Well, this Lineage 2 Mage Leveling Guide will explain the best places to level and what quests to do to get you started on your way, and more about what spells do what. And monster statistics of what you should hunt at certain levels. But this guide stops at level 14. Why? Because you get new spells at level 14. Ok, now, we should take a look at the detais first.

Skills
Windstrike - Levels 1-3 definitely worth getting to level 3 before going Lineage 2 Adena after other spells
Weapon Mastery - Passive skill that will increase the damage your weapon and spells do. Get this skill second.
Armor Mastery - Passive skill that will increase your defense. Get this skill third.
Ice Bolt - Levels 1 and 2. Fast cast medium damage spell. Get these skills fourth.
Heal - Levels 1-3. High HP heal, allows you to heal yourself as well as other people. Get these skills fifth.
Get these skills Lineage 2 Adena in any order after you've gotten the ones above¡­
Curse: Poison - Allows you to poison a creature for reoccuring damage¡­ fails frequently¡­
Might - Temporarily increases attack power. Intensity 1.
Shield - Temporarily increases defense. Effect 1.
Cure Poison - Cures poison.
Anti-Magic - Levels 1 and 2. Magic resistance increases.

So lets start off where you start off as a Dark Elf mage.. your currently in the Temple Lineage 2 Adena of Shilen. You will want to complete the tutorial quest even if you do know how to play because it will give you a World Map. But first.. you must learn how to use your QuickTab bar and your spell¡­ right now you only have two spells, Windstrike and Self Heal.

Click Alt+K to open up your skill tab, active shows you what your able to cast whenever its clicked in the quicktab bar, and passive skills are always running in the background for ya. Drag the active spells to your Quicktab bar in the positions that are easy to hit when your in the heat of battle so if you drag windstrike to the first slot, hitting F1 will activate that spell and if you Lineage 2 Adenadrag Self heal to slot 2 of the quicktab bar F2 will activate self heal. remember you must have a target before casting windstrike.

If you get stuck on the first quest.. all you have to do is kill 4 or so Keltirs until you have collected 4 quest item fangs.. head back to the NPC that Lineage 2 Adena gave you the quest, should showup on your radar, then simply talk to that NPC who will give you Blood of Mitraell, head over to Mitraell who is no more than a 20 or so feet away towards the center of the area, he will give you the world map.