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Originally Posted by Maledict
Erm, you've missed a few changes if you think that frostbolt is the most efficient nuke. Scorch is already more efficient, and thanks to the current Fire talents, Fireball becomes more efficient than frostbolt in the expansion.
40 arc / 21 frost builds perplex me. You don't have the sustained DPs of a fire mage, you don't have the snares and defenses of a frost mage. A fire mage is going to be dealing more damage than you on a fight, a frost mage is going to be slowing far far better than you can. Also, BTW, Molten fury means that Fire is capable of the highst burst potential sub 20%. Nothing is going to come close to fireball spamming at that point, especially with all the crit talents that fire has and the mana efficiency it's picking up along the way.
It was a good build for Molten core and BWL, but tbh arcane / frost really hasn't offered much in AQ40 or Naxx as far as we (my guild) has seen.
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Not disagreeing with you here. The problem with the 29/22 builds we have now is that all you get is frostbolt - which is great when you want a lot of sustained damage. It was my understanding (may be wrong) that while Scorch had a very slight edge in DPM, it lost out to frost on DPS. With Fireball having the opposite issue. Correct me if I'm wrong on that one.
The idea would be to use Frostbolt on long battles or on trash clears where stopping to drink would be unwanted, but then fire up Arcane Blast (with clearcasting into AM) when burst is important and mana simply not the most important concern.
Basically, nothing in the fire or frost tree will directly boost the damage of AB/AM. So you get to choose your secondary based on what is helpful. Scorch is one way to go, Frostbolt another (especially if you want to use IceBlock while learning new instances).