Originally Posted by Nurru

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.

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.