Frost-Fire a viable spec at all for levelling?Follow

Hey all,

Newbie mage alt here who has a quick question i couldn't find answeredwhile browsing these magical forums ;-)

Is a Frost/Fire build viable for levelling/general-play up to end-game with?
i.e. a 0/21/40 or 0/20/41 spec (or perhaps a 2/19/41 even)?

Opinions and comments on the pros and cons would be greatly appreciated as i've never played a mage before.

Does losing such arcane talents as POM, Clearcasting make huuuggeee problems?

The dps and versatility that could be possible with a frostfire build might be fun and rather good if played well? (lots of options, get-out-clauses etc?)

Thanks for your time, guys.

Elementalist works well enough.

Infact it works better than it did Pre-TBC.

You have alot of new mana efficiency, and alot of nice new techs.

I don't get why you're wanting to get so deep into Ice though, for leveling it i would suggest going deeper into fire, going into Ice for the AE and utility portion.

If you build a Shatter ice build you're not going to want to cast anything but frost - and for good reason.

A REALLY nice AE build can be made with 0/41/20.

A Great PVP Build can be built with a Myriad of different options ranging from 16/13/31 to 0/41/20