WoW Player Versus Player Secrets – Mage Basics
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Understanding your Mage’s player versus player strengths and weaknesses is the most basic secret of success in WoW PvP combat. Success in Mage PvP is like anything else. You can cut corners and get some early success. But if you don’t understand the basics, you’ll only get so far. The best players build their success on a solid foundation. Without that solid foundation, you’ll never become part of the elite. So let’s look at the PvP strengths and weaknesses of your Mage.
Mage PvP Strengths
As you might imagine, the strength of a Mage in PvP is the ability to zap your enemies with magical attacks from great distances. Most enemies will need to close with you quickly if they’re going to have any chance of taking you out. And they will do everything in their power to get at you. But your Mage’s freezes and stuns let you immobilize unlucky targets long enough to really unload on them. With a well-executed attack, you can take down most enemies in seconds.
Mage PvP Weaknesses
Unfortunately for you, your Mage also has a major weakness in Player versus Player combat. Picture yourself going toe to toe with a huge guy swinging a broadsword, or a wild animal on speed, while you’re wearing a bathrobe and holding a big stick. That’s your Mage in melee combat. If they get close enough to hit you in melee, you are dead meat. You have almost no ability to survive a physical attack, nor any way to recover from one if by some miracle you survive it. Frost-related spells can give you some protection in these circumstances, but face it, if someone gets close enough to whack you with a warhammer, rake you with claws, or skewer you with a spear, its all over.
So how was that for the 2-minute summary of Mage PvP strengths and weaknesses? It is enough to get you started, but you you really want to dominate in PvP, you need to learn so much more. A top-notch PvP guide can give you far more information, including specific instructions for dealing with foes that can counter your primary attacks.
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