By the time you're 23, your Blizzard should be pretty handy for group mob pulls. Improved Blizzard will give Blizzard a chill effect and lower the targets' movement speed. Permafrost will increase the duration of said chill effect and slow the mobs a little more. Frostbite will give your Blizzard (now with chill effect) a chance to freeze the target in place. And Ice Shards can double your Frost damage.
So basically you can run into a small group of mobs, get them to chase you, Frost Nova them all in place, turn around and Blizzard them to death before they can even touch you. You'll have to be careful of mobs that can hit you with range attacks though because that will decrease your channeling time. So a good policy is to cast a shield spell like Mana Shield (and/or Ice Barrier at later levels) just before you pull or just before you begin casting Blizzard to absorb the damage and prevent loss of channeling time (you can also pick up Icy Veins which eliminates loss of channeling time due to damage, but it has a 3-minute cooldown and is one more thing you'd have to cast).
Of course, a Blizzard focused style of play will eat up your mana bar quickly, so you'll be drinking a lot between fights.
So basically you can run into a small group of mobs, get them to chase you, Frost Nova them all in place, turn around and Blizzard them to death before they can even touch you. You'll have to be careful of mobs that can hit you with range attacks though because that will decrease your channeling time. So a good policy is to cast a shield spell like Mana Shield (and/or Ice Barrier at later levels) just before you pull or just before you begin casting Blizzard to absorb the damage and prevent loss of channeling time (you can also pick up Icy Veins which eliminates loss of channeling time due to damage, but it has a 3-minute cooldown and is one more thing you'd have to cast).
Of course, a Blizzard focused style of play will eat up your mana bar quickly, so you'll be drinking a lot between fights.
This message last edited by TaskmasterJack on 18/07/2010 at 06:50:55 PM
So I finally gave in and started playing WoW, any advice?
15/07/2010 02:04:34 AM
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Add-Ons are actually common and not a bannable offense (depending on their nature).
15/07/2010 02:11:03 AM
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Re: So I finally gave in and started playing WoW, any advice?
15/07/2010 02:31:00 PM
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Others have given good advice. also:
15/07/2010 07:18:18 PM
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Currently level 20 mage, just bought all the spells now I am poor
18/07/2010 03:25:57 PM
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Mining is a good Profession to pick up to make money on the side.
18/07/2010 06:25:35 PM
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Currently my professions are tailoring and enchanting
19/07/2010 12:25:28 AM
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The problem with leveling enchanting is that its a money sink, so you'll be poor a lot.
19/07/2010 12:55:49 AM
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Re: Blizzard
18/07/2010 06:41:43 PM
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You're worrying too much, and min-maxing too much. And a lot of this advice is very, very bad.
18/07/2010 07:03:43 PM
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To min max is my nature
19/07/2010 12:33:00 AM
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Of course. I don't mean to imply that min-maxing it inherently bad or not fun.
19/07/2010 04:31:18 PM
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