So the Question is Arcane,Frost,Fire or Frostfirebolt?Now these specs don't work for everything, well they will work but you wont be doing the best your could possible do dependant on your spec and what your doing.
Ok to start with raiding. So at the moment i think the best raid spec is Frostfirebolt its what i use and its brilliant, now some people seem to think arcane is best for raids and i just don't see it. Arcane is raids it so mana intensive your spent most of you time getting your mana back, YES arcane is better in the DPS meter if you know what your doing BUT Frostfire will still beat arcane on damage. Now iv tested this and frostfire will last for a good 5/10mins and you wont need to use pot/mana gem or evocate, and your be doing very nice DPS and Damage overall. Arcane in raids Will eat your mana in 1/2Min's dependant, yes you get evocate every 2Min's BUT your spending alot of time using evocate and mana gems also pots that your wasting alot of time. What makes FFB (frostfirebolt) better is the fact that you will easily got 10mins on a boss with no mana probs, maybe pot a mana gem if u run low but your will be doing costant damage and the DoT's are a good 20/30% of your damage.
Next general pve and questing. Ok when i leveled to 80 i started with arcane from 70 till 74ish and it was ok it does fine but not as good as frost. i switch to frost to do some AOE (area of effect eg: Blizzard, if u don't know how or what it is check out this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69UfWK1Z8LY&feature=channel_page) Now on normal mobs its just frostbolt spam, cone of cold and ice lance to finish off. now for that its best to run a deep frost spec alittle in fire to get the crit bonus for blizzard. Killing one mob at a time is great but sometimes i would get a quest saying "kill 20 of these, 10 of these" and i would run to where they are agro up a good 10/20 kill them all and within 2 pulls have the quest done. its so quick and easy is leveled from 77-80 quicker than 70-77 i think. Its also great if you find a good place to farm frostweave cloth drops so much when you find a good place you can get all you need for tailoring or just to sell the cloth for lots of money, for me frost is always the best way to go for leveling. it is good in pvp personally i prefer the quick fire of arcane/fire (55/16/0).
Last but not least PVP. Now as i said above for me personally in pvp i like arcane/fire.
The arcane/fire spec i like to run is: arcane-55 fire-16 frost-0 (55/16/0) The spec i like to use you can see if u follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/bofdwt You can change part you dont like you don't have the have the instant pyro i have which will give you some more talents to spend, but that's what i like to use. At lvl 70 pvp i was frost until just before wrath i was arcane/fire as you saw above, when i was frost i found it was to slow if u have someone on you there is not much you can do freeze them blink and cast, i didn't like casting frostbolt for me it took to long and left me vulnerable. With arcane you have the freeze and the blink you also get instant invisibility and the instant damage which i think best suites a pvp mage.
When the duel specs come into the game i will be running FFB and Arcane/fire spec for me its the only way to go.
My Specs:
Frostfirebolt: http://tinyurl.com/5fyzxw
Arcane/fire: http://tinyurl.com/bofdwt
Deep Frost: http://tinyurl.com/arlqdr
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