Mage Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Spec 1-60 - WoW Classic

Por Woah Actualizado: 20/03/2025

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Speak to your Mago trainer at levels 30-40 to begin the chain Varitas de mago

Speak to your Mago trainer at level 60 to begin the quest for Polimorfia: cerdo

Get a wand ASAP! Wands will greatly aid you in leveling: whether in a dungeon or out in the open world

Save up around 50 gold, (reduced with SoM) as detailed in our mount and riding skill guide, so you can purchase your mount riding skill and the mount itself at level 40, and also for your epic mount at 60.

When approaching levels 50 and up, begin checking out your Pre-Raid BiS gear and where it drops. You can begin farming certain dungeons early on, while still gaining XP, to obtain some of that Pre-Raid BiS gear before 60:

Mage Leveling Talents in Classic WoWFrost Mage Leveling in Classic WoWAoE Leveling in Classic WoWArcane Mage Leveling in Classic WoWFire Mage Leveling in Classic WoWSpells to Buy while Leveling as a Mage in Classic WoWMage Leveling DPS Rotation in Classic WoWMage Dungeon Leveling in Classic WoWIntelecto ArcanoMage Dungeon Cleave Setup in Classic WoWMagoPortals, Conjuring Food/Drink

Frost spells work great to kite large packs of mobs using: Ventisca, Cono de frío, Nova de Escarcha

Use your AoE abilities such as Deflagración Arcana, Fogonazo

Stay out of melee range, use Bloqueo de hielo to save yourself from dying

Provide food & drinks for your group

Mage Trainer Locations in Classic WoWAlliance Mage Trainers in Classic WoW

Northshire Abbey, Elwynn Forest: Khelden Bremen

Goldshire, Elwynn Forest: Zaldimar Wefhellt

Wizard's Sanctum, Mage Quarter, Stormwind: Jennea Cannon, Elsharin

Anvilmar, Dun Morogh: Marryk Nurribit

Kharanos, Dun Morogh: Magis Chispamanto

Hall of Mysteries, The Mystic Ward, Ironforge: Bink, Dink, Juli Tormentacaldera, Nittlebur Chispancio

Horde Mage Trainers in Classic WoW

Deathknell, Tirisfal Glades: Isabella

Brill, Tirisfal Glades: Cain Pirosón

Magic Quarter, Undercity: Anastasia Pozovenado, Pierce Esqueletonio, Kaelystia Aversión

Valley of Trials, Durotar: Mai'ah

Sen'jin Village, Durotar: Un'Thuwa

Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar: Uthel'nay, Deino, Enyo, Pephredo

Pools of Vision, Thunder Bluff: Ursyn Ghull, Thurston Xane, Archimago Shymm

Portal Trainers in Classic WoW

Wizard's Sanctum, Mage Quarter, Stormwind: Larimaine Purdue

Hall of Mysteries, The Mystic Ward, Ironforge: Milstaff Ojotrueno

Temple of the Moon, Darnassus: Elissa Dumas

Magic Quarter, Undercity: Lexington Tanafín

Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar: Thuul

Pools of Vision, Thunder Bluff: Birgitte Cranston

WoW Classic Mage Weapon SkillsDefault Weapon Skills for Classic Mages

Race

Default Weapon Skills

Staves

Staves

Staves

Staves

Weapon Trainers for Classic Mage Weapon Skills

Weapon Master Location

Weapons Skills Taught

Ilyenia Fuegolunar (57.6, 46.6), Warrior's Terrace, Darnassus

Daggers

Bixi Tambaleapié (62.0, 89.6), Military Ward, Ironforge

Daggers

Woo Ping (57.0, 57.6), Trade District, Stormwind

Daggers, One-Handed Swords

Sayoc (81.6, 19.4), Valley of Honor, Orgrimmar

Daggers

Archibald (57.8, 31.6), War Quarter, Undercity

Daggers, One-Handed Swords

Best Weapons and Gear For Leveling a MageEnchanting Wands in Classic WoW

Varita mágica inferior is the earliest wand you can pick up; it requires 10 skill in enchanting and is created by Varita mágica inferior. This item is generally pretty cheap on a developed server; you can probably find this on the auction house for just a few silver. If you're on a fresh server, you'll have to invest some time and resources into leveling enchanting in order to get this wand.

