world of warcraft pvp mage build part 2

6. Macros

Freeze on your Frostbolt

#showtooltip Frostbolt
/cast frostbolt
/click PetActionButton4

Summon your pet if you don't have one or cast freeze

#showtooltip Summon Water Elemental
/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental
/cast !Freeze

Cast Ice block or cancel it, spam it for a debuff remover.

#showtooltip Ice Block
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block

Sheep your focus if you have one, else it will cast on your target.

#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm] Polymorph; Polymorph

And the same for Counterspell

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm] Counterspell; Counterspell

7. Addons

Gladius - Arena unit frames -
 http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gladius.aspx

Gnomish interrupter - Party chat info about your CC -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gnomish-interrupter.aspx

Quartz - Must have castbar -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/quartz.aspx

OmniCC - Timers of cooldowns on your action bars -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/omni-cc.aspx

8. Tips

Practice alot. All good mages started with killing boars. A good way to practice is dueling.
Don't be scared outside the gates of Orgrimmar or Stormwind. Find someone of your skill
level and duel with him, get revenge if you lose so that eventually you let him bite the dust.

Another way to train your skills for arena is... arena! Find someone to play 2v2 for fun,
you will learn your own class but other classes too + you get the conquest points cap!

Watch Mage PvP videos. Vanilla WoW or not, skills are skills. You can still learn from
old movies because killing is for the most part kiting/position work.
You can find some here or choose one down: http://warcraftmovies.com/movies.php?
class=4&category=1&tab=dls

Vurtne - Probably the best mage ever. He doesn't play anymore so the movie is a bit old.
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=39506

Noone - Movie captured in TBC.
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=70655

Saru & Tharbad - 2v2 with double Frost Mage
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=55762

Gameking - Arena in WOTLK, 2v2 and 3v3
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=131789

There aren't much good Cataclysm videos because the expansion is young and it takes
loads of time to make one.

Copied from http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1710233539 :

Always CS a lock on Hand of Gul'dan. It will lock his fire and shadow school.
The same counts for a druids Starsurge and Frostfire Bolt from a mage.

If a warrior uses Spell Reflect, cast fire blast to take it away. If you're low you can use
Polymorph to get yourself up again.

If you spellsteal Hand of Sacrifice, 30% of the damage you take will still go to the paladin.

You can cast out of a rogues smoke bomb, you can't cast into it.

Spamming pet follow will stop your images to attack someone.

Flame orb hits rogues in stealth and brings them out, despite no animation of it hitting.

Save up 2 finger of frost procs, icelance twice, then pet nova and icelance twice more,
potentially 4 gamebreaking crits.

You can use Blink to avoid fall damage, just cast it when you're almost about to hit
the ground.

When defending a base in BG, position your pet twenty yards in front of you, you
can use its freeze spell to stop horde

in their tracks which lets the defence guys get the first hit in.



Critism is welcome as long as it's constructive.

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