Originally Posted by Auran
Mage: It's been a while since I leveled my mage, but even 3 years ago, AOE grinding was very effective (back in my day, we had to spec insta Arcane Explosion). It's my opinion that frost is the superior leveling build, especially toward the higher levels (when you can get all the nice talents for shatter, etc). A few things support this: frost tends to be more efficient, frost crits are instant and are less likely to go "unused", and your survivability will be quite a bit higher.
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Emphasis mine.
This is a pet peeve of mine. Frost's best case is to be as mana efficient as fire, it is never more efficient. You might gain some efficiency by not wasting damage on the kill shot but that is all. I am not disagreeing that survivability will be higher and that Frost is probably better for leveling post 30 or so.
Also if you are leveling, don't grind, do the quests. Quest xp is amazing now, just do them.