Varita mágica superior is a "greater" version of the previous wand but also takes a bit more effort as it requires to reach 70 enchanting to craft it. If you aren't leveling on a fresh server and the auction house has had time to develop, you will be able to purchase this item relatively cheap as well.

Questing Wands in Classic WoWCetro de lápidaLa vileza de Brazanegra

Item

Location

Chispa de la Milicia del Pueblo

Reward from Las Milicias del Pueblo in Westfall, available for the Alliance.

Varita élfica

Reward from Bashal'Aran in Darkshore, available for the Alliance.

Palo de fuego enano

Reward from Recoger ídolos in Loch Modan, available for the Alliance.

Bastón flamígero

Reward from La fuga in The Barrens, available for the Horde.

Varita de Descomposición

Reward from El Desafío de Beren in Silverpine Forest, available for the Horde.

Varita Furia de HieloClassic Wands Databasedeal frost damageMage Leveling Wand Progression in Classic WoWNote

Level

Item

Location

Varita mágica inferior

Encantamiento(10)

Chispa de la Milicia del Pueblo

Alliance Only - Reward from Las Milicias del Pueblo in Páramos de Poniente

Varita mágica superior

Encantamiento(70)

Varita humeante

Available from Wand Vendors.

Varita de artesano de hechizos

Alliance Only - Reward from Escamas cristalizadas para Mauren in Sierra Espolón.

Vara para remover galletas

Dropped from El Chef in Las Minas de la Muerte.

Varita sagrada consagrada

Alliance Only - Reward from Ferocanis en el bosque in Bosque del Ocaso.

Vara de excavación

Alliance Only - Reward from La venganza de Ormer in Los Humedales.

Cetro de lápida

Reward from La vileza de Brazanegra/La vileza de Brazanegra in Cavernas de Brazanegra.

Llama de danza

Horde Only - Reward from La recta final in Las Mil Agujas.

Vara de Pena

Alliance Only - Reward from Se busca: Otto y Lord Cresta de Halcón in Tierras Altas de Arathi.

Varita Furia de Hielo

Reward from Class Quest Varitas de mago.

Plata ardiente

Reward from Belicistas Aplastacresta in Laderas de Trabalomas.

Irradiador gnómico

Reward from El tesoro sumergido in Tierras Altas de Arathi.

Varita de hueso negro

Available from Wand Vendors.

Fragmento de piedra de hito

Reward from La Piedra del mañana in Feralas.

Pistola ponzoñosa

Dropped by Noxxion in Maraudon.

Pistola de fuego de Smokey

Reward from Cuando Smokey canta, me pongo violento in Tierras de la Peste del Este.

Vara de Corrosión

Dropped by Sombra de Eranikus in El Templo de Atal'Hakkar.

Calaverador serpentino

Dropped by Jed Observarrunas in Upper Blackrock Spire.

Stat Weights while Leveling in Classic WoWSpell Power > Intellect > Spirit >= Stam

Spell Power: You probably won't find much of this while leveling but, if you can get your hands on any spell power gear I would use it.

Intellect: Gives you spell crit and more importantly increases your mana pool.

Spirit: Spirit is nice to have while leveling in Classic, as it grants you higher Mana regeneration outside of combat, reducing the amount of time you need to drink for. It's slightly more useful on Trolls because of their racial Regeneración.

Stamina: Increases total health points, allowing you to survive through mistakes.

Best Mage Professions in Classic WoWMagoIngenieríaCosturaMagoPre-raid BiS

Lentes verdes (...of Frozen Wrath) - Ingeniería

Toga del Archimago - Costura

IngenieríaCosturaBotánicaMineríaDesollarMage Class Quests in Classic WoWMagoMage Class Quests in Classic WoWMago

Varita Furia de Hielo, Varita de potencia abisal or Varita Ira Ardiente from Varitas de mago (Level 30)

Punta glacial, Colgante de cristal Arcano or Rubí de fuego, Pura magia from class trainer (Level 50)

Polimorfia: cerdo from in Azshara (Level 60)

MagoChanges to Questing in Classic WoW

Quests and Objectives are not displayed on the map. To put it: you will have to do some exploring. You will get lost at some point during a quest, and you might have to read the actual quest or go to an external website to find out what you are supposed to be doing. While there may someday be a leveling addon for Classic, part of the game "experience" is feeling immersed in the world and creating an adventure of your very own.

