WoW Classic Mage
The Mage is a ranged class in World of Warcraft that wields powerful arcane, fire, and frost-based spells. Mages deal high damage and have area effects. They can teleport and craft food. The class has defensive abilities such as Ice Block and can slow enemies, which makes them excellent AoE farmers. Learn more about Mage talents, builds, and professions in our WoW Classic Mage overview.
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WoW Classic Mage Talent Calculator
The following talent calculator shows the vanilla talent trees for a 
Mage for WoW Classic Era, WoW Hardcore, and WoW Classic Anniversary.
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You can invest talent points into the trees Arcane, Fire, and Frost with your left mouse button. You can remove talent points with your right mouse button.
Best Professions for Mages in WoW Classic
Finding the best profession for your Mage in WoW Classic will depend on your game style.
- If you want to start with your best-in-slot gear before raiding, you need Tailoring. Tailoring allows you to craft
Robe of the Archmage. Robe of the Archmage can not be traded, so you have to craft it for yourself. You can drop Tailoring after you’ve crafted the item since Tailoring is not required to equip Robe of the Archmage. - If you plan on using the set bonus from
Bloodvine Vest, you need to learn Tailoring. The recipes for this set will be added in phase 4 with Zul'Gurub. - Engineering grants access to the most advantages in PvE and PvP. If you are into PvP or speedrunning raids, Engineering is highly recommended.
- In WoW Classic Hardcore, Engineering and Alchemy are the best professions. Both professions allow you to escape from difficult situations and possibly avoid death. With Engineering, you can use grenades for stuns and gadgets like
Target Dummy. With Alchemy, you have access to utility potions and potions to increase your defensive and offensive stats. - For the popular Whip Lasher farm in Dire Maul you want Herbalism as your profession to maximize the gold per hour.
- Enchanting and Mining are popular alternatives as the second profession if nothing above applies.
Overall your professions will highly depend on the content you are planning to do the most as a Mage. Learn more about all professions, find gold-making tips, and a leveling guide for each profession in our WoW Classic Profession Guide.
Mage Builds in WoW Classic
These are the best builds and specs for Mages in WoW Classic.
WoW Classic Mage DPS Build
This DPS build for Mages in WoW Classic Anniversary and Era is the spec to maximize your damage in dungeons and raids. Find talents, enchants, and BiS gear in our WoW Classic Mage DPS guide.
WoW Classic Mage Leveling Guide
Learn more about the most efficient ways to level up your Mage in WoW Classic with our WoW Classic Mage Leveling guide.
WoW SoD Mage Builds
Season of Discovery has vastly different build guides. Here you’ll find our WoW SoD Mage guides:
WoW SoD Mage DPS Build
The DPS build for Mages in WoW SoD is used to maximize damage in dungeons and raids. Find talents, the best runes, and BiS gear in our WoW SoD Mage DPS build.
WoW SoD Mage Healer Build
The Healer Build is a spec for Mages to heal their allies in dungeons and raids. Find talents, the best runes, and BiS gear in our WoW SoD Mage Healer build.
Mage Macros in WoW Classic
You can write very useful macros for a Mage in WoW Classic to improve your gameplay. Find the most important macros in our guide “WoW Classic Mage Macros“. You’ll learn how to write macros yourself by reading through the examples, too.
Best Race for Mages in WoW Classic
The best race for a Mage depends on whether you are playing on the Alliance or Horde side:
Alliance
- In PvE
Gnome is the best race for Alliance Mages. - In PvP Gnome is the best choice for Alliance Mages.
Horde
- In PvE
Troll is the best race for Horde Mages. - In PvP
Undead is the best choice for Horde Mages.
All WoW Classic Class Guides
You can find Classic guides for all classes on Zockify. Here are the overviews for all 9 classes:
