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If you're a strictly pve fire mage it doesn't make much sense to go all the way down to 17 points in Arcane. You gain no dps talents in Tiers 3 and 4, so ideally you would stop at 10 and distribute those other 7 points in Fire to round out the talents you've missed. 17/31/3 is just attempting to salvage some sort of pvp viability via getting Imp CS. If you went 18 for Arcane Meditation it would make more sense, but the 17 everyone seems to aim for is almost guaranteed to be Imp CS.
ps: No, Magic Absorption is not a worthwhile pve talent.
Anyhow, call me stubborn but I'm going to likely end up 17/0/44 come level 70. It won't be the best dps but it won't be terrible and it still maintains usefulness in the arena. Come BC I expect to be 2v2ing almost constantly, so in that respect it's an ideal setup since I can maintain a powerful pvp talent spread while still having pve viability. As it stands right now I respec out of 10/0/41 on the weekends to 21/0/30, this would solve that problem.
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