Wow Gold -- Mage Builds at Level 70

At first let's start by the pure frost Mage. Frost 0/5/56 has everything good in the frost tree, which leaves you with 5 points. Then Impact for PvP, for the procs on fireblast. You can go 5/0/56 getting Improved Arcane Missile as an alternative if you like to use it sometime or 5/0/56 with Arcane Subtlety 2/2 and Arcane Focus 3/5.

The pure frost Mage combines a good survivability with huge bursts of DPS on frozen targets. The Water Elemental is a nice tool you get every 3 minutes that can be useful in many situations, both PvE and PvP. He depends a lot on his nova and frostbite procs to burst damages and on his cooldowns to survive in battlegrounds in solo PvE or PvP The Arcane/Frost Mage is based on a three talents combination: Spell Power, Ice Shards and Shatter. At level 70 you can get huge DPS burst on frozen targets with very high crit rates. Ice Lance may hit for 2k+, and frostbolt up to 3k very regularly, not depending on any cooldown other than nova procs. With Arcane Power you can reach 4k+ frostbolts easily. You add to this the high survivability of frost Mages with double Ice Block and chill effects. Those are PvP intended builds, who work very fine in solo PvE too.

There are two main builds here like 34/0/27 and 40/0/21. The first one is the best choice for you. You drop a bit +spell damage from mind mastery to get the very useful Artic Reach. This drop is partially compensated by the +6% damage from Piercing Ice. But 40/0/21 is also a very good way to go.

Be fire for PvE or PvP, it has been considered as the king way to go for a Mage. But since the Ignite talent has been nerfed and even bugged, fire is not anymore "the" way to go, but still one of the very nice ways to go. Being as good for PvE or PvP, pure fire has a great versatility and it's the one tree that will bring you the more fun in this game, as being a Mage. In solo PvE you will see many mobs dieing before they can even reach you and in group PvE you will often be at top of the DPS meters. In PvP it will depend on your placement, whether you manage get the opening or not on your opponent, whether you manage to keep range from you and your enemies. Your great instants, being Fire Blast, Blast Wave and Dragon Breath should be used to finish your enemies, or to get some range and place a few scorches, but can never burn your opponent from 100% down to 0% health.

The arcane/fire Mage is mainly based on getting Spell Power for huge critics. If you love big numbers, if you love them so much than you even keep records of how high you can get, then it's purely the way for you to go. The several variants depends mainly on whether you want go up to Mind Mastery in the Arcane Tree and drop some fire goodies for that, or not. Some people will call you a "3-minute" Mage but nothing is much wrong than stating this Mage can't do anything the next 2min45sec. It's an excellent overall build, with a huge boost every 3 minutes.

The Pure Arcane Mage is most often not so far from the hybrid Arcane/Fire mage we just discussed. The only difference is that the Pure Arcane Mage goes for Arcane Missiles while the Arcane/Fire one does not.

Arcane is not only about mana efficiency. It's still about huge sustained DPS and big crit numbers. You'll be surprised to see that your fireballs and scorches deal much damage most of the time being an arcane Mage than being a pure fire Mage! And Arcane Missile becomes simply the highest DPS skill in the game when it is spammed in instances. On the other hand the arcane tree is maybe the one which offers the lowest survivability of the three ones. There comes Slow that you need to practice a bit, but which is a great tool in PvP, and still very enjoyable in many PvE situations. And also Improved Mana Shield, that became much better since the recent mana Shield boost

The elemental Mage try to combine the best of fire and frost trees to get huge damage bursts and a lot of versatility. Elemental is not the easy way to go for a mage and asks a lot of knowledge, fast reaction and experience. But it's a very rewarding one when you start to master it. You have both the fire tricks to play long range and the frost efficiency and DPS burst against frozen targets at close range.