i'm looking for the ultimate frost specFollow

hi i have a level 41 mage and i'm just starting to try and develop my endgame spec. i want to do easy questing, nice pve damage (i want to raid frost even though fire is better), and some easy farming with blizzard. in trying to find this spec i was thinking about doing this:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/mage/talents.html?2300050000000000000000000000000000000000000000535022313035010241551

i heard that 5/5 winter's chill is overkill, 4/5 with 80% should be enough to stack the debuff five times and maintain it. i wanted to get improved blizzard and some permafrost for farming/soloing. arctic reach is a great talent, but it isn't important to me for aoe'ing because i can blink 20 yards, and yet my blizzard reaches 30--i don't need the extra 5.

does anyone have any thoughts on how to make my build better, or see flawed logic on my part? help me out please, thanks in advance! ^_^

Offtopic slightly - I recently respecced fire to try it out (the very yawn-worthy 10/48/3 build; I'm English and the WoW EU gets Ivy Viens tomorrow) as well as getting the Spellfire set. My 10/0/51 spec I loved and missed so much I respecced back to it. Its a lovely build, good mana retention, and has served me in grinding, pvp and raids.

Its very similar to yours as you can see (I used the Wowhead updated version with IV as this will be my frost spec for now on);

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0VZZVAGcofxowqt

If you can sacrifice the points for Arctic Reach I'd recommend it - the 20% increase is very useful in raids i if your looking for a raiding as well as a grinding spec it is handy as the more range you have the better in boss encounters. Yes Winters chill I've always had at 4/5 and its more than enough. I don't solo grind a lot and usually grind with my boyfriends hunter - he's BM so we use the pet as a mini tank. This means I can escape aoe talents and permafrost and get frostbite etc (very nice in pvp if it procs off the cold armour). Generally tho its the same - mine's just a variant towards frostbolt spam for raiding.

Warning - you will be needed to spec out of frost if you intent to go SSC (learned this the hard way) so I'd get some experience with fire or arcane too. I generally regard frost as better as 1) I tried the rest and preferred it (unsure why, its just a nice talent tree 2) you wont need to respec just for pvp or grinding and frost is great for both.

Enjoy :p

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Well once you hit 70 and start raiding, your spec should be based more on boss fights and not trash mobs. Bosses cannot be snared, so they can't be frozen. Which basically means there's really no reason to throw points into Imp. FN or Shatter, as they can't help in those boss battles. I'd take those points out, and put them elsewhere. Though I'm not sure where because I have *no* experience with level 70 frost builds. You'll have to ask some of the frosties lurking around here =P