In Part 2G, I brought up the topic of haste as a point to discuss.
While patch 2.4 has made arcane mages at least able to benefit from haste. I am personally still not convinced that it is a stat that Arcane mages would love. Even though theorycraft seems to point that it is quite close in value to +dmg. Key reason being that adding haste just runs us out of mana faster. So, there is a certain cost to adding haste.
Adding crit, on the other hand, is adding extra damage without running you out of mana faster. I believe the value of haste is tied to your ability to sustain AB spam. If you can add haste over crit and still keep up the AB spam, then haste is better than crit. But if you are finding yourself having to lapse into filler spells all the time due to mana issues, then I question the value of adding even more haste over crit in that kind of situation.
I hope others can chim in with their experiences, and thoughts on this. Especially Kavan, since he is the expert behind Rawr. And he has a fair amount of haste on his gear. I don't have any on mine.
I will be happy to amend my OP portion part 2G on haste if we can get a common agreement on this point after having discussed it fully.
