She is level 8 and having a devil of a time leveling. She just died for the 30th time since beginning its new life.
Mana usage is the issue and fighting more then 1 mob at a time is darn near impossible.
I am sorry but my very first character I ever played did not have the issues I am having now. I have notes from way back then.
This is not the Classic I remember. This is a totally different Classic.
Mages are squishy. My paladin died at least 2 or 3 times before leaving Northshire the first time I played, and they’re supposedly sturdy.
nice, just spam 2 and you good
Imagine playing the easiest class in the game and still whining about it being too hard
Big yikes.
>retail player
oh that explains it lol
Yeah, you have to actually use your brain in classic, you can’t just mindlessly pull 10 mobs and effortlessly aoe them down.
Are you at least wearing gear in all applicable slots? At that level you should be able to get a wand and basically just face tank/wand mobs down. Until you can aoe farm, a mage should typically only be able to kill 2 mobs at a time, max 3.
Does she have a wand?
When you get a few more levels it gets much much easier, just stick with it
You are gonna die a lot levelling, its part of the mage charm in my humble opinion. Once you hit level 22 (assuming you went frost and now have imp blizzard) you can start AOE grinding and that will speed things up a lot, however it does require a certain level of chutzpah and a great deal of patience while learning the pull.
Imagine being a level 34 gnome warrior that rolled alliance on Mankrik?
Extra little yikes.
Do you need more hugs in your life? Why so mean?
OP: Just take your time and plan your pulls carefully. You will get into a rhythm eventually.
LMAO classic is literally the easiest thing ever. I love people that try to flex about how “hard” classic is compared to retail
Frost bolt opener to slow mob
Fire ball
Fire ball
Frost bolt and kite
Fire ball.
All the way until you get Blizzard.
If this is an alt.
Create an heirloom
Enchant 30 Spell Power on a low level white dagger.
Enchant 20 fire power on low level white gloves.
MAKE SURE THEY’RE NOT BOE!
Ding!
Get a crafted wand from an enchanter both the lesser magic wand and the greater wand
a level appropriate wand will do more damage than all of your spells at that point of the game
ya’ll are mean!
Almost all classes starting out will find it rough to do more than solo mobs, as mana and health need to be managed. As for your notes, you probably have forgotten the true pain of leveling that you did 15 years back. The low level experience in Classic isn’t much different than it was in vanilla, and is way easier then many similar games that were out at the same time.
However expectations change over time, and what you would have felt was reasonable 15 years ago, you probably see differently now, as that was likely the first time you had played a game like this, and while now even if your not a hardcore player, you will have significant experience. People also tend to remember the past fondly and forget some of the more annoying parts of experiences.
Classic leveling especially at low levels, is challenging both driven by poor equipment as well as poorly scaling abilities which will often leave you drained of resources after 1-2 mobs. It was actually even worse in vanilla then it is in classic as Blizzard fixed some things. Some areas and encounters are designed for groups, and were poorly designed, providing almost impossible content for solo players and can even be difficult for groups of the areas level range.
As a mage you should be able to make your own food and drink, make sure you always have plenty of these. Get a wand, use it, at low lvls its almost as good as your spells, find the right amount of casting vs wanding. Once you can start to AOE things, if you have the skill you can level relatively easily, but you will still find you spend an inordinate amount of time drinking and waiting on mana.
At level 8 all you have to do is start the fight at max range and cast fireball on repeat. I think you have fireblast too. Seriously . . . there’s no way you are that incapable lol.
Good advice up to this point.
Mages are extremely squishy. They are designed to never get hit since they cannot take hits. You have to kite mobs (which you cannot do inside the starter area kobold caves) so mages depend on a lot of help from others in the beginning.
It gets better at level 15+
It was good advice including that point. They are posting on a level 60 retail character and have played for a long time. They fully understand they only have fireball, frostbolt, and fireblast (maybe arcane missiles at level 8, I don’t remember). There is no way they don’t know how to press one or two buttons.
Their problem is likely the same as many others, not paying attention and thinking they can hulk their way through multiple mobs. And they’ll do it over and over and over, then follow up with “zug zug, game broken, me not that kinda orc.”
The correct rotation is:
frostbolt
frostbolt
wand
loot.
Some guides recommend not training anything other than levels of frostbolt plus conjure water.
Nah. You need fireblast to finish, even as a frost mage (imho).