Fire to Frost - Back 2 Fire - WHY? /rantFollow

Ok, This is not a debate, this is not a question – Instead, this is just my opinion on what I’ve done and what I’ve experienced.

I have leveled from 1 to 47 as a fire mage. The whole time I heard the legends of the AOE grind mage. I switched – I’ll admit – “Come on, everyone’s doing it, it feels good, just give it a try”… I tried.

I mean the only reason I’m fire anyway is because it did more damage on day 1 – so I stuck with it and didn’t give frost a try… So let’s try it out. Let’s try to be Frosty. They just re-spec’d it RIGHT?

I didn’t like it. It felt wrong, it felt dirty. Combustion was gone, I would Crit sometimes, I had no DoT, I lacked range, I got this barrier thing that lasted like 500hp…. I liked it, but spamming Bolts wasn’t too cool. Did I give it a shot – Well, I guess…. I did 47 to 51. I tried the PVP. I AE’d some guy to death – it was awesome – He realized that I’d absorbed all his crits, he stood there…. I pressed ‘7’ (that’s my hotkey for Arcane Explosion) eventually he made a noise and fell over………

As for PVP – if I get jumped/ambushed – I’m 5-out-of-10 times screwed. The Mage, Rouge, Lock, Druid has already killed me by the time I get my Ice up, then, if I do get it up – he’s got a few seconds to figure out how he wants to finish me… Yeah – you guys who are ‘ubber’ PVP will find this stupid, but honestly in a FAIR (aka we both see each other) I’m about 50/50 (Depending on Class) and in a fight where jump/ambush them I’m like 90% kill. So – my thinking is that if I get jumped – I run back… If I jump or see it’s MUCH better than FAIR for me.

So I switched back to fire. I have heard of frost mages that are ubber good, but either I need one in my guild to train me, or I need advice here. I died fighting 2 dark iron dwarves…. I would have destroyed as fire.
I know Frost isn’t bad – it must be me…

Oh well, I have the warming effect of combustion to keep me feeling good.

I've always been a fan of playing the spec you're most comfortable with. Your results will tend to favor the one that is "you", as it were. Now, to add to that, you may have selected an AoE grind build, which is pretty poor for DPS on single mobs. So that too may have given you some bad results.

There's a saying many adhere to: YMMV. Your mileage may vary. It's true in this and many other cases.

Final note:



Rogue.