Mage Leveling

I keep getting asked so heres my answer:

Your first 3 souls should be Necro, Warlock, Chloro. In that order.

The only thing you want from the Chloro tree is Radiant Spores.

Your first 8 Points go in the Warlock tree to Improved Life Leech, Improved Void Bolt and Lingering Pain.

By level 10 your souls should look like this:
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1zwvR.x.ccM

Your rotation is going to be:

Radiant Spores > Life Leech > Necrosis > Spam Void Bolt > Refresh Radiant Spores and Necrosis.

On bigger mobs, like Rift bosses you'll want to through in Dark Touch before spamming Void Bolt.

By level 20 your souls will look like:
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1zwvR.xxcL0z.ccM
Now you have Soul Purge, welcome to immortality.
Your rotation now is:
Radiant Spores > Life Leech >  Necrosis > Essence Link if you need more heals > Void Bolt untill you have 80+ charge > Soul Purge.
Soul Purge is your bread and butter. You can chain pull mobs by alternating Void Bolt spam and Soul Purge.

By Level 30:
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1zwvR.xxcLVzk0c.cfMo
You now have some new pets, Skeletal Stalwart and Skeletal Zealot. Put simply the Stalwart is a tank, the Zealot is DPS. Use the Zealot for lots of damage, and the Stalwart for tanking or off tanking. The Zealot will kill things faster but you can pull more, and faster with the Stalwart. Your rotation has not changed.

By level 40:
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1zwvR.xxcLVzk0c.ceMhzVR
In the last 10 levels you had some choices. You could go:

• More pet health with Master Chirugeon 
• More health on yourself with Vitality
• Lich Form for a burst damage cool down
• Or you could just do what I did and go for more damage with some nice "Oh shit" buttons with Shadow Life and Draining Bolt

A few other options in there as well. I prefer taking a beeline to Warlock Armor because it is sex. That means after 28 in Necro put all your points in Lock untill:

By level 46:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1zwvR.xxcLVzk0c.ceMhzVqx

And with that you are basically done. I don't care where you put your points after this. Your rotation hasn't changed since level 20, but who needs it to? Your a fuggin Necro/Lock. 

By level 50:

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