At the maximum level, mages can summon food and water in one item, allowing them to save inventory room. This is incredibly useful for any and all aspects of the game, as everyone needs to eat and drink after most fights.They are World of Warcraft’s best nuking class. Mages are the ideal nuking class and are by far the best at it. A few other classes have specializations that make them a nuking class, but they do not compare to mages. Most mages find themselves respec’ing frequently to test out different styles of playing.Mages are the best Area of Effect damage casters. Most mages will level by AoE grinding. This is where a mage will gather up a large amount of mobs and use their AoE spells to mass-kill, granting them a large amount of experience in a very short time. Mages have many different types of AoE’s, ranging from Blizzard to Blast Wave to Arcane Explosion.

Their damage scales well with gear. Some classes are terrible with poor gear and gain lots with better gear while other classes are great with poor gear but do not gain much with better gear. They can teleport both themselves and their party/raid. The frost spec is great for PvP, as it gives the mage incredible amounts of survivability. Mages are special in this situation, as they are fairly decent with poor gear, but improve noticeably with the addition of better gear.Mages have a large arsenal of spells and abilities to pump out massive damage in a short amount of time.Mages are the only class that is able to cast teleportation spells. Other than Druids being able to self teleport to Moonglade, which is a pointless location, mages are the only class able to teleport. This is not only a bonus as far as faster traveling is concerned; but it also allows a mage to set their Hearthstone to a non-city location.They have three very useful specializations. Mages can specialize as fire, arcane, or frost. The raiding/DPS specializations are fire and arcane, both of which bring different aspects into DPS’ing.