06-07-2009, 05:19 PM
Mages are extremely fun in PvP. Much like rogues, they have a lot of utility but they then have the big advantage of being ranged. There's a certain joy to kiting around 3 opponent players, shooting ice lances while they're frost nova'd while micromanaging your frost elemental to freeze their ass to the ground, huge yellow crits appearing across your screen as you pump your trinkets.
I never had the patience to level one, though. If Alliance, any race that can be mage is good really. Human get the insane buff of an extra trinket and at end-game that can really be a huge buff. Gnomes get escape artist.
Horde is a bit trickier. Blood elves get their little fizzly mana thing, trolls have a 'bloodlust' effect to increase spell casting, but I feel none of those are really great except that belves fizzly mana thing also silences if they're around an enemy.
I never had the patience to level one, though. If Alliance, any race that can be mage is good really. Human get the insane buff of an extra trinket and at end-game that can really be a huge buff. Gnomes get escape artist.
Horde is a bit trickier. Blood elves get their little fizzly mana thing, trolls have a 'bloodlust' effect to increase spell casting, but I feel none of those are really great except that belves fizzly mana thing also silences if they're around an enemy.