Mage, Last class needed for full 110... is it supposed to feel this S L O W?

[SinR]

So mage is the last class I need for the Legendary Campaign achievement. Got one to 79 as Frost and it just feels so... Slow. it seems like all I do is spam 1, sometimes hit 2 when Mind Freeze procs and 3 when Fingers procs. And it feels like things take forever to kill. Does it ever feel faster?

[FlemmMinis]

You should try playing fire. I had the same problem with frost.

[HCLM]

Go with Arcane it is the fastest spec to lvl up, and you one shot everything on your way

[gd8]

i have every class at 110 except mage too but i have a 95 mage and it hasn't ever gotten faster up until that point (if anything it's gotten slower) so the answer is unfortunately no. it's without a doubt the slowest class to level in my experience, at least since level scaling was introduced. I'd imagine it gets a lot better once you get your artifact weapon - my warlock felt similarly slow but once i got my artfact it was like night and day. this is definitely something that should be addressed though but it probably never will be.

Go with Arcane it is the fastest spec to lvl up, and you one shot everything on your way

yeah and you have to drink after every pull

[Gestopft]

Arcane; take the charged up talent for full Arcane Charges before every mob group. Blast the crap out of several mobs- drink if needed- repeat

[Drusin]

Opposite for me, I leveled as fire until like 103 or something then switched to Frost and was loving life

[judgementofantonidas]

woops. wrong threat

[therealbowser]

Low level frost is really slow with the new leveling system. Someone suggested fire; sounds like a good suggestion IMHO.

[Bryci]

mage is one of the worst leveling classes if you are undergeared i.e. don't have full mythic hellfire citadel gear from that time. Frost has best survivablity because of the chills but fire aoe is really nice for fast progress but rippy if you can't kill them fast and they catch up... this is just it mage is not a good leveling class sadly. No healing no pet to tank... so squishy.

[Infarc]

I've had no problem with frost over the years when it comes to leveling speed. I just kite as many mobs as I can handle and tick them down. Fire is a little better than frost for the aoe portion, and arcane is great if you want to be fully involved. I just swap between frost and fire because I can usually nuke things down quick either way, and just swap specs if I get bored, or if a particular spec is better suited for what I'm doing. I just don't like the burn/conserve phases and constantly watching mana that arcane brings. All that extra work and the damage I pump out isn't any better than the other specs. Perhaps I'm just a lazy caster

[noimawizard]

frost mage is all about rounding stuff up and aoeing it down. It's been that way since vanilla.

[Raptar]

I'm leveling a Frost Mage atm and I think I never had a class that leveled so fast. I find it great in ST and AoE, everything is already falling down when I even look at it, especially when you reach 100 with the artifact weapon. Currently my played time per level in Legion is 32 minutes, pretty well I think. Loving it so far .