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Haste for the Mage
Well, for a Fire Mage (10/48/3 or slight variation) Haste is a pretty direct dps increase with no gain in dpm and a higher burn rate obviously. Fireball is well outside the GCD and making it go faster is better. There is a small latency penalty that makes it not scale perfectly but it is indeed an increase in overall dps.
In mana-constrained situations it is obviously no net gain though and I am very concerned that our default dps will again be balanced around haste effects, leaving us only with worse time-to-oom. Additionally, spells that are knocking on the GCD or at it (Scorch, ramped up AB and so on) gain nothing and there is no white damage being enhanced at all. Still, Fire Mages scale well with haste.
EDIT: In my testing spell haste does nothing for the GCD but if you have a small amount of haste it may be unnoticeable. True chain-casting is really quite hard to pull off. Note well that Aura mods (Bloodlust notably) are different and do indeed reduce the GCD as well. Unless they have changed the mechanics recently though, generic haste most certainly does not.
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