What are good talents to choose for a mage?

[sbergstrom1]

I am a new player, and recently I created a gnome mage character, and since I am new to the whole thing I am wondering what are good talents to get to help me get maximum enjoyment out of the game? Any replies are appreciated.

Thanks!

[LocNess]

If you are a new player, then just pick what seems more interesting to you. We can't measure your own enjoyment. If you want to throw out a free spell every 90 seconds, Presence of Mind is a good choice. If you think putting a fiery and explosive damage over time effect on an enemy is super cool, pick Living Bomb. While leveling, just do what you want.

[Terahertz]

The talents I've always enjoyed playing with Blazing Speed, Temporal Shield, Ring of Frost, Greater Invisibility, Nether Tempest/Frost Bomb and pre-nerf Incanter's Ward.

But like LocNess said, it all depends on what YOU find fun. You can play a really mobile mage or a mage that focuses a lot on CC. Just try out some builds and see what you find fun.

For instance, the mobile mage build I mentioned is fun in BGs to troll people with. The talents I chose for it are:
- Ice Floes
- Ice Barrier
- Ice Ward
- Greater Invisibility
- Living Bomb
- Incanter's Ward

And as for glyphs I chose:
- Glyph of Blink
- Glyph of Rapid Displacement
- Glyph of Water Elemental or Glyph of Armors or Glyph of Polymorph

You can kite a melee indefinately with this because of 3 roots, 3x cast on the move, 2x blink and Greater Invisibility. You can swap Ice Floes with Blazing Speed if you want to of course.

[Xariste]

There are guides on Mmo-champion and sites like Icy-Veins that will direct you to the best talents for PVE/PVP (though, at least in PVE, this will vary depending on the encounter). I almost always take Ice Floes because the extra mobility is great. When soloing old raids, I might go with cold snap, ring of frost, and incanter's ward depending on the fight. Glyph of rapid displacement is very helpful in certain spots.

[Deleted]

These are my pref talents

[vvaniish]

These are my pref talents

/agree with Ezz. And sometimes I take Frostjaw if I want to deepfreeze a specific mob.

[Akraen]

If you're frost, that's bad advice. LB is single target or 2-3 targets that are spread far apart.

2+ targets in close proximity means Nether Tempest.