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http://classicdb.ch/?npcs&filter=type=[1];minl=30;maxl=38;zone=[45];

http://classicdb.ch/?npcs&filter=type=[1];minl=36;maxl=40;zone=[8];rank=[0];

http://classicdb.ch/?npcs&filter=type=[1];minl=35;maxl=41;zone=[33];rank=[0];

http://classicdb.ch/?npcs&filter=type=[1];minl=35;maxl=41;zone=[3];rank=[0];

/script ResetInstances();
/camp

• Single Target Questing/Gold Grinding
• Early AoE
• Respec at 40, AoE with Shatter
• Starting Maraudon at 46, AoE
• Starting Dire Maul East at 53, AoE

• Minimizing Spending: A very important point to reaching 90g by 40. Try to respec as little as possible. Don’t spend gold ranking up unnecessary abilities for leveling. Stay far away from the AH in regards to item upgrades, they're not needed for leveling pre dungeon farm and probably not even then.
• Planning: Being ready and avoiding having to run back to town for anything. Always buff, repair, and restock food and reagents before leaving town.
• Mana Regeneration: Mana regen provided from Spirit (outside of https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=6117/mage-armor and https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=18462 ... meditation) will only be active when you haven’t casted for at least 5 seconds. Make sure you are using mana to frontload damage, using it in bursts. You can finish mobs with wand to begin the mana regen ticks before actually finishing combat. Spirit gear can be swapped in during downtime or before https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=12051/evocation to maximize regen but this will occupy bag slots.
• Mana Gems: You can have one gem for each rank. This can save you in some situations and is a good habit to form for raids.
• Resources: Spell cooldowns, potions, and even https://classic.wowhead.com/item=6948/hearthstone and Teleport should be constantly considered for use to help maximize your experience gains. While it can be a good idea to be conservative with these in some situations (particularly on PvP servers), and I do like saving potions for when they’re needed to avoid spending too much gold on them, it’s generally better to have these on cooldown as much as possible.
• Spell Ranks: As mana is such an important part of a Mage being able to do anything, using lower rank spells to trigger their effects without a hefty mana cost is a great way to extend your mana pool. Rank 1 https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=120/cone-of-cold and https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=10/blizzard will still apply its full slow and radius. When you reach https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=11213 ... centration, you can use lower ranks of AoE spells to “fish” for a clearcasting proc to dump on a max rank spell.
• Ice Block/Ice Barrier: These are obviously great defensive tools but they are also invaluable for tagging. Mounted you can quickly gather many mobs that are spread out and https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=11426/ice-barrier will prevent you from taking too much damage or getting dazed off your mount. Consequently, because you’re pulling mobs so spread out they tend to stagger and you have to wait for them to stack before using https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=122/frost-nova. You can https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=11958/ice-block while waiting for the mobs to stack and prevent damage but make sure to have https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=11426/ice-barrier up before blocking to avoid all the mobs hitting directly to your small HP pool.
• Potions: While it’s important to minimize gold spent until you at least have your first mount, potions can be extremely helpful. Especially for AoE grinding, it gives you a slight extension on your mana pool to help if you make a mistake. Try to hold on to the ones you find and use them only when needed.
• Bags: Maintaining and increasing bag space when possible can be a huge help. Having to stop your farm because your bags are full or spending too much time managing items can be bothersome. Try to get your bags from the AH, as they’re generally cheaper than vendor prices. The very first bag vendor can be utilized for a minor bag upgrade if you don’t have luck with drops early. Sort through your bags and throw away items that won't yield much profit to keep going without returning to town.

• WoW Vanilla Addons Collection
• Outfitter - Improves management of item swaps, useful for Spirit gear
• EnergyWatch - Can be used to show tick counter for food/water/https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=12051/evocation
• Questie & Vanilla Guide - The standard classic leveling addon duo
• pfUI - Complete UI rehaul with many addons' features baked in
• Modui - More "blizzard-like" UI rehaul with many improvements with a more subtle approach

Very interesting, thanks for this [mention]Jpy[/mention] :)

If you need any help to re-design your guide, similiar to: Lv 19 Rogue Twink Guide let me know.

Syturio wrote: ↑

5 years ago

If you need any help to re-design your guide, similiar to: Lv 19 Rogue Twink Guide let me know.

Excellent work Jpy! The detail in this is outstanding.

[mention]Syturio[/mention] would you be able make our boy here a nice splash image similar to your engineering guide? I can do the goldtext titles and BBcode then we can move it into Guides.

Nice one!

teebling wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Excellent work Jpy! The detail in this is outstanding.

@Syturio would you be able make our boy here a nice splash image similar to your engineering guide? I can do the goldtext titles and BBcode then we can move it into Guides.

Nice one!

Welcome Jpy! Love this - it’s specific and to the point well dome. Just one suggestion..

...can you make the links to classic.wowhead.com pages? That way those hover tooltips will show for zones, npcs, spells etc.

I thank you on behalf of the zhevras for saving us from the killing list.

TheZhevra wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Love this - it’s specific and to the point well dome. Just one suggestion..

...can you make the links to classic.wowhead.com pages? That way those hover tooltips will show for zones, npcs, spells etc.

Also welcome!

Syturio wrote: ↑

5 years ago

TheZhevra wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Love this - it’s specific and to the point well dome. Just one suggestion..

...can you make the links to classic.wowhead.com pages? That way those hover tooltips will show for zones, npcs, spells etc.

Also welcome!

