Wow Mage aoe leveling guide for vanilla classic. 35-42 Insane Mage farm:
Farming Locations:
More about AOE grinding:
here are quite a few variations of "grinding" but essentially they all share the same idea: killing mobs that aren't necessarily tied to a quest in a fairly densely populated spot for either experience, gold, or both. The most common method of grinding, which is the method that is most ideal for most classes (and Mages as well at earlier levels), is to kill a particular mob one by one over and over. This method is most commonly used to acquire gold, particularly the 90g (Honored discount) cost of your first mount at level 40. It can also be used as a temporary alternative while waiting for a quest objective to become available. This may be a "Mage" focused write up but the mobs listed for gold grinding can be put to use by other classes. From an efficiency viewpoint, I think some grinding before level 40 will be most beneficial to Mages, Warriors, Rogues, and Priests as these classes do not have as good of mobility options pre 40 or a free mount at 40.
Mages are unique in that they are the only class in the game that can adequately kill large pulls of mobs simultaneously while leveling due to inherit AoE potential and extremely effective slow application. This method is more commonly used while leveling to push experience gains and can even compete with/surpass questing efficiency under ideal situations.
It's important to understand that each method, including questing, should be used to reach 60 as fast as possible. I'd highly recommend questing with mob grinding in between your questing objectives until at least somewhere in the 30-39 level range. This is around the time you should start considering investing in gold farming to have your mount by 40. I would advise against trying to level with AoE before 40 (or at the very least late 30s, when you already secured gold for your mount/skills at 40 through grinding) for fresh servers or Mages without funds from another character as it severely cripples your single target efficiency through talents. Competition for mobs may be greatly exaggerated when the entire server is still leveling and respec costs can quickly scale up. For Classic launch in particular, AoE leveling before 40 is going to be nearly impossible for 99% of Mages because of the enormous expected population. Keep this in mind when considering your talent choices; the longer the server has been up (or more specifically, the less people that are actively leveling), the better your chances are to be successful with AoE leveling.
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