High Order Skyborne Mage: your first 10 levels

Updated 2026-10-28 · ForeverDB

A gentle start for a High Order Skyborne Mage in WoW Forever: where your trainer stands in Thendal Village, your spells up to level 10, your class quests, the racials that help and the best professions.

Written for the WoW Forever beta, for your first 10 levels. Where each person stands comes from what players recorded in WoW Forever wherever we have it. Anything else is marked: "Classic data" means the spot comes from the original game and may have moved in Forever.

Right now

Welcome! You're a High Order Skyborne Mage, and you start in Thendal Village. Here are the three things you need first. Take your time: nothing here is in a rush.

1. You appear at 42.8, 23.4 in Thendal Village.
2. Your first quest: talk to Ailee Farheart (42.8, 23.4), next to where you appear.
3. Your Mage trainer is Dorii Brightwhisper at 41.6, 23.7, 70 yards west of where you appear (seen in Forever). Walk: 110 yards, 15 sec.
4. Your class quest: Rorian the Dayseeker also has A Student of the Arcane for you. It sends you to your trainer, and it's free experience.

Tip: If you die, that's fine: everyone does. Click Release Spirit, run back to your body as a ghost, and carry on. Fight one enemy at a time and eat or drink between fights.

Playing a Mage at first

You cast fire, frost and arcane spells from a distance. You hit hard but you're fragile, so the trick is to kill things before they reach you. You use mana.

1. Cast Fireball at an enemy from as far away as you can.
2. Keep Frost Armor on yourself. It gives you armor and may slow enemies that hit you.
3. Keep Arcane Intellect up: more Intellect means more mana.

Tip: From level 4 you can make your own water, and from level 6 your own food. That saves money.

Tip: From level 4, Frostbolt slows the enemy down, so you get an extra cast before it reaches you.

Your spells up to level 10

You start with your level 1 spells. The rest you learn from your trainer, for a few coins, at levels 4, 6, 8, 10. A few come from class quests instead. From the WoW Forever game client:

Where your Mage trainers are

Walks start from where you appear (the first trainer), the middle of the town (town trainers) or the first town (city trainers).

Class quests

Your racials as a Mage

• Elemental Insight: More damage to elementals, which are common on Zephras Isle.
• Read Leyline: Rest faster: your health and mana come back twice as fast. Near one of the island's leylines it lasts much longer.
• Skysight: A little more speed, on foot and mounted. Near a convergence of elements it lasts much longer.
• Walk on Air: Glide gently down instead of falling. Jump off a cliff without getting hurt.
• Wind Blessed: A little haste for everything: faster attacks and faster spells.

Professions

For a Mage, the best pair is Tailoring and Enchanting. Tailoring makes cloth armor you can wear from the cloth that enemies drop. Enchanting turns gear you don't need into magic dust that makes your gear better, and it makes wands.

Tip: Not sure yet? Pick two gathering professions (Herbalism, Mining or Skinning). They make money from the very first herb, vein or beast, and you can swap one for a crafting profession later. Dropping a profession loses its skill, so decide before you've raised it far.

More on this: the best professions for each class.

After level 10

At level 10 you get your first talent point. Our Mage leveling guide takes you on from there, and the leveling guide shows where to go next. Your first dungeon comes a bit later: see your first dungeon.

Checked against WoW Forever beta build 1.60.1.70658.

Explore next

• Quest guides
• Mage: Changes · Builds · Gear planner

Read next

• Zephras Isle: your first 10 levels
• High Order Skyborne: a guide for new players
• Leveling a Mage to 30
• Best professions for each class