Elemental PrecisionFollow

Thanks for you help with my blast wave question. I have another one for you mighty mages (as I kneel and bow to the all knowing).

When I was a newb mage....well ok I'm still a newb mage, but when I was an uber-newb mage I was getting way too many resists. I was told by a friend to start out as a frost mage so I did and once I got the 3 points into elemental precision the resists went down drastically.

Well, I wanted to try fire when I hit ~low 20s but since I still remembered all of those resists I put 3/3 into elemental precision and then went fire. The problem with this is that it takes me 3 additional level to get certain talents such as blast wave, soon to be combustion (which looks freaking awesome) and eventually Dragon's Breath.

So my question to you all, should I respec to move those 3 points out of elemental precision and into my fire tree so I can get the talents at an earlier level? I fear I just got discouraged, now that I think about it, when one group of same level mobs resisted about 1/2 of my spells.

hmmm didn't know that about frost spells. I think it was frost spells that were being resisted. I recall one pull started with frostbolt-resist, 2nd bolt-resit, Frost nova-Resist....run (thinking this sucks, I can't kill a same level humanoid mob as me). I bet I just got unlucky, though I do still wish to know when fire locks put points into elemental precision.

I just may have to live with the fact that I won't get Combustion until level 43 or dragons breath until level 53.

if you start raiding you will want ever % chance against them resisting as possible.

I got it when I started AOE grinding, to stop resists on frost novas. Other than that, it has been in all my lvl 70 builds, save 33/28/0 and 4x/2x/0

Semi-on topic... Does that 3% chance they won't resist frost/fire spells go under your spell hit? For instance, if you had 6% chance to hit, would it go to 9% for a frost/fire spell?

Thanks The One and Only Poldaran, and the rest of you. I will keep it as I am always fighting yellow mobs and just wait to gain the extra skills from talents for those 3 levels.