Ok... so here's the deal:

get the mage quest from mage trainer in org.

find tabetha. 46,57 dustwallaoroo (i fergit the name, fly to camp taj then book it southeast)

get new quests.

go to shimmering flats, talk to dude by the race track (read yer quests!). find the chicken, he's by the race tower. go back to tabetha.

go to arathi highlands. go to the far east side by the lake, kill the trolls and git yer stix! (read the letter she gives you)

go to circle of outer binding (bring a friend if yer low 30 like me) use the sticks in the center rock, open the rod, get the thingy inside of it.

buy a Jade. borrow a jade. steal a jade. just git yer hands on a jade.

go to SM (trisfal glades, northeast of undercity.)
get a crew together and rox the library. in the long hall before the boss there is a book you can open on the wall. do it. git yer book fer tabetha.

go to tabetha. git yer wand.
you have a choice. frost, arcane, fire...

these are VERY similar to your talent trees... maybe you should choose the one that you have the MOST POINTS IN your talent tree...

mages pwn. so did this quest. challenging is good. the wand is good. all you other losers are ebay wow's and don't know jack about the l33tness that is a mage.

This quest gives 3 great wands for its level, and they will serve you well for quite a few levels. They either boost your +fire, +frost or +arcane damage.

The quest is not hard to do, but finding the quest giver can be quite difficult, who is located in the middle of Dustwallow Marsh, a level 45 zone. If you keep frostnovaing, popping up mana shield, blinking etc, however, you should be fine.

The quest series start at your mage trainer at level 30, so go speak to him/her. Don't miss this quest, I see lots of mages at level 40 who use worse wands because of this.

I got the quest, A Journey to the Marsh, from the Mage trainer in Stormwind at level 30. The quest is to basically talk to Tabetha in Dustwallow Marsh.&nbsp She is only a short distance due north from the "E" in Stonemaul Ruins on the map.&nbsp Once there, she gives you two quests, Hidden Secrets and Items of Power.&nbsp Both are fairly easy to complete solo if you so choose. Hidden Secrets is the first of three quest you must do.&nbsp The second is Get the Scoop and the third and last one is Rituals of Power.&nbsp The last one, Rituals of Power is the hardest of them all requiring you to find a group to go into Scarlet Monastary, which is extremely hard for a level 30 mage!&nbsp However, thanks to my guild, this was possible.&nbsp Once all the quests are done, head back to Tabetha in Dustwallow Marsh and turn in the quests "Rituals of Power" and "Items of Power".&nbsp She will then give you a final quest, Mage's Wand, which you can immediately turn in to Tabetha for you wand.&nbsp

I was confused by this chain and the one that leads to 'Celestial Power', so I posted here and under that quest to differentiate which quests go with which chain. Thotbot helps a little, if you were as confused as I was. This quest chain gets you a choice of one of 3 wands at the end - see above.

First, there's a quest that leads you to Tabetha in Dustwallow Marsh - it starts with the mage trainer in Ogrimmar for Horde, and is just like the Alliance-side 'Journey to the Marsh' listed here. Tabetha is on an island southeast of Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow, almost to the coastline. For Alliance, Tabetha is almost due west of the docks in Theramore, but it's tough to get to her from the bay because of the low- to mid-40's mobs in the water. It's easier to go up and around (partway on the road) because the mobs are lower level (high 30's). Tabetha's hut is due north of the 'EM' in Stonemaul Ruins on the Dustwallow map.
2. Tabetha gives you 'Hidden Secrets' quest to go get a book by talking to Magus Tirth at the racetrack in 1000 Needles Shimmering Flats.
3. Tirth gives you 'Get the Scoop' quest to talk to his 'assistant', Plucky Johnston, who is a chicken. As posted here in that thread, /beckon the chicken and he will become a human, talk to you and send you back to Tirth. Tirth will tell you to get the book Tabetha wants from Scarlet Monastery Library ('Rituals of Power' quest). See the thread here for location of book in SM. Take the book back to Tabetha.
4. Tabetha gives you 'Items of Power' quest - if I remember correctly, you can get this quest together with 'Hidden Secrets' and the 'Infernal Orb' one. For 'Items', kill Witherbark trolls in SE Arathi til you collect 10 Troll Sticks - these drop off any 31-35 troll there. The quest doesn't tell you to get 10 but that's what you need. Take them to the Circle of Outer Binding, with the air elementals, and clear to the center stone. Right-click the sticks in your bag while you are next to the stone, and a lightning rod pops up on the stone. Pretty soon you get the gear-wheel icon, so open the rod and get your Bramble, then take it back to Tabetha with a jade.
5. After you have done both 'Items of Power' and 'Rituals of Power', Tabetha gives you the 'Mage's Wand' quest, where you pick one of the 3 wands above.

This quest chain is separate from the chain that leads to 'Celestial Power', where you get a nice off-hand item or a staff. In that chain, you have to kill the Obsidian Sentinel in Uldaman - see my other post under that quest for a summary.

Edited, Sat Feb 25 02:11:22 2006

I did these quests with help from a 70 friend, achieving the wand at lvl 30. I was also able to make it fairly easy to Tabetha's location both times.

Like Calminaion said, just need to follow these quests:

http://classicdb.ch/?quest=1947 (Obtained at your Trainer at level 30)
http://classicdb.ch/?quest=1948
http://classicdb.ch/?quest=1949 (3-Quest Chain)

Brought the quest's back completed, she said some stuff then bam I got the wand quest. She did some more stuff then I turned in the quest for a badass wand at level 30.

The moral of this story is, YOU CAN GET THIS WAND AT LEVEL 30.

If you haven't done the quest stop lying and making this longer!&nbsp To get the wand there are 2(yes, TWO) parts: Visiting Magus Tirth and getting his book from the Scarlet Monastery AND getting jade and charged bramble (from Witherbark Trolls in Arathi Highlands).&nbsp After you turn in BOTH quests, Tabetha will have a new quest, which solely involves waiting 2 seconds for her to make the wand then you pick which you want.&nbsp There is no fighting involved after turning in the quests, fighting the elite demon from the orb is a different mage quest, and yes, it is a mage quest, though there is a similiar warlock quest.

There are a few key elements that people are overlooking here..&nbsp Like anyone, I have done a quest and thought, "now why the hell did I waste my time doing this?"&nbsp But a bit later on down the line, I have discovered that doing some of those *seems like you wasted time quests* ended up beneficial in the end...&nbsp This quest essentially broadens your known territories, flight paths etc.&nbsp Reveals some truly quick and fast leveling quests on the way, and of course makes you depend on other classes at some points to help you complete it...&nbsp It is essentially a way to improve your character as a mage...&nbsp For those of you who don't care about that, well -- "It is a waste of YOUR precious time..."

The first time you run down here, be sure and go to Mudsprocket for the flight point. It'll save you several long runs in the future.