thedopefishlives

The problem with AM is that it does not scale as well as a 40/0/21 talented Frostbolt would with respect to spell damage, crit, and haste. Now as I mentioned in the other mage thread, the viability of AM is purely situational - if you're quaffing a Flask of Blinding Light, getting Imp CoS, have Sunfire on your weapon, etc., then it's possible that AM will be situationally more powerful than Frostbolt. I just wanted to mention that even fully talented, AM does not scale as well as Frostbolt does. Now I might add that being short of the Frostbolt hit cap due to arcane's extra talented +hit does tilt the picture slightly, but from my basic napkin math, I can tell you that if you are even slightly over the arcane hit cap, it's pretty much a wash scaling-wise between AM and Frostbolt, and with even a little bit of hit, Frostbolt takes a surprisingly large lead.