Enemies Are Stronger Than on Retail. As a Mago you can handle several mobs at once, which is unique for Classic; but, it's worth noting that enemies on Classic are much stronger than enemies you'd find while leveling on Retail.

Zones don't guarantee a certain amount of levels: Once again, coming from Retail, you might be used to finishing a zone (Vol'Dun for instance) and expecting to be two levels higher. In Classic, the difficulty of zones vary, you'll find yourself bouncing between a few zones at any given level range.

Best Mage Questing Zones in Classic WoW

Costa Oscura (11-19): Once you complete the starting area for your particular race, you begin to have options of where to go, where to quest, and for Alliance, in particular, one of the best early game zones is Darkshore.

Loch Modan (10-18): Second to Darkshore would be the Gnome/Dwarf 10-18 zone of Loch Modan. The zone isn't as rich as Darkshore, but, it has some relatively easy quests. This is a good place to come back to and complete the quests once you out-level the content.

Páramos de Poniente (9-18): While these initial questing zones come down to preference, I would not suggest Westfall as a zone in regards to difficulty. However, if you have a group of friends you are leveling with, and you want to go into Deadmines for a quest run and get some higher item level rewards, this zone is worth considering.

Montañas Crestagrana (15-25): This is the level range where you will have to bounce between zones of equal difficulty if you want to fill your quest bar from questing alone. Forming an efficient route of the next few zones will be important to increase your leveling speed.

Bosque del Ocaso (20-30): This is probably one of my favorite zones; it's full of quests, full of flavor, and has a lot of solid upgrades. Don't miss out on this zone if you play Alliance.

Los Humedales (20-30): This is probably the last "Alliance only" zone, from here on out you will enter into zones that are contested by both Horde and Alliance.

Los Baldíos (10-33): This is the big one, as it is the meeting point for three of the four races of the Horde, this zone has no shortage of quests and will easily propel you toward level 20. As great as this zone is, be ready to compete for mob tags, as there will be a lot of players funneled into this one zone.

Bosque de Argénteos (10-20): This is the Undead version of The Barrens; it has some decent quests to complete, but, I usually don't end up coming here at all.

Sierra Espolón (15-25): Although this zone offers Alliance quests, it is almost entirely a Horde zone. This zone is fantastic as it is right next to the Barrens, and the level range of the two zones overlap.

Laderas de Trabalomas (20-31): Home to the infamous Southshore vs. Tarren Mill world PvP spot, this zone has a lot of good quests for both Alliance and Horde and is usually worked into most people's leveling routes.

Vallefresno (19-30): Another flavorful zone as this is the home to what will become Warsong Gulch, plenty of quests for both Alliance and Horde.

Las Mil Agujas (24-35): Home to the infamous Shimmer Flats, this is a great zone for both factions to get almost an entire level. It also has a questing hub for Horde.

Vega de Tuercespina (30-50): probably one of the most infamous zones in the whole of World of Warcraft, you will be coming to this zone off and on from level 30 and up towards level 50.

Desolace (30-39): Home of the dungeon Maraudon, this is one of my favorite zones in the game, and I spend many levels here. There are both Horde and Alliance quest hubs here.

Tierras Altas de Arathi (30-40): This zone is home to the 2nd battleground Arathi Basin, there are two hubs here (one for each faction), and there are plenty of good kill quests here.

Tierras Inhóspitas (36-45): This is a quick and dirty zone, while it only has a hub for Horde; it is a quick level, and if you have enough players around your level you can do an Uldaman quest run.

Tanaris (40-50): Home to the dungeon Zul'Farrak, I recommend questing here as well as doing a full quest run of ZF.

Feralas (41-60): This is one of the less popular zones for people to quest at, it's worth coming here in your early 40s as there are plenty of quests for both factions.

La Garganta de Fuego (43-56): This zone is particularly exciting because you get your first taste of the end-game, On one side of Blackrock Mountain is a lower level zone with various quests coming from the Thorium Brotherhood.

