ranged freeze from pet, frost orb then ice lance with procs while running them around in the blizzard circle

Use ice nova to hold in place once first blizzard is gone, recast blizzard and by then they should all be dead

I started as frost and switched to fire by lvl 40. Frost was really slow and boring- fire has been awesome. Just hit 110

I leveled with fire through mop and drenor. But I like frost. Noticed all three specs are great to play though so really aren’t losing out in any way

Fire.

Frost is the slowest by far for leveling, and getting wq’s done once you hit max level.

Arcane is ok too, and is definitely the fastest at low level, but you’re way past that.

If you’re enjoying frost though, keep playing it! I’m just referring to speed, though I do also enjoy playing fire more.