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Picking The Best Race For Mage On Horde Side
By John Ramsey | November 30, 2009
Trying to figure out which race to go with for your mage, either when you roll your new one or race change in the near future? Have you decided looks aren’t a big factor, because mage always looks cool? Then this guide is the place for you. We’ll talk about the benefits each race brings to the table, and figure out the best PvP and PvE races among them.
Undead are the first to go on the chopping block. For years Undead has been the best PvP race on horde side, possibly in the game, for all classes. But patch 3.3 is changing that, with a nerf to Will of the Forsaken that will put it on a shared forty-five second cooldown with PvP trinket effects. Add in their lack of anything worthwhile for PvE, and Undead is, for the first time since WoW started, beginning to look like a bad choice.
Blood elves are the second race we will talk about. Arcane Torrent is the primary racial of note here. For PvP applications, it is one of the better ones around; an extra silence is always a great thing to have. For PvE, the mana regen from Arcane Torrent is great while you are leveling, but at max level you shouldn’t be having mana issues anyways, making it mostly useless.
The last Horde race is the always unpopular Troll. For their big racials they have Da Voodoo Shuffle, a PvP racial that reduces movement impairing effects by 15%, and Berserking. Berserking is probably the best mage racial in the game right now. For PvE, it is the biggest DPS increase you can get from a racial, and for PvP an extra damage cooldown can help you get in that last-second gib before the heals land.
The pecking order of Horde races for Mage is pretty obvious in retrospect. Undead, come 3.3, are mediocre for PvP and continue to be useless for PvE. Blood Elf is, as always, acceptable for PvP and leveling, but lacking in PvE pizazz. And Troll has an enormously powerful racial that benefits both PVPers and PvEers. As hard as it is to believe, Troll is da best.
To conclude, I’ll mention that you should only make your choice on racials if looks absolutely don’t matter to you. The benefits of any given race are minor in the long run, especially with Blizzard slowly working to further marginalize the differences between races. The nerf bat has been hitting every strong racial, and those that are still OP are living on borrowed time.
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