Las Estepas Ardientes (50-59): The other side of Blackrock Mountain, this is a higher level zone and has hubs for both Horde and Alliance, you will probably come to this zone a couple of times as the level range is quite large. Some dungeon quests come from this zone.

Frondavil (47-54): This zone is a must-complete for me as the quests are quite good and you will need to come here to get your Antorcha Cenarion, which is needed to farm various consumables like Tubérculo de blancoria.

Cráter de Un'Goro (48-55): This is another hot zone as it has a plethora of quests and will get you nearly two levels from completing the crater.

Tierras de la Peste del Oeste (46-57): This zone is excellent for quick leveling, as you can complete the "cauldron" questline for massive amounts of experience. It's worth noting that you need a breadcrumb quest from your faction's major city.

Tierras de la Peste del Este (54-59): Home to the legendary Naxxramas, this zone gives you another taste of the end-game immediately upon questing. You will spend a lot of time here even at max level.

Cuna del Invierno (55-60): This is an amazing zone, it has a ton of quests that give a ton of experience, and you can get Carretilla de Mau'ari, allowing you to farm Jujus, a very good consumable for raids.

Closing Thoughts on Leveling a Mage in Classic WoW

Quality of Life changes have been implemented over the years: If you are coming from Battle for Azeroth, there are going to be a lot of not-so-friendly changes that make questing harder, or at least take more time. Quests and objectives won't be marked on your map, so you will have to do a lot more exploring. There won't be a steady stream of quests from 1-60, so you will have to combine questing and grinding enemies for the experience to level. There's no AoE looting, and quest items take space in your bags. Cooldown abilities are available much less frequently, and there's significantly less personal healing, which adds much more downtime in between pulls as you sit and eat or use First Aid/Alchemy to heal. Playing efficiently is the best thing you can do to speed up your leveling.

Play Frost for Leveling: There's only one option for leveling a Mage, and that's using Frost Talents. Whether you are AoE grinding or leveling straight up, you will do the most damage and have the most efficient leveling experience as Frost. In addition to leveling speed, Frost is the best option for World PVP as well.

Grouping is optional for Mages: Although I didn't cover this explicitly in this guide, Mages are almost always leveled solo, the best route for a mage to go is solo-AoE grinding. On the other hand, if you have some consistent leveling partners, there's nothing wrong with grouping with others and contributing massive AoE damage to help others.

Buy abilities only when needed: A lot of people don't think it is possible to afford a mount by level 40, in reality, it's much easier as long as you only buy the necessary spell upgrades to save money. It's also worth noting that following this guide for buying spells will save you a lot of travel time as flights back to major cities or your questing hub can take a lot of time away from leveling.

Comentarios

Comentario de Zigma1220

Este video seguro les será de ayuda 😊:
https://youtu.be/pIPocSQgZhE

Comentarios

Comentario de 1972361

Your guide is awesome, one can say that you are a very good and experienced player, but i think there is one big error in it. You chose to talk just about aoe leveling and that is absolutely not going to happen when classic starts, because of the population. It would be better if you update this guide with involving single target leveling guide, which would be much more useful and realistic. I would like to see it. Although its just my opinion. Thank you for your information and experience :)

Comentario de 1733021

Wow Krug, great guide! As someone who never played back in Vanilla, I am very excited to get my journey started!

Comentario de 1973765

For someone with only vague memories of what vanilla was like, this'll be an invaluable help for the levelling process. Thanks, Krug!

Comentario de 1974005

Is there any reason to level up Nova de Escarcha?

As far as I remember, it only increases the damage with every rank.
And the damage of it is not that great compared to our other AOE spells.

So what is the reason for upgrading it?

Comentario de Arraya

Don’t forget some +Frost Spell Damage gear! Extremely helpful, so you’ll want the Azure Silk set ;)

Comentario de Topetine

so arcane explosion won't have a casting time when classic servers launch?
guess they're planning on removing all of the annoying parts from the get-go, to not lose people within the first few months. cause i vividly remember speccing into that when i was running around saldean's farm in westfall, trying out my reduced casting time on a wolf

Comentario de 733518

Kinda weird guide, starting from talents and stat weights. I do understand that people have different playstyles and all that, but i still don't get why you don't pick arcane meditation and imp frostbolt at 60 but put points in talents like wand spec, arcane resilience, shatter.
But the thing that makes me question even more is - why someone will ever put spell power on a first place while leveling? There're only 3 mage spells that has 100% spell coeff: fireball, pyroblast and arcane missiles (100% per cast, not per missile). With all that said, you gona need ~24 spell damage (aka spell power) to get just +1 more damage on your blizzard tick for example (~4% spell coefficient per tick). And 24 spell damage is really a big deal with items having 5-10 spd on average until late 40s - early 50s.

