I am having trouble surviving fights on my 63 Mage. It feels like even with Water or Fire elementals up, I’m still either too squishy or not hitting hard enough. Any advice? I’m already trying to level as Frost.
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Clothies are so squishy when leveling. When you land with your dragon give it a few seconds for scaling to happen before you attack mobs and don’t be afraid to use all your defensives and cool downs as often as possible. It feels so bad to do less dps as you gain gear and levels.
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Yea, gotta pull out all the stops for a lot of fights and burn the enemy before it gets you. Also, learn to use slowing spells and blink (or shimmer) and kite things. If leveling in open world it’s not too bad, because most mobs or quest bosses are not immune to kiting mechanics. Take talents that apply slowing to your targets for you if available. Hmmm also learning the range of spells and making good use of stuns to move, like dragons breath, then don’t hit them and move back or blink, then hit your big cast while they are incapacitated. Gotta play a game keep-away most of the time.
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Slow and mass slow are your friends while leveling 
does suck when you’re waiting for cooldowns, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles I suppose
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Ice block 80% heal, mirror image damage reduced by a factor and when one is killed you get 5% healing. Alter time, most powerful underused spell in the game. Blink blink invis and you are alive to fight another day.
Mages are fun but take effort to stay alive.
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Best way to level is spamming time walking dungeons. Yeah it gets boring but so does questing. Going from 63-70 doing time walking is extremely fast. Probably 2-3 times faster than questing.
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I can definitely recommend leveling via Timewalking dungeons. You’ll get gear as you do those dungeons (plus what you can buy from the Timewalking vendor). Out in the world, rely on your crowd control abilities (Slow, Frost Nova, Polymorph, etc.). Do not use the Water Elemental because it lowers your overall damage. It’s being removed next week anyway. Keep using your Ice Barrier.
Distance is your friend do it has much as possible.
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Level arcane, youll love it. You plow down mobs like nothing
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Yeah Arcane is a lot of fun, with Orb and Explosion you can maul quite a lot
Use Alter Time, each fight !
Kiting, blinking and using Nova /Dragon Breath / Slow are all your friends
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you should learn to do Arcane mage and stop dieing so much
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