Up-to-date Magician Guide?

[tarkhis]

I started a high elf mage about a week ago and hit 32 last night. I have found the class very enjoyable so far and didn't follow the published guides as I didn't want to travel to the Karanas.

My system was as follows:
level 1-3 soloed outside Felwithe, basically nuke, nuke nuke buy level 4 water pet, burn and gate and head to orc hill to grind through level 4 with a group.

at level 5 head into CB summon pet and let pet knock mob down to 75% then nuke it down to 20% when it runs just let pet finish it off while you med, rinse and repeat collect every belt you can during this time as well.
level 8 beg for sow and run to Kaladim turn in belts and probably hit level 9 from turn ins.

gate back to faydark and buy water pet, shield of fire, renew elements, invisibility and flame bolt from money selling gear rewards for belt turn in.

head back to CB and invis to the corner camp near Taskmaster and summon pet, kill cents that wander through then start pulling the two slavers. Loot keys and hand to NPCs also collect belts off orcs. Stay at camp til level 12 using the following process, DS pet, sic on slaver, heal pet. I didn't worry about out dpsing pet because xp from key turn ins was greater then mob kills anyway.

Head back to kaladim turn in belts at 12 and gate back to kelethin, buy pet, burnout, and head back to same camp. Now with buffed pet and nukes you can own the whole camp, out dps pet on slavers but do heals and DS only on TM, turn in earing to any nearby slaves. By 14 I was pretty much clearing the wall area legos, TM and emmisaries. Pet really wrecks the mobs. at 15 I got level 16 water pet, 20 air pet and 24 earth pet and all other spells I could afford. Ran to kaladim turned in Shoulder pads and went in to unrest.

I soloed yard for a bit and moved into back room as that greened out and hit 20. I then began pulling hallways or MR mobs if that was open, bind at entrance and be ready to sacrifice pet and gate but is fun, same process DS pet, burnout , pet attack nuke nuke med and on to next mob.

At 22 I moved up to group at FP and at 24 I moved into basement where I'm still at. Groups are fun and I've been main tank and puller with pets etc. mages really can do a lot at these levels and careful use of spells and pets is great.

For pulling use burn to tag mob and run back through pet, sic pet on it, it will grab agro very quick and keep DS on pet, renew elements or summoning as needed and nuke away. Get chanters for crack and have fun