Comentario de Macbrutus

Great guide. Thanks

Comentario de Scuttlefrog

I'm wondering if master of elements procs off of blizzard and do lesser ranked frostbolts or blizzards get resisted more? Does blizzard crit sporadically every second or does the whole channel crit/not crit? Thank you.

Comentario de ZoktarScryers

I leveled as frost mage and as a fire/arcane mage in Vanilla (two different servers). Frost gives you more survivability (especially after the Frost Barrier talent). But I found leveling as fire/arcane better suited for my play style. Fire/arcane is also a good build for pvp, particularly when you get the Presence of Mind (PoM) talent in the arcane tree.

So if you don't want to go frost for your mage, here is my take on a fire/arcane.

Start in the fire talent tree. The goal is to grab Pyroblast as soon as possible. This is one of the greatest damage spells in the game. Starting a fight with Pyroblast gives you a good advantage over regular mobs.

Switching to arcane now is ok but you will be subpar compared to a full fire spec. You may want to respect to fire/arcane at level 41 which is when you are able to have both Pyroblast and PoM. After grabbing PoM, continue arcane until the final talent Arcane Power. Then, you can grab a few more fire talents.

This is not a build for everyone. Frost may be more consistent. But if you are disliking frost, this could be an alternative.

Comentario de Grimzou

This is a build for aoe solo xp. It's the best build for leveling. The big problem is that you wont be able to aoe all the time becausse of the population server.
So I think the Solo target build is the best at the beginning.
In a Pvp server, Aoe build is to avoid because of player who wants to gank you, the single target will be more usefull

Cya

Comentario de Hezkezl

The "Mage Class Quests" section has a typo in the item ID of one of the rewards.

Icefury Wand, Brain Hacker or Ragefire Wand from Mage's Wand (Level 30)

Brain Hacker is a 2h axe, lol. It has an item ID of 1263. The right item is #11263, the Nether Force Wand.

FYI!

Comentario de Varagos

Thank you so much for this, just started as a mage and this will be invaluable.

Comentario de BooFluff

yeah FYI Duskwood is not meant for level 10-30, its 20-30. Go there at level 10 and you will die!

Comentario de Kurtosis

When you recommend saving money for your class mount at 40, you should add a note on how much they cost. Free for Paladins and Warlocks but every other class has to buy theirs.

Comentario de Mikula

RE: Mage levelling - higher ranks of Frost Nova do not increase the damage dealt (not notably at any rate), root time, or area of the spell. They literally just cost more mana. Keep rank 1 to save a bit of gold and to give you easier escape when you're low on mana.

Comentario de Parrs

Why does this guide go 3/3 into Imp Blizzard? Should only be speccing 2/3 so it doesn't overwrite Cone of Cold's slow.

Comentario de MysticToeBeans

Cone of Cold Can be used on "Frozen" enemies to Shatter them for a guaranteed critical strike. This spell can also be used simply as instant cast AoE damage that adds a slow.

I have a question.Where does it day that Cone of Cold lands a crit if enemies are frozen? Closest thing I can find is the Shatter talent, which you even capitalized Shatter as if the talent were indicated, but you don't put points into it. I'm just confused on why everyone is saying it should be critting when it's not for me or my husband.

Comentario de leokhaleesi

Great guide! For the stat weights, do you happen to have specific weight values or a pawn string? The default pawn frost mage scales favor stamina over int, which isn't ideal.

Comentario de Furryhoof

Kodo Hide Bag? Seriously? This is such a meme item. You can buy 6 slot bag from any vendor for 4-5 silver. Getting materials to craft this bag is generally not worth it at all. No sane mage would take leatherworking to craft this bag!

Mage Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Spec 1-60 - WoW Classic

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