WOW Gold: Gearing Up the Mage II

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What to Look For™ – Levels 1 - 79

While WOW Powerleveling up there is only a few things you need to worry about. By a few things I mean two: Intellect and Stamina. When you hit Outland and Northrend you’ll really start getting a ton of gear that adds critical strike rating and damage, but you won’t really need to care. Just take whatever gear is better for the long run. I would suggest that if given the chance pick up any instance gear you can, but a Mage isn’t gear dependant. More armor or bigger staves aren’t going to compensate for any lack of magical potency you have, not at least until higher levels. Gear will mostly bring about a little bit of damage, more health, and a few neat additions that help a little. Trinkets are often rare to find outside of engineering until 60 so don’t put too much attention to them. Purchasing gear from the Auction House is a general no-no. Not only are instances always the way (if you can get someone to run you through them) but since your damage is magical there is no need to get a high DPS weapon and a few points of Intellect aren’t going to make you an all-star grinder. At level 80, of course, all of your gear will come from instances or PvP so keep that in mind.

What to Look For™ – Stats

Mages are lucky because there isn’t a whole lot they need to look for. Some classes have to balance nearly every conceivable statistic in the game all at once into their gear. Mages on the other hand just need a few things. Intellect, Stamina, MP5 (Mana per 5/sec) (PvE), Spell Hit (PvE), Resilience (PvP), critical strike rating, and spell damage. How much of each really depends on each player’s taste, too. It’s really subjective with no clear winners. You can buy weapons by using WOW Gold, and VCSale will provide you WOW Money – Cheap WOW Gold.

Intellect is needed for spell damage and comes standard on almost every piece of cloth and weapon that a Mage will desire. Stamina is as close to defense as you can get from items and you’ll want to pile it on to compensate for the lack of armor and defense. As a small note… no one really has figured out how stamina and brains can be given by weapons or armor yet. It seems kind of weird that you put on a silly robe, a funny hat, and wield a giant big stick and all of a sudden you’re one of the smartest and heartiest people in the world.

Moving on, spirit is useful and don’t neglect it, but don’t obsess over it along with MP5. Critical strike rating and spell damage are all up to the player and what they wish to focus on for their build. You can get and load up on critical strike rating and focus on getting most of your damage from the crits or you can focus on damage and increase your constant damage. Either way, you’ll be getting a lot from your gear anyway.

If you absolutely must be told what to get then get critical strike rating and stamina for PvP and then get spell damage and intellect for PvE. A good judge of what to get for the current trend for both is the set items available. You’ll want critical strike rating and stamina for PvP because you’ll want to be able to soak up enough damage to live and do as much burst damage as possible. For PvE things are a little bit different. You want as much mana, mana regen, and damage as you can get. Again, this is subjective and based on what builds you want to use.

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