Celtic Heroes

I'm a noob to being a mage, so I was wondering if it's possible to level as an ice mage.
The best gear I have is ice so far, and I don't even have firestorm or pierce lure yet. But I'm finding that the cooldown on iceblast and shards is so slow. It feels like I got better DPS when I was half fire and ice, instead of full ice. Am I crazy?

Sticking to one element is usually better so your noy crazy!

Fire is usually better for leveling because it has faster cooldowns, which means if you kill fast enough you don't have to wait on cooldowns.

Ice is good burst damage, in my opinion as long as you can kill the mobs within 2-3 hits ice can be profitable.

*edit

Misread your post. It's odd that a hybrid build works well for you so you are crazy!! Jk

What level is your mage atm.

Hybrid build is by far the best at high level...

As a lower leveled mage it is okay and works to be a hybrid. Once you reach around level 80 i'd say to pick an element and stick to that for a while.

...until you're high level in which case you do both fire and ice

I'd wait until I get firestorm tome and stay with fire if I were you, helps ability if u stick to one element

Hybrid is a horrible idea!!!!!!!

I would talk to furyion maybe pm him he is a walking Mage guide

^I would not recommend.

Hybrid becomes great at high lvl as BlackMamba said, as u have many skill pts and having a secondary element can really come in handy.

Here's the thing: firebolt is the best mage dps skill. Iceshards is second. Firestorm is third. Iceblast, possible incin 4th (haven't bothered using either). So why would you handicap yourself by using fb fs incin or shards blast frostbite, when you could just do firebolt shards firestorm? Especially because after you get the direct dmg skills the attune is no longer a factor since it doesn't boost dots.

I max firebolt shards and firestorm and it works great. I am no longer useless at 205/210 edls (can boost shards to 9.3k ish without attunes using slightly different gear from normal build), and overall am much better dps on event bosses and leveling (don't think I've lost kill on a 6* event boss after turning 205, despite much worse gear than some clannies)