Originally Posted by Nota
If that's true then I think raiding as arcane may be obsolete. 2 mages as 0/33/38 and 2 mages as 10/0/61 may completely overtake any other build if it benefits from all the talents of both trees. Depending on how ignite works it could cause some massive damage when you crit a target and have molten fury going into effect.
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It was concluded that it was on a private server - do they work reliably (as in - do they know the proper mechanics)? I have no clue about that, thus asking.
Frostfire Bolt has no improved/empowered talents, which increase Fireball/Frostbolt by 27%-35%. That's a huge amount of missing scaling which has to be made up somewhere.
With some swapping, you can grab 3/5 WC, so you provide your own debuffs and are self-sufficient (I don't really believe in the 4-mage-raids you thought of).
(Imp.) WE might actually be better than Comb/MF, the future (sheets) will tell.
Compared to Frostbolt, you lose 5% damage, 5% crit, 10% scaling, 20% haste. From the fire tree, you gain 6% crit, 12% damage and Ignite would add ~25% damage or more at ~50% crit or more. That's in addition to Comb/MF or (Imp.)WE. MoE serves as clearcasting, but the lack of AE threat reduction might hurt.
Looks good so far, but only if Frostfire Bolt continues to get benefit from all talents.
P.S.: I'm dieing to find some info on how Hot Streak works, if it has the potential to be a great talent or of it's hard capped and there just some other minor crit talent.