I was talking to a mage in my guild today about gear when he stared going off about how the spellfire set is better then the T4 and even T5. Now I understand the T4... but the T5 really got me. I started telling him about the stat differences and when I got around to +int he suprised me with the comment, "mana isn't really that important". Seeing as how he hasn't played a mage past kara (he HAS played other toons up to SSC) I figured I'd explain to him that not all bosses will drop in 3 min.
Now first of all lets get somthing stright. I'm pretty new to wow. I've played a lock to 42, warrior to 68, twinked a rogue at 19, then lvl'd a mage to 70. If I haven't learned things on my own then I have from my 2 friends that have played since it first came out. I've done Kara, Gruuls, most of ZA and Mags.. that's it.
K, back to the story. After telling him about why I though +int is important (long fights) he blasted me with a theory I've never heard of. He belives that by dealing a assload of dmg from the start. Blowing all CDs, mana gem, and pots... that it's then ok to be oom halfway though a fight. Then he'll just cast scorch when he can till clearcasting procs and toss in a fireball. Use a pot when he can again then all out again... scorchs, fireballs, pyros, fireblasts... then back to scorch.
Really, I tried talking to him about it but he belives that this is ok and will put him at the top of DPS. Who has issues here???