well i respec yesterday to ice/arcane at lvl 54 human mage. after playing fire/arc. I have half the down time. no agro in groups hardly at all and i have 61%-88% health after a battle using no pots or frist aid.
now granted the killing is slow over the burst dmg of a fire mage, but ice barrier i can open that chest while stuff pounds on me.. or nuke a ton of stuff , the ice berg spell.. cant do phy attacks, cast spells or move.. but i can drink a pot or frist aid and keep it going after that.
cold snap the bomb to me, i miss combustion but this puppy. i shine. in pvp i laugh at most peps on lothar. instant cool down on all frost spells.
copulated with 5 imp arc miss, 5 for clear casting and 5 for imp arc exp it will own. currently im 5 imp arc miss and 2 in the talent for clearcasting. the clearcasting is the winner for me.. % for a free mana cost spell is pwnage.
now with my frost spells, nothing flys away from me or the group. attack speeds and movement are slowed longer. frost nova heh.. i get a better frost nova type proc that hits them that ups my dmg . i lose a bit o range over fireball and pryoblast, but with frostbolt and arc miss my agro is greatly lowered.
oh and sunken temple is nice for fire but in BRD and higher good luck with those fire spells vs. the fire elemental types. only thing that sucked about being a fire mage for so long hahaha.
btw i look like a borg now got my blue eyepeice this past weekend off a boss in lower brd hehe.
i wanted to go frost from the start. but everyone complained about thier downtime. now on bonechewer i started a frost/arc build ud mage. guess what i still have less down time than a fire mage. now that they fixed arc miss channeling ill pwn even more.
cosmos is by far a popular mod but we found a better one to use lately
http://curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=297