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I'm leveling as Arcane!
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With gear, leveling in any of the talent trees is probably PWNSAUCE. Good luck!
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UncaToddly
I'd not advised to go arcane until you get arcane blast; but it's doable.
Exactly. I leveled my priest as holy (primarily solo) to 72 before I switched to discipline even though the most common way people do it is shadow because the DPS is higher and you will level faster. It is just a little slower that way.
Same is true with using different spec's other than Frost to level. It isn't that they can't be done, it is just that Frost provides the highest degree of survivability due to so many outs and benefits like Ice Barrier and faster cooldown of Frost Nova and other talents. Arcane and Fire can both be used to level with but Arcane get's it's bigger benefits after 64 when you get Arcane Blast.
My mage is now 65 and leveled to 64 as Frost. Once I hit 64 I dual spec'd Arcane to see the difference and get an idea what is would be like and be familiar with it for instances and such. For me, I kind of view it as the difference between being a Holy priest and a Disc priest. Holy is much better for group healing and such whereas Disc is more about damage mitigation and is better for single target healing.
Solo leveling as Frost it was much more about rounding them up, locking them down with Frost Nova and then AoEing them down with Blizzard. So far what I have seen from Arcane is it is the difference between making a single target bleed to death (frost) vs blowing them up with bomb (arcane). Your hits are bigger but they are single target so you kill individual mobs faster but whereas with Frost if I lock down 4 mobs I can easily kill them all at once, with Arcane I don't try for multiples like that but if I have multiples I can't help, locking them down is so I can deal with them one at a time.
And yes, Arcane Missles does good things as you get higher. So do other spells in all trees :)
And until you hit level 10...... you aren't leveling as any spec LOL :)
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