Suggestions on Spells to castFollow

Current Spec:http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Drak%27thul&n=Raisse

I was wondering if you guys could suggest comments on the best spells/spell rotations to use on both trash and bosses in a raid setting for my current spec, especially how to work in (if I should work in) arcane blast. As it stands my guild will be starting SSC/Eye soon (recently downed Mag and can 1 shot gruul).

I'm also open to suggestions on changes to spec and whatnot. I leveled as full fire, respecced a while ago to arcane for the utility and general fun =P

Thanks for your comments :D

Thanks for the reply.

I've got the 1 point in Arcane cause slow is a pretty useful spell in a variety of cases and it helps making the spec useful outside of just raids.

As it stands I usually do mainly cast scorches for the debuff, fireballs until clearcasting and missiles for clearcasting procs. If I'm lucky, I just might be able to get my 2 piece in the semi-near future and then can play with how AB works =P

I am aware that my spell hit is quite lacking and have been trying to rectify this. The problem/reason I haven't been able to get decent spell hit stuff is because when that type of gear drops there's always someone in the raid that would be getting a *major* upgrade as opposed to a minor upgrade or PVE sidegrade so I end up passing to them. Fortunately, enough of our people are getting geared now that those items are actually available for me to roll on now, so I am able to roll. And finally, I'm having a difficult time finding a good PVE chest piece, can you suggest one? and no, I don't plan on picking up tailoring and I do know that spellfire is awesome.

Edit: For some reason my gloves didn't update, I have a pair of gloves from Kara with spell hit, but I do use the Arena Robe for both PVP and PVE as I have nothing else comparable yet.

Edited, Jan 13th 2008 8:46pm by Raisse

Slight off topic, had my first few raids with my mage this weekend. Anyone else stolen the haste buff from the ZA flamecasters? I was casting AM with it up (because everything else got lost in the GCD) and it was crazy :)

Thinking of going fire on my mage (Hydross coming soon) so I'm off to compare my stats to see which cookie cutter build I should use.

I chain casted 1.9ish second pyros.

can you post your armory link for us?

search wowarmory.com for your character and post the link that comes up.

I would, but I like to ***** about my guild here occasionally (or certain members) and I know some people from my realm post here so would rather keep my anonymity (I'm sure no-one would care, but I'm allowed to be paranoid :P).

I tried 10/48/3 yesterday on the advice of a guildie so I'll post my stats with that spec and the gear I was wearing, unbuffed:

Int - 440
+Dmg - 730
Hit - 158
Crit - 16.1% (25.1% fire)

Or (hopefully working) link to a sandbox of my character:
My Mage

I found that my damage was about the same as with frost spec, but that may be due to my lack of experience with the spec and also they were fairly technical fights with me needed to coordinate people. I'll be keeping this spec (or 40/21) for the next week or so and see if it gets better with practice and when I'm not raid leading.

Edit to add a noob question:
Why is the lower half of fire so much better than the lower half of frost?

If there was a second frost mage to keep up winter's chill would a 40/0/21 spec work or do you think too much would be lost from the WE?

Feel free to laugh me off the forum :) as they say, curiosity (or ignorance) killed the cat.

Edited, Jan 16th 2008 7:03am by Tynuv