Mage Race

[Brotoonz]

Im new to Vanilla WoW and im wondering what is a good class for mages. Idk if its possible to do both pve and pvp on a same toon but im sort of stuck with an undead and a gnome.

[thenuclearwalrus]

Play the one you like more.

[TomDeBaere]

For horde:

A lot of the racials are just a minor improvement, you shouldn't feel forced to roll it just because... The races available to horde mages are:

Trolls: 23 Stamina, 16 Intellect, 21 Spirit
Berserking (active): Flat 10% haste increase and it can mount up to 30% if you are "Wounded". This doesn't mean you should stand in fire though .
Regeneration (passive): 10% health regen bonus, 10% active in combat.
Beast Slaying (passive): 5% damage bonus to Beasts, handy in ZG and a few bosses here and there.

Undead: 23 Stamina, 18 Intellect, 25 Spirit
Will of the Forsaken (active): Activate to become immune to fear, sleep, and charm effects - lasts 5 sec - 3 min cooldown - One of the best racials in the game (if not the most useful). Effective mostly in PvP against Warlocks and Priests.
Cannibalize (active): Increase health regeneration by 200% while consuming a corpse - lasts 15 sec - 3 min cooldown - While mages can summon their own food, Cannibalization can be useful to regenerate health while you are in combat. Also cannibalizing your foes’ corpse after killing them while they are still watching you is really cool
Underwater Breathing (passive): Underwater breath increased by 4x - It may have not much use for a mage, but sure it is a good racial mage-wise.
Shadow Resistance (passive): All Undead get +10 Shadow Resistance - Nice racial against Warlocks and Priests in PvP.

If you don't care about looks and just wan't to get a slight advantage and want my opinion about what race to pick then I would suggest:

PVP: Undead
PvE: Troll

But remember, racials means almost nothing if you are skilled enough.

[Ana]

Yeah, WotF lasts 20 seconds. Right.
I wonder what other complete nonsense is hidden within that post?

@OP
For PvE: pick whatever
For PvP: pick gnome or undead

[TomDeBaere]

Yeah, WotF lasts 20 seconds. Right.
I wonder what other complete nonsense is hidden within that post?

There should be fixed now. Anything else?

[mozibake]

I was hoping this would be a thread about a mage triathlon for once considering that we have a "what race should I make my mage guise" thread like once an hour.

[Ana]

AV lotus race is mage race to be honest. Unless they're shit, then other classes can win also.

Unfortunately this isn't relevant to the topic at hand ;/

[Fridolin]

Humans are the master race for mages !