Post by lorgion
Some points of thought;
1. Why didn't you pick icy flows (tier 1, third talent) ?
2. Frostbite is the suck for raiding. Why? You uncontrollably at random freeze mobs, for some reason this always tends to happen right next to other people. So the mob will stop chasing you and it will just ^&*! the person standing next to it. People that raid with frost spec shouldn't be allowed to put any points into frostbite, atleast we never allowed that.
3. Shatter barrier? Really? So you want a frostnova to go off when your barrier fails? For what? 2 completely wasted points. It's PVE/Raiding ie You do not spec to kill trash you spec to kill bosses. Bosses laugh at frostnova.
4. Why put any points in fire at all? Frostfirebolt won't be that good. Plus they seem to be located totally arbitrary without any great afterthought. You dont get any talents that increase your firedamage so you wont be fireballing anything. Scorch? Scorch currently is countered by Winters Chill in your frost tree. They don't stack until Blizzard unborks that issue if they ever do that. Pyroblast? Flame throwing? REALLY? Just remove all those 17 points you just wasted in the fire three and relocate them ...
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=of0iZZiIcckfu0fzgbstThere something like that. There are 4 points unassigned at the moment; depending on how things turn out they'll be shifted into Student of the Mind (+spirit), Magic Attunment (longer range on polymorph etc) +points into Arcane Shielding (for more resistance and utility with Magic Absorbation). Also Focus Magic.
Then let me explain why before some other person starts dissing my talent selection. Some of them don't need explanation or if they do you need to stop playing a mage and go play something else.
Arc Sub; For arcane explosion spamming, nobody likes to do it but from time to time we have to.
Magic Abs; You'll get 80 free resistance to all schools, so with Mage armour you'll be running around town with 120-130 resistance to all schools. Resist = Mana return. Also that taking less damage thing, but that is really secondary.
Focus Magic; this one is still iffy really. I hope they change it back. It could be a wasted point in the current build. Remains to be seen and tested.
FrostWarding; lets now kid ourselves. Its the frozen norths there are frost damage everywhere. If you have ever been to Naxxramas you'll know. You will use it. Not using it is failure.
Icy Floes + Cold as Ice; Reduces CD on vital talents.
Imp Blizzard; Slap one point in here to give blizzard the CHILL effect that will proc FOF, atleast that is my current theory. Currently seeing if it works out in the beta as I hope it will. If it does that will be fun.
Winter's Chill; You take this so fire mages dont need scorching. Cause yours is good and theirs is currently crap. You apply it with your main cast spell they have to cast something inferior to their maincast.
Water Elemental; That is also under "review". Well as frost you'll have one, end of story. But is the mana regen going to be worth it. Probably or atleast better then nothing. Nobody says no to free mana.
Why no brain freeze; Cause you are a frost mage and you won't even have Fireball on your bar. This is just a horrid joke from Blizzard. Why would frostmages want to cast fireballs? We have ZERO talents that do jack up the firetree. Atleast Fire mages get a point with Hot Streak; they get an instant pyroblast .. we get jack squat. This is just beyond crap. Brainfreeze should do something else or atleast give us a free frostfirebolt. ... Fireball ... pff ...
Cant they just make a stick post where people can post all their specs to we won't have to see all this "is my spec good" posts ...