It's better to keep classicdb, because wowhead doesn't show a map with the location of the mobs.
For talents, he could use wowhead ye.

TheZhevra wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Welcome Jpy! Love this - it’s specific and to the point well dome. Just one suggestion..

...can you make the links to classic.wowhead.com pages? That way those hover tooltips will show for zones, npcs, spells etc.

I thank you on behalf of the zhevras for saving us from the killing list.

I actually had tooltips for classicdb enabled on here a week or two ago, but unfortunately the site is http only (no secure connection with https) so chrome users were getting warnings about loading unsecure scripts and leaving.

I’m sure wowhead will catch up eventually but like TZ says right now its very rudimentary.

Jpy good write up - are there any quests or items you find work well with this build while levelling up? Also which race do you think is best for a horde or ally mage?

Tol0th wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Jpy good write up - are there any quests or items you find work well with this build while levelling up? Also which race do you think is best for a horde or ally mage?

Amazing guide @jpy its good to have people here posting from real experience on private servers. I am sure 99% of this will translate to Classic

Hunter and Mage have been my most heavily debated class picks for Classic so a huge thanks for this guide!

One quick question, do you think sacrificing the 5% Intellect bonus from Gnomes and rolling a Human Mage would make a huge difference performance wise? I'm not and don't plan on being one of the highest of highest end raiders but I still do like pushing numbers and the potential of my character. So if the 5% Intellect loss isn't as big as it seems I'd much prefer a Human Mage over a Gnome.

@Ravenheart
Thanks! There will be some differences of course. Hard to speculate on how much because we know so little about how close to Vanilla Classic will be. I liked what I heard from Blizzcon in regards to their intended direction but the demo that was linked to the virtual ticket was extremely rough. Much work to be done but in beta we trust I suppose.

@Authiel
Glad you got some use out of it. I was considering leveling a Hunter 1-60 next, so if I do I’ll be sure to share my thoughts on the leveling process! In regards to Gnome vs Human, I’ll say that Gnome probably has the best racials in the game for Mage because of how impactful 5% Intellect is for your mana pool but it certainly won’t break your Mage if you’re Human. If you plan to farm a lot of rep it’s a great choice.

10/10 guide fren :)

@Markone thanks! Still adding more!

So I did a thing..

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A few notes on my time 1-60:
/played at ding: ~7 days, 20 hours
Gold for mount @ 40, gold for epic mount @ 60
300 Herbalism, Skinning, First Aid before 60
first ever classic 60 for me
I think sub 5 1/2 days is possible for a very efficient Mage as I spent a lot of time investigating farming spots (as you can see..) and some time/gold was definitely wasted.

Jpy wrote: ↑

5 years ago

So I did a thing..

SpoilerShow

A few notes on my time 1-60:
/played at ding: ~7 days, 20 hours
Gold for mount @ 40, gold for epic mount @ 60
first ever classic 60 for me
I think sub 5 days is perfectly reasonable for Mage as I spent a lot of time investigating farming spots (as you can see..) and some time/gold was definitely wasted.

I have a good ~15 spots to sort through and potentially add now that I'm done leveling and I intend to add videos for each spot.
Keep an eye out!

I am so going to roll a Mage now that this solid guide exists. Good to have reliable info from someone who plays on pserver.

@Finesse Thanks, but you almost seem sarcastic..
I wanted to add a disclaimer at the top about the information and videos being private server but if Blizzard stays in line with their stated plans 99% of this should carry over to classic. All we can really do is speculate until beta, though.

I’ve heard something about Starving & Rabid Bonepaw in Desolace not giving XP in Vanilla, but couldn’t confirm. It would be a shame, though, as that is a very viable spot with good Beast density in between the hyenas that all classes can farm for 30-40.

Hah I didn’t mean to come across as sarcastic!

No hate for pservers here man what would you trust more - the ramblings of some guy who last played vanilla over a decade ago or someone who is playing it right now?

Sure classic may have some minor changes here and there but that doesn’t stop, as u say, 99% of it being relevant. Especially on a macro level like this guide u have written!

More updates!
-Tidied up formatting (fixed some spacing issues, finished linking classic wowhead abilities, moved some notes to different sections to better centralize information)
-“Finshed” adding mobs (10+ new mobs posted that made the cut, still need test 2)

To Do:
-Add 1-40 Wand Progression (planning to do Horde for sure, perhaps I’ll have time to add Alliance too...)
-Add Contention Notes for each spot (how likely you are to run into someone else farming a particular spot)
-Add Videos to showcase each spot’s mob density, redo dungeon videos
- Add Items of interest for each mob grinding location (perhaps I’ll have time to add AoE farming mobs’ drops of interest too..)

Levels: 53-54
Dire Maul: East
Whip Lasher
Ideal Professions: Herbalism (nodes)
Prerequisites: None
This will be the place to be as a Mage pre ZG and you can start here as early as 52 with little issue. As with Maraudon pulls, at lower levels you should try to avoid doing more than 2 packs at a time. There is a potential bonus Dusty Tome near the Southwest corner of the bottom level where the mobs are. You can see me check for it with my cursor at 2:37 in the video below.

• There are Death Lashs along the walls, so you can't hug the walls to avoid patrols, you're gonna have to sneak your way through

• Because of the patrols aggro range you can only start farming this place at level 53, not 52 (up to 60)

• The upper part is actually Blizzlike, there are 2 packs of 7 Whip Lashers up, but there are 8 packs of 10 lashers down in the "garden" area, so that's 94 mobs total.