I never had money years ago, when I was level 10. Free water is free water, and it will add up over time. It will almost never be the absolute best available food until the level cap, although it will close the gap on the vendor food sooner.

Funny you should mention evocation. When I hit level 10, I started getting Arcane talents. I skimmed through the three trees, and went "well, arcane is first and seems the most magey". So I got Evocation pretty early. I think it was around 15...or it may have been 25. But it was extremely useful, especially in Deadmines. The neat thing was, I got evocation free when Blizzard made it trainable...or I think I did. It was a long time ago lol.

Yeah, just random memories. Level my mage has been the more enjoyable characters I've leveled in MMOs over the year, almost as fun as my Mastermind in CoV. My only character to ever have hit the level cap, too. The "boring early levels" are a barrier to keep the newbs out. I've only met a few mages who suck at WoW entirely compared to basically any other class.

@ Codexx

Haha thats awesome, i love hearing about people's first ever experiences playing WoW. I had so many funny moments of learning like that, I went fire cause I loved playing with fire spells in Oblivion. I named my first ever toon Valensword cause I wanted to be a mage with a sword who casts fireballs and does loads of damage even if he is weak.

Luckily I think I got it pretty right in my head cause that's exactly what I started with and it's still my only toon! And the only person on the armory called Valensword to boot ;)

So much has changed since then but I will never forget levelling and learning.. It was the best ever, and I found some amazing people along the way that I grew really close to cause we were all learning together, it was awesome :P