Your Favorite Race and MageFollow

So, since the Mage forum is so inundated with real, useful posts seeking info, I thought it was about time to create a nonsensical one that helps no one. : )

Simply put, which is your favorite Mage race (you may include Cata races, including old ones with the new class, if you so desire), and who is your favorite Mage?

I thought it would also be fun to have two categories for your favorite. One for gameplay (racials, basically), and one for look/lore.

I'll start:

My favorite Mage race for looks/lore are High/Blood Elves. I just like the idea of a magical kingdom that spread magic through the world. Plus, founding Dalaran gets them more kudos.

I also like the way they look (in general, they and Draenei are my favorite looking races, plus Worgen in Cata). They have very clean features, which I like. Their animations make it look like casting spells is exceedingly simple. And they aren't super buff, like Humans are (seriously, I'm sure I could use magic to keep me healthy and such, but I doubt my mage is working out 5 times a week). The only thing I don't like is how their stance makes shoulder armor crooked. It's fine with small ones, but large ones just make me want to scream "Stand up straight." And I guess I should note I don't like how often their cloaks clip with weapons. Draenei are a close second, for me, since magic has been a part of their heritage for over 25,000 years, at least.

As for racials, it's a very close toss-up with Draenei (+1% hit for a whole party is pretty awesome, and I like getting added utility with the HoT), Humans (Spirit, extra trinket in PvP, extra rep) and BEs (Silence and extra mana every 2 minutes--with 20K mana it is equal to 50 mp5).

My favorite Mage would have to be either Kael'thas (before he went wacko) or Rhonin. I liked Kael a lot in WCIII so, even though his story isn't that detailed or deep pre-Illidan, I have a residual appreciation for him. I liked Rhonin a lot in the books, though he doesn't do much in WoW. Like, talk when you click on him...

How about everyone else?

I personally think that gender affects mages, male human or bloodelf just don't look like mages to me, humans need descent beards, male gnomes look great and either gender undead.

For Cata Night elf mages will be good, shadowmeld useful for surprise attacks and will make a good oh no button.

Edit: Because I must have offended someone with my choice of words.
Apologies to whoever I may have offended.

Edited, Nov 21st 2009 8:49pm by Mermic

Okay I retract my earlier statement about Arcane Torrent. I used it tonight during our first ToGC 10 raid when I was completely OOM with Evocation and my mana gem on CD, and discovered that you don't have to be in range of a mana user to get the mana back. I thought you did lol. So yeah, it's on my action bars now. =x

Spellpower isn't disappearing, it's being taken off of gear. All of the racials are being changed, so I hope those disgusting little creatures don't end up the 'best' mages.

I love Night Elves. I love the lore, I love the models (badass casting animations), I love the giant freakin' tree they live on.
My mage will be getting a race change as soon as I can, to nelf.

I love my undead mage, although I wish that the armor was better and so were the racials. The casting animation I think looks the best of all of the races, imo. I'm just sick of seeing bones stick through everywhere.

Yeah, the bones sticking out is kind of cool at first, but it does start to get annoying once you get good looking gear.

someone likes necromancers...

A wheat-y assertion. I'm sure you'll just make a rye face when you think about it.

I love my Troll, I like how his casting animation looks and the haste racial iss really nice as a part of my Arcane rotation. I dont really run out of mana on fights so I havent found a need for a class with an INT buff or Mana regen taaalent. But then again I could be mistaken but since my Mage is staying a Troll I geuss Ill never know. My Fav Mage in Lore I would say maybe is Arugal just cause itd be cool having my own Castle full of crazy Worgen to do my bidding.

Well, I was belf for the longest time, and I loved her twirly jump and arcane torrent (though it took me longer than most to realize that torrent actually gave me manas!), but then the race changes came out, and I switched to troll. I switched to male because I love their dance. I mostly switched, though, because fire isn't very bursty and I wanted a little bit of burstiness, so berkserking was appealing to me. Fastforward not too far ahead and I found myself spec'ing arcane. Didn't have too much of a problem with mana, so I kept my troll. Meanwhile, I noticed that when I told my spouse that I'd gotten new gear, he was pretty "meh" about it. Cuz, yeah, trolls aren't very pretty. Fastforward a little more and I found myself needing or wanting that tiny bit of mana and not needing that little bit of burst, so I switched back to belf female. Now, when I get new gear, my spouse wants to see it right away! lol! I do miss bersersking, though, but I think I'll keep the belf. I like how tiny she is and dainty, and well, boots look cool now too. :)

Favorite mage is not in lore, but it's Kyth. She's done so much for the mage and raiding community, plus she's just a pleasant person. <3 Anobix too!

Undead females have the coolest casting animation imo.

Gnoam maeg!
Played as one for... 3 or 4 years, IDK.

Probably changing to Goblin in Cata if I start again.

As far as looks: Blood Elf Male.

Why?

In June of 2007, when I was just a noob, a 48 mage gave me a run though of Ragefire on my Warrior. After watching him go insane with Blastwave and Flamestrike, I decided that that was what I wanted to do.

The only problem being I didn't have Burning Crusade.

And so I rolled a female Troll.

Playing Preference: Troll

It's quite simple. Berserking. I love being able to just unleash with this. I created a spec during BC which, while very heavy in Arcane, focused on Frost damage. Arcane Power + Trinket + Icy Veins + Berserking = GATLING MAGE! It was pretty insane to watch. It was even crazier in ZA when you could spellsteal that buff that increased your haste.

Favorite Mage from Lore:

Milhouse Manastorm

Why? Funny catchphrases, and probably the greatest quote a mob could have when they die.