It's very complicated and it's not really that fun. You either play as a intelligence mage and die to good pallies, or you play as a pallie and the fight drags on and on and no one dies. Your best bet would be to level a bird to 77 rather then a mage.

I am in the process of leveling a bird my mage will rarely be used for pvp once I am leveled to 77 . A pally mage is only fun at endgame if their is no other pallies there, or a pally that isn't so good.

Either make a bird or a bear, or a fox but those die to mages very easily and there's a lot of mages at endgame pvp . All the post a on the forums that say pally mage is boring, it is true after too many long fights I started making my bird yesterday and am now 75, its fun but should be better when I'm 77