Mage specs and the new Orc Mage

Last checked: 2026-11-12

Cloth, mana, and three caster trees: Arcane, Fire and Frost. That trio is on both Mobalytics and the Wowhead class index. The Forever-specific fact that belongs on this page, and not on a generic Classic mage guide, is the new race pairing. The product page and the now-live post name Orc Mage as one of six new combinations. Alliance mages can be Human, Gnome or a High Order Skyborne. Horde mages can be Orc, Undead or Troll.

IGN’s pick for Alliance is Gnome, for the Eureka racial. Horde is listed as Orc, for Blood Fury, or Troll, for Berserking. I am not choosing between Orc and Troll for you. A German query about which mage to bring to a five-player dungeon is part of why this page exists, but the body of a German deep-dive video was not in the research packet, so I do not pretend to rank Arcane against Fire for a dungeon group.

Blizzard posted class deep-dive material for mage and shaman. I did not pull a spell-coefficient table out of it. What I will say is the structural change: trees were rebuilt, and Orc is now a legal mage. For numbers on a single spell, use Wowhead’s spell pages. For the dungeon question, look at the dungeon list by level and bring the spec your group is missing, not a rank I did not read.