shatter in level 29 BGsFollow

I've specced my mage around shatter in the 29 bracket and I'm not finding it all that effective. I have 3/3 frostbite to make me freeze targets more often, but rarely get off my big frostbolts in the battlegrounds against frozen targets. I seem to be more effective with frost nova/arcane explosion to get crits, but that is almost a suicide act.

I'm not done gearing out my mage, but I'm really wondering if is viable at all in the 29 bracket. I'm not a twink, but I'll be leaving the mage at 29 so I have someone at the level to use to group with friends in the BGs.

Has anyone had success with shatter at 29? I find myself relying heavily on fire blast, cone of cold and arcane explosion to do most of my damage. Perhaps I need to respec to boost the shorter cast spells?

Thanks.

When I PvPed, I'd do the following:

• Frost Nova
• Blink
• Frost Bolt (As soon as it's casted) cast Fire Blast immediately after. You'll often get two crits.

I often got killing blows because I followed that pattern.

How often does 5/5 Arc Concentration procs at 10% ?

Nice build, but from what i can tell, thats more for kiting :). or is it just me ?

My current build is: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/mage/talents.html?2050000000000000000000050023001200000000000000000000000000000000000

Frost nova> Sheep> pyro> scorch or fireball > fireblast> cone of cold> blink> arc miss> fireblast> arc expl. that's my rotation w/o a macro :)

Edited, Oct 17th 2007 4:37pm by mxedos

I would either use incinerate or ignite, although at lower levels you can't really stack on +crit gear so it isn't as helpful at lower levels. I agree with the reasoning of dropping fireball though, because if you have enough time to cast a fireball you normally have enough to cast pyroblast. Also, the impact procs will be important for your shorter casts (fireblast/scorch).