Mage beginner pvp guide!

There is 3 different specs as mage. Frost, Arcane, and fire. They all are dps specs. The strenghts of being a mage in pvp is: You do insane damage, You got some nice abilities, Counter spell (interrupts your enemy and silences for 4 seconds if you use my spec). You got a nice spell called polymorph that makes your enemy to a sheep for 10 seconds and during the time your enemy cant do any spell but if you do any damage to an enemy that is polymorphed you will break the polymorph and your enemy can start attack you again. This spell is most usefull in arena and bgs.

Frost

The best spec as a mage in pvp atm is frost. Frost is doing good damage and you can easy kite your enemy. You got Cone of cold, Frostbolt, Frostnova, Ring of frost, Freeze (Pet ability), Deep freeze, Ice barrier and frost armor. All thoose spells makes your enemy go slower or get stuck for some seconds. You got 3 different shields. Ice barrier wich absorbs 8705 damage in 85. You got Mana shield wich absorbs 5398 damage but will drain the damage from your mana instead. The last shield is Mage ward wich absorbs some damage from Arcane, Fire or Frost spells.

As level 85 you should try to get some pieces of the new pvp armour. Farm honor so you have atleast 2 pieces of the blood thirsty set because if you have to pieces you will get an bonus of 400 resilience and 70 intellect wich is pretty much. After this you could ask a tailorer to make you some off set pvp armour so you will get some more resilience. Resilience make online players hit less on you. You could also have some pve off set pieces because that could be good for your damage.

Talents


Im using a 8/0/33 Spec. Improved blink and improved counterspell is a must in the Arcane tree but you could use what ever you want in the Frost tree.

Glyphs

Prime glyphs: Glyph of Deep freeze (Your deep freeze deals 20% additional damage). Glyph of Icelance (Increases the damage of your icelance spell by 5%). Glyph of Cone of cold (Increases the damage of your cone of cold spell by 25%).

Major glyphs: Glyph of Polymorph (Your polymorph spell also removes all damage of time effects from the target). Glyph of Evocation (Your evocation spell also causes you to regain 40% of your health over its duration). Glyph of Ice barrier (Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Ice barrier by 30%).

Minor glyphs: You dont really need any minor glyphs but you could use Glyph of Slow fall (Your Slow fall no longer requires a regent).

Arcane and Fire

Im just gonna tell you short about the arcane and the fire specs, why im not using any of theese and why they are bad.
Both thoose specs are doing massive damage. As fire you will have a insane spell called Living bomb wich is a Damage of time spell and as arcane you will have a great spell called Arcane blast. But the bad thing about both thoose specs are that you will dont have the Ice barrier. The Ice barrier shield will save you many times and you will also have a spell called Cold snap as frost wich resets the cooldowns of your frost spells. This means you can use Ice block more often wich will make you immune to all damage.

I hope this guide will be usefull!

By Frezer